$300 Seniors 50+ No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 16: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 76
Seat 1: Richard Katz – 64,500 (21 bb)
Seat 2: Stuart Zuckerberg – 60,500 (20 bb)
Seat 3: Jeffrey Burgner – 43,000 (14 bb)
Seat 4: Moshe Wasser – 109,000 (36 bb)
Seat 5: Jay Klitzner – 50,500 (17 bb)
Seat 6: Patrick Maguire – 245,000 (81 bb)
Seat 7: Rodney Rodrigue – 76,500 (25 bb)
Seat 8: George Colli – 82,000 (27 bb)
Seat 9: Eric Nuss – 24,500 (8 bb)
$300 Seniors 50+ No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 14: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 76
Mike Martinez raised all in from middle position for 6,800 and Eric Nuss called from the button with 
, leading Martinez’s 
.
The board ran out 
, no help to Martinez, ending his tournament on the money bubble in 10th pace.
Eric Nuss – 40,000 (20 bb)
Mike Martinez – Bubbles in 10th Place
$300 Seniors 50+ No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 14: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante
Players Remaining: 10 of 76
With the elimination of Tonia Sledd in 11th place, the Seniors Event was down to the final ten players and they joined as one at the final table. They still have a little work to get done to make some money with only nine of the ten earning a piece of the prize pool.
Seat 1: Richard Katz – 67,000 (34 bb)
Seat 2: Stuart Zuckerberg – 52,000 (26 bb)
Seat 3: Jeffrey Burgner – 22,000 (11 bb)
Seat 4: Moshe Wasser – 117,000 (59 bb)
Seat 5: Jay Klitzner – 54,000 (27 bb)
Seat 6: Mike Martinez – 27,000 (14 bb)
Seat 7: Patrick Maguire – 172,000 (86 bb)
Seat 8: Rodney Rodrigue – 117,000 (59 bb)
Seat 9: George Colli – 92,000 (46 bb)
Seat 10: Eric Nuss – 37,000 (19 bb)
1st: $6,783
2nd: $3,682
3rd: $2,326
4th: $1,744
5th: $1,357
6th: $1,163
7th: $969
8th: $775
9th: $581
$300 Seniors 50+ No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 13: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Players Remaining: 16 of 76
Seniors Event players are back in their seats and ready to get down to the business of finding our first 2017 LHPO champion. Rodney Rodrigue leads the way while Mike Martinez has some work to do.
Table 7
Seat 1: Michael Downey – 26,000 (16 bb)
Seat 2: Stuart Zuckerberg – 15,400 (10 bb)
Seat 3: Eric Nuss – 65,400 (41 bb)
Seat 4: Joseph Hargadon – 17,300 (11 bb)
Seat 5: George Colli – 26,600 (17 bb)
Seat 6: — Empty —
Seat 7: Jeffrey Burgner – 25,000 (16 bb)
Seat 8: Donald King – 30,000 (19 bb)
Seat 9: Richard Katz – 44,300 (28 bb)
Table 8
Seat 1: Jimmy Wells – 95,600 (60 bb)
Seat 2: Patrick Maguire – 56,300 (35 bb)
Seat 3: Rodney Rodrigue – 102,800 (64 bb)
Seat 4: Moshe Wasser – 96,300 (60 bb)
Seat 5: William Eggerton – 29,400 (18 bb)
Seat 6: — Empty —
Seat 7: Mike Martinez – 12,300 (8 bb)
Seat 8: Tonia Sledd – 93,300 (58 bb)
Seat 9: Jay Klitzner – 17,400 (11 bb)
Rodney Rodrigue – 102,800 (64 bb)
Moshe Wasser – 96,300 (60 bb)
Jimmy Wells – 95,600 (60 bb)
Tonia Sledd – 93,300 (58 bb)
Eric Nuss – 65,400 (41 bb)
Patrick Maguire – 56,300 (35 bb)
Richard Katz – 44,300 (28 bb)
Donald King – 30,000 (19 bb)
William Eggerton – 29,400 (18 bb)
George Colli – 26,600 (17 bb)
Michael Downey – 26,000 (16 bb)
Jeffrey Burgner – 25,000 (16 bb)
Jay Klitzner – 17,400 (11 bb)
Joseph Hargadon – 17,300 (11 bb)
Stuart Zuckerberg – 15,400 (10 bb)
Mike Martinez – 12,300 (8 bb)
$300 Seniors 50+ No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
End of Level 12: 600/1,200 with a 200 ante
Players Remaining: 16 of 76
The Seniors Event has quickly played down to the last two tables and only 16 players remain as they head off on a 40-minute dinner break.
They’ll take time to regroup, nourish themselves, then return to make their way to the final table and eventual champ.
$300 Seniors 50+ No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 10: 400/800 with a 100 ante
Players Remaining: 30 of 76
Registration closed on the Seniors Event and the numbers were crunched to give us the payout information. The tournament drew 76 entries to the special event to create a prize pool worth $19,380. The last nine players will each earn a piece of the money with ninth place taking home $581 and the first 2017 LHPO champion pocketing $6,783.
2017 Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, FL
Event 2
$300 Seniors 50+ No Limit Hold’em
Entries: 76
Prize Pool: $19,380
January 13, 2016
1st: $6,783
2nd: $3,682
3rd: $2,326
4th: $1,744
5th: $1,357
6th: $1,163
7th: $969
8th: $775
9th: $581
$300 Seniors 50+ No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 8: 250/500 with a 75 ante
Total Entries: 76
Level 8 has come to a close in the Seniors Event and the remaining players are on their second break of the day.
Registration will close when they return and we’ll have an idea how much they are playing for later tonight.
$300 Seniors 50+ No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 100/200 with a 25 ante
Total Entries: 72
Seniors Event players recently returned from their first break of the day and the field continues to grow. Although it did get one shorter before the break when the previously-mentioned Neil Blumenfield was knocked out and jumped into Event 1.
SHRP regular Robert Nielsen is the early leader and joined by Patrick Maguire and Alan Phillips with the only 30K+ stacks. Phillips is looking to stay hot in SHRP tournaments after winning an RRPO event at the end of November followed by another two weeks later at the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Winter Poker Open.
Top stacks:
Robert Nielsen – 37,200 (186 bb)
Patrick Maguire – 35,000 (175 bb)
Alan Phillips – 33,075 (165 bb)
Max Romano – 27,700 (139 bb)
Alex Goodman – 27,450 (137 bb)
Stuart Zuckerberg – 27,300 (137 bb)
$300 Seniors 50+ No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 4: 100/200
Total Entries: 65
With two events running in two different sections of the ballroom, players will keep everyone hopping all day long. The Seniors Event has quickly jumped up to 65 entries heading towards the first break of the day and they are building themselves a nice field.
Neil Blumenfield decided to play this event before taking his shot in Event 1, a warm-up for the 2015 WSOP November Niner. He’s a San Francisco native but we’ve been seeing him a lot sense he moved his home base to the Sunshine State.
$300 Seniors 50+ No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50
We’re rolling into the first weekend of the 2017 Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open and it presents our players with the first single-day event on the schedule. But not just anyone can enter.
Event 2 is the $300 buy-in Seniors 50+ event and players must be at least 50 years old to get in the action. These are usually very active, very vocal, and a lot of fun for the participants.
They’ll sit down to 10,000 starting stacks and the tournament will run 30-minute levels throughout the day. Late registration is open until the start of Level 9 at 2:30pm and unlimited re-entries are available during that time. They’ll head off on a 40-minute dinner break around 4:30pm and return to play down to a Seniors Event champion.
Cards are about to go in the ai- and we’ll keep one eye watching this tournament while the third and fourth flights fly in Event 1.