Flight A: 424 Entries, 80 Advanced
Flight B: 407 Entries, 80 Advanced
Flight C: Friday at 11am
Flight D: Friday at 6pm
Flight E: Saturday at 11am
Flight F: Saturday at 6pm
Day 2: Sunday at 1pm

Chip counts through Flight B:

Rank	First Name	Last Name	Chip Count	Flight
1	Henry	Meacham	314,000	B
2	George	Dolofan	260,500	A
3	Anthony	Thomas	223,500	B
4	Rafael	Ramos	216,500	B
5	Darin	Kaplan	212,500	B
6	Jacquelyn	Scott	210,000	A
7	Jonathan	Harris	208,000	A
8	Larry	White	208,000	B
9	John	Magnetta	207,500	A
10	Hany	Ayoub	205,000	A
11	Ira	Marcus	204,500	B
12	Tom	Alves	203,500	A
13	Oded	Cohen	201,000	B
14	David	Wolff	197,000	A
15	George	Hortelano	194,500	A
16	Martin	Markov	189,000	B
17	Henri	Azoulay	185,500	A
18	Jean	Chery	181,500	A
19	Mario	Donoso	181,000	A
20	Casey	Kaplan	172,500	B
21	Eddie	Uchaas	172,000	A
22	Dantonio	Brown	170,500	B
23	Daniel	Blum	166,500	A
24	James	Orleans	166,000	B
25	Staffan	Lind	163,000	B
26	Kevin	Ho	161,000	B
27	Anthony	Astarita	159,000	B
28	Ido	Ashkenazi	158,000	B
29	Ricardo	Eyzaguirre	155,000	A
30	Nicholas	Power	153,500	B
31	Larry	Bass	147,500	A
32	Michael	Mizrachi	147,500	B
33	Craig	Bateman	147,000	B
34	Matthew	Kuba	145,500	B
35	Roidi	Regalado	145,000	A
36	Nigel	Murray	144,000	A
37	Eugeniy	Catane	143,500	A
38	Michael	LaRocca	142,000	B
39	Andrew	Blake	140,000	B
40	Juan	Garcia	138,000	B
41	Tony	Hobbs	136,000	A
42	Greg	Spinder	136,000	A
43	Sabrina	Brokmeier	134,500	A
44	Tom	Marciano	134,000	A
45	Charlie	Townsend	131,500	A
46	Steven	Romano	131,500	A
47	Alejandro	Armas	131,500	B
48	Mike	Jones	131,000	A
49	Dimitry	Agrachov	131,000	B
50	Gil	Aboodi	130,500	A
51	Jonathan	Ounjian	129,500	B
52	Elliott	Zaydman	126,500	A
53	Josh	Beckley	123,500	B
54	Paulius	Bikus	121,500	A
55	Dustyn	Schindewolf	121,500	A
56	Ryan	Van Sanford	121,000	B
57	Albert	Eskenazi	120,000	B
58	Angelo	Miele Jr	117,500	A
59	Kevin	Chan	115,000	A
60	Paul	Vieira	113,500	B
61	Steven	Damsky	111,000	A
62	Jack	Battaglia	110,500	B
63	Anthony	Barbera	110,000	A
64	Matthew	Zarcadoolas	109,500	B
65	Omar	Diaz	108,500	B
66	Oscar	Santana	106,500	A
67	Erkinbek	Ozumbekov	105,500	A
68	Carmilo	Manrique	101,000	A
69	John	Mitchalk	101,000	A
70	Carlos	Bolanos	100,000	A
71	Abraham	Batievsky	100,000	B
72	Nathan	Fair	99,500	A
73	Raymond	Claus	98,500	A
74	Joe	Marchese	98,500	A
75	Stephen	Ibrahim	98,000	B
76	Sean	Perry	97,500	A
77	Jeff	Rodriguez	96,500	B
78	Joule	Kadadu	96,500	B
79	Ryan	Pathman	95,500	B
80	Thomas	Alcorn	95,500	B
81	David	Becker	93,500	A
82	Michael	Raimon	92,500	A
83	Richard	Saunders	91,500	B
84	Michael	Graffeo	90,000	A
85	Corey	Harrison	90,000	B
86	Ken	Bruno	89,000	A
87	Jason	Laso	88,500	A
88	Jian X	Zhao	86,500	B
89	Charles	Odenz	86,500	B
90	Vassil	Filipov	86,000	B
91	John	Marlow	85,500	A
92	Amir	Sujak	85,500	B
93	John	Streese	85,000	A
94	Diane	Schmidt	85,000	A
95	Kevin	Pouya	84,000	A
96	Rafael	Calero	84,000	B
97	Alexander	Dvorsky	84,000	B
98	Alex	Pines	83,500	B
99	Josh	Hillock	83,000	A
100	Wally	Maddah	83,000	B
101	Thomas	Gari	82,000	A
102	Juan	Rodriguez	81,500	A
103	DNR		81,000	A
104	Courtland	Twyman	79,500	A
105	Thomas	Farrell	79,500	B
106	Michael	Robilotto	79,000	B
107	Russell	Williams	77,000	A
108	Ryan	Anderkin	74,500	B
109	Jonathan	Roberge	74,000	B
110	Richard	Golonka	71,500	A
111	Jessica	Dawley	71,500	A
112	Brenda	Nelson	70,500	A
113	Joviel	Gonzalez	69,000	A
114	Michael	Cooper	69,000	B
115	Jeff	Rine	68,000	A
116	Piotr	Wielopolski	68,000	B
117	Kevin	Deng	65,500	A
118	Matthew	Lessor	64,500	B
119	Paul	Shafran	63,000	A
120	Bruce	Snell	61,500	A
121	Robert	Levin	61,500	A
122	William	Kopp	59,000	B
123	Tomislav	Krizanic	58,500	B
124	Michael	Lewin	57,000	A
125	Fritz	Lunkenheimer	56,000	B
126	Phillip	Brill	54,000	A
127	Phillip	Goureau	53,500	A
128	Pierce	Picou	53,500	B
129	Robert	Kenney	51,500	A
130	Stanley	Tavanese	50,500	B
131	Evan	Teitelbaum	49,000	B
132	Aptem	Maksimov	48,500	B
133	Ruben	Coto	47,500	B
134	Jonathan	Alfonso	47,000	A
135	Jeff	Dana	45,500	A
136	Robert	Panetta	45,000	B
137	Tracy	Potter	44,000	B
138	Carmine	Floreno	43,500	B
139	Jon	Brody	43,500	B
140	Larry	Klur	43,000	A
141	Steven	McCartney	42,500	B
142	Julio	Rodriguez	42,000	B
143	Dan	Bernadel	38,500	A
144	Vincent	Censabella	38,500	B
145	Paul	Grigsby	37,000	B
146	Yves	Bohemier	37,000	B
147	Bernard	Cohen	36,000	B
148	Sharon	Bachar	35,500	B
149	Andres	Morales	35,000	B
150	Matt	Grocholsky	33,000	B
151	Paul	Balzano	33,000	B
152	Mark	Nahama	32,500	B
153	Ryan	Sherman	32,000	A
154	Igor	Mitrevski	31,000	B
155	Sylvain	Bouchard	30,000	A
156	Kyle	Harry	28,500	B
157	James	Mills	25,500	A
158	Jerome	Taguet	18,000	A
159	Jeremy	Goureau	18,000	A
160	Carlos	Sobenes	12,000	A

2017 Showdown Live Updates

Event 1 Flight B: Henry Meacham Bags Big Lead

March 17, 2017 @ 1:54AM by Seminole Hard Rock Poker

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
End of Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 90 of 407

The clock paused, players logged three additional hands and Flight B wrapped. An unofficial 90 are set to advance to Day 2 with Henry Meacham bagging a chip-leading stack of over 300,000.

Updated counts through Flight B will be posted shortly.

2017 Showdown Live Updates

Event 1 Flight B: One More Level

March 17, 2017 @ 1:18AM by Seminole Hard Rock Poker

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 99 of 407

The final level of the evening is here leaving just about 30 minutes between now and play’s conclusion. The clock shows only 99 left with Ryan Van Sanford, Josh Beckley, Wally Maddah, Evan Teitelbaum and Anthony Astarita among those still in. With a stack of over 200,000, it’s Dantonio Brown who leads the way.

Complete chip counts will be posted after play wraps.

2017 Showdown Live Updates

Event 1 Flight B: Paul Balzano with a Pair of Quick Hits

March 17, 2017 @ 12:58AM by Seminole Hard Rock Poker

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 13: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 117 of 407

South Florida regular Paul Balzano recently doubled holding pocket queens against on a jack-high flop. Balzano got his last 21,200 but held to score a timely win. On the very next hand, he opened only see to another player jam for 9,000. Balzano called and they were face up.

Balzano:
Opponent:

Runout:

Balzano improved to a straight and earned a second consecutive win. With that, Balzano went from being at risk to holding 85,000 chips.

2017 Showdown Live Updates

Event 1 Flight B: Grinder Grinding

March 17, 2017 @ 12:33AM by Seminole Hard Rock Poker

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 12: 600/1,200 with a 200 ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 135 of 407

Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi is climbing the counts midway through Level 12. He recently was in middle position and got 13,000 in the pot preflop versus a late-position opponent. The dealer burned and turned and Mizrachi quickly lead for 25,200 which appeared to have the opponent covered. The opponent mucked and Mizrachi raked the pot.

On the very next hand, Mizrachi raised and got a pair of callers. The flop fell and an early position player checked. Mizrachi bet 3,000 and a player in late position shoved for about 29,000. The early position player folded.

“Do you want action?” Mizrachi asked.

Whether the player wanted action or not, Mizrachi gave it. He called and flipped over for a flush draw. The opponent’s was good at the time, but an turn and river improved Mizrachi to a pair and earned him the pot.

The pair of hands has Mizrachi at about 132,000 chips with just over two levels remaining in the night.

2017 Showdown Live Updates

Event 1 Flight B: Dantonio Brown Back at It

March 16, 2017 @ 11:43PM by Seminole Hard Rock Poker

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 11: 600/1,200 with a 200 ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 162 of 407

Coming off a runner-up finish in the Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event, Dantonio Brown is picking up where he left off here at the Seminole Hard Rock. Brown has had an easy go of it through the first 10 levels and enjoys a monster stack in Level 11. With 177,500 chips he appears to sit atop the counts with about two hours left in the day.

2017 Showdown Live Updates

Event 1 Flight B: Ruszkowski’s Aces Eliminate Pahuja

March 16, 2017 @ 11:18PM by Seminole Hard Rock Poker

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 10: 500/1,000 with a 100 ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 180 of 407

The hands were face up. Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Mukul Pahuja was in late position with his last roughly 9,000 at risk. Ray Ruszkowski was in the small blind and had the Florida pro on the ropes.

Ruszkowski:
Pahuja:

The runout fell low cards and Pahuja was eliminated courtesy of Ruszkowski.

After the hand, Seminole Hard Rock Tampa ambassador Wally Maddah called staff over to tell his own Ruszkowski hand history. Maddah recounted turning a straight only to run in to Ruszkowski’s quad kings. Maddah was able to find a fold and lost a modest pot to the cruising Ruszkowski.

Ruszkowski has turned his 20,000 starting chips in to 47,000.

2017 Showdown Live Updates

Event 1 Flight B: Another 400+ in the 6pm Installment

March 16, 2017 @ 10:39PM by Seminole Hard Rock Poker

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 9: 400/800 with a 100 ante
Flight B Entries: 407

Registration is officially closed in Flight of Event 1 of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown, a $360 buy-in $500,000 guaranteed no limit hold’em tournament. The final tally for the evening action sat at 407 entries. They pair with Flight A’s 424 entries creating a combined field of 831 with four starting flights still to come.

To put Today’s strong turnout in perspective, it marks a hefty increase in year-over-year attendance of 19 percent to this point.

Here’s a breakdown of where the event is at:

Day/Time	Flight	Entries	Advanced
Today at 11am	A	424	80
Underway	B	407	TBD
Tomorrow at 11am	C	—	—
Tomorrow at 6pm	D	—	—
Saturday at 11am	E	—	—
Saturday at 6pm	F	—	—
Total	—	831	80

Complete chip counts through Flight B will be posted later tonight after registration closes.