$150 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-entry)
Level 14: 1,200/2,400/400 Ante

Barry Chazen blew everyone out of the water today.

Chazen finished over 100,000 chips ahead of his nearest opponent to easily win Day 17A with a massive 322,500 chips.

Only one other player even cleared the 200,000 chip level as Stuart Greenbaum bagged 207,000 to finish in second for this evening’s play.  Josias Santos followed close behind at 192,500 for third.

Other big stacks included Roberto Caprio at 155,000, David Maddox and Diakonis Vasilios both bagged 151,000, Yves Fequiere ended up with 147,500, Richard Tintera finished at 137,500 and Hany Ayoub was close behind at 136,000.

At the end of the night, 28 players advanced out of 250 entries and will come back on Tuesday at 5 PM to resume play.

They will be awaiting the rest of the players who will join them from Day 17B.  Play for that flight starts tomorrow at 5 PM.

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 20: 5,000/10,000/1,000 Ante

The action was fast and furious once the bubble burst and only 92 players will be moving on to Day 3 when play resumes later today at noon local time. Raj Vohra emerged with the biggest stack ending the day with 1,675,000 in chips. Brian Green was the second largest stack with 1,400,000 and rounding out the top three was World Series of Poker bracelet winner Robert Campbell with 1,344,000.

Here’s a look at some of the top stacks and notables:

Raj Vohra 1,675,000
Brian Green 1,400,000
Robert Campbell 1,344,000
Eli Levy 1,291,000
John Thrower 1,258,000
Jan Ziegler 1,104,000
Andre Cooley 1,083,000
Shankar Pillai 1,009,000
Scott Efron 997,000
Scott Zakheim 948,000
Seth Berger 894,000
Mohsin Charania 860,000
Fred Goldberg 822,000
Joe Ebanks 767,000
Vince Van Patten 608,000
David Peters 498,000
Faraz Jaka 431,000
Ravi Raghavan 422,000
Brian Hastings 409,000
Eugene Todd 381,000
David Tuthill 313,000
Ty Reiman 293,000
Jake Schindler 292,000
Kevin Eyster 264,000
Cornel Cimpan 249,000
Dan Heimiller 245,000
Marvin Rettenmaier 211,000
Noah Schwartz 135,000

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship

The following players took home $8,000 for their finish today:

93rd – Preecha Taepakdee
94th – Phillip McAllister
95th – Steven Wolansky
96th – Lazaro Hernandez
97th – Darren Hicks
98th – Richard Kaplan
99th – Aleksandr Bolotin
100th – Wiliam Benson

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship

The following players took home $7,700 for their finish today:

101st – Ian O’Hara
102nd – Mario Caraballo
103rd – Andrew Batkin
104th – Michael Aron
105th – David Powers
106th – David Nowling
107th – Allen Kennedy III
108th – Paul Magriel
109th – Michael Lipman
110th – Edward Arnold

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship

The following players took home $7,500 for their finish today:

111th – Not Reported
112th – Ardh Kurshumi
113th – James Smith III
114th – Craig Palmacci
115th – James Kirk
116th – Darren Elias
117th – Vincent Fiorenza
118th – Keven Stammen
119th – Robert Bresner
120th – James Mackey

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship

The following players took home $7,300 for their finish today:

121st – Joseph Yselonia
122nd – Robert Malloy
123rd – Mark Darner
124th – Nikolai Sears
125th – Michael Nugent
126th – Paulo Castro
127th – Jason Mercier
128th – Thomas Laviano
129th – Brian Altman
130th – David Licht

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 20: 5,000/10,000/1,000 Ante

We got to the table with Jake Schindler facing a re-raise to 105,000 of his 50,000 raise pre-flop. Schindler was in the one seat, on the button, with his opponent to his immediate left, in the small blind, in the two seat. Schindler made the call and proceeded to lock in on his opponent without a care what the flop was, which turned out to be .

His opponent made a bet of 90,000 and Schindler finally glanced at the board. He made the call and again stared down his foe without looking at the turn. Schindler’s opponent checked and the pro took a quick glance at the board and then put out a modest bet of 75,000. He was quickly called by his opponent.

The river was the and once again Schindler glared at his opponent, who checked. Schindler continued to study his opponent and it wasn’t until about ten seconds had passed that he looked at what the river card was. He waited a few moments and then checked behind. His opponent showed a pair of queens and Schindler mucked his hand, left with approximately 320,000 in chips after losing that pot.

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 20: 5,000/10,000/1,000 Ante

We didn’t catch the pre-flop action but David Tuthill and another player were all in with Tuthill having his opponent covered. Tuthill had and his opponent .

The flop came prompting Tuthill to say somewhat sarcastically “that’s a good start for me” as it gave his opponent four additional outs. None of those outs would come though as the turn was the and the river was the . Tuthill moved to 350,000 in chips with that pot.

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 19: 4,000/8,000/1,000 Ante

On the last hand of Level 19, Ravi Raghavan had his chips in the middle and had to face down two callers.  Raghavan flipped over and ironically had to survive a race with not one but two A-Q’s.

Raghavan had the lead and with the dual hands was in great shape.  The hand got more interesting with a flop of opening the doors wider to a possible elimination but the showed up giving Ravi the set.  He surived a on the river and tripled up his short stack to 234,000.

With that, we head into the final level of the night with 119 players still playing the $1,000,000 first place prize and their name on the WPT Champions Cup.

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship

Each of the following players received $7,100 for their finish here today:

131st – Vitor Coelho
132nd – Mohamed Maghraoui
133rd – Matt Salsberg
134th – Daniel Alarcon
135th – Raymond Ruszkowski
136th – Jeffrey Gross
137th – Alexander Greenblatt
138th – Jordan Joeckel
139th – Piotr Brodzik
140th – Leonard Benitez