$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guarantee | Structure Level 9: 400/800 with a 800 ante Flight B Entries: 394 (Total Entries: 656)
Level 9 is here which means time is running out to join this big preliminary event. We are closing on 400 entries for Flight B with this level and the hour-long dinner break to run it up.
On my way to south Florida to play at one of my fav stops @shrpo. Will be (live) tournament entry 125 of 2019
$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guarantee | Structure Level 8: 300/600 with a 600 ante Flight B Entries: 378 (Total Entries: 637)
The prize pool slide right over $600,000 and it continues to climb as we find more top players making their way into the Event Center.
Two of them are Scott Clements and Tony Ruberto. They have a combined for over $10,000,000 in career earnings, three WPT titles, two WSOP Circuit rings, and two WSOP bracelets. Plus both have previous Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown trophies on their list of accomplishments.
$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guarantee | Structure Level 7: 300/500 with a 500 ante Flight B Entries: 342 (Total Entries: 604)
The second break is complete as the count climbed over 600 combined entries for the tournament. Next stop will be the $600,000 prize pool and who knows how higher until registration closes at 7:30pm.
Gil Morgenztern is the new front runner with 143,000 leading a small pack of players over 100K. Others include Walter Chambers (130,000), David Shmuel (110,000) and Jonah Miller (100,000).
They will play three more levels before the hour-long dinner break.
$360 Pot Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry) Structure | Payouts Level 10: 600/1,200 Players Remaining: 21 of 65
Registration closed on yet another non-hold’em tournament on the schedule and Event 11 drew 65 entries to create a prize pool worth $19,500.
The last nine players will share in a piece of the money with a min-cash worth $683 and the winner will take home $6,824 along with the Showdown trophy.
2019 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida Event 11 $360 Pot Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry) Entries: 65 Prize Pool: $19,500 April 9, 2019
$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guarantee | Structure Level 6: 200/400 with a 400 ante Flight B Entries: 310 (Total Entries: 572)
Flight B topped the big numbers we have yesterday, now with some big international flair. WSOP bracelet and Brazilian star Andre Akkari was a recent addition to the field and a very tough spot for the rest of his table.
More notables in the game include Kelly Minkin, Michael Tureniec, Darrin Rabinowitz, Mark Dube, David “Coldstone” Inselberg, and Rafael Reis.
The WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship is right around the corner and it kicks off Friday morning with the first of two starting flights.
The $3,000,000 Guarantee tournament has a $3,500 buy-in but you still have a chance to win your way into the Championship including two big satellite days starting tomorrow.
We have seven different satellites between April 10 and April 11 with a combined 71 seats guaranteed into the headline event of the series. The two-day schedule is below along with structure sheets.
April 10 at 11am – $390 Mega Satellite, 20 seats guaranteed April 10 at 3pm – $390 Mega Satellite, 10 seats guaranteed April 10 at 7pm – $390 Mega Satellite, 5 seats guaranteed April 11 at 11am – $390 Mega Satellite, 20 seats guaranteed April 11 at 3pm – $390 Mega Satellite, 10 seats guaranteed April 11 at 7pm – $390 Mega Satellite, 5 seats guaranteed April 11 at 10:30pm – $375 Super Turbo Satellite, 1 seat guaranteed
$390 Showdown Championship Satellite (1-in-10)
Players begin with 10,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
All participants must be 21 years of age or older to play in the Championship and related satellites. Additional information available on the tournament structure sheet.
$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guarantee | Structure Level 4: 100/200 with a 200 ante Flight B Entries: 254 (Total Entries: 516)
The entry count clicked up to 254 entries which officially put the Event 9 prize pool over $500,000 from the $250,000 Guarantee.
We have more big names walking into the Event Center for a WPT Poker Showdown Championship warmup. Among them is WSOP bracelet winner David “ODB” Baker fresh off winning his first WPT title last month at the LA Poker Classic.
$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guarantee | Structure Level 3: 100/200 with a 200 ante Flight B Entries: 237 (Total Entries: 499)
The first break is complete and Flight B is close to pushing the entry count over 500. With registration open until 7:30pm, the tournament will easily move the prize pool over $500,000.
We took a look at the stacks and found only one over 100,000. Steven Carswell’s 102,000 stack has him out front with Walter Chambers (71,000) and Jonah Miller (69,400) looking like his closest competitors. Other notables include Jason Atherley (65,600), Thai Ha (61,000), Sebastien Soares (53,000), and Peter Nigh (51,300)
$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guarantee | Structure Level 3: 100/200 with a 200 ante Flight B Entries: 200 (Total Entries: 462)
Good news for the Pot Limit Omaha 8 field, David Prociak decided to play Event 9 this afternoon instead. That will free up someone else to win a PLO title this evening.
Level 3 is coming to an end which means the first break is almost here. The field hit 200 entries and getting closer to doubling up on the $250,000 guaranteed prize pool.
You would think two players earning more than $200,000 would top the stories from Monday but we’re leading off with a guy who earned $10,000.
David Prociak is a tough opponent anytime he enters our tournaments and he locked up another title last night. The former Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year won his sixth career SHRP trophy in the $360 Pot Limit Omaha tournament against a tough final table. When added to his WSOP Circuit Hollywood PLO ring he won 2017, he has a pretty nice track record here.
Prociak’s Hollywood titles:
2016 SHRPO $360 Pot Limit Omaha 2016 RRPO $300 H.O.R.S.E. 2017 LHPO $360 Pot Limit Omaha 2017 LHPO $1,650 Pot Limit Omaha 2017 WSOPC $365 Pot Limit Omaha 2019 LHPO $570 Six-Max NLH 2019 Showdown $360 Pot Limit Omaha
Looking at the big money, we had two massive winner’s Monday evening but only one earned a trophy. Nick Ahamdi took down the 2,958-entry opening tournament of the series after a bonus day was needed for the final table. After several close calls, Ahmadi won his first title and took home $209,977.
Just as rich after the tournament but without the hardware, Germany’s Robert Pollmeier took home the exact same amount of money after a down-the-middle chop deal with nearly identical stacks when they were heads-up.
Rounding out the list of Monday’s winners, Lisa Teebagy continued a great run so far this series. She already had two final tables to her credit so far, third place in the Seniors Event and fourth place in the Ladies Event, and made her third last night in the Event 10.
Images courtesy of Eric Harkins and IMPDI. If you would like to place a custom picture order from your time at Showdown, you can find his booth in the hallway outside the Event Center.