$1,650 Heads-Up No Limit Hold’em
Level 3: 100/200
Players Remaining: 63 of 64

Chad J. Brown is a two-tabling machine at the moment. He’s among the leaders in the $1,100 Six-Max event that recently hit its seven-handed final table, but Brown is also entered in the SHRPO Heads-Up and slowly getting blinded off against Alex Foxen.

Tournament staff moved their match closer to the Six-Max area to make it easier on Brown and he jumped in to play some hands while they redrew final table seats.

The field is one player shorter now. Richard Geyer won his first game on the first hand with a coin flip, big slick versus pocket tens. He quickly dispatched Pavel Veksler to book his seat in Round 2.

$1,650 Heads-Up No Limit Hold’em
Level 1: 50/100
Total Players: 64

It will take a little time to get through the best-of-three matches, some people haven’t even taken their seats yet to get slowly blinded off, but Chino Rheem now has an early uphill battle after losing his first game.

Rheem was getting short stacked and commented he was happy it was a best-of-three match. He put in all his chips shortly after with and Staffan Lind called with the dominating .

Rheem had a brief glimpse at a double up after the flop but Lind turned it around on the turn. The river was no help to the three-time WPT winner and he needs to win two straight to advance.

$1,650 Heads-Up No Limit Hold’em
Level 1: 50/100
Total Players: 64

The $1,650 SHRPO Heads-Up event is underway in the back of the ballroom. The first round has 32 matches with the winner moving on to Round 2. Players begin with 12,000 starting stacks and must win two out of three matches to advance.

Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member has an interesting draw. He starts his day off against a tough opponent in Willie Wiggins then gets the winner of the Jake Schwartz/Nick Yunis match next. Fellow SHRP team member Michael Laake also has a tough early match against Jonathan Little.

$1,650 SHRPO Heads-Up Round One Matches

The $1,650 SHRPO Heads-Up tournament filled up with 64 players registered and the seat draw has been released. Each match will be best 2-out-3 games with the winner advancing to the next round.

Day 1 will end after all Round 3 matches are complete and the final eight players will return tomorrow to play it out.

Left side of the bracket

Paul Balzano versus Joseph Couden – Table 45
Aaron Mermelstein versus Bret Beebe – Table 45

Daniel Wirgau versus Pavel Dyanchenko – Table 46
Staffan Lind versus Chino Rheem – Table 46

George Lusby versus Pratyush Buddiga – Table 47
Alberto Rodriguez versus Jack Duong – Table 47

Nick Yunis versus Jake Schwartz – Table 48
Sheddy Siddiqui versus Will Givens – Table 48

Mark Dube versus Joseph Marzilli – Table 53
Alex Foxen versus Chad J. Brown – Table 53

Kane Kalas versus Jordan Robinson – Table 54
Scott Heiligman versus Jon Brody – Table 54

Darren Rabinowitz versus Michael Aron – Table 55
Corey Dodd versus Ronald Sullivan – Table 55

Alexander Gambino versus Sean Munjai – Table 56
Justin Fawcett versus Gary Bolden – Table 56

Right side of the bracket

Michael Abitbol versus Timothy Tenpas – Table 61
Ankush Mandavia versus Keith Block – Table 61

Ian O’Hara versus Nick Palma – Table 62
Sam Panzica versus Tom Middleton – Table 62

Jonathan Kamhazi Aghai versus Brian Hastings – Table 63
Shannon Shorr versus Michael McNeil – Table 63

Hugo Zanotti versus Lyle Vincent – Table 64
Michael Laake versus Jonathan Little – Table 64

David Somers versus Alejandro Duque – Table 69
Timothy Fisher versus Jerry Wong – Table 69

Samuel Phillips versus Amir Babakhani – Table 70
Ari Engel versus Raul Doutreleau – Table 70

Joe McKeehen versus Paul Dlugozima – Table 71
Jordan Redavid versus Marcus Stein – Table 71

Brian Reinert versus John Dollinger – Table 72
Adam Geyer versus Pavel Veksler – Table 72

Heads-Up Structure Sheet