$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 6: 300/500 with a 500 ante Flight G Entries: 850
Kevin Blewitt
Eric Afriat opened the action from early position, it folded around the Kevin Blewitt in the big blind and he moved all in for 11,200. Afriat called and Blewitt was at risk.
Blewitt: Afriat:
They were racing and Blewitt needed to improve to double up. He missed the flop but paired his jack on the turn to take the lead. The river finished the board, Blewitt doubled up, and Afriat was eliminated a few hands later.
$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 5: 200/400 with a 400 ante Flight G Entries: 750
Vitor Coelho
The entry count is snowballing as more players rotate through the registration desk and we’re even seeing a few players come off the WPT cruise straight into the game.
More friends in the field include Vitor Coelho, Matt Yorra, Omar Sader, Rafael Reis, Steve Buckner, former WPT Showdown champ Eric Afriat, Kevin Blewitt, Nicole Diaz, Noah and Brandon Schwartz, Damien and Gili Simon, former SHRPO Champ Dimitri Vorbe, and Peter Walsworth.
Reis made his first big splash here when he won the opening event of the 2016 Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open, then the biggest tournament field in state history.
$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 4: 200/300 with a 300 ante Flight G Entries: 675
We are almost ready to send our players on break and the Grand Ballroom is packed from one side to the other. A great Saturday morning that will soon turn into a fantastic afternoon. The prize pool is nearing $1.2 million and it will continue to climb until reg closes for good tonight at 9:30 pm.
$1,100 Deep Stack Five-Card PLO (Re-Entry) Structure Level 1: 100/100 with a 100 ante
Showdown Event 11 gets underway at 11 am with a bigger buy-in and more cards to play. It is a $1,100 buy-in tournament featuring Five-Card Pot-Limit Omaha and all the action you need on a Saturday afternoon.
They’ll start with 20K deep stacks and all levels last 30 minutes for the one-day trophy event. Late registration is available until the start of Level 9 at 3:30 pm and they have a dinner break at 5:30 pm.
Players begin with 20,000 in chips
Levels last 30 minutes
Late registration until start of Level 9 (3:30pm)
This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 2: 100/100 with a 100 ante Flight G Entries: 390
Blake Robinson
We have a nearly packed house in the Grand Ballroom, and it will be completely packed again before too long. Every table is in action, and we are filling in the seats as players roll through the fast-moving registration line.
Some friends here early include Blake Robinson, Tom McDonald, Rotem Halbani, Nancy Birnbaum, Jay Romano, Ken Bruno, Marcus Gurley, Jacquelyn Scott, and half of the Piderit family (mom Tamra, pops Eric, and son Caleb).
McDonald is coming off a nice run in Tampa, finishing second in their Winter Poker Open Championship (one spot better than his third-place finish in that tournament in 2022).
$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 1: 100/100 Flight G Entries: 234
Cards are in the air for Flight G of Showdown Event 1 and the 234 players here at the start are more than enough to push the prize pool over the $1,000,000 guarantee.
Every new entry now is icing on the seven-digit/layer cake.
2024 Poker Showdown Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida Event 10 $300 Quad Stack Black Chip Bounty NLH (Re-Entry) Entries: 198 Prize Pool: $29,700 April 5, 2024
Arthur Holmes
Event 10 of the 2024 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown was a $300 Quad Stack Black Chip Bounty NLH event. A field of 198 entries generated a prize pool of $29,700.
Arthur Holmes won the SHRPO guitar pick trophy after the final three players decided to a chop. In addition to the trophy Holmes took home the top prize money of $5,765 for the victory.
1st: Arthur Holmes – $5,765 + Showdown Trophy* 2nd: Aaron Allen – $4,780* 3rd: Quentin Limido – $3,045* 4th: George Othen – $1,850 5th: Joseph Stiers – $1,430 6th: Phillip Krnyaich – $1,185 7th: Jayden Krnyaich – $1,010 8th: Gregory Anda – $875 9th: Neil Cavendish – $740 10th: Raminder Singh – $645 11th: Brian Heaton – $645 12th: Matthew Wolfson – $645 13th: Raul Jimenez Diaz – $550 14th: Filipe Araujo – $550 15th: Sagi Zommer – $550 16th: Shanice Beasley – $460 17th: Michael Cole – $460 18th: Leonardo Meira Gomes – $460 19th: Douglas Walters – $420 20th: Tyler Bentz – $420 21st: Brian Estrella – $420 22nd: Paul Stanechewski – $385 23rd: Arlinda Jones – $385 24th: Jerome Loenardo – $385 25th: Elissa Halbreich – $385
*: Denotes adjusted payouts from the three-way chop.
flop but paired his jack on the 
turn to take the lead. The 
river finished the board, Blewitt doubled up, and Afriat was eliminated a few hands later.
