$1,700 Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Single Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante Players Remaining: 7 of 111
Padraig O’Neill
Schahin Ghiai opened to 16,000 from middle position and Padraig O’Neill moved all in for 67,000 from the small blind. Tomas Soderstrom folded his big blind and Ghiai quickly called.
Ghiai: O’Neill:
O’Neill was in great shape for his needed double but Ghiai hit the flop to take the lead with his paired ace. The turn and river could not help O’Neill and he was sent out in eighth place.
Schahin Ghiai – 557,000 (70 bb) Padraig O’Neill – Eliminated in 8th Place ($3,835)
$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 34: 150,000/300,000 with a 300,000 ante Players Remaining: 13 of 4,699
The final 13 players are back in their seats and ready to play down to a winner. Shuffle up and deal!
$1,700 Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Single Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante Players Remaining: 8 of 111
The Purple Chip Bounty NLH tournament had a nice turnout yesterday with 111 entries easily surpassing the $100,000 guaranteed prize pool. After 17 levels of play, the number was reduced down to eight players remaining with a chance at the title plus some $500 bounty chips.
Zhi Cheng Wu leads the return with Padraig O’Neill and Carlos Guerrero needing to make moves early.
Blinds levels increased to 60 minutes at the start of the final table. They return to blinds at 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 big blind ante and average stack at 278,000 (35 big blinds).
Cards go back in the air at 2 pm and we will have all the action from beginning to end.
$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 34: 150,000/300,000 with a 300,000 ante Players Remaining: 13 of 4,699
Pedro Catinchi
After 15 hours of play on Day 2, they were still unable to determine a champion for the opening event of the 2019 RRPO. There were still 13 players remaining when action was halted at 3 am and they return this afternoon at 2 pm to play it out.
Pedro Catinchi is a great story coming back to the bonus day. He was down to a single 5K chip late in the tournament but spun it up to return as the frontrunner. John Two-Bears sits not far behind in second place and the two of them have a significant lead over the rest of the field.
They will combine for the final table when nine players remain and they will begin working their way down to a champion who is set to take home more than a quarter of a million dollars.
Cards go back in the air at 2 pm and we will have all the action.
TABLE 10 Seat 1. Ben Boston – 7,000,000 (23 bb) Seat 2. Traci Myhrum – 3,800,000 (13 bb) Seat 3. Seat 4. Seat 5. Pedro Catinchi – 15,825,000 (53 bb) Seat 6. Ronald Campillo – 7,400,000 (25 bb) Seat 7. Song O. – 5,800,000 (19 bb) Seat 8. Seat 9. John Two-Bears – 14,300,000 (48 bb)
$600 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 5: 200/400 with a 400 ante Flight A Entries: 133
“Look at this!” Wally Maddah joked. “This is the feature table!”
While there are no official “feature tables” in the Seminole Ballroom, Table 32 is pretty special. Besides Maddah in the 1-seat, we have two-time SHRP champ Evan Teitelbaum, WSOP Seniors champ Howard Mash, two-time SHRP winner (and current chip leader) Paul Balzano, 2015 Showdown Event 1 champ James Salmon, 2013 RRPO Seniors champ Jeff Kessler, and November Niner Neil Blumenfield.
Sunday was a busy day in the Seminole Ballroom with multiple tournaments playing out including 720 players returning for Day 2 of the opening event. At one point, every one of the 90 tables were in use.
Of all the tournaments, only one of them played to a champion. Event 7 was a one-day $400 Deep Stack tournament with a $50,000 guaranteed prize pool. It was easily surpassed by the 263 entries and they pushed it to nearly $90,000.
Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood poker regular Sheldon Gross outlasted the entire field and took home more than $20,000 for the outright win after defeating Anthony Barbera in the heads-up match. It was his first career tournament and pushed his career tournament earnings over $250,000.
Event 7 final table results:
1st: Sheldon Gross – $20,370 2nd: Anthony Barbera – $14,328 3rd: Alexandru Ivan – $9,166 4th: Ginold Rendel – $5,575 5th: Stephen Vecchio – $4,306 6th: Adam George – $3,568 7th: Wanlop Phonphornwithoon – $2,996 8th: Angelo Miele – $2,504 9th: James Kirvin III – $2,037
Event 1 had 720 players return for Day 2 on Sunday with 470 set to make some money. The bubble burst before the first break and they continued to play until action was halted in the early hours. Pedro Catinchi was nearly felted but will lead the 13 players returning for Day 3 with more than $250K up top.
TABLE 10 Seat 1. Ben Boston – 7,000,000 (23 bb) Seat 2. Traci Myhrum – 3,800,000 (13 bb) Seat 5. Pedro Catinchi – 15,825,000 (53 bb) Seat 6. Ronald Campillo – 7,400,000 (25 bb) Seat 7. Song O. – 5,800,000 (19 bb) Seat 9. John Two-Bears – 14,300,000 (48 bb)
Event 1 wasn’t the only tournament set to move its action over to Monday afternoon. Event 8 is a $1,700 buy-in Purple Chip Bounty NLH tournament with a talented group of players joining. The single re-entry tournament drew 111 entries for an easy pass of the $100,000 guaranteed prize pool.
Day 1 came to an end after Level 17 and eight players were still alive at the final table. They also return at 2 pm to play down to a champion with Zhi Cheng Wu leading.
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$600 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 3: 100/200 with a 200 ante Flight A Entries: 107
Eli Levy
Flight A of the $600 Deep Stack is over 100 entries before the first break and already setting a nice trend towards flying past the $250,000 guaranteed prize pool.
A lot of that is thanks to our regular, loyal players who come out to support our big series. The early crew on a Monday includes Eli Levy, David Shmuel, and Paul Balzano. All past major SHRP winners and all capable of adding another trophy.
$400 Pot Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry) Structure Level 1: 25/50
We continue to the portion on non-Hold’em games on the RRPO schedule. Today at noon, we have Event 10 which is a $400 buy-in Pot Limit Omaha 8 game, all the action of PLO with the hi/lo split pots to keep things interesting.
They will sit down to 12,000 starting stacks and all levels will last 30 minutes. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 4:30 pm with a dinner break scheduled at 6 pm. Since this is a one-day tournament, we will crown another champion before the night is through.
Players begin with 12,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
We are only a few days away from kicking off the WPT RRPO Championship and we have one last multi-day tournament as a warmup. Event 9 is a $600 buy-in tournament with four starting flights over two days and a $250,000 guaranteed prize pool.
There are two starting flights today at 11 am and 5 pm then two more on Tuesday at the same times with Day 2 set for Wednesday at noon.
Players start with 20,000 deep stacks and all Day 1 levels last 30 minutes, increasing to 40 minutes on Day 2. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 3:30 pm and Flight A will come to an end after Level 14. Anyone still in the game will bag up their chips for a Day 2 return.
Cards fly at 11 am and we will have some highlights throughout their day while we concentrate coverage on Day 3 of Event 1 and the Purple Chip Bounty.
$250,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
Players begin with 20,000 in chips
Day 1 levels last 30 minutes; Day 2 levels last 40 minutes
Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
Day 1 will end after Level 14 or Tournament Director discretion
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river could not help O’Neill and he was sent out in eighth place.
