$5,250 SHRPO Championship (Single Re-Entry)
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4: 200/400 with a 400 ante
Flight A Entries: 331

The Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship is the last of nine points eligible events on the 2018-2019 Seminole Hard Rock Poker schedule. It’s been a great season for Florida residents Jason Young and Chad Eveslage who current sit 1st-2nd on the leaderboard. Up for grabs is a huge prize packaged valued at over $25,000 and inclusive of an entry into all 2019-2020 SHRP Championships/Main Event and a load of Seminole Wild Card comp dollars.

Young holds the lead thanks to a win in the 2019 WPTDeepStacks Hollywood Main Event and a third-place finish in the 2019 WSOP Circuit Coconut Creek Main Event. Eveslage is right on his tail with a sixth place in the same WSOP Circuit Coconut Creek Main Event and he finished sixth in the WPT Poker Showdown Championship.

Current Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year Standings

$5,250 SHRPO Championship (Single Re-Entry)
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3: 200/300 with a 300 ante
Flight A Entries: 290

The first break is complete and Championship players are back in their seats. Out of all of them, it seems Trent Smith had the best time so far. He ran his 40,000 starting stack all the way up to 134,000 in two hours for 447 big blinds at this point.

Smith is having a nice run this week; besides his fine start today, he won SHRPO Event 10 a few days ago. That win earned him $9,200 along with his seat today in the Championship.

Other big stacks include Mike Del Vecchio (98,100), Jacob Naumann (81,000), Mike Leah (80,000), and Mike Graffeo (78,000).

$5,250 SHRPO Championship (Single Re-Entry)
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2: 100/200 with a 200 ante
Flight A Entries: 269

As with all things, there had to be a beginning. The first Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open was held at the end of August in 2013, an ambitious debut that featured a $10,000,000 guaranteed prize pool for a $5K Championship. The prize pool rose to $11,920,000 by the time registration closed, the biggest we’ve ever run.

Blair Hinkle outlasted the 2,384-entry field to become our first ever SHRPO Champion and he banked $1,745,000 for the feat. He returns every year hoping to be the first two-time SHRPO Champion and 2019 is no different.

$5,250 SHRPO Championship (Single Re-Entry)
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2: 100/200 with a 200 ante
Flight A Entries: 233

The Event Center is filling in as the Championship moves into Level 2. With any tournament of this quality, you’re always going to find a table or two with a stacked lineup. Today that is Table 17.

They are still waiting for a few players to draw their seat there but the lineup is already a tough one. From around the horn, we have Jonathan Dobson, Brian Hastings, Ralph Massey, Ian O’Hara, Darryll Fish, and Nancy Thomas.

That is a combined $12.5 million in career earnings, four WSOP bracelets, two WSOP Circuit rings, one WPT title, and one Aussie Million champion all sitting at a six-handed table.

$5,250 SHRPO Championship (Single Re-Entry)
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 100/100 with a 100 ante
Flight A Entries: 210

The SHRPO Championship draws players from around the world and a good number of them already have impressive wins before arriving. We found two of them in early action.

Joe Cada is best known as the 2009 WSOP Main Event bracelet winner but he didn’t stop there. He won three more bracelets since then including two in 2018 and has racked up more than $14,000,000 in career earnings.

Tony Sinishtaj is a member of the WPT Champions Club and he put his name on their Champions Cup right here. He captured the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship title in 2017 for a $661,000 payday.

$5,250 SHRPO Championship (Single Re-Entry)
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 100/100 with a 100 ante
Flight A Entries: 193

We have a few players in the game today who are freerolling the Championship. Aletha Franklin is one of them and she took her seat this morning.

We run a “Win a Seat” drawing for all of our Championship events and Franklin’s name was pulled from the virtual hat. She made her way to South Florida from the west coast of Florida and now has a shot to earn a piece of the $3,000,000 guaranteed prize pool.

That drawing closed this week but stay tuned for our next contest for the Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open Championship.

$5,250 SHRPO Championship (Single Re-Entry)
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 100/100 with a 100 ante
Flight A Entries: 171

The clock hit 11 am and Tournament Director Tony Burns put cards in the air to kick off the 2019 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship.

$5,250 SHRPO Championship (Single Re-Entry)
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 100/100 with a 100 ante

The wait is over. The headliner is ready to go on stage. The Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship is the premier event on our yearly schedule and we kick things off this morning with Flight A.

The $5,250 buy-in Championship has a huge $3,000,000 guaranteed prize pool and it will award a lot of money. We will crown our champion on August 13 in front of the Poker Night in America live-stream cameras when the Big 4 final tables play out.

There are two starting flights; one on Friday at 11 am and the second on Saturday at 11 am. Players will sit down to 40,000 starting stacks and play one-hour levels until 27 players remain. At that point, levels will increase to 90 minutes and remain that way until only two players remain. Late registration is available until the start of Level 9 at 9 pm and players may only re-enter one time in the Championship.

Cards go in the air at 11 am and we will follow the action from start to finish until we have our 2019 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Champion.

• $3,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 40,000 in chips
• Levels last 60 minutes until 27 players remain
• At 27 players, 90-minute levels until heads-up
• Late registration/single re-entry available until start of Level 9
• Players are allowed to enter the event a maximum of TWO times
• Day 1 will end after Level 10 or Tournament Director discretion
• Championship Structure Sheet

• $3,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 40,000 in chips
• Levels last 60 minutes until 27 players remain
• At 27 players, 90-minute levels until heads-up
• Late registration/single re-entry available until start of Level 9
• Players are allowed to enter the event a maximum of TWO times
• Day 1 will end after Level 10 or Tournament Director discretion
• Championship Structure Sheet

Primary Event Schedule

11AM: Day 1A – $5,250 SHRPO Championship (Single Re-Entry)

• $3,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 40,000 in chips
• Levels last 60 minutes until 27 players remain
• At 27 players, 90-minute levels until heads-up
• Late registration/single re-entry available until start of Level 9
• Players are allowed to enter the event a maximum of TWO times
• Day 1 will end after Level 10 or Tournament Director discretion
• Championship Structure Sheet

1PM: Day 2 – $50,000 Super High Roller (Single Re-Entry)

• Super High Roller Day 2 Chip Counts and Seats
• Super High Roller Payouts

Secondary and Satellite Schedule

10AM: Event 54 – $555 Super Turbo Championship Satellite (1-in-10)

• 1 seat guaranteed into $3 Million GTD SHRPO Championship
• Players begin with 10,000 in chips and 10-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 8
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 54 Sheet

3PM: Event 55 – $570 SHRPO Championship Satellite (1-in-10)

• 10 seats guaranteed into $3 Million GTD SHRPO Championship
• Players begin with 10,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 8
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 55 Structure Sheet

8PM: Event 56 – $570 SHRPO Championship Turbo Satellite (1-in-10)

• 5 seats guaranteed into $3 Million GTD SHRPO Championship
• Players begin with 10,000 in chips and 15-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 56 Structure Sheet

10:30M: Event 57 – $555 Super Turbo Championship Satellite (1-in-10)

• 1 seat guaranteed into $3 Million GTD SHRPO Championship
• Players begin with 10,000 in chips and 10-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 8
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 57 Sheet

The Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open is our biggest series of the year and we cap it off with the Big 4 tournaments. The headliner is the SHRPO Championship and we have players coming from around the world to play it.

This is the seventh year of the Championship and the list of previous winners is impressive with some great players:

2013 – Blair Hinkle
2014 – Dan Colman
2015 – Omar Zazay
2016 – Jason Koon
2017 – Martin Kozlov
2018 – Brandon Eisen
2019 – ?????

The $5,250 buy-in Championship has a huge $3,000,000 guaranteed prize pool and it will award a lot of money. We will crown our champion on August 13 in front of the Poker Night in America live-stream cameras when the Big 4 final tables play out.

There are two starting flights; one on Friday at 11 am and the second on Saturday at 11 am. Players will sit down to 40,000 starting stacks and play one-hour levels until 27 players remain. At that point, levels will increase to 90 minutes and remain that way until only two players remain. Late registration is available until the start of Level 9 at 9 pm and players may only re-enter one time in the Championship.

We are less than 24 hours away from kicking off the Championship as we move into Big 4 weekend to close out a great series.

• $3,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 40,000 in chips
• Levels last 60 minutes until 27 players remain
• At 27 players, 90-minute levels until heads-up
• Late registration/single re-entry available until start of Level 9
• Players are allowed to enter the event a maximum of TWO times
• Day 1 will end after Level 10 or Tournament Director discretion
• Championship Structure Sheet