$360 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry) Level 2: 50/100 Total Entries: 53
Event 8 moved over 50 entrants early in play and one table was playing a shorter version of short-handed poker. Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Sheddy Siddiqui and 8-time WSOP Circuit winner Ari Engel were two players at a three-handed time to start the day.
We expect the number to steadily climb until registration closes at 4:30pm.
$360 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry) Level 1: 25/50
It will be a busy day in the ballroom with three tournaments giving out three new trophies plus a few satellites thrown into the mix. First up on the Wednesday schedule is a popular short-handed format.
Event 8 is a $360 buy-in Six-Max tournament with only a single re-entry option if a player busts out. It is scheduled to play out in one day and we’ll have another champion later this evening.
Players sit down to 10,000 starting stacks and levels are 30 minutes a piece from start to finish. Late registration is open until the start of Level 9 at 4:30pm but players can only re-enter once during that time. There is a 40-minute dinner break schedule for 6:30 this evening.
The short-handed format will keep things moving along quickly and they’ll get underway in a few minutes.
Players begin with 10,000 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
The 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open is just shy of hitting the one week mark.
Day 6 of the series watched Harold Mahaffey take home the only trophy awarded on Tuesday. Mahaffey won the $570 No Limit Hold’em/Pot Limit Omaha event in a three-way chop.
Mahaffey wins the event a day after coming in fourth in the $300 HORSE event on Monday evening.
While Mahaffey was winning a trophy, one of the bigger fields of the series wrapped up all of its starting flights. There were three more starting flights in the $150 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry event.
When all was said and done in the $150 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry, there were 1,841 entries in the event and 187 survived their starting flight.
Those 187 will return for Day 2 on Wednesday afternoon and the top 108 will take home a cash. It is scheduled to play down to a winner on Wednesday.
Here is a look at the schedule for Wednesday’s action:
12 p.m. – $360 No Limit Hold’em Six Max (Single Re-Entry) – Single Day Event
1 p.m. – Day 2 – $150,000 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) – $150,000 GTD Prizepool
3 p.m.- $360 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo (Re-Entry) – Single Day Event
$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) End of Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante Players Remaining: 47 of 425
The scheduled 14 levels of play are in the books for the sixth and final flight of the $150 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry. When late registration closed, there was 425 players in the final starting flight of the tournament.
But by the end of the day, there were only 47 remaining and it was Bruce Snell who bagged the biggest stack, finishing the day with 292,500 in chips.
The 425 entrants brings the entire field size to 1,841 entrants, which smashed the $150,000 guaranteed prize pool.
The survivors of Day 1F will combine with the survivors of the first five flights on Wednesday afternoon for Day 2. Cards get in the air at 1 p.m. and they are scheduled to play down to a winner.
2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood Event #7 $570 No Limit Hold’em / Pot Limit Omaha (Single Re-Entry) Total Entries: 94 Total Prize Pool: $28,200
Harold Mahaffey made his way down to South Florida specifically for two tournaments – the $300 HORSE and the $570 No Limit Hold’em / Pot Limit Omaha.
The 53-year-old business owner from South Carolina made the most of those two tournaments. After a fourth place finish in the HORSE on Monday evening, Mahaffey came back on Tuesday for the only other event he planned on playing.
More than 12 hours of poker, Mahaffey took $6,981 and a trophy back to his hometown of Anderson, South Carolina after besting a field of 94 players and earning the win in a three-way chop.
“It feels wonderful,” said Mahaffey of the win. “I got lucky with one hand with quad tens and got paid off for it. I pretty much kept the chip lead from then on.”
Mahaffey flopped quad tens in Pot Limit Omaha with two tables remaining. He got all in on the turn against both opponents and had one players full house and the other’s flush drawing dead.
He never relinquished the chip lead and was able to outlast the rest of the field all the way down to a chop with Bradley Young and Cesar Fuentes.
“The structure was fairly good,” said Mahaffey. “I was able to keep around 700,000 the whole time and I was never really below that number. I was able to have chips to play and just be patient.
“I’m leaving in the morning and to be lucky enough to final table both of them and to win one of them is wonderful.”
Mahaffey’s entrepreneurial ventures have allowed both him and his wife Renea the freedom to travel around playing poker tournaments.
“We own our own businesses and have been our own bosses for about 22 years,” said Mahaffey. “We travel around a good bit playing poker.”
Having a poker playing wife has been good for Mahaffey. He even owes her a bit of the credit for his win at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.
“She’s actually the one who taught me how to play Pot Limit Omaha,” said Mahaffey with a laugh.
Here is a look at the results:
1st: Harold Mahaffey – $6,981 2nd: Bradley Young – $6,821 3rd: Cesar Fuentes – $4,809 4th: Schneur Borenstein – $2,538 5th: Jon Brody – $1,974 6th: Marc Levy – $1,692 7th: Mark Gaudino – $1,410 8th: Asher Conniff – $1,128 9th: Barry Gallaher – $846
$570 Double Black Chip Bounty NLH/PLO Level 22: 6,000/12,000 with a 2,000 ante Players Remaining: 3 of 94
After several minutes of discussing a deal, the final three players have decided to chop up the remaining prize money.
Harold Mahaffey has the chip lead and will get credit for the win. He takes home $6,981 for the win. Bradley Young finishes in second place and earns $6,821, while Cesar Fuentes takes home $4,809 for a third place finish.
$570 Double Black Chip Bounty NLH/PLO Level 21: 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 ante Players Remaining: 3 of 94
Pot Limit Omaha
Harold Mahaffey limped in on the button and Schneur Borenstein potted it to 40,000 out of the small blind. Cesar Fuentes folded his big blind and Mahaffey called.
The flop was and Borenstein moved all in for about 60,000. Mahaffey called.
Borenstein showed and was up against Mahaffey’s .
The turn was the was the , giving Mahaffey Broadway. The river was the and Mahaffey’s straight bests Borenstein’s two pair.
Borenstein was eliminated in fourth place and took home $2,538 for his final table appearance, while Mahaffey gets back some of what he lost in Fuentes’ double up.
Harold Mahaffey – 800,000 Schneur Borenstein – Eliminated