Showdown

Event 8: Weekend Action at Hard Rock Hollywood

$350 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
Level 10: Blinds 500/1,000/100 ante
320 Flight C Entries
126 Players Remaining, 51k avg (51 bb)

As the poker heats up here at the Seminole Hard Rodck Poker Showdown, here’s what they’re saying on Twitter:

Event 8: Mukul Exits, While Familiar Faces Keep Grinding

$350 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
Level 9: Blinds 400/800/100 ante
320 Flight C Entries
153 Players Remaining, 43k avg (54 bb)

Mukul Pahuja
Mukul Pahuja

Players are back from their second break and some familiar faces continue their quest for a piece of the $500,000 Guaranteed prize pool.

Mukul Pahuja (Hicksville, NY) made his Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown debut in Event 5, but failed to cash.  He has $2.3 million in career recorded tournament earnings, but Pahuja just busted his short stack and has three more flights to re-enter.

Mike Beasley (Hollywood, FL) watched Pahuja exit his table and is fairing better. Beasley has an average stack as he looks to add to his $1.3 million in career earnings.

Two successful woman pros who went deep in Event 5 are still in the field. Marsha Wolak (Sarasota, FL), fresh off her chop ($25,325) and Amanda Musumeci (Bensalem, PA) who finished 30th of nearly 2,400 entries are grinding.

Musumeci has $900,000 in career tournament earnings, while Wolak was the 2011 WSOP Ladies event bracelet winner.

TJ Shulman (Duluth, GA) is another familiar face. He has $356,000 in career earnings and ran his 1.1k short stack up to 90k before the last break.

Event 9: Seniors Moments

$250 Seniors No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 3: Blinds 75/150
91 Entries

The Seniors not only have a wealth of poker experience, but they’ve got a lifetime of witty one-liners including:

“They should have started this tournament at 8 am.”
“We’re near the bathrooms for a reason.”
“Dinner break is at 4 pm for the early bird special”

And a new one we hadn’t heard before comes from Jonathan Marks (Weston, FL).

“We’re old, we need an extra card. I had AA and was looking for the R and the P,” says Marks.

An AARP reference is definitely new material, with Marks adding, “write whatever you want, we’re not going to remember what we said anyway.”

Event 8: Featured Table

$350 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
Entries: 210
Level 4: Blinds 100/200

Jean Zabin (right) with (l-r)  Wolak,   Teitelbaum, Marcus & Kessler
Jean Zabin (right) with (l-r) Wolak, Teitelbaum, Marcus & Kessler

It’s early in Flight C, but an unlucky draw has put some heavy hitters on what could be a final table.

Marsha Wolak, fresh off her chop in Event 5 is joined by Evan Teitelbaum, Zachary Kessler and Greg Marcus.

A snap shot of our featured table.

Wolak: Event 5 Chop ($25,325)
Teitelbaum: Event 4 ($1K), 3rd place ($11,685)
Kessler: Event 4 ($1K), 8th place ($3,690)
Marcus: 11th place ($19,827) 2014 Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship – Seminole, Coconut Creek

Event 9: Seniors Settling In

$250 Seniors No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: Blinds 25/50

The Seniors tournament is always one of the more laid back events of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown and this group of experience players is here in Hollywood, FL to make a run at a coveted winner’s trophy.

Players get 10k in chips and levels last 30 minutes each.

It’s scheduled to be a two-day tournament with re-entry and late registration open until ~2:15 pm.

Event 8: Flight C Takes Off

$350 Deep Stack NLN (Re-Entry)
Level 1: Blinds 25/50

The third of six starting flights of this $500,000 Guaranteed event is underway.

Players start with 20k chips and levels are 30 minutes each.

Registration and Re-entry is open through 6 levels, until (~2:15 pm)

Flight Details

1A: 238 entries / 46 players remaining
1B: 339 entries / 64 players remaining
1C: Underway
1D: 7 pm Friday, April 4
1E: 11 am Saturday, April 5
1F: 7 pm Saturday, April 5
Day 2: 1 pm Sunday, April 6

Totals through Flight B

577 entries / 110 players remaining
105k avg (35 bb)
Day 2 Blinds: 1,500/3k/300 ante

Event 8: Complete Day 1B Chip Counts

$350 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
Players Remaining: 64/339

Event_Day1C_BHastings
Brian Hastings (from an earlier event in this series)
BRIANHASTINGS445,500
MATTELSBY248,500
MARSELBACKA209,600
ZOKARIM180,700
CHRISELDERKIN175,000
BLAIRMILLER174,900
LUISSIERRA174,000
KARIMVEGAS167,700
POMPYLUANGLATBANDITH165,400
ISMAILPATEL161,400
JORGEMASUIDAL159,800
STRATOSSOKOLOV158,600
CHRISTOPHERASARO158,200
PETERTOBIAS155,000
DANIYARKUNTAYEV142,600
VINCENTIMBRIANI140,500
MICHAELLAAKE138,800
LOUISLEO IV131,600
FREDGOLDBERG128,700
CLINTKEOWN123,400
LUKEDOOLTTLE119,100
ANTONIOCOLON117,900
JOSEAVILA114,200
CODYALFREY111,900
JAMESGONZALES111,400
ANGELOMIELE JR111,000
RONITCHAMANI110,300
JESUSLUQUE106,700
BRYANGREEN103,000
ABRAHAMYEHUDAI98,300
ASHLEYBUNCH95,100
LEONHERCMON93,500
LOUSTADLER93,200
BRIANHARDY89,400
BRETTBERARDUCCI87,000
CARNELLWILLIAMS84,200
RAVINDRAMADALA81,600
FELIXHERNANDEZ81,200
DOMINIQUEMOSLEY81,100
BOBPANETTA80,100
STEPHENDELVECCHIO79,300
BRIANAPPELL70,600
WILLIEWIGGINS68,700
MAXJONES68,300
CORDGARCIA67,200
ANKUSHMANDAVIA67,100
DANIELWELLBORN66,400
PABLOORTIZ65,700
MARIOCABALLERO61,800
DAVIDGREENBERGER61,100
KATHRYNPENNELL59,500
EMILSOFFER54,300
DOLPHUSPOWERS52,700
ROBERTCOHEN52,100
DAVIDHARTSMAN51,300
PAULNUNEZ50,200
MICHAELGARCELL48,200
BENSTARK46,300
ALANFINK41,400
MICHAELKANE41,000
DIMITRYAGRACHOV37,900
JACKSHARABY29,000
JOHNUTLEY28,300
GASTONMICULITZKI3,700