$580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Payouts Level 20: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 ante Players Remaining: 80 of 1,612
After starting Day 2 just outside the top 10, Cameron Glendenning has put a hurt on the restart. He now claims roughly 585,000 chips — meaning he’s tripled up over the last four hours — and is one of the biggest stacks in the room.
The clock currently shows 70 players remaining and they’ve all secured a payday of $1,894. Full payouts are available by clicking the “Payouts” link in the header of this post.
$580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Payouts Heading to Level 20: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 ante Players Remaining: 106 of 1,612
The remaining 100 or so Event 1 players are on a 15-minute recess. With the field shrinking around him, Erik Cajalais — who owns more than $3,300,000 in reported tournament earnings — is one of the most notable players still in. The last hand before break was rough on him, though. He had an opponent’s last 76,000 at risk preflop holding to the opponent’s . Cajelais had the opponent covered, but just barely. A king-high flop left him second best and Cajelais never improved. He shipped 76,000 across the table and was left with just 16,000. That’s good for two big blinds when cards go back in the air in about 10 minutes.
$580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Payouts Level 18: 2,500/5,000 with a 500 ante Players Remaining: 153 of 1,612
Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Jessica Dawley hit the rail shortly after the bubble burst. With that, it’s Stewart Newman left repping #TeamSHRP. Newman owns about 90,000 chips good for 18 big blinds.
Across the room, Seminole Hard Rock Tampa ambassador Wally Maddah is in the money and looking for a deeper run. It was nearly two hours ago that Maddah was overhear assuring a friend he’d be “out in a minute.” At the time, he had just about 10 bigs. Fast forward to midway through Level 18 and Maddah is healthy as ever with over 25 big blinds.
$580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Payouts Level 17: 2,000/4,000 with a 500 ante Players Remaining: 171 of 1,612
On the third round of hand-for-hand play, Isaiah Goldman opened the action from middle position. It folded to Heitor Saraiva in the small blind. He jammed about 50,000 chips and Goldman called putting Saraiva at risk.
Goldman: Saraiva:
Runout:
Goldman’s king had Saraiva drawing slim on the flop and Saraiva never caught up. He was eliminated on the bubble sending the final 171 players in to the money.
$580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Payouts Level 16: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante Players Remaining: 178 of 1,612
Max Campbell bagged a big Flight C stack and started Day 2 fourth in the counts with over 240,000. The restart is going great for Campbell as he now claims 370,000 chips with the money bubble right around the corner.
Stay tuned for hand-for-hand details as the event plays into a payday.
$580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Payouts Level 15: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante Players Remaining: 198 of 1,612
“I’ll be out in a minute,” Seminole Hard Rock Tampa ambassador was overhead saying as he shuffled his 10 big blind stack. “There’s [a][ring][event] at 3 o’clock.”
Maddah is selling himself a bit short as there’s been a big exodus to kick off Day 2. Nearly two dozen players have hit the rail as less than 200 remain with the top 171 finishing in the money.
$580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Payouts 25:27 Left in Level 15: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante Players Remaining: 218 of 1,612
Day 2 of the $580 World Series of Poker Circuit opener is here and cards are in the air at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. From a starting field of 1,612, just 218 remain with the top 171 scooping a payday. Out in front of the field as the only player claiming over 300,000 chips is Luiz De Farias Guimaraes. Guimaraes sits on a solid stack of 319,600 edging out second place Manny Minaya’s 270,100 by a margin. Coming in third to start the day is Vytautas Semaska with 247,200.
There’s a strong local contingency in the game as well. Seminole Hard Rock Poker team members Jessica Dawley and Stewart Newman, Abbey Daniels, Daren Stabinski, Charlemagne Benjamin, Ory Hen, Nancy Birnbaum and Michael Newman are all still going and eying Circuit gold.
A min-cash in the event earns $975 while the tournament champion is set to pocket $135,022 along with a WSOP Circuit gold ring. Complete payouts are available by clicking the “Payouts” link in the header of this post.
Tournament updates throughout the day will be available right here at SHRPO.com.