$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 5: 200/400 with a 400 ante Flight D Entries: 450
Varun Thakkar
The first break ended, and players were back in action for Flight E with a big jump in entries while they were hanging around in the lobby. The total entry count is over 2,200 and they have contributed more than $700K to the $1,000,000 guarantee.
Varun Thakkar is the early front-runner in the field, leading the way with 82,000 and a few tough players chasing him.
$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 4: 200/300 with a 300 ante Flight D Entries: 390
Flight E is creeping up on their first break at the same time the 400-entry mark is nearing. They’ll enjoy 15 minutes away from the Grand Ballroom to refresh and regroup for the next push towards a big stack.
$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 3: 100/200 with a 200 ante Flight D Entries: 316
Oniel Mccalla
Flight E is packing the Grand Ballroom and we are on pace for the biggest flight of the series, that will last until tomorrow morning when the Saturday crowd shows up.
Some early friends in the crowd include Oniel Mccalla, Ruth Ruffman, Nashaat Antonious, Jay Romano, Scott Robbins, Noah Schwartz, Frank Weigel, and Francois Gagne.
Antonious, one of our nicest players, was the first to walk into the room this morning and received an impromptu warm round of applause from dealers and staff. A nice way to start the morning.
Switching up to another Omaha game this morning in the Grand Ballroom at 11 am. This time around we have a $600 Limit Omaha 8 tournament with a lot of chips and great structure.
Players start with 25,000 in their stacks and all levels last 30 minutes for the one-day trophy event. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 3:30 pm. The 45-minute dinner break is schedule at 5:30 pm followed by a lot of split pots before we have our Event 8 champ.
Players begin with 25,000 in chips
Levels last 30 minutes
Late registration until start of Level 9 (3:30pm)
This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 1: 100/100 Flight D Entries: 140
Cards are in the air and the busy weekend is underway. We have 140 entries at the start of Flight E with many many more expected throughout the next two busy days.
$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 1: 100/100
The first weekend of the three-week Showdown series is here and ready to go big. The $400 Deep Stack is getting closer to its $1,000,000 guarantee and it’s a virtual lock to get there before it blasted much much higher.
Players sit with 20,000 out front and all levels last 30 minutes on Day 1 before going up to 40 minutes on Day 2 and 60 in Level 24. Late registration is available until the start of Level 9 at 2:30 pm and they may refire during that time.
Flight E will wrap up when 12.5% of the field remains and survivor will book tickets for Day 2 on Sunday at 1 pm in the money.
$1,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
Players begin with 20,000 in chips
Day 1 levels last 30 minutes; Day 2 levels last 40 minutes
2024 Poker Showdown Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida Event 6 $600 Deep Stack Big O (Re-Entry) Entries: 117 Prize Pool: $60,840 April 4, 2024
Matthew Kaplan
Event 6 of the 2024 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown was a $600 Deep Stack Big O event. A field of 117 entries generated a prize pool of $60,480.
Matthew Kaplan captured his fourth SHRPO guitar pick trophy when the last event playing on the second day of the tournament series played out to a conclusion. In addition to the trophy, Kaplan took home $16,190 for the victory.
The final two players were close to chopping when their chip counts were nearly even during heads-up play, but they decided to play it out with the hardware on the line in addition to the extra prize money.
Final Results:
1st: Matthew Kaplan – $16,190 + Showdown Trophy 2nd: Likang Berninger – $10,800 3rd: Ari Levy – $7,450 4th: William Wallace – $5,305 5th: Brandon Ageloff – $3,900 6th: Allen Kessler – $2,970 7th: Marc Kropf – $2,340 8th: Chrisopther Labrie – $1,910 9th: Gregory Baird – $1,620 10th: Zhen Cai – $1,620 11th: Cory Cunningham – $1,430 12th: Christopher Licht – $1,430 13th: Manuel Labandeira – $1,310 14th: David Shmuel – $1,310 15th: Kenneth Noteboom – $1,255
2024 Poker Showdown Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida Event 7 $300 Quad Stack NLH/PLO Mix (Re-Entry) Entries: 102 Prize Pool: $25,500 April 4, 2024
Matt Bretzfield
Event 7 of the 2024 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown was a $300 Quad Stack NLH/PLO Mix event. A field of 102 entries generated a prize pool of $25,500.
Matt Bretzfield took home his ninth SHRPO guitar pick trophy after the final six players decided to a chop. In addition to the trophy Bretzfield took home $4,656 for the victory. It was an emotional win for Bretzfield, who was playing in a tournament for the first time since one of his close friends passed.
He is now in the mix for most SHRPO guitar pick trophies won, sitting just two behind the current leader Raminder Singh who holds 11 trophies.
Final Results:
1st: Matt Bretzfield – $4,656 + Showdown Trophy* 2nd: John Valevich – $4,352* 3rd: Robert Cheney – $3,663* 4th: David Oshry – $2,739* 5th: Gary Kosakowski – $2,393* 6th: Richard Ganesh – $2,267* 7th: Luis Gonzalez – $1,015 8th: Justin Zinn – $880 9th: Luis Ramos – $780 10th: Dmitriy Vernitskiy – $705 11th: Robert Grossman – $705 12th: Ashley Scott – $705 13th: Samuel Doss – $640
