$1,500 + $150 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Poker Open” Main Event

Some quick bios pulling player information from Hendon Mob:

Table 40 Players

Michael Landress
No Hendon Mob Results

Kevin Spires
$168,969 in career earnings
Best finish 127th in $10,000,000 Guaranteed at Seminole Hard Rock for $14,544

Tyler Stafman
Career Earnings $1,100
Best finish 34th place in Isle Casino $400 NLHE tournament for $1,100

Darryl Fish
$1,250,617 in career earnings
Best finish 6th in LAPC WPT Event for $235,350. Also finished 3rd in 2013 WSOP tournament for $215,286.

Javier Prado
$15,106 in career earnings
Best finish 225th in $10,000,000 Guaranteed at Seminole Hard Rock for $8,726

Nigel Murray
$277,392 in career earnings
Best finish 3rd place at 2010 Florida State Poker Championships for $39,380

Matthew Waxman
$2,663,839 in career earnings
1 WSOP bracelet and 1 WPT Main Event win

Table 41 Players

Tom Gleason
$139,758 in career earnings
Best finish 3rd place Borgata Spring Poker Open for $34,498

John Cynn
$28,757 in career earnings
Best finish 6th place WPT Regional in Jacksonville 2012 for $16,929

John Piscopo
$1,054 in career earnings
Best finish 52nd place in 2013 Isle Open event in October, 2013 for $1,054

Michael Mizrachi
$14,526,724 in career earnings
3 WSOP bracelets and 2 WPT Main Event wins
8th All Time on Money List

Yuan Yangshen
$31,016 in career earnings
368th in this years WSOP Main Event for $28,063

Mark Morono
$2,737 in career earnings
Best finish 10th place in a WSOP Circuit Event for $1,869

John Pizano
$23,896 in career earnings
Best finish is a win in a $1,100 NLHE tournament at 2013 Battle at the Beach for $21,686

$120 + $30 No Limit Hold ‘Em (Double Stack Turbo)

Coming into Event 19, Lance Goldenberg held a slight lead in the Leaderboard Promotion over several people just a few points behind. That lead is now gone and in fact Goldenberg has dropped to third place after Event 19 changed it all. First, Peter Striano would take 4th place in event 19 moving him into a commanding lead with 85 points. This was Striano’s third top 4 finish. Then to make matters worse for Goldenberg, when play was three handed the players did a chip count chop and Jonathan Ounjian was declared the winner. This put Jonathan in 2nd place on the Leaderboard Promotion with 70 points and moved Goldenberg into 3rd with 65. There is still one tournament remaining in the series and a number of players have a shot at the top two prizes that are awarding seats into the $10,000,000 Guarantee in April.

The updated leaderboard can be found here:

Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open” Leaderboard

The final results for Event 19 are as follows:

$1,500 + $150 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Poker Open” Main Event

Play is done for the day and we will have 14 players returning at 1 p.m. with a shot at the $145,321 first place prize. It’s a pro heavy top of the chip counts as Matthew Waxman is leading the way with 1.302 million in chips and is followed closely by Michael Mizrachi with 1.208. Third in chips is John Pisano with 1.104 million.

$1,500 + $150 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Poker Open” Main Event

Blinds 6K/12K Antes 2K

A short stacked Mark Gaudino moved the last of his chips in with A-J and was called by a bigger stack out of the blinds with . Gaudino was looking good to double up on the T-9-8 flop but it did contain two spades. The turn was a harmless 4 but the river was a third spade to send Mark to the cage to collect his $8,676 in winnings.

$1,500 + $150 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Poker Open” Main Event

Blinds 6K/12K Antes 2K

Lenny Duvdivani opened the action and the player to his immediate left in Seat 7 moved all in. Seat 7 had Lenny covered and Duvdivani tanked for over five minutes prompting Nigel Murray to say “I don’t want to end the day with 200K, come on.” Darryl Fish from across the table asked Nigel to either call the clock or shut up and the two exchanged words for a moment before the floor stepped in and told them to stop. Another minute or two went by and just as Nigel was about to call the clock Lenny said “I call. I call.”

Lenny had pocket jacks and his opponent had . The flop came with a Queen and that would be the end of Duvdivani’s excellent tournament.

$1,500 + $150 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Poker Open” Main Event

Blinds 5K/10K Antes 1K

Christopher Bolek min-raised to 20K from middle position and the big blind called. The flop came and the big blind checked. Bolek moved all in and the big blind snap called with for a big blind special. “It was only 10K more for me to see a flop,” he said. Bolek had pocket 6’s and was unable to hit the 1 outer for the win and is our 17th place finisher.

$120 + $30 No Limit Hold ‘Em (Double Stack Turbo)

Blinds 5K/10K Ante 1K

They are in the money and at the final table. 10 players remain and with the turbo structure it probably won’t be long before it’s over.