$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Day 1A Players Remaining:  144 of 555

Players are back in their seats after another break while the black chips were colored out of play. There are 144 players remaining with action continuing until only 56 remain.

We have a new leader in the room as SHRP regular David Vurgait climbed to 236,500. The second biggest stack belongs to an empty seat at the moment, Ryan Hogan sitting next to a stack worth 229,500 and no one playing it before the break and not yet after. Jeff Silverstein continued to push his stack higher and sits with 205,500.

2021 Seminole Hard Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 2
$400 Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)
Entries: 116
Prize Pool: $38,860
November 17, 2021

Registration closed on the $400 Limit Omaha 8 tournament and it drew 116 entries for the fifth biggest field of its kind. Another great turnout and we are closing out 2021 on a high note.

2021 Showdown – 159 entries
2011 Showdown – 153 entries
2011 Summer Splash – 153 entries
2021 LHPO – 123 entries
2021 RRPO – 116 entries

They combined to create a prize pool worth $38,860 and the last 15 spots will be paid. A min-cash is worth $885 while the Event 2 champ will take home $11,315.

1st: $11,315 + RRPO trophy
2nd: $7,090
3rd: $4,235
4th: $2,720
5th: $2,060
6th: $1,710
7th: $1,475
8th: $1,300
9th-10th: $1,140
11th-12th: $1,010
13th-15th: $885

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10:  600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Day 1A Players Remaining:  225 of 555

Registration closed for the opening flight of the opening tournament on the RRPO schedule. And it was huge.

The tournament drew 555 entries for the biggest opening flight of this tournament. We began running the RRPO opening $1,000,000 guarantee tournament in 2016 and it drew a state record 5,018 entries.

That tournament had 403 entries in Flight A and today we blasted it to set up a huge first weekend of the series.

2021 RRPO – 555 entries (TBD total)
2016 RRPO – 403 entries (5,018 total)
2018 RRPO – 341 entries (4,558 total)
2019 RRPO – 400 entries (4,699 total)

Flight A will continue into the evening and come to an end when 56 players remain to advance to Day 2 on Sunday in the money.

$200 Double Green Chip Bounty (Re-Entry)
Structure
Level 1:  100/100 with a 100 ante

The third and final new tournament of the day gets underway at 3 pm in the Grand Ballroom and has another RRPO trophy waiting at the end. Event 3 is a $200 buy-in Quad Stack Double Green Chip Bounty tournament with $50 of each entry going towards a bounty on that player’s head.

They’ll sit down to huge 40,000 starting stacks and the first eight levels last 15 minutes, going up to 20 from Level 9 forward. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 5:15 pm.

They will return to play it out for the champion and we will award a trophy to the champ.

• Players begin with 40,000 in chips
• Levels 1-8 last 15 minutes; Levels 9+ last 20 minutes
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9 (5:15pm)
• This is a one-day tournament and plays to completion
• Event 3 Structure Sheet

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Day 1A Entries:  555

Cards are back in the air for Flight A with an unofficial 555 entries in the field. Tournament staff are running the numbers and we will post the official count when it is available.

We found two huge stacks very close to each other but at separate tables. Lonnie Caldwell has the biggest stack in the room with 184,000 at Table 17 and Jeff Silverstein has 172,400 at Table 9 nextdoor.

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Day 1A Entries:  544

Flight A reached Level 8 and that means time is running out if you want to book an early seat for Day 2 on Sunday. The field cruised past 500 entries and will tease 600 in the next 30 minutes. It won’t get there but it will be fun to watch.

Once Level 8 comes to an end at 2:15 pm, they will take a 15-minute break and we will close registration when they return.

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7:  300/600 with a 600 ante
Day 1A Entries:  489

Flight A is very close to pushing the entry count over 500 and it should get there easily with more than an hour remaining to get in the game. That is a huge start to the series and way above what we’ve seen in the past for the start of this tournament.

More friends showed up to take part including Daniel Pearlman, seven-time SHRP Hollywood champ Raminder Singh, and Tampa regular Walter Rossi.

$400 Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)
Structure
Level 4:  300/600 Limits
Entries:  92

We have a huge turnout across the hall for the Limit Omaha 8 tournament with 92 entries in the field as they prepare for their first break. They will at least crack the top five on the all-time list for field size and a shot at the top.

Four-time SHRP Hollywood champ David Shmuel is in the field and trying for his second Limit Omaha 8 title of the year after winning this during during the 2021 LHPO series.

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5:  200/400 with a 400 ante
Day 1A Entries:  442

Nobody was running away with a monster stack after the first four levels but Eric Piderit was doing his best. He caught a big hand before the break with then got his stack in the middle against and .

It wasn’t looking great for the SHRP regular but he flopped trip kings on the board and turned quads on the turn. That was good enough to give him a stack worth 69,200 at the break.

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4:  200/300 with a 300 ante
Day 1A Entries:  419

Level 4 has come to an end and tournament staff sent Event 1 players on the first break. They have 15 minutes to enjoy the new lounge area outside the Grand Ballroom or grab a bite to eat.

The 419 entries so far already make this the biggest opening flight of this tournament with four more levels to registration.