$560 Black Chip Bounty NLH
Level 11: 500/1,000/100 ante
6 Players Remaining, 45k avg (45 bb)

Seat-Name-Chip Count

1 Zoltan Czinkota (Davie, FL) 53,000
2
3 Nissim Gozlan (Plantation, FL) 2,500
4 Peter Striano (Parkland, FL) 98,200
5 Sam Abraham (Haiti) 27,100
6 Luke Doolittle (Delray Beach, FL) 63,600
7
8
9 Chris Lewis (Hollywood, FL) 25,700
10

Final Table Eliminations

Chad Bliss (Sugar Hill, GA)
Charles Zitner (Sunrise, FL)
Dimitry Agrachov (Weston, FL)
Emil Soffer (Miami, FL)

Prize Pool

Place-Payout

1st $5,400
2nd $3,240
3rd $2,160

$350 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
Level 14: Blinds 1,200/2,400/200 ante
526 Flight E Entries
126 Players Remaining, 83k avg (35 bb)

Chip Leaders

William Givens 246k
J Brown 231k
Ido Ashkenazi 217k
Sharon Devault 192k
Austin Silverstein 184k

Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown

Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino guests playing in this series have the luxury of enjoying the lagoon-style pool.

We saw a couple of players hanging out at the Beach Club pool bar on their off day after bagging chips in earlier flights of the $500,000 Guaranteed event

The 4.5-acre area features cabanas, lounge chairs, a water slide and spa.

Those who soaked up today’s Hollywood, Florida sun will definitely be refreshed and recharged for Sunday’s 1 pm Day 2 restart.

$350 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
Level 11: Blinds 600/1,200/200 ante
526 Flight E Entries
189 Players Remaining, 56k avg (46 bb)

The 5th of 6 flights in the $500,000 Guaranteed prize pool is down to less than half the entries that began the day.

The chip leaders are in the 200k range and we’ll update the big stacks on the next break at ~5:30 pm.

$560 Black Chip Bounty NLH
Level 7: Blinds 200/400/50 ante
10 Players Remaining, 27k avg (68 bb)

Seat-Name

1 Zoltan Czinkota (Davie, FL)
2 Charles Zitner (Sunrise, FL)
3 Nissim Gozlan (Plantation, FL)
4 Peter Striano (Parkland, FL)
5 Sam Abraham (Haiti)
6 Luke Doolittle (Delray Beach, FL)
7 Emil Soffer (Miami, FL)
8 Chad Bliss (Sugar Hill, GA)
9 Chris Lewis (Hollywood, FL)
10 Dimitry Agrachov (Weston, FL)

Prize Pool

Place-Payout

1st $5,400
2nd $3,240
3rd $2,160

$560 Black Chip Bounty NLH
Level 5: Blinds 100/200/25 ante
27 Entries

With registration closed, levels have increased to 40 minutes each.

Chip leaders after the first break:

Nissim Golzen 30k
Luke Doolittle 26k
Abraham Wissam 23k
Emil Soffer 23k
Pete Striano 23k

$350 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
Level 6: Blinds 200/400/50 ante
490 Entries

“People around here know about it,” says Michael Hobbs (Melbourne, FL),  “they call it the Hobbs.”

This is in response to Chris Lindh (Goshen, NY) and his tweet about Hobbs playing 6-4 that we featured here.

Hobbs says he called a preflop raise of 7k when blinds were 50/100 and flopped a straight to knockout his opponent.

“If it’s for my tournament life I won’t play it,” says Hobbs, who has 6-4 tattooed on his arm. “Anything else I’m pretty much going with it.”

Hobbs is also known for his “Clifford” the dog card protector which he first started using 13 years ago when he “borrowed” it from his son.

“He was mad I took it and snapped the head off,” laughed Hobbs who’s son Justin was 3-years-old at the time.

Hobb’s is currently on his seventh version of the toy and says he’s had to order them from China and Russia.

Hobbs was formerly in the real estate business and has been grinding poker full time the last six years which includes a 2013 win in the Seminole Hard Rock 2013 Poker Open ($21,000) .

Hobbs and Clifford playing 6-4 every chance he gets.

$350 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
Level 4: Blinds 50/100
421 Flight E Entries

The second weekend of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown means more recognizable faces are in the tournament fields.

TV personality Montel Williams is today’s celebrity sighting. Williams is often seen playing in Atlantic City and recently picked up his first career recorded live win earlier this year in Las Vegas.

“Definitely,” says the Daytime Emmy Award winner, when asked if he’ll be at Sunday’s final table. Williams hosted his eponymous talk show from 1991-2008.

So far so good for Williams as players head towards their first break of the day.