$3,500 Seminole Hard Rock RRPO Championship Level 25: 15,000/30,000 with a 5,000 ante Players Remaining: 17 of 760
Robert Womack
Patrick Mahoney opened to 60,000 from the middle position and Robert Womack moved all-in for 250,000 from the cutoff. The button and blinds took their time thinking it through but all folded before Mahoney called.
Mahoney: Womack:
Womach stood up as soon as he saw the race then saw an ace in the window of the flop. The turn was no help and he was our first eliminated today after the river.
Patrick Mahoney – 1,100,000 (37 bb) Robert Womack – Eliminated in 18th place ($15,078)
$3,500 Seminole Hard Rock RRPO Championship Level 25: 15,000/30,000 with a 5,000 ante Players Remaining: 18 of 760
Upeshka De Silva
The penultimate day is upon us in the 2016 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open” Championship with only 18 players still here with a shot at the big title. What started with 760 entries is now down to only two tables and they return today at noon aiming for a shot at the final table.
WSOP bracelet winner Upeshka De Silva holds a huge chip lead at the restart with 6 million of the 22.8 million chips in play. His closest rival is Matthew Zaradoolas with 1.745 million and some other talented players trying to chase him down including Ari Engel, Mark Dube, Ben Keeline, and a dangerous short-stacked Will “The Thrill” Failla.
The two tables will be split between the ballroom and the Poker Night in America live-streamed feature table. They will continue playing today until only the final table six remain for their time in front of the TV cameras tomorrow.
They will get back underway at noon and we will bring you all the action.
The time has come to run the last new tournament of the 2016 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open” series. It concludes with a favorite among many, especially those who like to mix it up at the table.
Event 14 is a $300 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. tournament that will rotate games between Limit Hold’em, Limit Omaha/8, Razz, Seven-Card Stud, and Seven-Card Stud/8. A little something in there for there for everyone. It will play eight-handed and change the game every eight hands.
Entrants will sit down to 10,000 stacks and play 30-minute levels. Late registration is available until the start of Level 8 at 4pm and players can re-enter as often as needed if they bust their stack. This is a one-day tournament and we will hand out one of our last trophies of the series when it is complete.
They kick things off in the back of the ballroom at noon and we will follow them until they wrap it up.
Players begin with 10,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 8
This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
Event 12 is the final multi-day tournament on the 2016 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open” schedule and this is the final day to join in. Three flights ran yesterday and drew enough players to nearly hit the $100,000 Guarantee at the halfway point.
Flights A, B, and C drew 665 entries to leave the tournament only 186 from hitting the magic six-digit number and they should get there before registration closes on Flight D. That would leave two more full flights to run the number up higher.
Each Event 12 entrant begins with a 10,000 starting stack and the tournament runs 30-minute levels from start to finish. Late registration is open for Flight D until the start of Level 7 at 2:20pm and they will play down until the end of Level 14. Survivors will bag up their chips for a Day 2 return tomorrow at 1pm.
Cards go in the air at the top of the hour and we’ll keep an eye out on Event 12 throughout the day.
$100,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
Players begin with 10,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 7
Day 1 will end after Level 14 or Tournament Director discretion
$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) End of Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante Players Remaining: 21 of 239
After the 14 scheduled levels of play, the third and final flight of the day for the $150 no limit hold’em re-entry event is in the books and Jesse Cui bagged the biggest stack of the flight.
Cui bagged up 281,000 and had over 100,000 more than the next closest player in the flight.
When late registration closed, there were 239 entries in the flight to bring the total field size to 665 over the first three flight. By the day’s end, only 21 survived and punched a ticket to Day 2 on Wednesday.
Flight A and flight B both had 22 players survive the day to bring the Day 2 total to 65 players.
Robertas Zebrauskis bagged 310,000 in flight B and has the chip lead heading to Day 2 thus far. Three more flights will get underway on Tuesday. The survivors of those three flights will join the 65 survivors of today’s flights for the second and final day on Wednesday.
Complete chip counts from the first three flights will be released shortly.
$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 13: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante Players Remaining: 27 of 239
Jesse Cui
It was a battle of the blinds between Jesse Cui in the small blind and the player in the big blind. They were heads-up on the turn with the board reading and Cui bet 10,000.
The big blind called and the river was the . Cui bet 25,000 and the big blind quickly called, and was all in for about 13,000. Cui showed , good for trip queens and took the pot against the big blinds .
Cui took the pot and moved over the 200,000 chip mark. He is the chip leader as the level comes to a close and there is one more level left in the night.
$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 10: 500/1,000 with a 100 ante Players Remaining: 53 of 239
Eric Rivkin raised to 2,500 from the hijack and Alik Sitnyakovsky defended his big blind. They were heads-up to a flop of and Sitnyakovsky checked.
Rivkin bet 3,500 and Sitnyakovsky raised to 10,200. Rivkin called and Sitnyakovsky moved all in dark for 12,800. The turn was the and Rivkin quickly called.
Sitnyakovsky showed , good for a wheel, and had Rivkin’s drawing dead.
The river was an irrelevant , which unnecessarily improved Sitnyakovsky to a seven-high straight, and he doubled up.
Sitnyakovsky and Rivkin were tablemates in last night’s $360 no limit hold’em final table and are back at it battling in Flight C of the $150 no-limit hold’em re-entry tonight.
Sitnyakovsky finished second in last night’s $360 no-limit hold’em and Rivkin took seventh place money home.
$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 8: 300/600 with a 75 ante Players Remaining: 63 of 239
Late registration and re-entry has closed for the third and final flight of the day in the $150 no limit hold’em re-entry event. Flight C attracted 239 entries and there are currently 63 players remaining with another six levels to be played before bagging and tagging chips for the night.
Flight A had 190 entries and Flight B added another 236 entries to the field. Over the first three flights, there are officially 665 entries in the event and $79,800 in the prize pool thus far. With another three flights set to kick off on Tuesday, the field is on pace to shatter the $100,000 guaranteed prizepool.
22 players survived both flight A and flight B, giving 46 players a guaranteed seat in Day 2 of this event on Wednesday.
Glen Cressman bagged the 1A chip lead with 249,000, but Robertas Zebrauskis bagged the 1B chip lead with 310,000 and has the biggest stack of the 44 players moving forward.
Complete chip counts will be posted later tonight after Day 1C wraps up.
flop. The 
turn was no help and he was our first eliminated today after the 
river.
, good for trip queens and took the pot against the big blinds 
and Sitnyakovsky checked.
and Rivkin quickly called.
, good for a wheel, and had Rivkin’s 
, which unnecessarily improved Sitnyakovsky to a seven-high straight, and he doubled up.