$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 21: 6,000/12,000 with 2,000 ante
Players Remaining: 81 of 1,309

Day 3 is underway with 81 players remaining and five 90-minute levels ahead of them.

$5,000 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 100/100
Total Entries: 30

No table in a $5,000 buy-in tournament is going to be soft, but one seems a little over the top. In the back corner, we found a tough group of players who recently spent some time together in the High Roller tournament.

Cliff Josephy, Jonathan Little, Seth Davies, and Paul Domb all drew the same table and they all mixed it in the High Roller yesterday but missed out on the final table. Rounding out that lineup? 2017 WPT Poker Showdown Championship winner Tony Sinishtaj.

$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20: 5,000/10,000 with 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 81 of 1,309

Following two starting flights and a Day 2, the WPT Poker Showdown Championship is down to 81 players and well into the money. There are a number of storylines developing including a stout lot of chip leaders that’s topped by Joseph Cheong and Brian Hastings. Others toward the top include Jeff Fielder, Scott Stewart, Faraz Jaka, Jake Bazeley and Natasha Mercier.

Day 3 Chip Counts | Table Draws | Payouts

Each of the remaining players has locked up just south of $8,000. They’re set to log five, 90-minute levels today before play wraps at about 8:30pm. Updates will be available throughout the day right here at SHRPO.com.

$570 Big Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guarantee | Structure Sheet
Level 1: 50/100

Event 17 of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown goes at 11am. The $570 buy-in Big Stack No Limit Hold’em tournament permits a single re-entry and sees its players take their seats to 15,000 chips and 30-minute levels. Registration is available until the start of Level 9 with the tournament structured to conclude in a single day.

Here are the details:

11AM: Event 17 – $570 Big Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry)

• $50,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 15,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
• Late registration/single re-entry available until start of Level 9
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 17 Structure Sheet

It’s a packed day in the Hard Rock Event Center with seven trophy events going. For the Big Stack, we’ll provide the prize pool and payouts when finalized followed by the 10-handed final table seating chart and a final report with a winner photo.

Good luck, players!

$5,000 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 100/100

Today is the busiest on the 2018 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown schedule and the Event Center will be jumping with nine primary and second tournaments. The biggest new event is the popular one-day $5,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em tournament.

Event 16 has a $250,000 guaranteed prize pool and a structure that will play it down to a winner later this evening. The tournament will also utilize the BB Ante format that has become so popular.

Players will start out with 20,000 stacks and play 30-minute levels. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 11, after the dinner break, around 5:10 this afternoon. Once registration has closed, Event 16 will continue its journey to the next Showdown champion.

Cards fly at 11am and this tournament will be one of the main ones featured today.

• $250,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 20,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
• Single ante will be paid from the big blind for the entire table
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 11
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 16 Structure Sheet

Primary Event Schedule

11AM: Event 16 – $5,000 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

• $250,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 20,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
• Single ante will be paid from the big blind for the entire table
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 11
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 16 Structure Sheet

11AM: Event 17 – $570 Big Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry)

• $50,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 15,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
• Late registration/single re-entry available until start of Level 9
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 17 Structure Sheet

12PM: Day 3 – $3,500 WPT Showdown Championship (Re-Entry)

• WPT Championship Day 3 Chip Counts
• WPT Championship Day 3 Table/Seat Assignments
• WPT Championship Payouts

2PM: Day 2 – $25,500 High Roller (Re-Entry)

• High Roller Day 2 Counts and Seat Assignments
• High Roller Payouts

2PM: Day 2 – $2,200 Deep Stack Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)

• Event 15 Day 2 Counts and Seat Assignments
• Event 15 Payouts

5PM: Event 18 Day 1A – $150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

• $50,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 10,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
• Late registration available until start of Level 9
• Day 1 will end after Level 14 or Tournament Director discretion
• Event 18 Structure Sheet

6PM: Event 19 – $2,200 Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

• Players begin with 20,000 in chips and 15-minute levels
• Single ante will be paid from the big blind for the entire table
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 10
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 19 Structure Sheet

Secondary and Satellite Schedule

9AM: Event 69 – $550 Turbo Event 16 Satellite (1-in-10)

• 1 seat guaranteed into $5,000/$250K GTD Event 16
• Players begin with 8,000 in chips and 15-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
• Satellite will be held in the Poker Room
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 69 Structure Sheet

3PM: Event 70 – $150 Double Green Chip Bounty (Re-Entry)

• Players begin with 10,000 in chips and 20-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 7
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 70 Structure Sheet

8PM: Event 71 – $130 All-In or Fold Turbo (Re-Entry)

• Players begin with 8,000 in chips and 15-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
• Players can only make two decisions: Move all-in or fold their hand
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 71 Structure Sheet

2018 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino 
Hollywood, FL 
Event 13
$360 No-Limit Hold’em Black Chip Bounty 
Entries: 214
Prize Pool: $42,800
April 15, 2018

“Make sure you guys tip the dealer, especially you,” said an onlooker at the end of the $360 no-limit hold’em black chip bounty event, pointing towards Matt Vinke. “You got hit pretty good with the deck.”

Vinke seemingly ran away with the title in a four-way chop, taking nearly first place money in the process. He earned $9,500 for besting a field of 214 entries, giving the Miami resident his career-best score.

“I had two-thirds of the chips,” said Vinke about his stack at the time of the chop. “I had to convince them to make the deal. I took about $900 off the top and then they chopped up the rest of it.”

Dongjun Ji came into the final table as the chip leader with Vinke trailing him in second. Everything fell Vinke’s way, however, picking up multiple bounties and accumulating chips at a rapid pace en route to his first career live tournament win.

“I came into the final table in second place and just tried to grind it out,” said Vinke. “You know, I folded a couple of hands where I needed to, got lucky a couple times, won some races and won it all.”

Vinke lives and works in Miami as a transportation planner. Originally from Charlotte, NC, the 31-year-old doesn’t have a ton of time to play poker with a full-time job, but tries to get up to the Seminole Hard Rock and play a tournament when he can.

Eventually, he hopes to escape the grind of a normal job, but he needs to continue grinding out consistent results before he takes a plunge from the office chair to the felt.

“I want to play some smaller tournaments and see if I can keep making some big returns, like today,” said the die-hard Panthers fan. “But for the time being, I’m taking it slow.”

With the bounty format, Vinke picked up an extra $100 for every player he knocked out, allowing him to take home more than the $9,500.

With 214 entries, the top 27 players cashed and here are the results:

1st: Matt Vinke – $9,500*
2nd: Joshua Daff – $5,057*
3rd: Dongjun Ji – $5,057*
4th: Jeffrey Goodman – $5,057*
5th: Craig Witz – $2,061
6th: Michael Lin – $1,708
7th: Amelio Amato – $1,455
8th: Matthew Paul – $1,245
9th: Jack Battaglia – $1,040
10th: David Larson – $899
11th: Eric Ward – $899
12th: Patrick Chi – $899
13th: Dimitry Agrachov – $770
14th: Alan Percal – $770
15th: Alexander Carfagno – $770
16th: Marc Sacheli – $642
17th: Brandon Schwartz – $642
18th: Edgar Varas – $642
19th: Jerry Humphrey – $514
20th: Andre Rakusa – $514
21st: Timothy Cavallin – $514
22nd: Mario James – $396
23rd: Eduardo Christ – $396
24th: Jose Fong – $396
25th: Tom Nguyen – $319
26th: Daamarie Badermuse – $319
27th: Todd Gallaher – $319

*Adjusted payouts as part of a four-way chop

$2,200 Deep Stack Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)
End of Level 12: 2,500/5,000 | Payouts | Structure
Players Remaining: 9 of 80

Over the last two levels, only one player was eliminated and Mike Dentale extended his chip lead. Nine players bagged up chips with Dentale leading the way.

Eddie Ochana hit the rail in 10th place and took home $4,800, leaving the final nine players returning on Monday at 2 p.m. to play down to a winner.

They will return to level 13 with blinds of 3,000/6,000. Everybody is guaranteed at least $5,600 and the eventual winner will leave with $54,080.

Here is a look at the remaining chip counts:

Seat 1: Jordan Dhanani – 51,000
Seat 2: Mike Shin – 99,000
Seat 3: David Prociak – 226,000
Seat 4: Zhen Cai – 148,000
Seat 5: Jeffrey Higgins – 229,000
Seat 6: Raj Vohra – 154,000
Seat 7: Botab Ayev – 130,000
Seat 8: Kris Tate – 54,000
Seat 9: Mike Dentale – 510,000

$25,500 High Roller (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Returning to Level 15: 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 7 of 40

As expected with a tournament featuring a $25,500 buy-in, the field was tough. The 40 entries was just the number needed to make the $1,000,000 Guarantee prize pool.

The last 6 players earning a piece and the High Roller champion banking $370,000.

Poker pro, and businessman, Brandon Adams returns with a huge lead of 1,386,000 (137 bb). This next closest to him is Ajay Chabra with 868,000 (87 bb). Larry Greenberg is the short stack at the table returning with 23 big blinds.

The stacks are deep and the structure is slow. The final table is playing sixty-minute levels until play reaches heads up then it switches to thirty minutes. These top players will have every chance to showcase their talent tomorrow afternoon.

Players will return at 2:00 PM local time with increased blinds and antes of 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante.

Final table lineup:

Seat 1: Barry Hutter – 373,000 (37 bb)
Seat 2: Ajay Chabra – 868,000 (87 bb)
Seat 3: Shaun Deeb – 342,000 (34 bb)
Seat 4: Brandon Adams – 1,386,000 (139 bb)
Seat 5: Pablo Fernandez – 436,000 (44 bb)
Seat 6: Larry Greenberg – 230,000 (23 bb)
Seat 7: Darren Elias – 367,000 (37 bb)

High Roller payouts:

1st: $370,000
2nd: $240,000
3rd: $150,000
4th: $105,000
5th: $75,000
6th: $60,000

$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
End of Level 20: 5,000/10,000 with 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 81 of 1,309