$2,650 Big 4 No Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guarantee | Payouts | Live Stream
Level 23: 15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 422

Alex Foxen knows how to win a Big 4 event. The poker pro was the last players standing in the $2,650 Big 4 event one year ago and he returns today leading the same final table with a chance to repeat.

The $2,650 Big 4 tournament that also includes plenty to top poker talent including Jake Schwartz, Tom Nguyen, and inaugural SHRPO champ Blair Hinkle.

They are playing for a top prize over $200,000 along with the SHRPO Big 4 title.

Seat 1: Matt O’Donnell – 1,190,000 (48 bb)
Seat 2: Blair Hinkle – 1,095,000 (44 bb)
Seat 3: Rick Alvarado – 735,000 (29 bb)
Seat 4: Brandon Hall – 555,000 (22 bb)
Seat 5: Matthew Kuba – 380,000 (15 bb)
Seat 6: Jake Schwartz – 765,000 (31 bb)
Seat 7: Alex Foxen – 2,915,000 (117 bb)
Seat 8: Michael Esposito – 960,000 (38 bb)
Seat 9: Tom Nguyen – 1,970,000 (79 bb)

1st: $208,452
2nd: $146,042
3rd: $93,892
4th: $62,936
5th: $48,404
6th: $40,115
7th: $33,668
8th: $27,242
9th: $20,846

Event 20 results – 10th through 53rd

$25,500 Big 4 High Roller
$2,000,000 Guarantee | Payouts | Live Stream
Level 18: 20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining: 8 of 123

The Big 4 High Roller had the biggest buy-in of the four and smallest field. But it was one of the more talented group of players you will see at the tables.

They pushed past the $2,000,000 guaranteed prize pool to put more than $3,000,000 up for grabs. The last 16 players made some money and eight of them remain alive for the title.

Current WSOP Player of the Year leader (and four-time WSOP champ) Shaun Deeb leads the final table but the lineup is stacked from top to bottom.

The Big 4 High Roller champ will walk away with more than $800,000 but it will not be an easy win.

Seat 1: Tom Marchese – 1,180,000
Seat 2: Barry Hutter – 1,320,000
Seat 3: Jake Schindler – 2,035,000
Seat 4: Ory Hen – 710,000
Seat 5: Paul Hofer – 1,365,000
Seat 6: Mark Fisher – 1,625,000
Seat 7: Shaun Deeb – 3,205,000
Seat 8: Omar Zazay – 870,000

1st: $800,758
2nd: $534,989
3rd: $371,183
4th: $265,311
5th: $195,570
6th: $148,769
7th: $116,942
8th: $95,110

$1,100 Big 4 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Payouts | Live Stream
Level 27: 30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining: 8 of 640

The smaller buy-in Big 4 tournament produced one of the more talented final tables of the series. Pro Joey Couden leads with a chance for another SHRP title with James Salmon, Paul Balzano, and Michael Graffeo also looking for another.

Maria Ho was initially supposed to be on Big 4 commentary duty but she booked a seat at this $1,100 final table. She will be trying to win the title and then resume her hosting duties.

Cards go in the air at 1pm with the rest of the Big 4 final tables with the live stream kicking off at 1:30pm.

Seat 1. Joey Couden – 3,045,000 (51 bb)
Seat 2. James Salmon – 1,260,000 (21 bb)
Seat 3. Marc MacDonnell – 1,145,000 (19 bb)
Seat 4. Paul Balzano – 1,970,000 (33 bb)
Seat 5. Adam Zeltser – 460,000 (8 bb)
Seat 6. Michael Graffeo – 1,585,000 (26 bb)
Seat 7. Maria Ho – 1,365,000 (23 bb)
Seat 8. Dennis Rodriguez – 1,975,000 (33 bb)

1st: $119,465 + Trophy
2nd: $83,750
3rd: $53,939
4th: $39,008
5th: $29,933
6th: $24,045
7th: $19,981
8th: $15,923

Event #25: $10,000 One-Day Event
$500,000 Guarantee | Structure
Level 3: 100/200/200 

Kyle Keranen opened the action for 500 in the hijack and Paul Domb called on the button. Jerry Robinson then called from the small blind, the player in the big came along, and four players went to a flop.

Two checks saw Keranen continue for 2,000 and only Robinson called to see the turn, which both players checked.

Action repeated itself on the river and Robinson rolled over the for top two pair. It was good as Keranen mucked.

Jerry Robinson – 25,000 (125 bb)
Kyle Keranen – 28,000 (140 bb)

Event #25: $10,000 One-Day Event
$500,000 Guarantee | Structure
Level 3: 100/200/200 

Right now five tables are in action here in the $10K with 40 players registered on the clock. Here’s a look at some early stacks:

Cliff Josephy – 30,000
Sam Soverel – 22,000
Dylan Linde – 21,500
Michael Tureniec – 21,500
Matt Glantz – 21,000
Stephen Chidwick – 20,000
Mike Leah – 20,000
Shannon Shorr – 20,000
Stanley Lee – 20,000
Ankush Mandavia – 19,500
Alan Schein – 18,400
Ryan Riess – 17,500
Kristen Bicknell – 12,000
Jonathan Little – 10,700

$300 Deep Stack Turbo NLH (Re-Entry)
$25,000 Guarantee | Structure
Level 1: 50/100

The 2018 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open has 26 tournaments on the schedule and it is time for number 26 starting at noon in the Salon East room next to the Hard Rock Event Center.

Event 26 is a $300 Deep Stack Turbo that will move at a brisk pace and crown our last champion of the series.

Entrants sit down to 20,000 starting stacks and they play 15-minute levels from beginning to end. Late registration is available until the start of Level 15 at 4pm and they will continue playing down to a winner.

It should be a fun way to wrap the series and send someone home with a trophy.

• $25,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 20,000 in chips and 15-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 15
• Tournament will be held in Salon East (outside Event Center)
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 26 Structure Sheet

$10,000 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guarantee | Structure
Level 1: 100/100

It’s the last day of the 2018 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open and we are closing things out with a new popular tournament. We ran a one-day $10K tournament last August and it created some great poker action. We brought it back this year as a nice close for those who missed out on the Big 4 final tables.

The tournament has a $500,000 guaranteed prize pool and it will close out before the night is through. Players start with 20,000 deep stacks and play 30-minute levels all night long. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 11 at 5:10pm following the dinner break.

Action kicks off at 11am and we will bring you the coverage from Salon East.

• $500,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 20,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 11
• Single ante will be paid from the big blind for the entire table
• Tournament will be held in Salon East (outside Event Center)
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 25 Structure Sheet

The $5,250 SHRPO Championship is once again headlining the Big 4 final tables on Tuesday, with a total prizepool worth more than $4.4 million, and $771,444 waiting for the 2018 SHRPO Champion.

The final nine players have combined live tournament earnings worth more than $25 million, though almost half of it comes from just one player — Joseph Cheong. Cheong is also one of two players at this table who were part of the WSOP November Nine; Cheong finished third in 2010, and Jeremy Ausmus finished fifth in 2012.

They’ll be back in action at 1:00 pm EDT, where the action will be live-streamed on a 30-minute delay and recorded for later broadcast as part of Poker Night in America.

Seat 1:  Joseph Cheong
Chip Count – 1,265,000

Joseph Cheong is likely the most famous player at the table, with more than $12.5 million in live tournament earnings, plus another $3.2 million online where he is known as “subiime.” Perhaps best known for finishing third in the 2010 WSOP Main Event, Cheong has 13 tournament victories on his resume, including a victory here four months ago when he won the $1,100 NLHE Turbo event at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown.

Seat 2:  Marcos Exterkotter
Chip Count –  4,370,000

Marcos Exterkotter is a businessman from Brazil, but he has done fairly well in the poker world with more than $192,000 in tournament earnings, which include four WSOP cashes, two WPT cashes, and a fourth-place finish at an LAPT final table. In 2016, he made it to Day 6 of the WSOP Main Event, finishing 75th to earn $80,721.

Seat 3:  Adam Adler
Chip Count – 3,745,000

Adam Adler is a 34-year-old local player from Miami, Florida, with more than $700,000 in live tournament earnings. Adler has two six-figure cashes at the World Series of Poker, with his biggest coming this past summer when he finished second in Event #2, the $10,000 NLHE Super Turbo Bounty.

Seat 4:  Ryan D’Angelo
Chip Count – 3,810,000

Ryan D’Angelo is a professional poker player with more than $3.1 million in live tournament earnings, and plenty more online where he’s known as “g0lfa.” D’Angelo’s poker resume is a long one, with seven WSOP final tables, three online WCOOP bracelets, two WPT Final Tables, a WSOP bracelet, and a fourth-place finish at the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) main event that earned him $700,000. D’Angelo is also passionate about health and nutrition, focused on a plant-based diet.

Seat 5:  Stoyan Obreshkov
Chip Count – 6,540,000

Born and raised in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Stoyan Obreshkov has more than $600,000 in live tournament earnings, with his biggest cash coming in the 2017 WSOP Monster Stack, where he finished 11th to earn $75,915. Obreshkov also finished 21st in the 2017 WSOP Europe Main Event.

Seat 6:  Jeremy Ausmus
Chip Count – 4,090,000

Jeremy Ausmus is no stranger to poker fans after he finished fifth in the 2012 WSOP Main Event as part of the November Nine on ESPN. But the $2.15 million he earned there is less than half of his career earnings of $5.28 million — Ausmus has 10 six-figure-or-better scores on his resume, including a WSOP bracelet in 2013.

Seat 7: Ido Ashkenazi
Chip Count –   1,470,000

Born in Israel and currently living in Florida, Ido Ashkenazi is a former locksmith with more than $565,000 in career live tournament earnings. His best cash came right here at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino at SHRPO in 2016, when he finished second in Event #10 ($570 NLHE) to earn $158,304. He won a similar event here at SHRPO in 2015, a $570 NLHE Double Black Chip Bounty.

Seat 8:  Jared Griener
Chip Count –  3,975,000

Jared Griener may look like he’s part of the “young gun” generation of poker players who started in college, but he’s a former sales manager who’s only been playing professionally for the past three years. In that time, he’s already accumulated more than $1.3 million in career earnings, and his biggest cash came in the 2017 WPT L.A. Poker Classic, where he finished third for $431,340. Griener also has two more top-eight finishes at WPT events, along with a WSOP final table.

Seat 9:  Brandon Eisen
Chip Count – 7,330,000

Born in Hawaii and currently living in Las Vegas as a professional poker player, Brandon Eisen had more than $740,000 in career live tournament, earnings, including three six-figure cashes. His best result was finishing third in the $1,111 WSOP Little One for One Drop in 2014, earning $283,895, and this is his fifth cash and second final table of this SHRPO series.

The final table of nine for the $2,650 No Limit Hold’em Big 4 event at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open boasts an impressive lineup of players that includes the defending champion of this event, Alex Foxen.

These players’ accolades include WSOP gold bracelets, WSOP Circuit rings, and SHRPO Main Event titles. You can check out the highlights from their poker resumes below.

They are set to return at 1 p.m. on Tuesday to play out the final table in front of the Poker Night in America cameras.

Seat 1: Matt O’Donnell
Chip count – 1,190,000

O’Donnell won a WSOP gold bracelet back in 2015 in a $2,500 no-limit hold’em event, and that victory was good for $551,941 in prize money. The 30-year-old resident of Tampa, FL holds career earnings worth $1,327,771.

Seat 2: Blair Hinkle
Chip count – 1,095,000

Hinkle is one of the most accomplished poker professionals at the final table with $4,125,978 in career earnings. His largest score came when he won the 2013 SHRPO Main Event and took home $1,745,245 in prize money. Hinkle won a WSOP gold bracelet back in 2008, and the 32-year-old resident of Kansas City, MO has the unique distinction of winning the WSOP Circuit Main Event in Council Bluffs, Iowa three times.

Seat 3: Rick Alvarado
Chip count – 735,000

Alvarado is from Las Vegas, and the 29-year-old has one SHRPO preliminary victory on his resume. He won the $1,100 no-limit hold’em six-max freezeout in 2015. Alvarado has one six-figure score to his name, and he booked that with a third-place finish ($104,784) in the $1,500 no-limit hold’em/pot-limit Omaha event at the WSOP in 2016.

Seat 4: Brandon Hall
Chip count – 555,000

Hall holds $1,407,397 in career earnings, and his largest score came when he won the 2009 UltimateBet Aruba Poker Classic, which was good for a payday of $753,330. The 29-year-old Las Vegas resident has logged over 30 cashes in his poker tournament career.

Seat 5: Matthew Kuba
Chip count – 380,000

Kuba is from nearby Plantation, FL, and the 31-year-old holds career earnings worth $139,141. His best score to date came when he cashed in 304th place in the 2014 WSOP Main Event for a haul worth $33,734.

Seat 6: Jake Schwartz
Chip count – 765,000

This poker professional from New York City holds $1,610,929 in career tournament earnings, and he has made multiple final tables at both the World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour. The largest score for the 27-year-old came when he took fourth place ($412,817) at the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic back in 2015.

Seat 7: Alex Foxen
Chip count – 2,915,000

Returning to this final table for the second year in a row, Foxen took home this tournament title and $204,600 in prize money one year ago when he topped a field of 395 players. The biggest score to be found in the 27-year-old Cold Spring Harbor, NY resident’s career earnings worth $4,322,834 came when he took second place ($1,134,202) at the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic this past December.

Seat 8: Michael Esposito
Chip count – 960,000

Esposito is from Seaford, NY, and his biggest claim to fame in the poker world came when he took seventh place ($1,258,040) in the WSOP Main Event in 2012. The 50-year-old holds total career earnings worth $1,751,723.

Seat 9: Tom Nguyen
Chip count – 1,970,000

Nguyen has been one of the perennial chip leaders in this event, and the Tampa, FL resident will add a nice chunk of change to his career earnings worth $411,870 at the final table. The 50-year-old scored the biggest cash of his career earlier at this tournament series when he took home $60,514 for finishing in sixth place in Event 1 ($570 No-Limit Hold’em DeepStack).