$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 22: 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 12 of 105

Joseph Cheong raised all in for 180,000 from under the gun and Jan Schwippert isolated with a shove of his own from the cutoff.

Cheong:
Schwippert:

The board came down , giving Schwippert a pair of aces to score the elimination.

Jan Schwippert – 525,000 (10 bb)
Joseph Cheong – Eliminated in 12th place ($69,563)

$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 22: 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 13 of 105

Nick Schulman moved all in for about 240,000, and Nick Petrangelo put him at risk with the covering stack and a dominating hand.

Schulman:
Petrangelo:

The board ran out , and Petrangelo won the pot with trip queens. Schulman was eliminated in 13th place.

Nick Petrangelo – 720,000 (14 bb)
Nick Schulman – Eliminated in 13th place ($61,688)

$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 22: 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 14 of 105

Dan Colman opened to 100,000 under the gun, and Tom Marchese put the rest of his short stack into the pot from the big blind, putting himself at risk.

Colman:
Marchese:

The board ran out , and Colman won the pot with a set of aces. Marchese was eliminated in 14th place.

Dan Colman – 1,610,000 (32 bb)
Tom Marchese – Eliminated in 14th place ($61,688)

$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 21: 20,000/40,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 15 of 105

Daniel Strelitz raised to 80,000 from middle position, Byron Kaverman called all in from the hijack for 65,000, and Andjelko Andrejevic called from the big blind.

Andrejevic and Strelitz checked down the board and Andrejevic tabled for nines and fours. Strelitz had a , while Kaverman tabled a defeated , ending his tournament in 15th place.

Andjelko Andrejevic – 600,000 (15 bb)
Byron Kaverman – Eliminated

After the hand, Andrejevic told the table he almost folded preflop, and Strelitz said he almost bet the flop.

$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 21: 20,000/40,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 15 of 105

Ray Qartomy raised to 80,000 from under the gun, Francisco Picasso three-bet shoved from the button for 230,000, and Qartomy called.

Qartomy:
Pisacco:

The board came down , giving Picasso a set of aces to double through Qartomy.

Francisco Picasso – 560,000 (14 bb)
Ray Qartomy – 1,700,000 (42 bb)

$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 21: 20,000/40,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 15 of 105

Tom Marchese raised all in for 90,000 from the button, Joseph Cheong called from the small blind, and Francisco Picasso folded his big blind.

Marchese:
Cheong:

The board ran out , giving Marchese aces and jacks to double through Cheong.

Tom Marchese – 260,000 (6 bb)
Joseph Cheong – 680,000 (17 bb)
Franciso Picasso – 260,000 (6 bb)

$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 20: 15,000/30,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 15 of 105

Daniel Strelitz moved all in for 285,000 in middle position, and Barry Hutter re-shoved over the top, isolating himself against the at-risk player.

Strelitz:
Hutter:

The board ran out , and Strelitz won the flip to double up with a pair of aces.

Daniel Strelitz – 665,000 (22 bb)
Barry Hutter – 1,185,000 (40 bb)

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

It was a nearly 16-hour day for players in the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $1,1,00 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) event — a tournament that attracted 828 entries (up 34 from the year before) —  but the final table of nine is finally set. Leading the way is  World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phillip Hui, who also happens to be the better half of poker pro Loni Harwood.

Hui grinded a short stack deep in the money but caught fire at just the right time, which included getting lucky against Allen Kessler, who he would eventually send out the door in 23rd place. That was the start of Hui’s heater, which saw him chip up all the way to 4.575 million.

To put that in perspective, that is nearly three times as much as Ruslan Dykshteyn, who bagged up the second-biggest stack with 1.69 million. Additionally, four of the final nine are in the six-figure, which is well below average.

That said, plenty of players stand between Hui and victory including Aaron Massey, a poker pro with more than $2.9 million in lifetime earnings including topping a field of 1,394 to win the 2012 Winstar The River Guaranteed $4 Million Poker Series of $651,559. More recently, the former Heartland Poker Tour Player of the Year topped a field of  820 entries to win the Mid-States Poker Tour FireKeepers Main Event for nearly $175,000!

There is also poker pro Daniel Buzgon, who has more than $1.5 million in lifetime earnings. Buzgon only has one win on his HendonMob, which came in January 2015 when he topped a field of 2,882 entries to win the WPT Borgata Winter Open Event #15: $500 NLHE for $195,509.

The final table gets kicked off on Tuesday at 2 p.m. inside of the Hard Rock Live. All four of The Big 4 final tables will run alongside each other with Maria Ho and Ali Nejad MC’ing the action.

$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 20: 15,000/30,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 15 of 105

Rainer Kempe limped in from the small blind, Ray Qartomy raised to 80,000 from the big blind, Kempe reraised to 235,000, and Qartomy called.

The flop came down and Kempe bet about 280,000. Qartomy raised all in with the bigger stack and Kempe folded.

“Don’t mess with me,” says Qartomy, who showed as he collected the pot.

Ray Qartomy – 1,900,000 (63 bb)
Rainer Kempre – 425,000 (14 bb)

$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 20: 15,000/30,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 15 of 105

Marvin Rettenmaier raised to 60,000 from the cutoff, Dan Colman called from the small blind, and Daniel Strelitz called from the big blind.

The flop came down and Colman checked to Strelitz who shoved for 110,000. Rettenmaier folded, as did Colman after about 60 seconds, giving Strelitz the pot.

Daniel Strelitz – 325,000 (11 bb)
Dan Colman – 1,430,000 (48 bb)
Marvin Rettenmaier – 1,230,000 (41 bb)