$10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale
Returning to Level 22: 12,000/24,000 with a 4,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 349

The nine remaining players are on a 60-minute dinner break. They will return and continue playing down to the live-stream final table six.

Seat 1: Josh Kay – 339,000 (14 bb)
Seat 2: Tim West – 1,905,000 (79 bb)
Seat 3: Jason Koon – 1,875,000 (78 bb)
Seat 4: Ryan Riess – 2,865,000 (119 bb)
Seat 5: Marvin Rettenmaier – 403,333 (17 bb)
Seat 6: Cliff Josephy – 2,268,000 (95 bb)
Seat 7: Terry Schumacher – 1,553,000 (65 bb)
Seat 8: Jonathan Jaffe – 433,000 (18 bb)
Seat 9: Alan Sternberg – 2,345,000 (98 bb)

Remaining payouts:

1st: $716,088
2nd: $491,081
3rd: $315,726
4th: $204,466
5th: $157,599
6th: $130,370
7th: $109,412
8th: $89,609
9th: $70,103

$10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale
Level 21: 10,000/20,000 with a 3,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 349

After nearly an hour of ten-handed play and more than 30 hands, the final table was broken.

Cliff Josephy opened to 45,000 and Ken Einiger three-bet shoved for 233,000 from the button. The blinds released and Josephy called.

Josephy:
Einiger:

Einiger needed to catch something to stay in the game but blanked the entire board to go out in tenth place.

Cliff Josephy – 2,160,000 (108 bb)
Ken Einiger – Eliminated in 10th place ($59,079)

$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 6: 600/1,200 with a 200 Ante
Entries: 82

Richard Tuhrim recently joined the field for the first time, and Sean Winter did so for the second, and both were seated at the same table with fresh starting stacks. They wasted little time doing battle.

In one of the first hands at the table, the two were involved in a heads-up pot on a flop. Winter checked from the big blind, and Tuhrim bet 2,800 from the cutoff. Winter check-raised to 11,500, and Tuhrim called the remainder to proceed. The turn was the , and Winter bet 20,600. Tuhrim called again.

The river was the , and Winter moved all in for 69,000. Tuhrim had about 73,000 chips left in his stack, and he deliberated for a long while before surrendering his cards into the muck.

“Come on,” Charlie Carrel urged Winter from the other side of the table. He wanted to see the winning hand. “Just one. The bottom one.”

Winter grinned and offered to let him pick one. Carrel revealed the . Winter grinned again.

“Uh oh…” Tuhrim said, smiling back.

Sean Winter – 145,000 (121 bb)
Richard Tuhrim – 73,000 (61 bb)

$360 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 12: 800/1,600 with a 200 Ante
Players Remaining: 51 of 265

Registration is closed in today’s $360 buy-in $50,000 guarantee and the prize pool has been finalized. The top 34 players finish in the money with a min-cash worth $545. Payouts escalate from there and top out in the form of a $17,949 top prize.

Full payouts:

1st – $17,949
2nd – $12,636
3rd – $8,126
4th – $4,957
5th – $3,828
6th – $3,172
7th – $2,663
8th – $2,226
9th – $1,795
10th-12th – $1,511
13th-15th – $1,292
16th-18th – $1,082
19th-21st – $894
22nd-24th – $716
25th-27th – $616
28th-34th – $545

At present, the clock shows 51 players remaining with 27 minutes left in Level 12. Among those still in are Carlos Loving, Jonathan Hilton, Jean LeBlond and Eric Rivkin.

We will provide another update when play reaches the final table.

$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 500/1,000 with a 100 Ante
Entries: 79

Ankush Mandavia opened with a raise second to act, and Justin Bonomo three-bet to 8,000 on the button. Paul Hofer four-bet to 23,500 in the big blind, Mandavia folded, and Bonomo called the remainder to proceed heads-up.

The flop was . Hofer continued for 14,200, and Bonomo called. Both players checked through the turn, and the river was the . Hofer moved all in for 56,100.

Bonomo had 64,600 chips left in front of him, so the call represented nearly all of his remaining chips. After several minutes of deliberation, he did call to put Hofer at risk.

Hofer showed for high cards, and Bonomo tabled to win the pot with tens full. Hofer was eliminated.

Justin Bonomo – 200,000 (200 bb)
Paul Hofer – Eliminated

$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 500/1,000 with a 100 Ante
Entries: 79

While we were watching another hand play out, we caught a glimpse of an all-in showdown at an adjacent table. Aditya Prasetyo and Sean Winter were involved on a flop, and Winter ended up all in for about 65,000 with Prasetyo putting him at risk.

Prasetyo:
Winter:

“I have… one out,” Winter astutely noted. “Eight of Spades,” he pointed at the board, trying to conjure up the one card that would save his tournament life.

The turn was the , though, and the river the , and Prasetyo won the pot with a king-high flush to eliminate Winter.

Aditya Prasetyo – 180,000 (180 bb)
Sean Winter – Eliminated

$10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale
Level 21: 10,000/20,000 with a 3,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 10 of 349

Seat 1: Ken Einiger – 280,000 (14 bb)
Seat 2: Josh Kay – 460,000 (23 bb)
Seat 3: Tim West – 2,040,000 (102 bb)
Seat 4: Jason Koon – 1,420,000 (71 bb)
Seat 5: Ryan Riess – 3,135,000 (157 bb)
Seat 6: Marvin Rettenmaier – 540,000 (27 bb)
Seat 7: Cliff Josephy – 1,680,000 (84 bb)
Seat 8: Terry Schumacher – 1,400,000 (70 bb)
Seat 9: Jonathan Jaffe – 775,000 (39 bb)
Seat 10: Alan Sternberg – 2,260,000 (113 bb)

Remaining payouts:

1st: $716,088
2nd: $491,081
3rd: $315,726
4th: $204,466
5th: $157,599
6th: $130,370
7th: $109,412
8th: $89,609
9th: $70,103
10th: $59,079

$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 500/1,000 with a 100 Ante
Entries: 75

Anthony Zinno opened the cutoff to 2,500, and Olivier Busquet three-bet to 7,500 on the button. From the big blind, Dietrich Fast moved all in for just about 50,000 total on a four-bet shove. Zinno quickly folded, Busquet quickly called, and Fast was at risk and in trouble.

Busquet:
Fast:

The flop was actually decent news for Fast. Despite Busquet flopping top set, Fast traded two outs for nine, picking up a flush draw two cards to come. The on the turn ended the sweat one card early, though, as Busquet made unbeatable aces full. The river was the meaningless , eliminating Fast and giving Busquet’s stack a significant boost.

Fast has until the start of Level 13 to re-enter, should he so choose.

Busquet, on the other hand, has been trading the top spot with Nghi Tran for most of the early levels, and this pot puts the two back into a near tie for the overall lead.

Olivier Busquet – 272,000 (272 bb)
Dietrich Fast – Eliminated

$10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale
Level 21: 10,000/20,000 with a 3,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 10 of 349

Cliff Josephy opened to 45,000 from under the gun and action folded around the Jake Cody in the big blind. He moved all-in for 400,000 and Josephy called.

Cody:
Josephy:

Cody ran into a monster and couldn’t find a save on the board to exit the tournament in 11th place.

Tournament staff paused the clock and the remaining ten players a redrawing seats for final table.

Cliff Josephy – 1,680,000 (84 bb)
Jake Cody – Eliminated in 11th place ($59,079)

$10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale
Level 21: 10,000/20,000 with a 3,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 11 of 349

Marvin Rettenmaier open/shoved for 254,000 from the button and Terry Schumacher called from the big blind.

Schumacher:
Rettenmaier:

Rettenmaier had two live cards and found three on the flop.

“Welcome to the US,” Tim West joked with Schumacher, the Belgian.

Quad kings were good for Rettenmaier’s needed double.

Marvin Rettenmaier – 542,000 (27 bb)
Terry Schumacher – 1,370,000 (69 bb)