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Main Event Day 2: Bad Table Draw

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

Blinds: 800/1.6k/200 ante

Table 41 will be one of the next tables to break and it has not been a good spot for a lot of players so far. Steve Karp knocked out Marc Sachezi earlier in the 5-seat and the incoming player was soon gone as well.

Paul Prager was eliminated when his ATo was shot down by a four-card straight on the board by the K7o of Ray Nalbandian followed by Chris Bolek sending Ioannis Poitsourakis out two hands later. One hour into play and five players are gone who spent time at the table.

Only 99 players remain of the starting 117 with two tables down and ten to go.


Nigel Murray and David "Chino" Rheem
Nigel Murray and David “Chino” Rheem

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Main Event Day 2: Paterson Double

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

Blinds: 600/1.2k/200 ante

Stuart Paterson came into to the day at the bottom of the chip count with just barely over the 20k starting stack. He now has a little more room to work as he doubled through Edgar Solorzano with Queens versus As9s. He had to dodge a gutshot on the river but now has enough to make some moves.

Stuart Paterson (foreground) and Darryll Fish (background)
Stuart Paterson (foreground) and Darryll Fish (background)
2013 RRPO Live Updates, Rock 'N' Roll

Main Event Day 2: Player Down

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

Blinds: 600/1.2k/200 ante

Steve Karp is one of the top players remaining in the field and was late for the start of Day 2. Most of his chips were still in the bag when he called the all-in of Marc Sachezi but his pocket Sevens were dominated by Sachezi’s Aces.

Temporarily. The dealer pealed another Seven right off the flop and Karp added Sachezi’s stack to those chips he still needed to organize. Karp is looking to add to his runner-up finish in the 2009 WSOP $1,500 NLH Event 7.

Steve Karp, properly stacked
Steve Karp, properly stacked
2013 RRPO Live Updates, Rock 'N' Roll

Main Event Day 2: Make that Money

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

Blinds: 600/1.2k/200 ante

It’s moving day at the Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open” Main Event. The entire field from Day 1A and 1B combine for a nice even 117 players, the exact amount of players the 13 tables in the tournament area will hold.

Serge Coles begins the day as chipleader with 249,500 and will spend his day on one of the final tables to break but will have 3-time WSOP Champion Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi to deal with at Table 40. Local Nigel Murray is not far behind with 249,000 and he has 2-time WPT Champion David “Chino” Rheem to his left.

One of the more interesting tables to watch in early going Table 30. Entertaining regular Elliott Zaydman will facing up against three pros in Tony Cousineau, Darryll “DFish” Fish, and Stuart Paterson. They will be the second table to break today and we’ll keep an eye on the action.

Only 54 of the starting Day 2 players will make it into the money and the schedule is play down to the final table or 2am, whichever comes first.

Stay tuned for wire-to-wire coverage of Day 2.

Main Event Day 2 starting chip counts
Main Event Day 2 seat assignments
Main Event payouts

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Day Two Of Championship Event Highlights Poker Action At Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open”

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Over the past two days, 482 entrants have ponied up $1,650 to take part in Event 18, the $500,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool No Limit Hold ‘Em Championship Event. By the time play concluded Saturday night we had a total of 117 players that will be returning today at 1 p.m. to take their shot at the whooping $723,000 prize pool. 54 players will get paid and first place will take home $145,321. The chip leader is Serge Coles with 249.5K with local regular Nigel Murray close behind with 249K. Closing out the top three is the en fuego Cong Pham with 240.8K. They will play until 2 a.m. or the final table, which ever comes first.

Championship Event Day 2 Seating Assignments

For those that want to take part in some tournament poker at The Poker Room at Seminole Hard Rock, Event 19 will get started at 6 p.m. This event is a $150 Double Stack No Limit Hold ‘Em tournament.  Players start with 12,000 in chips with 15 minute levels throughout. Registration and re-entry is open through the first 8 levels. This is a one day event that will play to completion.

We will be providing continuous updates for both tournaments on our live updates blog.  Here is the full schedule of events:

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

In addition, here is additional information you can find regarding the Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open”:

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

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

Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open” Social Media Information

Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Things To Do

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Main Event Day 1 Recap

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

At the conclusion of registration for Event 1, we had a total of 482 entrants creating a prize pool that smashed the $500,000 Guarantee at $723,000. First place will get not one, but two trophies, to go with their $145,321 prize money. We had 117 players make it through to Day 2. Those hopefuls will return at 1 p.m. and fight it out to make it down to 54 players, which is when they will make the money. The chip leader is Serge Coles with 249.5K and local regular Nigel Murray is right behind him with 249K. Closing out the top three is hot as fire Cong Pham with 240.8K. Darryl Fish also makes an entrance in the top 10… in 7th place with 188.6K. The full top ten is as follows:

 

PlaceNameChip Count
1Serge Coles249,500
2Nigel Murray249,000
3Long Pham240,800
4John Pizano238,200
5Kevin Froemmiar233,300
6Mark Gaudino193,300
7Darryll Fish188,600
8Luke Graham167,400
9Shea Smith159,500
10Marcus Harris144,300

There are numerous notable players still in contention including Chino Rheem, Michael Mizrachi, Matthew Waxman, and Tony Cousineau. Here are some of the notables and their stacks heading into Day 2:

Abbey Daniels 119,500
Steve Karp 103,400
David Diaz 89,200
Matthew Waxman 81,400
Chino Rheem 79,100
Micheal Mizrachi 71,700
Tony Cousineau 47,200
Stuart Paterson 20,600

And we have some players that have been grinding the Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open” going for a huge score. In addition to Murray, there are players like Don Todd who is 2nd currently in the Leaderboard Promotion and others like Allan Bieler and Elliott Zaydman who could move to the top with a win.

It’s going to be an exciting day 2 and we’ll be here to cover all the action.

WPT Regional Trophy
WPT Regional Trophy
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Main Event Day 1B: All Bagged Up

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

Blinds: 500/1K/100 ante

We have concluded play for the day and the unofficial number of players making it through to Day 2 action is 69, making the total number of players returning 117. With only 54 spots getting paid that means over half of those returning will come up short of making any money. The Day 1B chip leader is Cong Pham with 240.8K. He is followed closely by John Pizano with 238.2 K. Not too far back is Darryl Fish with 188K. We’ll have the full chip counts and Day 2 seating assignments posted as soon as they become available.

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Main Event Day 1B: 30 Minutes Left In The Day

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

Blinds: 500/1K/100 ante

We have half an hour left in the last level of the day. 81 players are left and the average chip stack is 67K. Cong Pham is leading the way after winning a bit pot that put him up to close to 250K in chips. We’ll have end of day chip counts shortly after play concludes for the evening.

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Main Event Day 1B: Action Hand

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

Blinds: 400/800/100 ante

There are 90 players remaining with 20 minutes remaining in Level 9. Notable players and their approximate chip stacks:

Chino Rheem 135K
Cong Pham 135K
Daryll Fish 125K
Matthew Waxman 85K
Ronnie Bardah 40K

At one table, there was an action packed hand that went down like this:

A woman in early position from Seat 5, raised to 2200. Seat 8 called. Seat 1 from the button called. Seat 2 from the small blind called. Seat 3 from the big blind made it 6800 to go. Seat 5, 8 and 1 all called. Seat 2 decided to move all in. Seat 3 moved all in. The other three decided they’d seen enough and folded. Seat 2 had AhQh and was behind the AsKc of Seat 3. The board would run out Td7s4d4h3s and Seat 3 would not only get 24.4K from Seat 2 but also 20.4K from the other three players who had each stuck in 6.8K.

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Action!