$360 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8: 400/800 with a 800 ante
Flight A Entries: 333
The clock is winding down on Level 8 and that means time is running out to join the first flight of the big multi-day event. We have an OCD-friendly 333 entries in the game so far and there will be more before registration closes after the next break.
$360 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7: 300/600 with a 600 ante
Flight A Entries: 315
The entry count moved over 300 entries after the break and one of them belongs to a former champion. When this tournament set the record for the biggest field in Florida poker history, Rafael Reis was the last player standing out of 5,018 entries to collect more than $150,000.
Since that time, Reis continued to roll with dozens and dozens of cashes and a handful of final tables. That payday was the biggest of his career but he topped earlier this year with a $200K Borgata win. All of that leaves Reis on the verge of topping $1,000,000 earned in his poker career.
$360 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 200/400 with a 400 ante
Flight A Entries: 288
Flight A is back underway after the first break and the entry count nears 300 with four more hours to run it higher.
Fabio Fernandez has his seat in the game and came a long way to get here. He’s in town all the way from Colombia with friends for vacation and also some big money poker. Fernandez trekked more than 1,600 miles and hoping to bag today and take the rest of the week off to enjoy everything South Florida has to offer.
$360 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4: 200/300 with a 300 ante
Flight A Entries: 262
The Flight A field swelled to over 250 entries before the first two hours were complete and it will continue to climb as they head off on the first break of the day.
When they return, they will play four more levels and registration will close following the second break.
The 2018 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘N’ Roll” Poker Open is underway and you do not have to wait too long to begin earning a seat into the WPT RRPO Championship headline event. We have 16 satellites running during the series with 73 combined seats guaranteed into the $2 Million GTD Championship.
We have three different formats at various times to fit all schedules and structure preferences. There is the standard mega satellite structures plus turbo and super turbo for those wanting to play at a quicker pace.
The first satellite runs on November 17 and Satellite Day takes place on November 21 with 37 combined seats guaranteed on that day alone.
Besides the following satellites, we also have a Holiday Triple Stack tournament on Thanksgiving evening that will have a $3,500 WPT RRPO Championship seated added to first place.
You can check out the schedule below along with the structure for each satellite.
Satellite Schedule:
November 16 – 8pm turbo with 2 seats guaranteed
November 17 – 8pm turbo with 2 seats guaranteed
November 18 – 5pm mega with 5 seats guaranteed
November 18 – 8pm turbo with 2 seats guaranteed
November 21 – 11am mega with 20 seats guaranteed
November 21 – 3pm mega with 10 seats guaranteed
November 21 – 6pm mega with 5 seats guaranteed
November 21 – 8pm turbo with 2 seats guaranteed
November 22 – 8pm turbo with 2 seats guaranteed
November 23 – 10am turbo with 2 seats guaranteed
November 23 – 3pm mega with 10 seats guaranteed
November 23 – 6pm mega with 5 seats guaranteed
November 23 – 8pm turbo with 2 seats guaranteed
November 23 – 10:30pm super turbo with 1 seat guaranteed
November 24 – 10am turbo with 2 seats guaranteed
November 24 – 12pm super turbo with 1 seat guaranteed
$390 Championship Mega Satellites (1-in-10)
$390 Championship Turbo Satellite (1-in-10)
$375 Championship Super Turbo Satellite (1-in-10)
$360 Limit Omaha/8 (Re-Entry)
Structure
Level 2: 150/300 Limits
Entries: 57
The Omaha/8 field had a nice number at the start and it continues to grow as they approach last year’s count after less than half an hour. This tournament drew 74 entries to the smaller buy-in tournament and we should push up a nice prize pool.
Chris Moneymaker grabbed an early seat and your 2003 WSOP Main Event Champ, the impetus of the poker boom, has been on a nice run the last few days. We hosted the final tournament on the $86 Moneymaker PSPC Tour, which award seats in the big PokerStars event coming up in January, and he made it through the 957-entry field to finish in second place.
Last night, he was part of the Feeding South Florida charity event and went on to win the entire thing. As a PokerStars ambassador, he was ineligible to win the $30,000 Platinum Pass and it went to second place finisher Esteban Garcia.
Moneymaker is part of a small but talented field that also includes Joel Harwood, David Shmuel, and Martin Ryan (who captured the WSOP Circuit casino championship a few weeks ago at our sister room in Coconut Creek).
$360 Limit Omaha/8 (Re-Entry)
Structure
Level 1: 100/200 Limits
The Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open has a little something for everyone on the schedule. While there are a lot of people playing the opening Texas Hold’em tournament on the schedule, we’re also giving some of our split-pot players some action on opening day.
Event 2 is a $360 buy-in tournament with a Limit Omaha/8 structure sure to bring out some of best Omaha players. They’ll sit down to 12,000 starting stacks and the tournament will run 30-minute levels throughout with late registration/re-entries available until the start of Level 9 at 4:30pm.
The remaining players will take a dinner break around 6:30pm and they will return to play it out for the first RRPO trophy of the series.
$360 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2: 100/200
Flight A Entries: 154
Players waited a little while to get moving but they are showing up in numbers now. Less than 30 minutes after the start of the day, the entry count nearly doubled and there’s a steady line at the registration desk for a good start to the series.
SHRP regular Francis Margaglione was one of those in his seat at the start and looking for another trophy. He owns four tournament wins here including a RRPO title in 2016 when he outlasted nearly 1,500 entries to earn more than $28,000 in a $150 buy-in tournament.
$360 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 100/100
Flight A Entries: 82
With a short introduction and players instructions, tournament staff announced “shuffle up and deal” to kick off the 2018 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open”.
They will play four, 30-minute levels before taking the first break of the day. We have 82 entries already in the game at the start of play and we expect the crowd to build throughout the day and the weekend.
$360 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 100/100
The wait is over and it’s time for another huge Seminole Hard Rock Poker series. The Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open is pulling no punches coming out of gates with a massive $1,000,000 Guarantee tournament to start things off.
The $360 buy-in Event 1 has eight starting flights and it has some big history. We used this eight-flight format in 2016 and it went on to build the biggest tournament field in Florida poker history. That tournament drew an incredible 5,018 entries and was conquered by SHRP regular Rafael Reis.
Can our players make history once again?
The first flight starts at 11am in the Hard Rock Event Center with two flights per day between now and Saturday evening. Players start out with 20,000 deep stacks and all Day 1 levels last 30 minutes long, extending to 40 minutes at the start of Day 2. Late registration is available until the start of Level 9 at 3:30pm with unlimited re-entries available during that time. Their day will come to end after Level 14 and all survivors will bag up for a return on Sunday.
The opening tournament will also utilize the big blind ante format; the player in the big blind will ante for the rest of the table.
It will be an exciting start to the series and we look forward to seeing our regular faces along with some new players coming to town for this big opener.