Event 9 Fight B: Last Level to Register

$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)

Loni Harwood

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.

Ari Engel

Event 9 Flight B: Recent Arrivals

$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)

Scott Clements

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.

Tony Ruberto

Event 9 Flight B: Gil Morgenztern’s Turn at the Top

$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)

Gil Morgenztern

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.

Walter Chambers

Event 11: Prize Pool and Payouts for Pot Limit Omaha 8

$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

1st: $6,824 + Showdown trophy
2nd: $3,900
3rd: $2,389
4th: $1,706
5th: $1,316
6th: $1,024
7th: $878
8th: $780
9th: $683

Event 9 Flight B: Still Moving Up with More Tough Players

$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)

Andre Akkari

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.

David “Coldstone” Inselberg and Mark Dube (right)

Mega-Satellite Days

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
  • Structure Sheet

$390 Championship Turbo Satellite (1-in-10)

  • Players begin with 10,000 in chips and 15-minute levels
  • Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
  • This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
  • Structure Sheet

$375 Championship Super Turbo Satellite (1-in-10)

  • Players begin with 10,000 in chips and 10-minute levels
  • Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 8
  • This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
  • Structure Sheet

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.

Event 9 Flight B: Doubling Up the Guarantee

$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)

David “ODB” Baker

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.

Event 9 Flight B: Steven Carswell Leads

$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)

Steven Carswell

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)

Event 9 Flight B: Nearing First Break

$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)

David Prociak

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.

ICYMI: Day 5 with David Prociak Winning Again; Nick Ahmadi Takes Event 1 Title

David Prociak

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

Nick Ahmadi

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.

Robert Pollmeier
Lisa Teebagy

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.

Of the 543 entries in the one-day tournament, she was the last player standing in the early morning to take the title along with $8,469.

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.