$600 Deep Stack Six-Max NLH (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3:  100/200 with a 200 ante
Entries:  83

The $600 Six-Max tournament is off to a great start with 83 entries nearly hitting the $50,000 guarantee in the first hour of play. That number is a lock and we are looking at another great turnout.

Carlos Bermudez, Jacob Naumann, Mansoor Kader, Matthew Waxman, and Caleb Piderit are among the early entries pushing up the count.

Bermudez already owns a trophy from the series. He had his kings cracked during the Event 1 restart on Sunday, entered the $400 Deep Stack Turbo, and took the title.

$400 Deep Stack Pot-Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 14:  1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players Remaining:  60 of 468

The multi-flight Pot-Limit Omaha tournament drew 468 entries over three starting flights and put up a prize pool of over $150,000. We had 60 players advance to Day 2 and they will return at 1 pm to begin playing down for the Event 9 title.

Chris Csik leads the return but they have a long way to go before someone collects the $30K top prize.

$200 Big Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3:  100/200 with a 200 ante
Flight D Entries:  177

It took right around an hour of play today for Event 12 to cross the first milestone of the tournament. The 177 entries in Flight D pushed the combined total to 959 and the prize pool crossed over the $150,000 guarantee.

With this flight plus two more to go, it has a few more big numbers in its sights.

$600 Deep Stack Six-Max NLH (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1:  100/100

The last new trophy event on today’s schedule gets underway at noon with the $600 Deep Stack Six-Max NLH tournament. It has a $50,000 guaranteed prize pool and short-handed tables to keep the action moving.

Players start with 20,000 stacks and all levels last 30 minutes. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 4:30 pm. They have a 45-minute dinner break schedule at 6:30 pm and we will crown our Event 15 champ a few hours after they return.

• $50,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 20,000 in chips
• Levels last 30 minutes
• Late registration until start of Level 9 (4:30pm)
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 15 Structure Sheet

$400 Mixed Pot-Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)
Structure
Level 1:  100/100 with a 100 ante

A recent addition to our series schedule, the Mixed Pot-Limit Omaha tournaments are popular and draw a ton of interest from our PLO fans. They will rotate among three games; Pot-Limit Omaha, Pot-Limit Omaha 8, and Big O.

Players start with 20,000 deep stacks and all levels last 30 minutes for the one-day troph event. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until 3:30 pm. They will take a 45-minute dinner break at 5:30 pm and return to find our first Mixed PLO champ of the series.

• Players begin with 20,000 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
• Event 14 Structure Sheet

$200 Big Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1:  100/100

The $200 Big Stack tournament drew 782 entries over the first three starting flights, leaving it on the verge of topping the $150,000 guarantee with three more flights today. Only 156 new entries are needed to get there so it will not take long.

Players start with 15K stacks out front and all levels last 30 minutes. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 7 at 2:30 pm. Flight D will end when 10% of the field remains and they will join the other 80 players who punched a ticket for Day 2 tomorrow at 2 pm.

• $150,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 15,000 in chips
• Levels last 30 minutes
• Late registration until start of Level 7 (2:30pm)
• Day 1 will end when field reaches 10%
• Event 12 Structure Sheet

Primary Event Schedule

11AM: Event 12 Day 1D – $200 Big Stack NLH (Re-Entry)

• $150,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 15,000 in chips
• Levels last 30 minutes
• Late registration until start of Level 7 (2:30pm)
• Day 1 will end when field reaches 10%
• Event 12 Structure Sheet

11AM: Event 14 – $400 Mixed Pot-Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)

• Players begin with 20,000 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
• Event 14 Structure Sheet

12PM: Event 15 – $600 Deep Stack Six-Max NLH (Re-Entry)

• $50,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 20,000 in chips
• Levels last 30 minutes
• Late registration until start of Level 9 (4:30pm)
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 15 Structure Sheet

1PM: Event 9 Day 2 – $400 Deep Stack Pot-Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)

• Event 9 Day 2 Chip Counts
• Event 9 Day 2 Table and Seat Assignments
• Event 9 Payouts

3PM: Event 12 Day 1E – $200 Big Stack NLH (Re-Entry)

• $150,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 15,000 in chips
• Levels last 30 minutes
• Late registration until start of Level 7 (6:30pm)
• Day 1 will end when field reaches 10%
• Event 12 Structure Sheet

7PM: Event 12 Day 1F – $200 Big Stack NLH (Re-Entry)

• $150,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 15,000 in chips
• Levels last 30 minutes
• Late registration until start of Level 7 (10:30pm)
• Day 1 will end when field reaches 10%
• Event 12 Structure Sheet

Secondary and Satellite Schedule

5PM: $250 Multi-Event Turbo Satellite (1-in-10)

• Two $2,100 packages guaranteed; includes seat in any $1,100 and $400 event plus $600 in cash
• Players begin with 10,000 in chips
• Levels last 15 minutes
• Late registration until start of Level 9 (7:15pm)
• Structure Sheet

2023 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 1
$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed
Entries:  4,184
Prize Pool:  $1,380,720
April 13-17, 2023

Event #1 of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown had a massive field of 4,184 entries, generating a total prizepool worth $1,380,720. After a long Day 3 on Monday, Carlos Loving outlasted them all to win the title, his fourth Seminole Hard Rock trophy, and $153,690.

“It feels great,” said Loving. “It’s so hard to beat this many people.”

When the nine-handed final table began, Loving was sixth in chips, and the three players below him were all eliminated within the first hour.

“The beginning was a slow start for me,” said Loving, “but then I won a couple of big hands and it all turned around.”

With six players remaining, Loving was down to 11 big blinds when he got it all in with against Fabian Foster’s . Foster flopped a set of kings, but Loving turned an ace-high straight to double up.

Fifteen minutes later, Loving got it in with against the of chipleader Johnathan Norris, and Loving won the race to double up to a comfortable 53 big blinds.

“Then I was able to really open up my game,” said Loving.

Action slowed after the elimination of Johnathan Norris in fifth place, and four-handed play lasted more than two hours. But then Loving played a hand against Fabian Foster on a board of , and Foster shoved the river.

Loving tank-called with for two pair, and Foster showed for a jack-high bluff. Foster was eliminated in fourth place, and Loving took the chip lead for the first time.

A short while later, it was Loving’s turn to shove the river, this time on a board of , and it put Amin Akhlaghi to the test.

Akhlaghi tank-called with for trip aces, but Loving wasn’t bluffing — he turned over for trip aces with a higher kicker to eliminate Akhlaghi in third place.

That propelled Loving to a 2-to-1 chip lead over Steve Karp as heads-up play began.

Heads-up play lasted about an hour, and while Karp briefly narrowed the gap, Loving had a substantial lead for most of it.

Eventually, after a flop of , Karp check-raised all in with for a flush draw, and Loving called with for top two pair. The flush never came, and Loving rivered a jack to win the pot — and the tournament — with a full house.

“I’ve always loved playing here,” said Loving after winning his fourth Seminole Hard Rock trophy. “I consider this to be one of my home casinos.”

What keeps Loving coming back to Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood?

“The large fields, the big prizepools, and the beautiful weather,” said Loving. “And the dealers are amazing.”

Final Table Results:

* The final three players agreed to adjust the final three payouts.

$200 Big Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14:  2,000/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players Remaining:  80 of 782

Flight A:  234 Entries;  24 Advanced
Flight B:  277 Entries;  28 Advanced
Flight C:  271 Entries;  28 Advanced
Flight D:  Tuesday at 11 a.m.
Flight E:  Tuesday at 3 p.m.
Flight F:  Tuesday at 7 p.m.
Day 2:  Wednesday at 2 p.m.

2023 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 13
$400 H.O.R.S.E. (Re-Entry)
Entries:  133
Prize Pool:  $44,555
April 17, 2023

Event 13 of the 2023 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown was a $400 H.O.R.S.E. (Re-Entry). A field of 133 entries was the second largest for a H.O.R.S.E. event in SHRP history, and it produced a prize pool of $44,555.

Emerging victorious was Kenneth Po, taking it down for $12,285.

“It was a really fun final table,” said Po afterward. “Complete with (sixth-place finisher) Long Nguyen’s two ‘best hand to behind to chop’ in limit hold’em as a micro stack,” which brought boisterous laughter that was heard throughout the ballroom.

During a round of hold’em, Nguyen was first all in pocket kings against David Shmuel’s jack-nine. Shmuel turned a straight, but the river gave both the same straight to chop the pot. Shortly thereafter, Nguyen was all in with ace-jack against Shmuel’s jack-seven. Shmuel paired his seven on the turn, but again the river gave each the same straight that chopped the pot.

Po is a regular participant in mixed-game events during the SHRP major series’. This marked his 18th cash in a mixed-game tournament here, including six final tables made. His best results had been a pair of third-place finishes, but he was finally able to snag that elusive victory for his first SHRP major series trophy.

“I’m thankful to God, poker friends, tournament directors/staff, and dealers for all the support and encouragement,” said Po. “It’s a really great tournament schedule and venue, and I’m happy to participate.”