$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Level 11:  600/1,200/200 ante

Use #SHRPO so we can find your Tweets!

Phil Weast (Tampa, FL) fired two bullets today, but came up empty.  He chronicled his journey on Twitter:

Just drove through the end of a double-rainbow and I am now I am going to get all the gold at #SHRPO. 500k gtd this weekend. Time to win!

— Phil Weast (@Prowannabe) August 13, 2014

SHRPO Day 1 of the 500k gtd. Feeling confident that this is my tournament to win!

— Phil Weast (@Prowannabe) August 14, 2014

Busted the @shrpo 500k with AA in 4b pot and couldn’t fade the ‘ole the gut-shot. I can still win but it’s gonna have to be off bullet #2.

— Phil Weast (@Prowannabe) August 14, 2014

I didn’t bag any chips on bullet #2 @shrpo 500k. Guess 3rd will be the charm. That is so cliche’ but I believe! Day off for a round of golf

— Phil Weast (@Prowannabe) August 15, 2014

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Level 10:  500/1,000/100 ante

Before the blinds went up:

With a flop of , two short stacks got all their chips in the  middle against Christian Rodriguez (Boynton Beach, FL).

The player in seat 9 held pocket Jacks, the lady in seat 7 had pocket 9s, and Christian had them both beat with pocket 5s for set.

That all changed with the on the turn, which gave the lady a straight.   Then another came on the river, giving Christian a full boat and sending both opponents packing.

With that pot, Christian chipped up to about 85k.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Level 9:  400/800/100 ante

Players are back from their second break.

Zack Goodman, from ‘Down South’, is the chip leader with about 121k.

There are only a couple of other players who have reached the 100k mark.

$250 Omaha 8B
Level 18: 2,500/5,000

The final table of nine players is set for Event 2 at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open and the players will return tomorrow at 1 p.m. ET to play down to a champion. The winner will be the first Main Event champion of the tournament series. Play will resume on Friday with the final 5 minutes and 19 seconds remaining in Level 18. Here is a look at the chip counts when cards get into the air tomorrow.

Seat 1: Michael Wang – 53,000
Seat 2: Wayne Brown – 28,000
Seat 3: Avi Levy – 159,500
Seat 4: Arnold Cohen – 19,000
Seat 5: Gene Hochman – 24,000
Seat 6: John Binns – 208,000
Seat 7: George Boyadjian – 90,500
Seat 8: Brent Keane – 69,500
Seat 9: “Miami” John Cernuto – 167,500 (pictured above)

Tune back in tomorrow for all of the action and photos from the final table.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Level 7:  250/500/50 ante

Registration has closed with an unofficial entry count of 382.  Added to the 414 entries in Flight A, brings the total to 796 through the first two flights.

This event carries a $500,000 Guarantee on the prize pool and they’re nearly half way to that with four more starting flights to go.

Schedule for the final four starting flights:

Flight C:  Friday, 11am
Flight D:  Friday, 7pm
Flight E:  Saturday, 11am
Flight F:  Saturday, 7pm

The survivors of all six starting flights will come together for Day 2 on Sunday at 1pm.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Level 6:  200/400/50 ante

About ten minutes remain in this level and this is the last chance for players to re-enter this flight.  They can forfeit their chips and enter another flight, but if they bag chips, they cannot play another flight (there is no ‘best stack’ option as there has been in the past).

Two-time Seminole Hard Rock Poker titleist John Holley (Destin, FL) is still in the hunt.  He’s down to about 12k from the 20k starting stack (~30 big blinds)

John won two events here during this series last year.   He claimed both the 2013 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Seniors event title and the Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo title.  He also owns two WSOP Circuit rings and has lifetime tournament earnings over $849,000.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Level 5:  150/300/25 ante

Players are back in action following the break.  Some big stacks are turning up in the field:

Joseph Ingrassia 98,275
Hany Ayoub 72,050
Naga Haim 67,800
Joe Pozos 61,025
Robert ‘Carwash’ Williams 59,500
Yechezka Wells 53,450
Rostant Ramlal 51,600
Pasquale Carazza 50,850
Kobi Ribak 50,600
Nancy Birnbaum 50,400