$2,650 No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out)
End of Level 24: 12,000/24,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 529

The 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Event 23 Big 4 final table includes players with nearly $9 million in career earning led by double-WSOP bracelet winner Dan Heimller. Newcomber Bradley Snider leads the final table when they return but has some big names trying to chase him down for the trophy.

Seat 1: Nicholas Immekus
Pittsburg, PA)
495,000 (17 bb)

Immekus is a Pittsburgh native with two cashes during the 2015 SHRPO series including a final table in the $1,650 Purple Chip Bounty event. He has $430,000 in career earnings including a $161,000 win during the 2015 PCA series.

Seat 2: James Gilbert
Philadelphia, PA
965,000 (32 bb)

Gilbert has over $1 million in earnings in his young career. He earned his first WSOP circuit ring in 2012 in Atlantic City but his biggest finish came last September when he was runner-up to David Peredes for the WPT Borgata Poker Open title.

Seat 3: Jeffrey Chang
Bethesda, MD
580,000 (19 bb)

Chang is lawyer from Maryland with over $480,000 in career earnings. He has several deep tournament run but his biggest came with a fourth place finish in the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open” Championship.

Seat 4: Dan Heimiller
Plymouth, MI
1,370,000 (46 bb)

Heimiller is the elder statesman at the final table with more than $5.7 in career tournament earnings including two WSOP bracelets and two WSOP circuit rings. His first tournament cash came back in 1992 and he won the WSOP Seniors Event in 2014. Not to be put out to pasture, Heimiller added a SHRPO title to his list of credits last week.

Seat 5: Bradley Snider
Plantation, FL
3,210,000 (107 bb)

Snider is one of the unknowns in today’s Big 4 festivities. He’s studay orginally from Fort Lauderdale with no recorded tournament cashes so he already set to earn the biggest poker payday of his career.

Seat 6: Jerry Wong
Brooklyn, NY
1,345,000 (45 bb)

Wong was a local poker celebrity long before he made his mark this summer. He already had some big results to his credit, including a third place finish in the 2013 PCA Main Event, but most will know Wong now as a member of the 2016 WSOP Main Event November Nine.

Seat 7: Koray Aldemir
Vienna, Austria
680,000 (23 bb)

Aldemir is one of our more successful players in the event. He cashed eight times this summer during the World Series of Poker including a second place finish to poker legend Adrian Mateos. But his biggest success came when he finished 3rd in the $111,111 Big One for One Drop High Roller for more than $2 million.

Seat 8: Alex Wilson
Wheeling, WV
1,305,000 (44 bb)

Wilson appears to be a short-handed poker specialist with two deep finishes in WSOP Six-Max events with his best finish coming with a 5th place result in the 2009 $2,500 Six-Max Event for more than $100,000.

Seat 9: Dermot Blain
Dublin, IR)
630,000 (21 bb)

Blain is our Irish friend and he finished second in our $1,100 NLH Turbo event a few days ago. While that was a nice result, he biggest tournament victory was in 2009 when he won the APPT Macau HK$40,000 buy-in Main Event.

Final table lineup:

Seat 1: Nicholas Immekus – 495,000
Seat 2: James Gilbert – 965,000
Seat 3: Jeffrey Chang – 580,000
Seat 4: Dan Heimiller – 1,370,000
Seat 5: Bradley Snider – 3,210,000
Seat 6: Jerry Wong – 1,345,000
Seat 7: Koray Aldemir – 680,000
Seat 8: Alex Wilson – 1,305,000
Seat 9: Dermot Blain – 630,000

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 28: 30,000/60,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 828 players

The smallest buy-in SHRPO tournament in The Big 4 still outperformed many tournaments with the same buy-in. The nine final table members have accounted for more than $7 million in tournament earnings including WSOP braclets and SHRP titles.

Seat 1: Adam Krach
Longmeadow, MA
1,310,000 (22 bb)

Krach is a new player from Massachusetts with only three tournament results to his credit but all coming this year. Two of those happened this summer when he cashed in the massive-field WSOP Colossus II event and followed that up with a 24th place finish in the WSOP Main Event.

Seat 2: Jordan Joeckel
Tampa, FL
1,005,000 (17 bb)

Joeckel comes from the west coast of Florida but also has some big scores in Massachusetts. He final tabled a Foxwoods Poker Classic event but his last big finish came with a deep run in the 2015 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship.

Seat 3: George Boyadjian
Pompano Beach, FL
500,000 (8 bb)

Our shortest stack at the final table is a SHRP regular. Boyadjiam has won five tournaments at the Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood, FL including victories during the Lucky Hearts Poker Open and Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown.

Seat 4: Guy Smith
Shelton, CT
1,420,000 (24 bb)

Smith is another Northeast grinder at the final table and he’s coming off a win in Foxwoods $1,000 Summer Kickoff. His best result here wasn’t too bad either; he finished 57th in the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship.

Seat 5: Marsha Wolak
Pompano Beach, FL
595,000 (10 bb)

Wolak is a familiar site during SHRP events. She won a WSOP Circuit Seniors event and follwed that up with a Seniors event win here during the 2015 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown. But what she’s most known for his her gold bracelet from winning the 2011 WSOP Ladies Championship.

Seat 6: Phil Hui
San Antonio, TX
4,575,000 (76 bb)

Hui is among the most accomplished players at the final table and has nearly $1 million in career earnings. He has four WSOP Circuit rings over the years and captured his first WSOP bracelet in the 2014 $3,000 Omaha/8 event. In recent news, Hui finished second in the H.O.R.S.E. event earlier this series, almost earning his second SHRP trophy.

Seat 7: Daniel Buzgon
Marlton, NJ
675,000 (11 bb)

While Hui may have more tournament victories than him, Buzgon has nearly $1.6 million in career earnings. His only tournament win came during the 2015 Borgata Winter Open but his biggest score was a televised WPT Borgata Poker Open final table where he finished third for $335K.

Seat 8: Aaron Massey
Chicago, IL
655,000 (11 bb)

Hui has tournament wins and Buzgon has big cash, but Massey has them both. He’s won a dozen tournaments including two HPT titles, good enough to earn him that tour’s Player of the Year honors. Massey has nearly $3 million in career earnings, five cashes over six-digits, including a Foxwoods title and WSOP third place finish in 2014.

Seat 9: Ruslan Dykshteyn
Hollywood, FL
1,690,000 (28 bb)

A local sleeper, the Hollywood Florida resident has nearly $800,000 in career earnings including $200,000 for a WSOP Circuit Main Event win in 2014. Dykshteyn is a regular in the SHRP tournament and he earned his first victory here this spring with a big-field, $570 event during the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown.

Final table lineup:

Seat 1: Adam Krach – 1,310,000 (22 bb)
Seat 2: Jordan Joeckel – 1,005,000 (17 bb)
Seat 3: George Boyadjian – 500,000 (8 bb)
Seat 4: Guy Smith – 1,420,000 (24 bb)
Seat 5: Marsha Wolak – 595,000 (10 bb)
Seat 6: Phil Hui – 4,575,000 (76 bb)
Seat 7: Daniel Buzgon – 675,000 (11 bb)
Seat 8: Aaron Massey – 655,000 (11 bb)
Seat 9: Ruslan Dykshteyn – 1,690,000 (28 bb)

$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 22: 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 105

Monday was Day 1 of the $25,500 High Roller event at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open. Play began at high noon, and by the time registration closed, a total of 105 entries had joined the field, generating a prizepool worth $2,625,000. The final 14 players finished in the money.

Seventeen hours after the cards went in the air, Jan Schwippert was eliminated in tenth place, setting the final table and signaling the end of play for the day.

Here’s the remaining lineup:

Seat 1: Marvin Rettenmaier – 860,000 (17 bb)
Seat 2: Daniel Strelitz – 1,595,000 (32 bb)
Seat 3: Francisco Picasso – 380,000 (8 bb)
Seat 4: Ray Qartomy – 2,335,000 (47 bb)
Seat 5: Dan Colman – 2,260,000 (45 bb)
Seat 6: Rainer Kempe – 525,000 (11 bb)
Seat 7: Barry Hutter – 1,080,000 (22 bb)
Seat 8: Andjelko Andrejevic – 70,000 (1 bb)
Seat 9: Nick Petrangelo – 1,415,000 (28 bb)

10th place: Jan Schwippert ($69,563)
11th place: Martin Kozlov ($69,563)
12th place: Joseph Cheong ($69,563)
13th place: Nick Schulman ($61,688)
14th place: Tom Marchese ($61,688)

Some of those who were eliminated without a payout today included Erik Seidel, Joe McKeehen, Shaun Deeb, Seminole Hard Rock Poker Team members Chance Kornuth, Loni Harwood, and Faraz Jaka, along with this event’s defending champion, Jason Mercier.

The finalists will return later today (Tuesday) to play for the title. Everyone left is guaranteed to earn at least $78,750, but all eyes are on the trophy and the top prize of $787,497.

Blinds will be 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante when play resumes, and the average stack is about 23 big blinds. Cards go in the air at 2:00pm, and the cards-up live stream will be emceed by Ali Nejad and Maria Ho.

$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 22: 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 105

Seat 1: Marvin Rettenmaier – 860,000 (17 bb)
Seat 2: Daniel Strelitz – 1,595,000 (32 bb)
Seat 3: Francisco Picasso – 380,000 (8 bb)
Seat 4: Ray Qartomy – 2,335,000 (47 bb)
Seat 5: Dan Colman – 2,260,000 (45 bb)
Seat 6: Rainer Kempe – 525,000 (11 bb)
Seat 7: Barry Hutter – 1,080,000 (22 bb)
Seat 8: Andjelko Andrejevic – 70,000 (1 bb)
Seat 9: Nick Petrangelo – 1,415,000 (28 bb)

$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 22: 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 10 of 105

Nick Petrangelo raised all in from the button and Jan Schwippert called all in from the big blind for 625,000.

Petranglo:
Schwippert:

The board came down , giving Petrangelo a pair of aces to eliminate Schwippert in tenth place.

Nick Petrangelo – 1,415,000 (28 bb)
Jan Schwippert – Eliminated in 10th Place ($69,653)

$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 22: 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 10 of 105

Andjelko Andrejevic called all in for 30,000 from the small blind against Dan Colman in the big blind.

Andrejevic:
Colman:

The board came down , giving Anrejevic aces and eight to double up.

Andjelko Andrejevic – 85,000 (2 bb)
Dan Colman – 2,290,000 (46 bb)

$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 22: 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 11 of 105

Daniel Strelitz moved all in for 820,000 in middle position, and Andjelko Andrejevic called from the big blind, having Strelitz slightly covered.

Strelitz:
Andrejevic:

The board ran out , and Strelitz doubled up with an ace-high flush. After paying off his debt, Andrejevic was left with less than a single big blind.

Daniel Strelitz – 1,740,000 (35 bb)
Andjelko Andrejevic – 35,000 (< 1 bb)

$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 22: 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 10 of 105

Jan Schwippert raised all in from the small blind for 305,000 and Rainer Kempe called from the big blind.

Schwippert:
Kempe:

The board came down , giving Schwippert quad tens to double through Kempe.

Jan Schwippert – 635,000 (13 bb)
Rainer Kempe – 355,000 (7 bb)

$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 22: 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 11 of 105

Dan Colman raised to 100,000 under the gun, and Martin Kozlov three-bet shoved for 370,000 on the button. Colman called to put him at risk.

Colman:
Kozlov:

The board ran out , and Colman won the flip with a pair of aces. Kozlov was eliminated in 11th place.

Dan Colman – 2,150,000 (43 bb)
Martin Kozlov – Eliminated in 11th place ($69,653)