$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em Level 7: 300/600 with a 50 ante Flight C Entries: 397
Jason Young
Flight C has been taking its time growing bigger but we’re seeing more and more people come down to the ballroom to get in the game. They’re only a few entries from topping 400 and getting them closer to the $500,000 guaranteed prize pool.
Jason Young is making his first appearance in the ballroom and has a fun table including former November Niner Neil Blumenfield to his left. The 2008 WSOP bracelet winner is a recent Florida transfer and he’s looking for his first trophy in his newly adopted state.
$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em Level 5: 150/300 with a 25 ante Flight C Entries: 303
Josh Wasserman
Players are back in their seats after the first break and the count moved over 300 for the flight.
SHRP regular Josh Wasserman is the early chip leader as Yunier Rodriguez and Jason Vanstrom round out the list of players over 50,000. They have some big stacks but there is still a long ways to go before the reach the money bubble later this evening.
Top stacks:
Josh Wasserman – 58,325 (194 bb) Yunier Rodriguez – 52,000 (173 bb) Jason Vanstrom – 50,000 (167 bb) Kenneth Bruno – 49,825 (166 bb) Eric Kolodny – 48,600 (162 bb) Martin Markov – 45,325 (151 bb) Vladimir Kovalchuk – 45,000 (150 bb) Tim Banks – 44,000 (147 bb) Michael Fryett – 40,375 (135 bb) Francis Margaglione – 40,300 (134 bb)
$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em Level 4: 100/200 Flight C Entries: 268
Sheddy Siddiqui
Flight C players are taking their first break of the day as the field count nears 300. Players still have plenty of time to get to the ballroom for some Ultimate Re-Entry action with late registration open till 5:45pm.
Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Sheddy Siddiqui was one of the pre-break entrants and ready to grind a stack forward to Day 2.
$300 Seniors 50+ No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 5: 100/200 with a 25 ante Total Entries: 72
Robert Nielsen
Seniors Event players recently returned from their first break of the day and the field continues to grow. Although it did get one shorter before the break when the previously-mentioned Neil Blumenfield was knocked out and jumped into Event 1.
SHRP regular Robert Nielsen is the early leader and joined by Patrick Maguire and Alan Phillips with the only 30K+ stacks. Phillips is looking to stay hot in SHRP tournaments after winning an RRPO event at the end of November followed by another two weeks later at the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Winter Poker Open.
Top stacks:
Robert Nielsen – 37,200 (186 bb) Patrick Maguire – 35,000 (175 bb) Alan Phillips – 33,075 (165 bb) Max Romano – 27,700 (139 bb) Alex Goodman – 27,450 (137 bb) Stuart Zuckerberg – 27,300 (137 bb)
$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em Level 3: 75/150 Flight C Entries: 206
David Prociak
Flight C climbed over 200 entries as they moved past noon and we have a few players trying to take advance of the multi-stack awards in the Ultimate Re-Entry format.
Nancy Thomas, Zoltan Czinkota, and reigning Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year David Prociak are back in action today after already booking their seat in Day 2 yesterday. Prociak is in a little different situation than the other two. He has a top five stack at the moment and looking to pick up the $2,500 multi-stack award to getting there again.
Thomas and Czinkota are already guaranteed some money for advancing one stack but both sit near the bottom of the counts. If they can do it again, with more chips this time, they’ll pick up the $2,500 for the small stack and play the bigger one on Day 2.
$300 Seniors 50+ No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 4: 100/200 Total Entries: 65
Neil Blumenfield
With two events running in two different sections of the ballroom, players will keep everyone hopping all day long. The Seniors Event has quickly jumped up to 65 entries heading towards the first break of the day and they are building themselves a nice field.
Neil Blumenfield decided to play this event before taking his shot in Event 1, a warm-up for the 2015 WSOP November Niner. He’s a San Francisco native but we’ve been seeing him a lot sense he moved his home base to the Sunshine State.
$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em Level 1: 25/50 Flight C Entries: 116
Lou Stadler
Flight C action was underway precisely at 11am and we have 116 entries in the game after a few hands were complete. The pace is a little slower than yesterday’s opening flight but we expect that to pick up as we move into the afternoon hours.
Lou Stadler is among the early gang today and sitting at a short-handed starting table. That will give him a chance to play more hands and run up an early stack. Stadler already owns one SHRP trophy from the Coco Poker Showdown less than a year ago but still looking for his first major title here.
$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em Level 1: 25/50
Casey Carroll, current Event 1 leader
Day 2 of the 2017 Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open is upon us and it is also the second day of the Ultimate Re-Entry opening event.
The first two flights drew 917 entries yesterday to put the $360 buy-in tournament more than halfway towards the $500,000 guaranteed prize pool. We should easily get enough players for Friday morning/afternoon/evening poker to get there today.
Casey Carroll is the overall leader after two flights with former WPT champ Tony Ruberto not far behind and 89 players holding a seat for Day 2.
The unique format of the Ultimate Re-Entry gives players a chance to enter multiple starting flights and get paid for advancing more than one stack forward to Day 2. The smaller stack(s) will be taken out of play, they will receive $2,500 for that stack, and the bigger one will be put in play.
Bob Chow is off to a good start in the tournament and advanced a stack in each of the first two flights to put him up $2,500 before playing a single hand on Day 2.
Each entrant will sit down to a 15,000 starting stack and play 30-minute levels throughout the starting flight. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 13 at 5:45pm. They will continue playing until 10% of the field remains (rounding down) and those remaining will return to Day 2 already in the money.
Play gets back underway at the top of the hours and we will continue to follow along until the burst the Flight C bubble later this evening.
$500,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
Players begin with 15,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 13
Day 1 will end when 10% of starting field remain
Players may enter any/all starting flights.
Multiple Day 2 stacks will be paid per Structure Sheet
$300 Seniors 50+ No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 1: 25/50
We’re rolling into the first weekend of the 2017 Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open and it presents our players with the first single-day event on the schedule. But not just anyone can enter.
Event 2 is the $300 buy-in Seniors 50+ event and players must be at least 50 years old to get in the action. These are usually very active, very vocal, and a lot of fun for the participants.
They’ll sit down to 10,000 starting stacks and the tournament will run 30-minute levels throughout the day. Late registration is open until the start of Level 9 at 2:30pm and unlimited re-entries are available during that time. They’ll head off on a 40-minute dinner break around 4:30pm and return to play down to a Seniors Event champion.
Cards are about to go in the ai- and we’ll keep one eye watching this tournament while the third and fourth flights fly in Event 1.
Players begin with 10,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
