$5,000 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with a 8.000 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 98

Dylan Linde moved all in from the hijack for 60,000 and Sam Ganzfried called from the cutoff.

Ganzfried tabled and was in front against Linde’s .

The board ran out and Ganzfried won the pot to send Linde home in 10th place. The Idaho native took home $12,801 for his finish.

Sam Ganzfried – 210,000
Dylan Linde – Eliminated 

$5,000 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with a 8.000 ante
Players Remaining: 10 of 98

Almedin Imsirovic raised from middle position and Pete Walsworth moved all in for 59,000 two spots to his left. Action folded back around to Imsirovic, who called.

Walsworth was in great shape with his against Imsirovic’s . The board ran out and Walsworth doubled through the chip leader.

Pete Walsworth – 138,000
Almedin Imsirovic – 325,000

$5,000 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with a 8.000 ante
Players Remaining: 10 of 98

Dylan Linde got all in for 38,000 out of the big blind against Pete Walsworth on the button.

Linde showed and was in the lead against Walsworth’s .

The board ran out and Linde doubled up.

Dylan Linde – 88,000
Pete Walsworth – 60,000

$5,000 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with a 8.000 ante
Players Remaining: 10 of 98

With 27 minutes remaining in level 18, the $5,000 no-limit hold’em reached 10 players and they have redrawn for seats at the unofficial final table.

Here is a look at the seat draw:

Seat 1: Tim Reilly – 137,000
Seat 2: Pete Walsworth – 117,000
Seat 3: Jonathan Poche – 214,000
Seat 4: Dylan Linde – 46,000
Seat 5: Sam Ganzfried – 120,000
Seat 6: Ben Yu – 139,000
Seat 7: Filipp Khavin – 450,000
Seat 8: Joe Kuether – 145,000
Seat 9: Tony Sinishtaj – 218,000
Seat 10: Almedin Imsirovic – 376,000

2018 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
$2,200 Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Entries: 53
Prize Pool: $106,000
April 16, 2018

The 53 entrants created a prize pool of over $100,000. The final seven players will earn their share of the prize pool with the eventual champion taking home $39,220 along with a SHRPO trophy.

1st:  $39,220
2nd: $23,320
3rd: $14,310
4th: $10,070
5th: $7,950
6th: $6,360
7th: $4,770

$2,200 Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Structure 
Level 11: 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining: 23 of 53

Christian Harder moved all in for 13,000 from the button and Barry Hutter called from the small blind.

Harder turned over and needed to get lucky against Hutter’s .

The board came [10][h] and Harder flopped a ten to stay alive.

Christian Harder – 31,000
Barry Hutter – 7,000

$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
End of Level 25: 15,000/30,000 with 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 14 of 1,309

After five, 90-minute levels, the 81 players that returned for Day 3 of the $3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown was trimmed down to just 14 players with Scott Margereson leading the way.

Margereson bagged up a massive chip stack of 9,210,000, which more than double Joseph Couden, who finished the day second in chips with 4,060,000.

Tanner Millen (3,825,000), Brian Hastings (3,375,000) and Joseph Cheong (3,300,000) round out the top five chip stacks.

The final 14 players return on Tuesday at noon to play down to a televised final table of six. They will return to blinds of 20,000/40,000 with a 5,000 ante with everybody guaranteed a cash of at least $43,445.

Surviving Tuesday and making the final table would guarantee them at least $144,775 and keeping them alive for the $696,740 first place money.

Here is a look at the seat map for tomorrow’s action:

Table 1

Seat 1: Brian Hastings – 3,375,000
Seat 2: Faraz Jaka – 2,360,000
Seat 3: Tanner Millen – 3,825,000
Seat 4: Nicholas Schuman-Werb – 550,000
Seat 5: –empty–
Seat 6: AJ Gambino – 1,240,000
Seat 7: Joey Couden – 4,060,000
Seat 8: Jeff Fielder – 2,095,000

Table 2

Seat 1: Joseph Cheong – 3,300,000
Seat 2: Victor Ramdin – 775,000
Seat 3: –empty–
Seat 4: Brian England – 2,430,000
Seat 5: Scott Margereson – 9,210,000
Seat 6: Pedro Palacios – 1,590,000
Seat 7: Matt Stout – 1,790,000
Seat 8: Zachary Donovan – 2,765,000

$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 25: 15,000/30,000 with 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 14 of 1,309

Scott Margereson opened to 60,000 from under the gun, Joe Cheong called from the cutoff and Roberto Alberro raised to 200,000. Both of his opponents called.

The flop came , Alberto bet 300,000 and only Margereson called.

The turn brought the , Alberro shoved for 1,755,000 and Margereson called.

Alberro tabled and need to get lucky against Margereson’s . The river was the and Margereson’s pocket queens held to eliminate Alberro in 15th place ($35,233)

Scott Margereson – 8,300,000 (277 bb)
Roberto Alberro – Eliminated

$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 25: 15,000/30,000 with 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 15 of 1,309

Tanner Millen raises to 55,000 from the cutoff and AJ Gambino moved all in out of the big blind for 530,000. Millen called.

Millen was dominated with his against Gambino’s .

The board ran out and Gambino doubled up with trip aces and a bigger kicker.

AJ Gambino – 1,110,000
Tanner MIllen – 2,800,000

2018 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
$1,000,000 Guaranteed
$25,500 High Roller (Re-Entry)
Entries: 40
Prize Pool: $1,000,000
April 15-16, 2018

High Roller events are always exciting when they appear on the schedule. The $25,500 buy-in Poker Showdown version featured a $1 Million Guarantee and it attracted some of the most talented players in the poker world. Brandon Adams entered the game late and ran strong from start to finish to win the title for $370,000.

The tournament drew 40 entries to put exactly $1,000,000 up for grabs. The last six spots paid out but they had to do a lot of work to get there.

The field included tough competition that included Chance Kornuth, Shaun Deeb, Will “The Thrill” Failla, Jonathan Little, James Calderaro, and three-time WPT Champions Club member Darren Elias among the talented field.

Adams was one of the last players to join the field and he immediately began trying to build a stack in anticipation of registration closing after dinner. He was able triple his starting stack and set himself up well for the deep run.

“I was planning on playing those two hours before dinner pretty fast and if it didn’t go well I was going to rebuy.” Adams commented.

“I had one key hand right before the dinner break. I check-raise bluffed the flop with a gutshot that got there on the turn against a made hand. That was pretty huge for the tournament.” he continued. “That was a crucial hand because I bluffed and got there. He had a big hand, I make the nuts on the turn and I’m up to 300,000 before dinner.”

The High Roller formed the nine-handed final table before the last break of the day and seven players were still in the game, with six getting paid, when they wrapped up for the night.

“In the two hours after dinner, it was just small things going the right way,” Adams said about his Day 1 late run. “It felt like nothing was going wrong. I made a few big bluffs that worked. When I was all in, I was winning.”

Adams had a commanding chip lead for the Day 2 final table return and carried it throughout the afternoon. Larry Greenberg was eliminated on the money bubble followed by Deeb. Ajay Chabra had a great run throughout the two days but fell short at the hands of Adams.

Barry Hutter went out in third place to set up the battle for the title between Adams and online poker monster Pablo Fernandez. Adams had a big lead to start heads-up play and extended it before finishing it off.

It took less than 30 minutes of heads-up action for Adams to dispatch Fernandez and pick up another high roller title. It was a dominant performance over the two days of the tournament and it was a well-earned victory.

“It feels great. I’ve never really had a tournament where things went the smoothly from the beginning.” Adams said of his big performance. “It feels good to run that unbelievably well.”

Congratulations to Brandon and all the players for another great High Roller tournament.

High Roller results:

1st: Brandon Adams – $370,000
2nd: Pablo Fernandez – $240,000
3rd: Barry Hutter – $150,000
4th: Ajay Chabra – $105,000
5th: Darren Elias – $75,000
6th: Shaun Deeb – $60,000