$10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale
Level 12: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 Ante
Players Remaining: 108 of 349

Players are on their second break of the day with ~108 remaining as tournament staff color off the black 100 denom chips.

$10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale
Level 12: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 Ante
Players Remaining: 117 of 349

Matt Glantz three-bet shoved for 22,400 from the button and Eugene called from the big blind. The early raiser released and cards were tabled to show Glantz in trouble.

Katchalov:
Glantz:

The flop made little difference to Glantz but the turn helped a lot. His comeback was cut short by the river and Glantz was sent out short of the money.

Eugene Katchalov – 154,500 (64 bb)
Matt Glantz – Eliminated

$10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale
Level 12: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 Ante
Players Remaining: 126 of 349

Poker Hall of Famer Mike Sexton opened to 7,000 and Tony Ruberto moved all-in for 22,400. Action folded back around to Sexton and he called to put Ruberto at risk.

Sexton:
Ruberto:

Ruberto needed to catch to stay in the WPT Finale, missed the flop and was drawing dead after Sexton hit the turn.

Mike Sexton – 170,000 (71 bb)
Tony Ruberto – Eliminated

$10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale
Level 11: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 Ante
Players Remaining: 135 of 349

Two former Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship winners were sitting next to each other and went to battle after the break.

Eric Afriat (2014 champ) opened to 11,500 from the cutoff and Taylor von Kriegenbergh (2011 champ) raised to 60,000 from the button, leaving only 5,700 behind.

Afriat put a stack forward, enough to cover von Kriegenbergh, and the 2011 winner laughed/pump faked a fold before calling.

Afriat:
von Kriegenbergh:

Afriat was ahead for the knockout and von Kriegenbergh added a tiny gutshot Broadway draw on the flop. The turn was no help to von Kriegenbergh and he was eliminated after the river.

Eric Afriat – 207,000 (104 bb)
Taylor von Kriegenbergh – Eliminated

$10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale
Level 11: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 Ante
Players Remaining: 144 of 349

Players returned to their seats to continue the WPT Finale and all are currently chasing Matthew Haugen atop the counts. He began the day near the top, and now he is the one everyone is looking up to.

Matthew Haugen – 410,000 (205 bb)
Jonathan Little – 300,000 (150 bb)
Joey Weissman – 275,000 (138 bb)
Blair Hinkle – 230,000 (115 bb)
Omar Zazay – 200,000 (100 bb)
Noah Villancourt – 198,000 (99 bb)
Dani Dayan – 190,000 (95 bb)
Anthony Spinella – 185,000 (93 bb)

$10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale
Level 10: 800/1,600 with a 200 Ante
Players Remaining: 152 of 349

WPT Finale players are on their first break of the day as the field slowly shrinks down towards the money. A few hands stretched well into the break but none produced a memorable hand.

They’ll return to their seats in 15 minutes and continue the grind.

$10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale
Level 10: 800/1,600 with a 200 Ante
Players Remaining: 162 of 349

There were a few fireworks at Table 30 with a lot of noise and laughs.

Former SHRP champ Daren Stabinski was all-in for 27,000 when the vocal local small blind player announced all-in himself, but action was still on Marc-Andre Ladouceur. He called Stabinski’s shove while small blind worked everything out.

Our small blind player was all-in for 12,200 and we had a three-way all-in pot.

Small blind:
Stabinski:
Ladouceur:

Ladouceur was in line for the double knockout until the flop, even the small blind players had a sweat. The turn had no impact and Stabinski picked up the big pot after the river.

Daren Stabinski – 70,000 (44 bb)
Marc-Andre Ladouceur – 82,300 (51 bb)

$10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale
Level 10: 800/1,600 with a 200 Ante
Players Remaining: 171 of 349

Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Sheddy Siddiqui opened to 4,000 from middle position and picked up calls from Tony Dunst and Dani Dayan in the blinds.

Dunts and Dayan checked the flop and Siddiqui bet 8,500. Dunst released and Dayan called to the turn. They checked to the river and Dayan shoved with the bigger stack. Siddiqui quickly mucked his hand and Dayan is moving up the counts.

Dani Dayan – 207,000 (129 bb)
Sheddy Siddiqui – 48,000 (30 bb)

$10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale
Level 10: 800/1,600 with a 200 Ante
Players Remaining: 180 of 349

It’s slow going in the WPT Finale with only a handful of eliminations in the first level. We found a few new faces that weren’t around at bag up last night.

Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Darryll Fish was here very late playing down to the WPT Showdown Championship live-streamed final table of six but he’s back this afternoon trying to set himself up to potentially play two WPT final tables in consecutive days.

Also here, eight-time WSOP bracelet winner Erik Seidel after his 13th place finish last night. He was another pre-Day 2 entry for his 33 big blinds.

$10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale
Level 9: 600/1,200 with a 200 Ante
Players Remaining: 189 of 349

The numbers were crunched and the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Finale drew 349 players to the freeze-out tournament to create a prize pool of $3,315,500. They surpassed the $2,000,000 guaranteed prize pool and topped the 342 players from the inaugural event last year.

The last 44 players will earn a piece of the prize pool with a min-cash banking $16,833 and the WPT Finale champ taking home $716,088 along with the $15,000 WPT Tournament of Champions seat.

2017 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, FL
$10,000 WPT Showdown Finale
Entries: 349
Prize Pool: $3,315,500
April 2 – 6, 2017