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Championship: Day 3 Table and Seat Draw

August 7, 2023 @ 4:04AM by Mickey Doft

$5,300 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 21: 15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining: 44 of 1,070

Day 3 is Monday at noon.

Table 6
Seat 1:
Seat 2: Darren Elias – 810,000 (32 bb)
Seat 3: Nadya Magnus – 425,000 (17 bb)
Seat 4: Landon Tice – 605,000 (24 bb)
Seat 5: Marc Duquette – 640,000 (26 bb)
Seat 6: Brian Arbuagh – 595,000 (24 bb)
Seat 7: Alexander Stewart – 390,000 (16 bb)
Seat 8: Sheddy Siddiqui – 1,295,000 (52 bb)
Seat 9: David Pham – 1,175,000 (47 bb)

Table 7
Seat 1: Lou Ojeda – 935,000 (37 bb)
Seat 2: Asher Conniff – 1,305,000 (52 bb)
Seat 3: Mike Jozoff – 405,000 (16 bb)
Seat 4: Justin Liberto – 1,350,000 (54 bb)
Seat 5: Gary Bolden – 350,000 (14 bb)
Seat 6: Francis Margaglione – 1,920,000 (77 bb)
Seat 7: Ardit Kurshumi – 590,000 (24 bb)
Seat 8: Mike Leah – 550,000 (22 bb)
Seat 9: Chris Backhouse – 1,085,000 (43 bb)

Table 8
Seat 1: Omer Rotman – 1,340,000 (54 bb)
Seat 2: Shannon Shorr – 2,215,000 (89 bb)
Seat 3: Philipe Pizzari Pinto – 1,700,000 (68 bb)
Seat 4: Ryan Riess – 460,000 (18 bb)
Seat 5: Julian Millard Feral – 630,000 ( 25 bb)
Seat 6: Jim Collopy – 1,930,000 (77 bb)
Seat 7: Justin Bond – 1,115,000 (45 bb)
Seat 8: Joshua Adcock – 1,110,000 (44 bb)
Seat 9: Natasha Mercier – 900,000 (36 bb)

Table 15
Seat 1: Koray Aldemir – 1,740,000 (70 bb)
Seat 2: Farid Jattin – 1,950,000 (78 bb)
Seat 3: Chris O’Hara – 1,150,000 (46 bb)
Seat 4: David Jackson – 500,000 (20 bb)
Seat 5: Sebastien Guinand – 630,000 (25 bb)
Seat 6: Mike Chiappetta – 1,090,000 (44 bb)
Seat 7: Joel Harwood – 1,070,000 (43 bb)
Seat 8: Christian Harder – 705,000 (28 bb)
Seat 9: Peter Mugar – 210,000 (8 bb)

Table 16
Seat 1: James Romero – 530,000 (21 bb)
Seat 2: David Coleman – 1,065,000 (43 bb)
Seat 3: Taylor Wilson – 1,135,000 (45 bb)
Seat 4: Asher Neaman – 740,000 (30 bb)
Seat 5: Ari Dinov – 455,000 (18 bb)
Seat 6: Cesar Fuentes – 835,000 (33 bb)
Seat 7: James Mendoza – 480,000 (19 bb)
Seat 8: Kitty Kuo – 2,040,000 (82 bb)
Seat 9: Michael Berk – 570,000 (23 bb)

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Matthew Kaplan Wins Event 42 of the 2023 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Outright for $7,625

August 7, 2023 @ 4:03AM by Mickey Doft

2023 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 42
$400 Deep Stack H.E.R.O.S. (Re-Entry)
Entries: 65
Prize Pool: $21,775
August 6, 2023

2023 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Event 42 Champion Matthew Kaplan

Event 42 of the 2023 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open was a $400 Deep Stack H.E.R.O.S. (Re-Entry). A field of 65 entries generated a prize pool of $21,775, and earning the lion’s share of it was Matthew Kaplan, taking it down outright for $7,625.

Place	First Name	Last Name	Prize Amount
1	Matthew	Kaplan	$7,625
2	John	Holley	$4,355
3	Donald	Maloney	$2,665
4	Steven	Pollack	$1,905
5	Matthew	Wolfson	$1,470
6	Martin	Raschkovan	$1,145
7	Jordan	Diamond	$980
8	Harold	Klein	$870
9	Larry	St. Jean	$380
10	Dale	Phillips	$380

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Sam Ganzfried Wins Event 45 of the 2023 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Outright for $9,300

August 7, 2023 @ 3:41AM by Mickey Doft

2023 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 45
$600 Deep Stack Turbo No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Entries: 45
Prize Pool: $23,850
August 6, 2023

2023 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Event 45 Champion Sam Ganzfried

Event 45 of the 2023 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open was a $600 Deep Stack Turbo No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry). The tournament drew 45 entries, producing a prize pool of $23,850. Emerging victorious was Sam Ganzfried, winning outright for $9,300.

Place	First Name	Last Name	Prize Amount
1	Samuel	Ganzfried	$9,300
2	Michael	Chavez	$5,485
3	Habnel	Acevedo	$3,340
4	Jorge	Galarza	$2,385
5	Samantha	Simon	$1,910
6	John	Valevich	$1,430

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Event 43: Day 2 Table and Seat Draw

August 7, 2023 @ 2:45AM by Mickey Doft

$2,700 Big 4 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players Remaining: 84 of 411

Day 2 is Monday at noon.

Table	Seat	First Name	Last Name	City	St	Chip Count
21	1	Senhao	Cao	Boston	MA	83,000
21	2	Chance	Kornuth	Las Vegas	NV	98,000
21	3	Esther	Taylor	Media	PA	101,500
21	4	Jacobo	Montoya	Melbourne	FL	56,000
21	5	Scott	Levitt	Delray Beach	FL	45,000
21	6	Ryan	Brown	Roswell	GA	111,000
21	7	Baruch	Forst	Toms River	NJ	154,000
21	8	Nicolas	Noguera	Paris		124,500
22	1	Daniel	Sepiol	Michigan City	IN	125,000
22	2	Paul	Domb	Key Biscayne	FL	125,000
22	3	Darren	Rabinowitz	Las Vegas	NV	68,500
22	4	Kenny	Hallaert	Deinze		58,000
22	5	Michael	Savakinas	Fairborn	OH	74,000
22	6	Rodney	Turvin	Cairo	GA	195,500
22	8	Grant	Wang	Stamford	CT	197,500
22	9	Carlos	Guerrero	Orlando	FL	97,000
23	1	Sheldon	Gross	Hillsboro Beach	FL	172,500
23	2	Chad	Lipton	Fort Lauderdale	FL	86,000
23	3	Mack	Mclaughlin	Winter Garden	FL	33,000
23	4	Ruman	Meman	Crestview	FL	81,500
23	6	Frederick	Attias	Boca Raton	FL	97,500
23	7	Harry	Ross	Priorslee Telford		37,000
23	8	Joshua	Hardwick	Cincinnati	OH	82,000
23	9	Brandon	Hamlet	Rye Brook	NY	72,000
24	1	Aram	Oganyan	North Hollywood	CA	101,000
24	2	Art	Peacock	Jupiter	FL	124,500
24	3	Joshua	Reichard	Janesville	WI	90,500
24	4	Brett	Apter	Nashville	TN	72,000
24	5	Antonio	Mallol	Segorbe		153,500
24	6	Yi	Klassen	Eden Prairie	MN	54,500
24	7	Samad	Rashid	Valrico	FL	180,000
24	8	Bin	Weng	Philadelphia	PA	165,000
24	9	Phillip	Krnyaich	Clermont	FL	225,000
29	1	Jeremy	Ausmus	Las Vegas	NV	191,500
29	2	Tzvi	Weinberger	Toms River	NJ	94,000
29	3	Nicholas	Manganaro	Omaha	NE	121,500
29	4	Fabian	Gumz	Bad Oldesloe		211,000
29	5	Brian	Altman	Boston	MA	169,500
29	6	Champie	Douglas	Las Vegas	NV	100,500
29	7	Leonard	August	North Bergen	NJ	48,000
29	8	Travis	Young	Fort Atkinson	WI	243,000
29	9	Nikolai	Mamut	London		211,000
30	1	Rafael	Reis	Windermere	FL	72,500
30	2	Dylan	Linde	Las Vegas	NV	151,000
30	3	Joseph	Cheong	Las Vegas	NV	168,500
30	4	Furkan	Beg	Istanbul		40,500
30	6	Hamed	Zia	Carmel	IN	185,000
30	7	Ky	Nguyen	Gardena	CA	58,000
30	8	Jason	Min	Flushing	NY	291,000
30	9	Steven	Bennett	Deerfield Bch	FL	139,000
31	1	Jacob	Kauffman	Davie	FL	444,000
31	2	Daniel	Couzens	Boca Raton	FL	80,000
31	3	Young	Eum	Los Angeles	CA	89,000
31	4	Brian	Ng	Quincy	MA	77,500
31	5	Scott	Wright	Noblesville	IN	98,000
31	7	Aleksandr	Gofman	Ekaterinburg		250,000
31	8	Paul	Fisher	Northbrook	IL	70,500
31	9	Mitchell	Halverson	West Linn	OR	173,500
32	1	Casey	Hatmaker	Chambersburg	PA	115,000
32	2	Michael	Rocco	Tustin	CA	116,500
32	3	Aaron	Kupin	Miami	FL	114,000
32	4	Nitis	Udornpim	Elkridge	MD	161,500
32	5	Shon Shlomo	Perez	Surfside	FL	126,500
32	6	Frank	Lagodich	Canton	OH	47,500
32	7	Larry	Hirschfield	Boca Raton	FL	159,500
32	8	Ryan	Julius	Peoria	IL	80,500
32	9	Nicholas	Palma	Bronx	NY	131,500
39	1	Aaron	Motoyama	Alhambra	CA	42,000
39	2	David	Carter	New Braunfels	TX	41,500
39	3	Michael	Wang	Las Vegas	NV	364,000
39	4	Jason	Hickey	Austin	TX	138,000
39	5	Peter	Walsworth	Lakewood Ranch	FL	78,500
39	6	Rodney	Rodrigue	Orlando	FL	44,500
39	7	Robbi Jade	Lew	Pacific Plsds	CA	35,500
39	8	Richard	Whitebrook	Miami Beach	FL	45,000
39	9	Daniel	Lazrus	Long Beach	NY	166,500
40	1	Zyad	Qasem	Port St Lucie	FL	272,500
40	3	David	Hass	Delray Beach	FL	85,500
40	4	Corey	Hochman	Phoenix	AZ	54,000
40	5	Charles	Reed	Lauderdale By The Sea	FL	160,000
40	6	Fred	Goldberg	Plantation	FL	82,500
40	7	Charles	Mitchell	Orlando	FL	33,000
40	8	Dellin	Betances	Upper Saddle River	NJ	85,500
40	9	Joe	McKeehen	Conshohocken	PA	190,000

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Event 43: Day 2 Chip Counts

August 7, 2023 @ 2:44AM by Mickey Doft

$2,700 Big 4 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players Remaining: 84 of 411

Day 2 is Monday at noon.

Rank	First Name	Last Name	City	St	Chip Count
1	Jacob	Kauffman	Davie	FL	444,000
2	Michael	Wang	Las Vegas	NV	364,000
3	Jason	Min	Flushing	NY	291,000
4	Zyad	Qasem	Port St Lucie	FL	272,500
5	Aleksandr	Gofman	Ekaterinburg		250,000
6	Travis	Young	Fort Atkinson	WI	243,000
7	Phillip	Krnyaich	Clermont	FL	225,000
8	Fabian	Gumz	Bad Oldesloe		211,000
9	Nikolai	Mamut	London		211,000
10	Grant	Wang	Stamford	CT	197,500
11	Rodney	Turvin	Cairo	GA	195,500
12	Jeremy	Ausmus	Las Vegas	NV	191,500
13	Joe	McKeehen	Conshohocken	PA	190,000
14	Hamed	Zia	Carmel	IN	185,000
15	Samad	Rashid	Valrico	FL	180,000
16	Mitchell	Halverson	West Linn	OR	173,500
17	Sheldon	Gross	Hillsboro Beach	FL	172,500
18	Brian	Altman	Boston	MA	169,500
19	Joseph	Cheong	Las Vegas	NV	168,500
20	Daniel	Lazrus	Long Beach	NY	166,500
21	Bin	Weng	Philadelphia	PA	165,000
22	Nitis	Udornpim	Elkridge	MD	161,500
23	Charles	Reed	Lauderdale By The Sea	FL	160,000
24	Larry	Hirschfield	Boca Raton	FL	159,500
25	Baruch	Forst	Toms River	NJ	154,000
26	Antonio	Mallol	Segorbe		153,500
27	Dylan	Linde	Las Vegas	NV	151,000
28	Steven	Bennett	Deerfield Bch	FL	139,000
29	Jason	Hickey	Austin	TX	138,000
30	Nicholas	Palma	Bronx	NY	131,500
31	Shon Shlomo	Perez	Surfside	FL	126,500
32	Daniel	Sepiol	Michigan City	IN	125,000
33	Paul	Domb	Key Biscayne	FL	125,000
34	Nicolas	Noguera	Paris		124,500
35	Art	Peacock	Jupiter	FL	124,500
36	Nicholas	Manganaro	Omaha	NE	121,500
37	Michael	Rocco	Tustin	CA	116,500
38	Casey	Hatmaker	Chambersburg	PA	115,000
39	Aaron	Kupin	Miami	FL	114,000
40	Ryan	Brown	Roswell	GA	111,000
41	Esther	Taylor	Media	PA	101,500
42	Aram	Oganyan	North Hollywood	CA	101,000
43	Champie	Douglas	Las Vegas	NV	100,500
44	Chance	Kornuth	Las Vegas	NV	98,000
45	Scott	Wright	Noblesville	IN	98,000
46	Frederick	Attias	Boca Raton	FL	97,500
47	Carlos	Guerrero	Orlando	FL	97,000
48	Tzvi	Weinberger	Toms River	NJ	94,000
49	Joshua	Reichard	Janesville	WI	90,500
50	Young	Eum	Los Angeles	CA	89,000
51	Chad	Lipton	Fort Lauderdale	FL	86,000
52	David	Hass	Delray Beach	FL	85,500
53	Dellin	Betances	Upper Saddle River	NJ	85,500
54	Senhao	Cao	Boston	MA	83,000
55	Fred	Goldberg	Plantation	FL	82,500
56	Joshua	Hardwick	Cincinnati	OH	82,000
57	Ruman	Meman	Crestview	FL	81,500
58	Ryan	Julius	Peoria	IL	80,500
59	Daniel	Couzens	Boca Raton	FL	80,000
60	Peter	Walsworth	Lakewood Ranch	FL	78,500
61	Brian	Ng	Quincy	MA	77,500
62	Michael	Savakinas	Fairborn	OH	74,000
63	Rafael	Reis	Windermere	FL	72,500
64	Brandon	Hamlet	Rye Brook	NY	72,000
65	Brett	Apter	Nashville	TN	72,000
66	Paul	Fisher	Northbrook	IL	70,500
67	Darren	Rabinowitz	Las Vegas	NV	68,500
68	Kenny	Hallaert	Deinze		58,000
69	Ky	Nguyen	Gardena	CA	58,000
70	Jacobo	Montoya	Melbourne	FL	56,000
71	Yi	Klassen	Eden Prairie	MN	54,500
72	Corey	Hochman	Phoenix	AZ	54,000
73	Leonard	August	North Bergen	NJ	48,000
74	Frank	Lagodich	Canton	OH	47,500
75	Scott	Levitt	Delray Beach	FL	45,000
76	Richard	Whitebrook	Miami Beach	FL	45,000
77	Rodney	Rodrigue	Orlando	FL	44,500
78	Aaron	Motoyama	Alhambra	CA	42,000
79	David	Carter	New Braunfels	TX	41,500
80	Furkan	Beg	Istanbul		40,500
81	Harry	Ross	Priorslee Telford		37,000
82	Robbi Jade	Lew	Pacific Plsds	CA	35,500
83	Mack	Mclaughlin	Winter Garden	FL	33,000
84	Charles	Mitchell	Orlando	FL	33,000

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Event 43: Prize Pool and Payouts; $204,735 to the Winner

August 7, 2023 @ 2:41AM by Mickey Doft

2023 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 43
$2,700 Big 4 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 411
Prize Pool: $1,006,950
August 6-8, 2023

Event 43 of the 2023 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open was the $2,700 Big 4 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry). A field of 411 entries produced a prize pool of $1,006,950. The final 52 players will make the money, with a min-cash paying $4,470.

Up top for the winner is $204,735.

1st: $204,735 + SHRPO Trophy
2nd: $142,335
3rd: $92,790
4th: $62,000
5th: $47,680
6th: $39,525
7th: $33,180
8th: $26,885
9th-10th: $20,600
11th-12th: $17,370
13th-15th: $14,470
16th-18th: $11,885
19th-21st: $9,870
22nd-24th: $8,380
25th-27th: $6,900
28th-36th: $5,640
37th-45th: $5,035
46th-52nd: $4,470

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Championship: Day 2 Ends with Shannon Shorr Leading the Final 44 Players

August 7, 2023 @ 2:05AM by BJ Nemeth

$5,300 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 21: 15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining: 44 of 1,070

Day 2 has come to an end with 44 players remaining, and the chipleader is Shannon Shorr, who bagged 2,215,000.

The Day 3 seat draw with official chip counts will be posted soon, but here’s a preview of the top of the leaderboard:

1. Shannon Shorr – 2,215,000 (89 bb)
2. Kitty Kuo – 2,040,000 (82 bb)
3. Farid Jattin – 1,950,000 (78 bb)
4. Jim Collopy – 1,930,000 (77 bb)
5. Francis Margaglione – 1,920,000 (77 bb)

With 44 players remaining from a field of 1,070, the average chip stack is around 975,000 (39 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $19,515 each.

Day 3 begins tomorrow (Monday) at 12:00 noon. Stay tuned to SHRPO.com for the official chip counts and the Day 3 seat draw.

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Event 44: Flight A Chip Counts

August 7, 2023 @ 2:04AM by Mickey Doft

$200 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 15: 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining: 34 of 272

Flight A: 272 Entries; 34 Advanced
Flight B: Monday at 5 p.m.
Day 2: Tuesday at 3 p.m.

Rank	First Name	Last Name	City	ST	Chip Count
1	Anthony	Rizzo	Sunrise	FL	404,000
2	Marc	Kropf	Pembroke Pines	FL	380,000
3	Dalis	Ruane-Gomez	Miami	FL	353,000
4	Barry	Sisselman	Deerfield Bch	FL	286,000
5	Roni	Dreszer	Aventura	FL	263,000
6	Nir	Peleg	Miami	FL	249,000
7	Tavarious	Allwood	Fort Lauderdale	FL	230,000
8	Jeffrey	Silverstein	Delray Beach	FL	224,000
9	Rafiki	Brown	Sunrise	FL	218,000
10	Steve	Olivier	Miami	FL	218,000
11	Lyle	Diamond	Delray Beach	NJ	193,000
12	Leonid	Goldshteyn	North Lauderdale	FL	180,000
13	Dean	Sultan	Plantation	FL	175,000
14	Joseph	Schreck	Tamarac	FL	174,000
15	Trent-Daryl	Mcinturff	Plantation	FL	170,000
16	William	Fife Jr	Port Saint Lucie	FL	159,000
17	Jacob	Perdew	Alexandria	VA	152,000
18	Anthony	Cousineau	Cumming	GA	150,000
19	Cristian	Rodriguez	Miami	FL	137,000
20	Darrell	Carril	North Bay Village	FL	119,000
21	Stuart	Greenbaum	Hollywood	FL	119,000
22	Luc	Gagne	Victoriaville	QC	114,000
23	Dejan	Petkovic	Belgrade	-	105,000
24	Andrew	Del Rio	Coral Springs	FL	93,000
25	Juan	Montoya Bernal	Aventura	-	91,000
26	David	Sathue	Dania	FL	81,000
27	Franklin	Rojas	Plantation	FL	70,000
28	Jacques	Brutus	North Miami Beach	FL	60,000
29	Connor	Hughes	Fort Myers	FL	60,000
30	Juan	Mubarak	Hialeah	FL	55,000
31	Peter	Kambolin	Sunny Isles Beach	FL	52,000
32	Christine	Colantuoni	Hypoluxo	FL	49,000
33	Chandan	Mathur	Golden Beach	FL	47,000
34	Alice	Dick	Las Vegas	NV	26,000

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Championship: Yunkyu Song Eliminated in 45th Place by Jim Collopy

August 7, 2023 @ 12:48AM by Mickey Doft

$5,300 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20: 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining: 44 of 1,070

On the final hand of the night, a series of raises between Yunkyu Song in middle position and Jim Collopy in the small blind culminated with Song all in for roughly 830,000.

Song:
Collopy:

The board came , giving Collopy a pair of kings to eliminate Song in 45th place.

Jim Collopy – 1,930,000 (97 bb)
Yunkyu Song – Eliminated in 45th Place ($19,515)

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Championship: 46th – 54th Place Finishers

August 7, 2023 @ 12:47AM by Mickey Doft

$5,300 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20: 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining: 45 of 1,070

46th: Rajasekar Govindan – $17,385
47th: Michael Finstein – $17,385
48th: Raffaello Locatelli – $17,385
49th: Anthony Bertuccio – $17,385
50th: Justin Zaki – $17,385
51st: Joseph Dulaney – $17,385
52nd: Abdul Al Magbleh – $17,385
53rd: Matt Glantz – $17,385
54th: Antonio Salorio – $17,385