Primary Event Schedule

10AM: Event 19 – $1,100 Seniors 50+ NLH (Re-Entry)

• Players begin with 25,000 in chips
• Levels last 30 minutes
• Late registration until start of Level 9 (2:30pm)
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 19 Structure Sheet

11AM: Event 16 Day 1B – $600 Deep Stack PLO (Re-Entry)

• $100,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 20,000 in chips
• Day 1 levels last 30 minutes; Day 2 levels last 40 minutes
• Levels last 60 minutes when 18 players remain
• Late registration until start of Level 9 (3:30pm)
• Day 1 will end when field reaches 12.5%
• Event 16 Structure Sheet

11AM: Event 20 Day 1A – $200 Big Stack NLH (Re-Entry)

• $200,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 15,000 in chips
• Levels last 30 minutes
• Late registration until start of Level 7 (2:30pm)
• Day 1 will end when field reaches 12.5%
• Event 20 Structure Sheet

1PM: Event 1 Day 3 – $400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)

• Event 1 Day 3 Seats and Chip Counts
• Event 1 Payouts

1PM: Event 15 Day 2 – $1,100 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)

• Event 15 Day 2 Seats and Chip Counts
• Event 15 Payouts

1PM: Event 21 – $400 Savage Average NLH (Re-Entry)

• Players begin with 50,000 in chips
• No clock will be used to determine the limit of play. The limit will increase maintaining a minimum 50 Big Blind Average as players are eliminated.
• Late registration until 3:15pm
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 21 Structure Sheet

2PM: Event 22 – $600 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw (Re-Entry)

• Players begin with 30,000 in chips
• Levels last 30 minutes
• Late registration until start of Level 9 (6:30pm)
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 22 Structure Sheet

3PM: Event 20 Day 1B – $200 Big Stack NLH (Re-Entry)

• $200,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 15,000 in chips
• Levels last 30 minutes
• Late registration until start of Level 7 (6:30pm)
• Day 1 will end when field reaches 12.5%
• Event 20 Structure Sheet

5PM: Event 16 Day 1C – $600 Deep Stack PLO (Re-Entry)

• $100,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 20,000 in chips
• Day 1 levels last 30 minutes; Day 2 levels last 40 minutes
• Levels last 60 minutes when 18 players remain
• Late registration until start of Level 9 (9:30pm)
• Day 1 will end when field reaches 12.5%
• Event 16 Structure Sheet

7PM: Event 20 Day 1C – $200 Big Stack NLH (Re-Entry)

• $200,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 15,000 in chips
• Levels last 30 minutes
• Late registration until start of Level 7 (10:30pm)
• Day 1 will end when field reaches 12.5%
• Event 20 Structure Sheet

8PM: Event 23 – $300 Quad Stack PLO/NLH Mix (Re-Entry)

• Players begin with 40,000 in chips
• Levels 1-8 last 15 minutes; Levels 9+ last 20 minutes
• Late registration until start of Level 12 (11:30pm)
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 23 Structure Sheet

Secondary and Satellite Schedule

7PM: $1,050 Event 26 Turbo Satellite (1-in-10)

• Players begin with 10,000 in chips
• Levels last 15 minutes
• Late registration until start of Level 9 (9:15pm)
• Structure Sheet

2024 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 14
$600 Big Bet Mix Dealer’s Choice (Re-Entry)
Entries:  80
Prize Pool:  $41,200
August 4, 2024

Event 14 of the 2024 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open was the $600 Big Bet Mix Dealer’s Choice (Re-Entry). A field of 80 entries generated a prize pool of $41,200. Taking it down was Matthew Mullins, earning $13,240 for his first-place showing.

2024 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 17
$300 Quad Stack Black Chip Bounty NLH (Re-Entry)
Entries:  284
Prize Pool:  $44,020
Bounty Prize Pool:  $28,400
August 4, 2024

Event 17 of the 2024 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open was a $300 Quad Stack Black Chip Bounty No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry). A field of 284 entries produced a prize pool of $44,020, with an additional $28,400 set aside for bounties.

Emerging victorious was Alena Karunets, winning outright for $8,880.

2024 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 13
$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed
Entries:  612
Prize Pool:  $201,960
August 4, 2024

Event 13 of the 2024 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open was a $400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry). A field of 612 entries marked the second biggest in our series history for a one-day $400 buy-in.

A rare nine-way deal was reached and Justin Molis was the chip leader at the time, making him the official Event 13 winner for $15,664.

*denotes nine-way deal

2024 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 18
$400 Deep Stack Turbo No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Entries:  50
Prize Pool:  $17,000
August 4, 2024

Event 18 of the 2024 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown was a late-night $400 Deep Stack Turbo No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry), drawing 50 entries for a prize pool of $17,000. Emerging victorious was Manuel Amaro Alvarez, winning outright for $6,290.

$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $1,937,100  |  Payouts  |  Results  | Structure
Level 31:  75,000/150,000 with a 150,000 ante
Players Remaining:  29 of 5,870

Day 3 begins Monday at 1 p.m.

Table 5
Seat 1:  Jason Holzberg  –  3,700,000  (25 bb)
Seat 2:  Kevin Gomez  –  5,275,000  (35 bb)
Seat 3:  Donald Jackson  –  3,300,000  (22 bb)
Seat 4:  Brian Bascome  –  5,325,000  (36 bb)
Seat 5:  Tony Li  –  2,700,000  (18 bb)
Seat 6:
Seat 7:  Scott Johnson  –  3,275,000  (22 bb)
Seat 8:
Seat 9:  Matt Vinke  –  3,100,000  (21 bb)

Table 6
Seat 1:  Joseph Montervino  –  2,500,000  (17 bb)
Seat 2:
Seat 3:  Fred Paradis  –  3,300,000  (22 bb)
Seat 4:  Gary Fitzgerald  –  4,125,000  (28 bb)
Seat 5:
Seat 6:  David Shmuel  –  2,225,000  (15 bb)
Seat 7:  Carlos Pichardo  –  1,350,000  (9 bb)
Seat 8:  Diego Martinez  –  3,700,000  (25 bb)
Seat 9:  Julio Delgado  –  8,425,000  (56 bb)

Table 7
Seat 1:  Alex Ziskin  –  6,775,000  (45 bb)
Seat 2:  Frank Weigel  –  2,550,000  (17 bb)
Seat 3:  Chris Mills  –  6,475,000  (43 bb)
Seat 4:
Seat 5:  Phillip Juarez  –  3,000,000  (20 bb)
Seat 6:  Ian Siegel  –  7,150,000  (48 bb)
Seat 7:  Manuel Mustafa  –  6,175,000  (41 bb)
Seat 8:  Ilya Moundous  –  1,275,000  (9 bb)
Seat 9:  Barek Faraj  –  1,200,000  (8 bb)

Table 8
Seat 1:  Mica Lamar  –  700,000  (5 bb)
Seat 2:
Seat 3:  Scott Heiligman  –  2,000,000  (13 bb)
Seat 4:
Seat 5:  Karl Creazzo  –  5,575,000  (37 bb)
Seat 6:  George Varga  –  6,975,000  (47 bb)
Seat 7:  Glayson Leroy  –  3,000,000  (20 bb)
Seat 8:  Raul Hernandez  –  5,300,000  (35 bb)
Seat 9:  Roy Singer  –  8,925,000  (60 bb)

1st:  $245,320 + SHRPO Trophy
2nd:  $164,000
3rd:  $122,000
4th:  $91,000
5th:  $69,000
6th:  $52,000
7th:  $40,500
8th:  $31,500
9th-10th:  $24,600
11th-12th:  $19,500
13th-15th:  $15,500
16th-19th:  $12,400
20th-23rd:  $10,000
24th-29th:  $8,100

$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $1,937,100  |  Payouts  | Structure
Level 30:  75,000/125,000 with a 125,000 ante
Players Remaining:  30 of 5,870

Barek Faraj got it all in preflop for about 1,000,000 with , but he was dominated and facing elimination against the of Tony Li.

The board came , and Faraj paired his king on the flop and rivered a queen-high flush to win the pot and double up in chips.

Barek Faraj  –  2,200,000  (18 bb)
Tony Li  –  3,000,000  (24 bb)

With 30 players remaining, the average chip stack is around 3,925,000 (31 big blinds), and the remaining players are guaranteed at least $8,100 each. This will be the last level of the night, and the field will return tomorrow at 1:00 pm to play down to a winner.

$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $1,937,100  |  Payouts  | Structure
Level 30:  75,000/125,000 with a 125,000 ante
Players Remaining:  30 of 5,870

Matt Vinke raised under the gun to 275,000, Kevin Gomez moved all in from the cutoff for 3,100,000, and Vinke asked for an exact count and went into the tank with about 4,100,000 behind.

“You’ve stepped in it,” said Vinke, “but I might not have the balls to pull the trigger.”

Vinke thought for a while longer before he said, “I was int he same spot with about 117 left, and I laid it down.”

Vinke then asked if Gomez would show his cards if Vinke folded, and Gomez didn’t appear to respond. Then Vinke said he would get things started by showing his cards first.

Vinke folded face up.

Gomez waited for the dealer to push the pot to him, and then he showed his cards — .

Kevin Gomez  –  3,700,000  (30 bb)
Matt Vinke  –  4,100,000  (33 bb)

With 30 players remaining, the average chip stack is around 3,925,000 (31 big blinds), and the remaining players are guaranteed at least $8,100 each. This will be the last level of the night, and the field will return tomorrow at 1:00 pm to play down to a winner.

$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $1,937,100  |  Payouts  | Structure
Level 30:  75,000/125,000 with a 125,000 ante
Players Remaining:  30 of 5,870

Tony Li raised from the small blind to 475,000, Fred Paradis moved all in from the big blind for 1,650,000, and Li called with .

Paradis turned over , and needed it to hold to stay alive.

The board came , and the pocket kings held up for Paradis to win the pot and double up in chips.

Fred Paradis  –  3,425,000  (27 bb)
Tony Li  –  4,550,000  (36 bb)

With 30 players remaining, the average chip stack is around 3,925,000 (31 big blinds), and the remaining players are guaranteed at least $8,100 each. This will be the last level of the night, and the field will return tomorrow at 1:00 pm to play down to a winner.