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Event 1 Flight C: Czinkota Trying to Break Through

March 17, 2017 @ 11:27AM by AlCantHang

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50
Flight C Entries: 130

Flight C kicked off right on schedule and the field continues to grow in the morning hours. Some players were here at the very start while some enjoy the amenities around the property before getting involved.

Local favorite Zoltan Czinkota was here bright and early because his stack went in play at the start of the morning. That’s what happens when you win your way into the tournament via satellite. Czinkota played in the $115 Multi-Event satellite yesterday afternoon and booked his seat in today’s field along with an entry into the $570 buy-in/$1,000,000 Guarantee Event 9.

If you would also like to win your way into both big tournaments, we have another Multi-Event satellite running at 3pm with five packages guaranteed.

Czinkota is still trying to sit for a winner’s photo in one of our major events. He’s a constant presence in our tournaments with his share of second places results in our four big festivals but still shy of the top prize. Czinkota’s most recent runner-up finish came last August in the 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $360 Six-Max event.

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Event 1 Flight C: First Weekend

March 17, 2017 @ 10:55AM by AlCantHang

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50

The first weekend of the 2017 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown is here and with it brings the next two starting flights of the big Event 1 opener. The $360 buy-in $500,000 Guarantee tournament drew a big crowd for the first two flights yesterday and we should tease that guaranteed prize pool later today.

Flights A and B combined for a total of 831 entries to put the prize pool near the $250,000 mark with four flights to go. Of those entries, 160 players stuck around throughout the day and will return on Sunday for Day 2. Today’s two fields should surpass the previous numbers and lock up the guarantee.

Players sit down to 20,000 starting stacks and Day 1 levels last 30 minutes. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 3:30pm and they will continue to play until the end of Level 14. Those with chips will put them in a bag for a return on Sunday for Day 2.

Action will kick off at the top of the hour and we will see how many players can join the 160 already moving on.

$500,000 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

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Showdown Day 2 Schedule

March 17, 2017 @ 8:00AM by AlCantHang

Main Event Schedule

11AM: Event 1 Day 1C – $360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

$500,000 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

12PM: Event 2 – $300 Limit Omaha/8 (Single Re-Entry)

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
Event 2 Structure Sheet

6PM: Event 1 Day 1D – $360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

$500,000 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 35 – $90 Mega Turbo Satellite to Event 1 (1-in-5)

2 seats guaranteed into the $500,000 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 35 Structure Sheet

3PM: Event 36 – $115 Multi-Event Satellite (1-in-10)

5 packages guaranteed into $360 buy-in Event 1 and $570 buy-in Event 9
Players begin with 6,000 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 36 Structure Sheet

8PM: Event 37 – $390 Championship Turbo Satellite (1-in-10)

2 seats guaranteed into $2M GTD WPT Showdown 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 37 Structure Sheet

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Thursday Wraps; Here’s What’s in Store for Friday

March 17, 2017 @ 2:45AM by Seminole Hard Rock Poker

Thursday’s Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown tournament action has concluded. Here’s a glance at what’s ahead Friday:

9AM: Event 35 – $90 Mega Turbo Satellite to Event 1 (1-in-5)
11AM: Event 1 Day 1C – $360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
12PM: Event 2 – $300 Limit Omaha/8 (Single Re-Entry)
3PM: Event 36 – $115 Multi-Event Satellite (1-in-10)
6PM: Event 1 Day 1D – $360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
8PM: Event 37 – $390 Championship Turbo Satellite (1-in-10)

Full Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Schedule

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Event 1: Chip Counts through Flight B

March 17, 2017 @ 2:22AM by Seminole Hard Rock Poker

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Returning to Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 160 of 831

Flight A: 424 Entries, 80 Advanced
Flight B: 407 Entries, 80 Advanced
Flight C: Friday at 11am
Flight D: Friday at 6pm
Flight E: Saturday at 11am
Flight F: Saturday at 6pm
Day 2: Sunday at 1pm

Chip counts through Flight B:

Rank	First Name	Last Name	Chip Count	Flight
1	Henry	Meacham	314,000	B
2	George	Dolofan	260,500	A
3	Anthony	Thomas	223,500	B
4	Rafael	Ramos	216,500	B
5	Darin	Kaplan	212,500	B
6	Jacquelyn	Scott	210,000	A
7	Jonathan	Harris	208,000	A
8	Larry	White	208,000	B
9	John	Magnetta	207,500	A
10	Hany	Ayoub	205,000	A
11	Ira	Marcus	204,500	B
12	Tom	Alves	203,500	A
13	Oded	Cohen	201,000	B
14	David	Wolff	197,000	A
15	George	Hortelano	194,500	A
16	Martin	Markov	189,000	B
17	Henri	Azoulay	185,500	A
18	Jean	Chery	181,500	A
19	Mario	Donoso	181,000	A
20	Casey	Kaplan	172,500	B
21	Eddie	Uchaas	172,000	A
22	Dantonio	Brown	170,500	B
23	Daniel	Blum	166,500	A
24	James	Orleans	166,000	B
25	Staffan	Lind	163,000	B
26	Kevin	Ho	161,000	B
27	Anthony	Astarita	159,000	B
28	Ido	Ashkenazi	158,000	B
29	Ricardo	Eyzaguirre	155,000	A
30	Nicholas	Power	153,500	B
31	Larry	Bass	147,500	A
32	Michael	Mizrachi	147,500	B
33	Craig	Bateman	147,000	B
34	Matthew	Kuba	145,500	B
35	Roidi	Regalado	145,000	A
36	Nigel	Murray	144,000	A
37	Eugeniy	Catane	143,500	A
38	Michael	LaRocca	142,000	B
39	Andrew	Blake	140,000	B
40	Juan	Garcia	138,000	B
41	Tony	Hobbs	136,000	A
42	Greg	Spinder	136,000	A
43	Sabrina	Brokmeier	134,500	A
44	Tom	Marciano	134,000	A
45	Charlie	Townsend	131,500	A
46	Steven	Romano	131,500	A
47	Alejandro	Armas	131,500	B
48	Mike	Jones	131,000	A
49	Dimitry	Agrachov	131,000	B
50	Gil	Aboodi	130,500	A
51	Jonathan	Ounjian	129,500	B
52	Elliott	Zaydman	126,500	A
53	Josh	Beckley	123,500	B
54	Paulius	Bikus	121,500	A
55	Dustyn	Schindewolf	121,500	A
56	Ryan	Van Sanford	121,000	B
57	Albert	Eskenazi	120,000	B
58	Angelo	Miele Jr	117,500	A
59	Kevin	Chan	115,000	A
60	Paul	Vieira	113,500	B
61	Steven	Damsky	111,000	A
62	Jack	Battaglia	110,500	B
63	Anthony	Barbera	110,000	A
64	Matthew	Zarcadoolas	109,500	B
65	Omar	Diaz	108,500	B
66	Oscar	Santana	106,500	A
67	Erkinbek	Ozumbekov	105,500	A
68	Carmilo	Manrique	101,000	A
69	John	Mitchalk	101,000	A
70	Carlos	Bolanos	100,000	A
71	Abraham	Batievsky	100,000	B
72	Nathan	Fair	99,500	A
73	Raymond	Claus	98,500	A
74	Joe	Marchese	98,500	A
75	Stephen	Ibrahim	98,000	B
76	Sean	Perry	97,500	A
77	Jeff	Rodriguez	96,500	B
78	Joule	Kadadu	96,500	B
79	Ryan	Pathman	95,500	B
80	Thomas	Alcorn	95,500	B
81	David	Becker	93,500	A
82	Michael	Raimon	92,500	A
83	Richard	Saunders	91,500	B
84	Michael	Graffeo	90,000	A
85	Corey	Harrison	90,000	B
86	Ken	Bruno	89,000	A
87	Jason	Laso	88,500	A
88	Jian X	Zhao	86,500	B
89	Charles	Odenz	86,500	B
90	Vassil	Filipov	86,000	B
91	John	Marlow	85,500	A
92	Amir	Sujak	85,500	B
93	John	Streese	85,000	A
94	Diane	Schmidt	85,000	A
95	Kevin	Pouya	84,000	A
96	Rafael	Calero	84,000	B
97	Alexander	Dvorsky	84,000	B
98	Alex	Pines	83,500	B
99	Josh	Hillock	83,000	A
100	Wally	Maddah	83,000	B
101	Thomas	Gari	82,000	A
102	Juan	Rodriguez	81,500	A
103	DNR		81,000	A
104	Courtland	Twyman	79,500	A
105	Thomas	Farrell	79,500	B
106	Michael	Robilotto	79,000	B
107	Russell	Williams	77,000	A
108	Ryan	Anderkin	74,500	B
109	Jonathan	Roberge	74,000	B
110	Richard	Golonka	71,500	A
111	Jessica	Dawley	71,500	A
112	Brenda	Nelson	70,500	A
113	Joviel	Gonzalez	69,000	A
114	Michael	Cooper	69,000	B
115	Jeff	Rine	68,000	A
116	Piotr	Wielopolski	68,000	B
117	Kevin	Deng	65,500	A
118	Matthew	Lessor	64,500	B
119	Paul	Shafran	63,000	A
120	Bruce	Snell	61,500	A
121	Robert	Levin	61,500	A
122	William	Kopp	59,000	B
123	Tomislav	Krizanic	58,500	B
124	Michael	Lewin	57,000	A
125	Fritz	Lunkenheimer	56,000	B
126	Phillip	Brill	54,000	A
127	Phillip	Goureau	53,500	A
128	Pierce	Picou	53,500	B
129	Robert	Kenney	51,500	A
130	Stanley	Tavanese	50,500	B
131	Evan	Teitelbaum	49,000	B
132	Aptem	Maksimov	48,500	B
133	Ruben	Coto	47,500	B
134	Jonathan	Alfonso	47,000	A
135	Jeff	Dana	45,500	A
136	Robert	Panetta	45,000	B
137	Tracy	Potter	44,000	B
138	Carmine	Floreno	43,500	B
139	Jon	Brody	43,500	B
140	Larry	Klur	43,000	A
141	Steven	McCartney	42,500	B
142	Julio	Rodriguez	42,000	B
143	Dan	Bernadel	38,500	A
144	Vincent	Censabella	38,500	B
145	Paul	Grigsby	37,000	B
146	Yves	Bohemier	37,000	B
147	Bernard	Cohen	36,000	B
148	Sharon	Bachar	35,500	B
149	Andres	Morales	35,000	B
150	Matt	Grocholsky	33,000	B
151	Paul	Balzano	33,000	B
152	Mark	Nahama	32,500	B
153	Ryan	Sherman	32,000	A
154	Igor	Mitrevski	31,000	B
155	Sylvain	Bouchard	30,000	A
156	Kyle	Harry	28,500	B
157	James	Mills	25,500	A
158	Jerome	Taguet	18,000	A
159	Jeremy	Goureau	18,000	A
160	Carlos	Sobenes	12,000	A

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Event 1 Flight B: Henry Meacham Bags Big Lead

March 17, 2017 @ 1:54AM by Seminole Hard Rock Poker

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
End of Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 90 of 407

The clock paused, players logged three additional hands and Flight B wrapped. An unofficial 90 are set to advance to Day 2 with Henry Meacham bagging a chip-leading stack of over 300,000.

Updated counts through Flight B will be posted shortly.

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Event 1 Flight B: One More Level

March 17, 2017 @ 1:18AM by Seminole Hard Rock Poker

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 99 of 407

The final level of the evening is here leaving just about 30 minutes between now and play’s conclusion. The clock shows only 99 left with Ryan Van Sanford, Josh Beckley, Wally Maddah, Evan Teitelbaum and Anthony Astarita among those still in. With a stack of over 200,000, it’s Dantonio Brown who leads the way.

Complete chip counts will be posted after play wraps.

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Event 1 Flight B: Paul Balzano with a Pair of Quick Hits

March 17, 2017 @ 12:58AM by Seminole Hard Rock Poker

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 13: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 117 of 407

South Florida regular Paul Balzano recently doubled holding pocket queens against on a jack-high flop. Balzano got his last 21,200 but held to score a timely win. On the very next hand, he opened only see to another player jam for 9,000. Balzano called and they were face up.

Balzano:
Opponent:

Runout:

Balzano improved to a straight and earned a second consecutive win. With that, Balzano went from being at risk to holding 85,000 chips.

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Event 1 Flight B: Grinder Grinding

March 17, 2017 @ 12:33AM by Seminole Hard Rock Poker

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 12: 600/1,200 with a 200 ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 135 of 407

Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi is climbing the counts midway through Level 12. He recently was in middle position and got 13,000 in the pot preflop versus a late-position opponent. The dealer burned and turned and Mizrachi quickly lead for 25,200 which appeared to have the opponent covered. The opponent mucked and Mizrachi raked the pot.

On the very next hand, Mizrachi raised and got a pair of callers. The flop fell and an early position player checked. Mizrachi bet 3,000 and a player in late position shoved for about 29,000. The early position player folded.

“Do you want action?” Mizrachi asked.

Whether the player wanted action or not, Mizrachi gave it. He called and flipped over for a flush draw. The opponent’s was good at the time, but an turn and river improved Mizrachi to a pair and earned him the pot.

The pair of hands has Mizrachi at about 132,000 chips with just over two levels remaining in the night.

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Event 1 Flight B: Dantonio Brown Back at It

March 16, 2017 @ 11:43PM by Seminole Hard Rock Poker

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 11: 600/1,200 with a 200 ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 162 of 407

Coming off a runner-up finish in the Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event, Dantonio Brown is picking up where he left off here at the Seminole Hard Rock. Brown has had an easy go of it through the first 10 levels and enjoys a monster stack in Level 11. With 177,500 chips he appears to sit atop the counts with about two hours left in the day.