$600 Deep Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry Per Flight)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8: 400/800 with a 800 ante
Flight A Entries: 617
As Level 8 is coming to an end, tournament staff sent a third of the room on their second break of the day. They will continue like this until everyone returns at 2:30 pm for the start of Level 9 and the close of registration.
$600 Deep Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry Per Flight)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7: 300/600 with a 600 ante
Flight A Entries: 597
Flight A is nearing 600 entries, a 50% increase from January with time to climb, and the 480 unique player cap is nearing with less than an hour to go before registration closes.
A tremendous start to the series.
Matt Stout is back in South Florida after taking a forced poker break like the rest of the world. He has $4.3 million in career earnings and made his third WPT final table here during the WPT Poker Showdown Championship in 2018, finishing fifth for a nice $190K payday.
$400 Limit Omaha 8 (Freeze-Out)
Structure
Level 2: 100/200 Limits
Entries: 108
The Omaha 8 tournament is playing out across the hall from the Seminole Ballroom and the Salon West already has more than 100 players in the freeze-out with registration open for more than three hours.
Yuval Bronshtein is back in action and always a favorite to take home the title in these tough fields. The WSOP bracelet winner came storming out of the gates in January when he crushed the first two Lucky Hearts Poker Open tournaments. He is the defending champion of this tournament with an LHPO win and came back the next day to finish second in the $400 H.O.R.S.E. freeze-out.
$600 Deep Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry Per Flight)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 200/400 with a 400 ante
Flight A Entries: 520
The staggered break is complete and all players rolled into Level 5 at the same time. The entry count climbed over 500 while they were gone and the field continues to grow.
Jeff Kessler and Jennifer David are two of regulars in the field today looking for more success. David booked her biggest score two years ago when she finished third out of more than 1,500 entries in the Turnpike Series.
Kessler picked up a SHRP trophy when he won the RRPO Seniors Event in 2013. His biggest cash came in this tournament during the 2019 Poker Showdown, taking home $108,780 for third place out of nearly 3,000 entries.
$600 Deep Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry Per Flight)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4: 200/300 with a 300 ante
Flight A Entries: 481
To help keep our players safe, tournament staff are implementing a staggered break system for the huge Flight A field. They will be broken into thirds with everyone back in action at the same time to start Level 5.
$400 Limit Omaha 8 (Freeze-Out)
Structure
Level 1: 50/100 Limits
It wouldn’t be a Seminole Hard Rock Poker festival if we didn’t throw in plenty of games for our non-Hold’em friends and we have the first one right out of the gates today at noon. Event 1 may be the first tournament of the series but Event 2 will award the first Poker Showdown trophy.
Event 2 is a $400 buy-in Limit Omaha/8 tournament and this game drew a huge 123-player field in January. They’ll start with 12,000 stacks and run 30-minute levels throughout the day. Late registration is available until the start of Level 9 at 4:30 pm but the Freeze-Out format means no re-entries if a player busts. They will have a dinner break at 6 pm and return to play down to our first Showdown champion.
$600 Deep Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry Per Flight)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3: 100/200 with a 200 ante
Flight A Entries: 454
Flight A is quickly filling with most tables in the Seminole Ballroom in action as we head to the afternoon hours. The re-entries are helping to pile up the numbers as the unique player number plateaus.
We found defending champion Fernando Rodriguez in the game early and trying to go back-to-back. We had more than 3,000 entries in Event 1 of the Lucky Hearts Poker Open and Rodriguez walked away with $205,000 after a three-way deal at the final table.
$600 Deep Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry Per Flight)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2: 100/100 with a 100 ante
Flight A Entries: 412
Flight A put another 100 entries into the field over the first level with more to come. The field will likely hit the 480 unique player cap before registration closes but players who make it into Flight A will still have a single re-entry available to them until 2:30 pm.
Thomas Gari was here early and representing the local regulars. He went deep in this tournament in January and adding another four-figure score during our February Big Slick tournament.
$600 Deep Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry Per Flight)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 100/100
Flight A Entries: 304
After player instructions were issued, Tournament Manager Jason Heidenthal put cards in the air for the first event of the 2021 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown.
The first of six flights got underway was a whopping 304 entries already in action. The field will cap at 480 unique players, you might want to get here early.
$600 Deep Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry Per Flight)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 100/100
The time has come to roll out another big series as we kick off the 2021 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown with a huge opening, multi-flight tournament. Starting at 10 am, we have the first of six flight for Event 1 and we expect a lot of players over the weekend.
The tournament has a $600 buy-in with a $500,000 guaranteed prize pool. Players will start with 20,000 deep stacks and all levels will last 30 minutes during the starting flights and increase to 40 minutes on Day 2. Late registration is available until the start of Level 9 at 2:30 pm with a single re-entry option available during that time. The field will be capped at 480 unique players with only re-entries available if that number is reached.
The field will continue to play down until only 12.5% of the starting field is reached. Those players will return on Sunday at 2 pm for Day 2 already in the money.
It will be an exciting two weeks as celebrate our 10th year with the World Poker Tour.