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Level 3: 100/200 with a 200 ante
Flight C Entries: 360
Flight C is averaging more than 100 entries a level and it looks like the only thing that’s going to slow them down is closing registration at 2:30 pm. A perfect Friday for playing some poker in the Ballroom and running up a big number.
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Level 2: 100/100 with a 100 ante
Flight C Entries: 294
Raminder Singh had a great opportunity to make history in the $1,100 No Limit Hold’em. He was one spot away from winning the title but had to settle for second place, so close to winning his seventh major SHRP Hollywood title.
But he didn’t have to wait long to make up for it. Two days later he entered and later won the $200 Quad Stack Double Green Chip Bounty tournament for his seventh trophy.
Among the big four SHRP Hollywood series (Lucky Hearts Poker Open, Poker Showdown, Poker Open, and Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open), only one player had seven wins. David Prociak sat at the top with the most victories but now has company in Singh.
A great accomplishment with a lot of time to move up to eight by himself.
Most SHRP Hollywood major wins:
Raminder Singh – 7 wins
David Prociak – 7 wins
Brian Altman – 6 wins
Gabriel Ramos – 5 wins
Julio Fernandez – 5 wins
Michael Laake – 5 wins
Michael Newman – 5 wins
10 tied at 4 wins
$600 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
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Level 1: 100/100
Flight C Entries: 187
At the top of the hour, tournament staff put cards in the air for Flight C of Event 15 with 187 entries at the start. They pushed the tournament up to $730K of the $1,000,000 guarantee with a lot of time to go.
They will play four 30-minute levels before the first break of the day.
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Level 1: 100/100
The second weekend of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open is here and today we roll out the next two flights of Event 15 with its $1,000,000 guarantee, Flight C at 10 am and Flight D at 6 pm. The prize pool will easily hit seven digits but the question is whether it can get there in the morning session.
The first two flights combined to put 1,191 entries into the game to leave it 696 new ones from hitting the mark. That is not out of the question for Flight C but it will get there early in Flight D if it falls a little short.
Players start with 20,000 deep stacks and all Day 1 levels last 30 minutes with an increase to 40 minutes on Day 2. Late registration is available until the start of Level 9 at 2:30 pm with unlimited re-entries during that time. Flight C will come to an end when 12.5% of the field remains and they will advance to Day 2 on Sunday at 1 pm in the money.
We expect huge crowds over the weekend and today is the start.
Primary Event Schedule
10AM: Event 15 Day 1C – $600 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
12PM: Event 17 – $600 H.O.R.S.E. (Freeze-Out)
6PM: Event 15 Day 1D – $600 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
Secondary and Satellite Schedule
2PM: Event 76 – $250 Multi-Event Turbo Satellite (1-in-10)
4PM: Event 77 – $600 Championship Satellite (1-in-10)
8PM: Event 78 – $550 Super High Roller Step Satellite
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Returning to Level 15: 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining: 149 of 1,191
Flight A: 580 Entries; 72 Advanced
Flight B: 611 Entries; 77 Advanced
Flight C: Friday at 10 a.m.
Flight D: Friday at 6 p.m.
Flight E: Saturday at 10 a.m.
Flight F: Saturday at 6 p.m.
Day 2: Sunday at 1 p.m.
| Rank | First Name | Last Name | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zachary | Eichenbaum | 920,000 |
| 2 | Marlen | Sapazhanov | 869,000 |
| 3 | Wagner | Wysotchanski | 601,000 |
| 4 | Shawn | Lucas | 462,000 |
| 5 | Edgard | Duche | 442,000 |
| 6 | Robert | Colucci | 426,000 |
| 7 | Harry | Misner | 383,000 |
| 8 | Aaron | Thivyanathan | 371,000 |
| 9 | Nicholas | Pupillo | 350,000 |
| 10 | Lucas | Tae | 340,000 |
| 11 | Ian | Mandell | 333,000 |
| 12 | Jeffrey | Trudeau Jr | 328,000 |
| 13 | Jimmy | Corrales | 326,000 |
| 14 | Jamar | Brown | 322,000 |
| 15 | Manny | Tarich | 313,000 |
| 16 | David | Mcmahon | 307,000 |
| 17 | Aaron | Massey | 303,000 |
| 18 | Kyle | Flickinger | 282,000 |
| 19 | William | Nowak | 279,000 |
| 20 | Steven | Karp | 277,000 |
| 21 | Daniel | Vandyke | 271,000 |
| 22 | Anatoly | Zharnitsky | 270,000 |
| 23 | Yehiel | Haim | 262,000 |
| 24 | Milton | Miranda Jr | 261,000 |
| 25 | Jason | Klass | 259,000 |
| 26 | Jae | Lee | 259,000 |
| 27 | David | Lang | 259,000 |
| 28 | Anthony | Askey | 255,000 |
| 29 | Peter | Horenstein | 246,000 |
| 30 | Andrew | Koski | 245,000 |
| 31 | Matthew | Reed | 242,000 |
| 32 | Bret | Beebe | 232,000 |
| 33 | Jason | Fitzpatrick | 232,000 |
| 34 | Scott | Levitt | 232,000 |
| 35 | T.K. | Miles | 219,000 |
| 36 | Carlos | Pino | 217,000 |
| 37 | Bryce | Mcvay | 215,000 |
| 38 | John | Smith | 202,000 |
| 39 | Peter | Pilz | 198,000 |
| 40 | Henry | Fischer | 196,000 |
| 41 | Ronnie | Day Jr | 187,000 |
| 42 | Sheldon | Kahrim | 185,000 |
| 43 | Steven | Steinmetz | 182,000 |
| 44 | Kammar | Andries | 181,000 |
| 45 | Frederick | Goldberg | 176,000 |
| 46 | Christopher | Laieta | 176,000 |
| 47 | Patrick | Michaud | 174,000 |
| 48 | William | Miller Jr | 174,000 |
| 49 | Travis | Cathey | 171,000 |
| 50 | Richard | Arno | 170,000 |
| 51 | Henry | Fermin | 169,000 |
| 52 | Aaron | Valencia | 169,000 |
| 53 | Ryan | Luker | 166,000 |
| 54 | Richard | Alarie Jr | 165,000 |
| 55 | Andrew | Kelsall | 165,000 |
| 56 | Keith | Loftus | 165,000 |
| 57 | Robert | Salinger | 162,000 |
| 58 | Clifford | Conners | 157,000 |
| 59 | Wgorn | Dancharnjitt | 157,000 |
| 60 | Stuart | Elkin | 157,000 |
| 61 | Trvan | Hansen | 157,000 |
| 62 | Vincent | Guerra | 154,000 |
| 63 | Robert | Petronio | 154,000 |
| 64 | Lorell | Pascual | 151,000 |
| 65 | Jordan | Semel | 150,000 |
| 66 | Alex | Nguyen | 147,000 |
| 67 | Judith | Bielan | 142,000 |
| 68 | Matthew | Sesso | 138,000 |
| 69 | Kathleen | Gliva | 137,000 |
| 70 | Wilfor | Marentes Pinto | 137,000 |
| 71 | Brent | Ballentine | 133,000 |
| 72 | Cameron | Storto | 133,000 |
| 73 | Derrick | Contreras | 130,000 |
| 74 | Jacob | Harvey | 130,000 |
| 75 | Tommy | Nguyen | 130,000 |
| 76 | Vadym | Lapin | 127,000 |
| 77 | Luis | Dominguez Nunez | 121,000 |
| 78 | Valery | Litvak | 121,000 |
| 79 | Jesse | Lonis | 120,000 |
| 80 | Eric | Kolodny | 119,000 |
| 81 | Yossi | Ben Kessous | 118,000 |
| 82 | John | Simon | 118,000 |
| 83 | Michael | Melamed | 118,000 |
| 84 | Richard | Menjura | 118,000 |
| 85 | David | Nowling | 117,000 |
| 86 | Roni | Zelichonok | 115,000 |
| 87 | James | Pillon | 115,000 |
| 88 | Lawrence | Rubenstein | 114,000 |
| 89 | Jorge | Aristizabal | 112,000 |
| 90 | Steve | Olivier | 111,000 |
| 91 | Brandon | Noe | 110,000 |
| 92 | Clifford | Mermell | 108,000 |
| 93 | Paul | Camby | 108,000 |
| 94 | Eric | Chhor | 108,000 |
| 95 | Frederico | Dabus | 107,000 |
| 96 | Anderson | Montana | 106,000 |
| 97 | Julian | Wohlgemuth | 104,000 |
| 98 | Fernando | Cuba | 103,000 |
| 99 | James | Duda | 103,000 |
| 100 | Daniel | Letts | 101,000 |
| 101 | Jawuz | Akcay | 95,000 |
| 102 | Ari | Oxman | 91,000 |
| 103 | Cyle | Hill | 87,000 |
| 104 | Raymond | Ruszkowski | 87,000 |
| 105 | Kenneth | Bruno | 86,000 |
| 106 | Lawrence | Kiang | 83,000 |
| 107 | Mukul | Pahuja | 81,000 |
| 108 | Stuart | Young | 81,000 |
| 109 | Steve | Raeman | 80,000 |
| 110 | Bobby | Crain | 79,000 |
| 111 | Shalom | Elharar | 79,000 |
| 112 | Thomas | Kluba | 79,000 |
| 113 | Andrew | Miller | 78,000 |
| 114 | Richard | Blume Jr | 75,000 |
| 115 | Michael | Decesare | 75,000 |
| 116 | Michael | Graffeo | 75,000 |
| 117 | Khaled | Ali | 73,000 |
| 118 | George | Hortelano | 72,000 |
| 119 | Sergio | Giha | 71,000 |
| 120 | Tim | Shane | 69,000 |
| 121 | Srdjan | Urosev | 67,000 |
| 122 | Zaki | Lichaa | 65,000 |
| 123 | Rayden | Abreu | 65,000 |
| 124 | Alexander | Morgovsky | 64,000 |
| 125 | Lawrence | Broome | 63,000 |
| 126 | Bin | Weng | 60,000 |
| 127 | Renny | Barrett | 59,000 |
| 128 | Bruce | Warren | 59,000 |
| 129 | Ben | Gazzola | 57,000 |
| 130 | James | Reynolds | 57,000 |
| 131 | Ariel | Salvador | 55,000 |
| 132 | Walid | Maddah | 54,000 |
| 133 | Harford | Le | 54,000 |
| 134 | Phillip | Krnyaich | 49,000 |
| 135 | Victor | Nassif | 49,000 |
| 136 | Trenton | Marbut | 49,000 |
| 137 | Ephraim | Uzan | 46,000 |
| 138 | Donald | Graham | 44,000 |
| 139 | Michael | Scheinberg | 44,000 |
| 140 | Michael | Capo | 39,000 |
| 141 | Roberto | Diaz | 39,000 |
| 142 | Ronald | Katz | 35,000 |
| 143 | Eugene | Solomon | 31,000 |
| 144 | Neal | Corcoran | 30,000 |
| 145 | Kenneth | Frey | 30,000 |
| 146 | Andrew | Jones | 29,000 |
| 147 | Glenn | Mathews | 27,000 |
| 148 | Walter | Bravo | 18,000 |
| 149 | David | Castranova | 9,000 |
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Level 9: 500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight B Entries: 611
Flight B of Event 15 drew 611 entries, making it a total of 1,191 entries through two flights. The $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool should be met tomorrow.
Tonight’s action will continue until only 77 players remain. Players must bag a stack in order to make the money and advance to Day 2, which is Sunday at 1 p.m.
| Day/Time | Flight | Entries | Advanced |
| Thurs at 11 a.m. | A | 580 | 72 |
| Thurs at 6 p.m. | B | 611 | TBD |
| Friday at 11 a.m. | C | — | — |
| Friday at 6 p.m. | D | — | — |
| Saturday at 11 a.m. | E | — | — |
| Saturday at 6 p.m. | F | — | — |
| Total | 1,191 | 72 |
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Level 8: 400/800 with a 800 ante
Flight B Entries: 587
This is an unusual tale of a man who may or may not be a Russian actor, but he is certainly entertaining a couple of players at his table.
First, Jackson Martin is in seat 2, and gets it all in from the cutoff for 10,300 with 
, and he needs his aces to hold to stay alive against the big blind’s 
.
The board came 
— the big blind paired his queen on the flop and turned an open-ended straight draw, but the aces held up for Martin to win the pot and double up in chips.
Jackson Martin – 21,800 (27 bb)
After the hand, the player in seat 1, Anton Kutsenko, loudly proclaimed himself (in a thick Russian accent) to be Anton Kutsenko, a famous Russian actor. But instead of listing IMDB-style credits (IMDB shows a 2007 film and a 2012 film with Anton Kutsenko), he described it like he was starring in poker hands.
Perhaps in the style of Troy McClure (from “The Simpsons”), he’d say, “Hi! I’m Anton Kutsenko. You might know me from roles such as The Button and The Big Blind.”
Then Kutsenko proceeded to describe a hand between himself and Jackson Martin when he woke up with pocket aces in the small blind. He completed the small blind, Martin raised from the big blind, and Kutsenko called.
But he didn’t just describe the betting, he put out chips from his own stack as if he were re-enacting the hand, then pulled chips from Martin’s stack to indicate his raise. Martin laughed and said, “Dude, you can’t touch my chips!” So Kutsenko told the rest of the tale without the visual aid of actual chips.
Martin was laughing at most of Kutsenko’s story, at one point saying that no part of it is true. So this hand may or may not have happened at all.
Kutsenko claims to have limp-called with his aces from the small blind, and then described himself check-calling on all three streets of a board that came . He then said Martin had ace-king, and that’s how Kutsenko wound up with 39,000 in chips and Martin was down to the 10,300 he had in the (real) poker hand written at the top of this post.
So if you ever have a chance to see a film starring Anton Kutsenko, give it a glance, because this guy is a trip.
Anton Kutsenko – 39,000 (49 bb)
Flight B is up to 602 entries (1,182 overall), and the prizepool is already worth more than $620,000 on its way to the $1 million guarantee.
Registration remains open with a single re-entry option until 10:30 pm. There will be two more starting flights tomorrow (10:00 am and 6:00 pm), with the same schedule on Saturday. Day 2 begins on Sunday at 1:00 pm.
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Level 6: 300/500 with a 500 ante
Flight B Entries: 549
After a flop of 
, Sheldon Gross bet 5,000 from the big blind, and Chris Perry called from middle position.
The turn card was the 
, Gross bet 5,000, and Perry called.
The river card paired the board with the 
, Gross bet 10,000, Perry moved all in, and Gross called.
Perry showed 
for a full house, kings full of aces, but Gross turned over 
for a higher full house, aces full of tens to eliminate Perry.
Sheldon Gross – 70,000 (140 bb)
Flight B is up to 549 entries (1,129 overall), and the prizepool is already worth more than $592,000 on its way to the $1 million guarantee.
Registration remains open with a single re-entry option until 10:30 pm. There will be two more starting flights tomorrow (10:00 am and 6:00 pm), with the same schedule on Saturday. Day 2 begins on Sunday at 1:00 pm.
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Level 5: 200/400 with a 400 ante
Flight B Entries: 512
Here are some updated chip counts from around the field during Level 5:
Howard Mash – 43,000 (108 bb)
Ashraf Chehata – 38,000 (95 bb)
Raminder Singh – 36,000 (90 bb)
Leif Force – 34,000 (85 bb)
Chris Perry – 30,000 (75 bb)
John Gorsuch – 22,000 (55 bb)
Richard Menjura – 17,000 (43 bb)
Trung Pham – 15,000 (38 bb)
Miguel Capriles – 13,000 (33 bb)
Vitor Coelho – 13,000 (33 bb)
Ido Ashkenazi – 11,000 (28 bb)
Britney Billian – 10,500 (26 bb)
Terry Grimes – 9,000 (23 bb)
Michael Newman – 5,000 (13 bb)
Flight B is up to 512 entries (1,092 overall), and the prizepool is already worth more than $573,000 on its way to the $1 million guarantee.
Registration remains open with a single re-entry option until 10:30 pm. There will be two more starting flights tomorrow (10:00 am and 6:00 pm), with the same schedule on Saturday. Day 2 begins on Sunday at 1:00 pm.