Event 18 (3 pm): $1,650 Purple Chip Bounty NLH

Entries: 102
Registration & Re-entry : Open until ~7:30 pm (Blinds 100/200/25 ante)

• 12k chips
• 60 minute levels
• Two-day tournament

Event 17: $250 Pot Limit Omaha 8B

Entries: 74
Players Remaining: 27
Average Stack: 27k (34 big bets)
Blinds: 400/800
Prize Pool: $15,540
Places Paid: 9
First Place:  $5,286

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship Event
Blinds 10k/20k/3k ante
70 Players Remaining, 768k avg (38 bb)

On the last hand before break, actress Sasha Barrese moves all in from the big blind after Iaran Lightbourne raises to 37k from the highjack.

Barrese doesn’t get any action as Lightbourne folds, but she does picks up the blinds and antes to give herself 15 big blinds.

Barrese it’s best known for her role as Tracy Billings in the Hangover movie franchise. She’s the last woman remaining in the 1,795 entry field.

Bryan Green (72nd) and Jack Towell (71) are recent casualties and pick up $10,668.

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship Event
Blinds 8k/16k/2k ante
81 Players Remaining, 665k avg (42 bb)

Start of day chip leader Richard Kirsch has slipped a bit, but still a top five stack. We’ve lost 32 players in the first 90 minutes as players return from their first break of the day.

Chip Leaders

Daniel Navarrete 1.6 million
Glen Becker 1.5 million
Matt Stout 1.5 million
Richard Kirsch 1.4 million
Chance Kornuth 1.4 million

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship Event
Blinds 6k/12k/2k ante
100 Players Remaining, 539k avg (45 bb)

Jennifer Tilly helped kick off our Championship coverage with this video. 

We hope Tilly and boyfriend Phil Laak are back at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in August for the $10,000,000 Guaranteed Championship Event (8/21-8/27).

Goodbye @SHRHollywood. I didn’t win the tournament but I had a great time! @shrpo #hardrockhotels pic.twitter.com/MfDpeQ5K4q

— Jennifer Tilly (@Jtillathekilla2) April 14, 2014

Seminole Hard Rock Poker

As the Championship Event moves to less than 100 players, two other events are on the Poker Showdown schedule and both are trophy events.

Event 17 (Underway): $250 Pot Limit Omaha 8B

• 10k chips
• 30 minute levels
• Registration & re-entry open until ~2:15 pm
• One-day tournament

Event 18 (3 pm):  $1,650 Purple Chip Bounty NLH

• 12k chips
• 60 minute levels
• Registration & re-entry open until ~7:30 pm
• Two-day tournament