Event 1 Flight E: Conquering a Big Field

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7: 250/500 with a 75 ante
Flight E Entries: 678

Raphael Reis

Players continue to register and line up for their seats. The previous big flight was 509 entries last night but they’ve blown the doors off that number so far this afternoon with an hour left to run it up.

Raphael Reis is giving Event 1 another shot and he knows a little something about getting through these big fields. The opening event of the 2017 Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open drew the biggest starting field in Florida poker history with those 5,018 entries putting more than $1.5 million up for grabs in a $360 buy-in tournament.

After everything was all settled, Reis was the one posing for the winner’s photo after a nine-way deal locked his title along with $155,000.

Event 1 Flight E: Rai Hits Big

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 150/300 with a 50 ante
Flight E Entries: 588

Prashray Rai

In the previous starting flights, the first break chip leader was usually pretty evident with a 4x starting stack and cruising along. The expanded field today put more chips in play and we found three players with more than 100,000 in their stacks are two hours.

The biggest of them belongs to Prashray Rai in the meeting room. His 135,000 is far ahead of most of the field with Nikolaos Costerelis and Peter Ajello joining his as the only other players in six-digit territory.

As a hypothetical, if Rai does nothing other than tread water the rest of the way for the next ten levels, his stack would still be over average and that 135,000 would be good for 45 big blinds restarting tomorrow. But we don’t think he’s going to sit back and sit on his lead.

Top stacks and some random counts:

Prashray Rai – 135,000 (450 bb)
Nikolaos Costarelis – 109,000 (363 bb)
Peter Ajello – 101,000 (337 bb)
Avery Bass – 82,400 (275 bb)
Osmin Dardon – 71,000 (237 bb)
Robert Gianguitti – 60,000 (200 bb)
Andrew Keeney – 58,000 (193 bb)
Brent Ballentine – 55,300 (184 bb)
Clayton Taul – 55,000 (183 bb)
Michael Tait – 54,000 (180 bb)
Charlemagne Benjamin – 46,600 (155 bb)
Brian Hastings – 44,775 (149 bb)
Nipun Java – 34,500 (115 bb)
Andre Crooks – 26,200 (87 bb)
Rafael Reis – 23,000 (77 bb)
Luke Brereton – 21,225 (71 bb)
Marsha Wolak – 15,225 (51 bb)

Nikolaos Costarelis
Peter Ajello

The Big 4 Satellite Schedule

We’re still in the first weekend of the 2017 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open but it’s never too late to start thinking about The Big 4 events coming up. Four tournaments with combined guaranteed prize pools worth $6.5 million and all four final tables played at the same time in front cameras.

Now players can begin to look at ways to get into any of these events at a discount via a solid schedule of satellites. The biggest group of satellites can be found on August 10 when 36 combined seats in five satellites are guaranteed into the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship.

All told, the satellites combine for 47 Championship seats, three High Roller seats, five $1 Million Guaranteed Freeze-Out, and four $1,100/$500K seats offered up between now and August 13.

And those numbers don’t include the two Multi-Events satellites which will reward packages that include a $2,650 seat, a $1,100 seat, and $1,250 in cash.

There is something for everyone, bookmark or save the date for the satellite which fits your needs. Below you can find the satellite schedule for each event and a link to the structure sheets.

$5,250 buy-in/$3 Million Guarantee Championship

Aug 5 at 8pm: $570 Turbo Satellite with 2 seats guaranteed
Aug 6 at 8pm: $570 Turbo Satellite with 2 seats guaranteed
Aug 9 at 8pm: $570 Turbo Satellite with 2 seats guaranteed
Aug 10 at 9am: $570 Turbo Satellite with 2 seats guaranteed
Aug 10 at 11am: $570 Mega Satellite with 20 seats guaranteed
Aug 10 at 3pm: $570 Mega Satellite with 10 seats guaranteed
Aug 10 at 5pm: $300 Mega Satellite with 2 seats guaranteed
Aug 10 at 8pm: $570 Turbo Satellite with 2 seats guaranteed
Aug 11 at 10am: $555 Super Turbo with 1 seat guaranteed
Aug 11 at 8pm: $570 Turbo Satellite with 2 seats guaranteed
Aug 11 at 10:30pm: $555 Super Turbo with 1 seat guaranteed
Aug 12 at 10am: $555 Super Turbo with 1 seat guaranteed

$25,500 buy-in/$2 Million Guarantee High Roller

Aug 12 at 10:30pm: $2,625 Super Turbo with 1 seat guaranteed
Aug 13 at 8pm: $2,650 Turbo Satellite with 2 seats guaranteed

$2,650 buy-in/$1 Million Guarantee Freeze-Out

Aug 6 at 5pm: $300 Turbo Satellite with 2 seats guaranteed
Aug 12 at 8pm: $300 Turbo Satellite with 2 seats guaranteed
Aug 13 at 9am: $300 Turbo Satellite with 1 seat guaranteed

$1,100 buy-in/$500,000 Guarantee No Limit Hold’em

Aug 8 at 9am: $140 Turbo Satellite with 2 seats guaranteed
Aug 9 at 9am: $140 Turbo Satellite with 2 seats guaranteed

Multi-Event Satellites

Aug 7 at 8pm: $550 Turbo with 2 packages guaranteed
(Package includes $1,100 seat, $2,650 seat, $1,250 cash)

Aug 8 at 8pm: $550 Turbo with 2 packages guaranteed
(Package includes $1,100 seat, $2,650 seat, $1,250 cash)

Event 1 Flight E: Meeting in the Meeting Room

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4: 100/200 with a 25 ante
Flight E Entries: 508

Jay Romano

Players are everyone today. The ballroom is packed, now the meeting room is packed, and we still have players lining up at the registration desk to get in the Saturday afternoon action.

This is going to be a big one.

Jay Romano is one of the players to draw a table in the meeting room. A more intimate gathering of poker players with 14 tables compared to the 40 in the ballroom.

Romano is in the hunt for his first SHRP win since he took home a trophy during the 2014 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open in the Black Chip Bounty tournament.

Event 1 Flight E: Full House

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3: 75/150 with a 25 ante
Flight E Entries: 468

We are moving right along here in the ballroom with the parade of players continuing to make their way into the $1 million field.

All but two tables are in play inside the ballroom with the meeting room now full as well. That puts 52 tournament tables in action and we expect to keep a packed house until registration closes at 3:30pm.

Event 1 Flight E: No Slowing Down

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2: 50/100
Flight E Entries: 401

Marsha Wolak

Instead of the steady stream into the ballroom, it’s practically a parade of players coming for a piece of the huge prize pool.

More than 100 more entries joined during the 30 minutes after breaking through the $1 million mark and the ballroom is nearing the point when the meeting room tables will come into play.

Marsha Wolak was one of our early entrants at the start of play and doing her best to comfortably grind. The 2011 WSOP Ladies Champion is dealing with two walking casts/boots after elective surgery, both feet chilling on a chair for elevation, and wanted to make sure her doctor knew still was following instructions.

Wolak isn’t only a WSOP bracelet winner, she also owns a WSOP Circuit ring and SHRP trophy from the Seniors Event during the 2015 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown.

Event 1 Flight E: Goodbye Guarantee

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 25/50
Flight E Entries: 296

We thought it would be a big day in the ballroom and the field is not disappointing. It took less than half of the first level to push the Flight E entrant count up to 296 for the magic number. That officially put 2,000 entries in the game for exactly $1,000,000 in the prize pool

But they won’t stop there. Players have until 3:30pm to get to the ballroom to participate in this flight followed by the final chance starting at 6pm.

Event 1 Flight E: Heading Towards $1 Million

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 25/50

The weekend is in full swing and we have the last flights of the $1 Million Guaranteed opening tournament. The first four flights combined to put 1,704 entries into the game to leave it only 296 away from pushing the prize pool over seven-digits.

It won’t take long to get there this afternoon.

We found a new overall chip leader after each flight and it is now held by Jon Borenstein, returning to a very healthy 338,000 stack (good enough for 113 bigs starting Day 2). The crowd this afternoon should easily top 500 entries so his chip lead is not a lock for tomorrow’s restart.

Today’s entrants will play out the same schedule as the previous four. They will sit down to 20,000 starting stacks and play 30-minute levels throughout the day. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 3:30pm and they will end their night after Level 14.

So far, 236 players have booked their way into Day 2 tomorrow afternoon. Today we’ll add a few hundred more to make for a nice returning field at 1pm.

Action gets underway at 11am and we expect an exciting day in the ballroom.

Chip counts through Flight D

  • $1,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
  • Players begin with 20,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
  • Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
  • Day 1 will end after Level 14 or Tournament Director discretion
  • Event 1 Structure Sheet

SHRPO Day 3 Schedule

Main Event Schedule

11AM: Event 1 Day 1E – $570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

  • $1,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
  • Players begin with 20,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
  • Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
  • Day 1 will end after Level 14 or Tournament Director discretion
  • Event 1 Structure Sheet

6PM: Event 1 Day 1F – $570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

  • $1,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
  • Players begin with 20,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
  • Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
  • Day 1 will end after Level 14 or Tournament Director discretion
  • Event 1 Structure Sheet

Secondary and Satellite Schedule

9AM: Event 25 – $80 Turbo Satellite to Event 1 (1-in-10)

  • 2 seats guaranteed into the $1,000,000 Guarantee Event 1
  • Players begin with 6,000 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 25 Structure Sheet

3PM: Event 26 – $250 Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)

  • 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
  • Event 26 Structure Sheet

8PM: Event 27 – $570 Championship Turbo Satellite (1-in-10)

  • 2 seats guaranteed into $3 Million GTD SHRPO Championship
  • Players begin with 8,000 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
  • Event 27 Structure Sheet

SHRPO players are encouraged to park in Seminole Way Garage for easy, covered access to the tournament area and poker room
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Event 1: Chip Counts Through Flight D

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Returning to Level 15: 1,500/3,000/500 ante
Players Remaining: 332 of 1,704

Flight A: 441 Entries, 88 Advanced
Flight B: 296 Entries, 59 Advanced
Flight C: 458 Entries, 89 Advanced
Flight D: 509 Entries, 96 Advanced
Flight E: Saturday at 11am
Flight F: Saturday at 6pm
Day 2: Sunday at 1pm

RankFirst NameLast NameChip Count
1JonBorenstein338,000
2SheldonGross326,000
3JieLiu282,000
4DantonioBrown271,500
5RuslanDykshteyn251,000
6JulioRuiz247,500
7MattHumphrey243,500
8GangirElcin239,500
9MichaelLaake239,000
10OdedHachimi239,000
11PeterStriano233,000
12MaxRomano232,000
13MattKuba231,000
14JoshuaBeckley223,000
15StephenIbrahim216,500
16MattAffleck213,000
17KevinHo212,000
18FedericoMuniz-Moreno211,500
19RyanSmith210,500
20BrettBrucaleri210,500
21GeorgeGriffith209,500
22AdrianMableton207,500
23DanielPearlman206,000
24DominicCapina205,000
25ZachZaffos202,500
26MartinMarkov198,000
27MichaelGraffeo192,500
28DavidBradshaw190,000
29RussRadom189,500
30VitorCoelho189,000
31RichardDavis186,000
32AndrewTouchette184,500
33KennethWatson184,000
34PaulaAlibrandi181,500
35CodyFerguson181,000
36Luizde Fanias Guilanno179,500
37TomislavKrizanic177,500
38BrentGranda176,000
39RobertLeff176,000
40RobertoAlberro175,000
41GregLevine174,500
42MikeChiapetta173,000
43JosephRivers173,000
44JoeRitzie172,500
45DanielFranzblau171,000
46AntonyDickson170,500
47NaguiYassa170,500
48RayNalbandian170,500
49BruceSnell170,000
50PaulBalzano168,000
51RyanD'Angelo167,500
52JordanFlaschner162,500
53ChrisNomikos162,000
54CoryWilliams162,000
55EdwardNovak161,000
56SpencerChamplin159,000
57EliLevy158,000
58KevinScarola157,500
59JoshHillock156,500
60MichaelMerisier153,000
61DanielCarlton152,000
62RajVohra152,000
63PasqualeCaiazza151,500
64StevenMcKoy150,800
65LascellesPeart150,000
66AnaFreitas150,000
67NicholasBaurichter149,500
68GeorgeJacobson148,000
69LeonKunkel148,000
70IvanSaul146,500
71BrendanSchultz146,000
72SeanPerry145,500
73PieterHogoboom143,000
74JorgeCascudo142,500
75YehudaRodman142,000
76ImanDan142,000
77AlexPresman141,000
78LewisGallo140,500
79CarlosBolanos140,000
80MarcSchiller139,000
81BoBloom139,000
82HagaiStein137,000
83TonyUtnage137,000
84DeborahLaVigne136,000
85NovelChiriuo135,500
86RichardLeger135,000
87AlexHaber134,000
88CoryBlum133,000
89RussellWilliams132,500
90CharlesSimon130,500
91AntonSerkov130,500
92JohnCofhlin130,000
93JonLancar129,500
94LazaroRojas129,000
95Doyle ScottElliott129,000
96MassimoMaffei128,500
97JonathanGold128,500
98GalErlichmann128,000
99MattFriendly128,000
100WayneFarenga126,500
101MatthewZarcadoolas125,000
102SujithVarughese124,500
103EricSabido123,500
104FernandoDiaz Jr122,800
105DanielLinares121,500
106LouisDobrick121,500
107ErikNomberg120,500
108SheddySiddiqui120,000
109CarlosAzuaje119,500
110EricSilverberg119,500
111JohnDe Soto119,000
112BradleyYoung119,000
113ChristianKittl117,500
114JoshuaCoates116,000
115RyanJaworski115,500
116NathanPitts115,000
117NicholasSuarez114,500
118PabloOrtiz114,500
119MaykolTrujillo114,000
120AndrewVillareal112,500
121MarcusStein112,000
122ErikChristensen111,000
123RodRodigue110,000
124MikeJones109,500
125Elad IzhakSisso109,000
126ChristineDiFiore109,000
127RileyFuller108,000
128EfthimiosPiperakis107,500
129ValentynShabelnyk106,000
130VictorFigueroa106,000
131FrankLerczak106,000
132MichaelRizzuto105,500
133DennisAnderson103,500
134ZacharyMullennix103,500
135NicholasChiappetta103,500
136MichelleShah102,500
137EstherFoley102,000
138QuanChau102,000
139BrianO'Keefe101,500
140CraigKuhlmeier100,000
141JoelGossett100,000
142WesleyBlomgren99,500
143JanZiegler99,000
144StephanJohnson98,400
145JohnMagnetta98,000
146JoshWasserman98,000
147MinaAkladious98,000
148ScottMcInnis97,500
149CaseyKaplan97,500
150DavidBottani97,000
151AlexanderThompson97,000
152PanagiotisNifakos96,500
153AleksDimitrov96,000
154OscarTrextini95,500
155PaulusBikus94,500
156MosheTarich94,000
157DerekNies93,500
158PeterShapiro93,500
159DonaldFrancios93,000
160JonBrody93,000
161JoelHarwood93,000
162KevinDeng92,500
163JohnCernuto92,000
164CarlosChang92,000
165GeorgeAbdo92,000
166DavidShmuel91,500
167DanielHall91,500
168JairoCarrill90,500
169JamesSalmon90,000
170RobertSulecki89,500
171JulioSanchez88,500
172FrankDiMaria88,500
173AnthonyAstarita88,500
174SteveCardarelli88,000
175FrankRusso88,000
176DylanDrazen88,000
177JohnRoveto87,500
178PauloTreu87,500
179EvanTeitelbaum87,000
180GabrielSack86,500
181FredDabus86,000
182StephenMa86,000
183DidierBrany86,000
184MichaelItaev86,000
185RamonCastillo85,500
186DavidChouraqui85,000
187DavidMay85,000
188ElliottZaydman84,500
189ScottHart84,500
190SalvatoreDeVito84,000
191MichaelGallo83,500
192IgorMerda83,000
193KarlManouchakian83,000
194PasqualeCalabria82,500
195LoniHarwood82,000
196KenBruno82,000
197MichaelAmato82,000
198ArifAmirali80,000
199JaroslawOsinski79,500
200JeffreyBiezuhski78,500
201AaronMahlfeldt78,500
202WilliamReilly78,000
203RafaelCruz77,000
204MarcSpiewak76,500
205StevenWeintraub76,000
206GregRoy76,000
207ViktorIavi76,000
208EricPiderit75,500
209JLloyd75,500
210ManuelAmaro75,500
211JosephGotlieb75,000
212NicholasNieto74,500
213JoseRivera Vega74,000
214DavidMacDonald74,000
215AlanPhillips74,000
216RafaelRamos73,500
217NashaatAntonious73,000
218DanielWagner73,000
219JasonReno73,000
220SteveShapiro73,000
221RobTannenbaum72,500
222AlexanderGriffin71,000
223ClaytonJohnson70,000
224StevenDorfman69,500
225RobertHodson69,000
226EugenixCatane68,000
227KobiRibak68,000
228CaryAlter67,500
229MikeBeasley67,000
230JasonFreeman67,000
231DanielWirgau66,500
232JewookOh66,500
233TracyWhite66,000
234WilliamBelford65,500
235MichaelKopjanski65,500
236AaronRosenthal65,000
237TimReilly65,000
238JavierRamirez64,500
239JameelHarris64,000
240AmyWan64,000
241BenSantos63,500
242JulianWohlgemuth63,000
243DarryllFish63,000
244JamesSutherland62,500
245VictorPapeo61,500
246EdwardMandel61,500
247PatricioGonzalez61,000
248ScottLivingston60,500
249RossRamlal60,000
250Yong BinLiu60,000
251DavidYasson60,000
252RichardFicanelli58,500
253DianaBernal57,000
254MerlinPereira56,500
255DanStanescu56,000
256LarryHirschfield55,500
257GreggSilverstein55,500
258SkipMcDonough55,000
259EdgarDiaz54,500
260JakeSchwartz54,000
261WallyMaddah54,000
262MarkWiser53,000
263JoseReyes53,000
264MatthewVetstein52,500
265PhilipConsolo52,000
266AlanBrostoff51,000
267CarlPipitone51,000
268RobertoSchmerda51,000
269NeilBlumenfield50,500
270MarioDe La Puente50,500
271CoreyBurbick50,000
272RichardChouinard50,000
273KevinHayes50,000
274VincentAloi49,500
275ClaudioKalili48,500
276MichaelWeinberg47,500
277JoseEspinoza47,000
278JorgeAristizobol46,500
279JamesGiordano46,500
280NissimVaknin46,500
281RyanOlisar46,500
282MichaelCalbello46,300
283StuartKrazney46,000
284MaxItkin46,000
285BraulioPuello45,500
286JonathanPineda45,000
287ScottLevitt45,000
288JacobCorela44,500
289GautamLillancy44,000
290YuanShen44,000
291JosephLachkovich42,000
292SteveLeahy42,000
293KeithWagner42,000
294RoryChinn42,000
295ScottZakheim41,000
296CoryDrury41,000
297IanCasey41,000
298ElliotGoldman40,500
299JeffBohamek39,500
300EnosSmith39,500
301JosephRoss39,000
302YanivBon Hamo38,500
303JaysanLee38,500
304ThaoLe38,000
305EdwardSalaga38,000
306JasonDollinger37,500
307EmanuelCohen36,000
308DonaldLawrence36,000
309MasonRezer34,500
310NancyBurgess33,500
311MikeKilker33,500
312KyleHarry33,500
313BenKramer32,500
314JaimeCampos32,500
315EricSteinbaugh32,000
316AnthonyBarbera31,000
317ErrolMassey31,000
318AftabShakoor30,000
319BeckyMoyer29,500
320MarthaDajer29,000
321YaroslavNakonechnyy27,000
322AndySpears26,000
323JohnSellars24,500
324DeborahSmall23,500
325WestonBerner23,500
326JeffreyTrudeau Jr.23,500
327JessicaDawley21,000
328JeanBissereth20,000
329VincentSpadavecchia20,000
330PhuongQuach17,000
331ANonymous13,000
332StephenSmith10,500