$570 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em
Level 29: 40,000/80,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 1 of 257
Vincent Procopio won the $570 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em for $39,971 after defeating Ben Palmer heads-up. A complete recap will be posted in the morning.
$570 No Limit Hold’em Big Stack
Level 22: 6,000/12,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining: 10 of 257
Average Stack: 385,500
The $570 No Limit Hold’em Big Stack event is down to the final 10 players and they have re-drawn for seats at the final table.
Robert Transue is leading the final 10 players with 820,000 in chips and at his second final table of the series. Everybody is guaranteed a payout of at least $1,671, but they are all shooting for the $35,971 first place prize.
Here is a look at the seating arrangement and chip counts:
Seat 1: Robert “Papa Bear” Transue – 820,000
Seat 2: Seville Hale – 550,000
Seat 3: Vincent Procopio – 493,000
Seat 4: Paul Balzano – 700,000
Seat 5: Nissim Vaknin – 232,000
Seat 6: Aaron Thomas – 310,000
Seat 7: Wally Maddah – 145,000
Seat 8: Ben Palmer – 280,000
Seat 9: Jerry Humphrey – 234,000
Seat 10: Mohammad Jaafar – 80,000
Here is a look at the remaining payouts:
1st: $35,971
2nd: $21,203
3rd: $12,208
4th: $9,985
5th: $7,710
6th: $6,425
7th: $5,140
8th: $3,855
9th: $2,570
10th: $1,671
$570 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry)
Level 10: 500/1,000 with a 100 ante
Players Remaining: 108 of 257
Event 23, today’s 12 p.m. $570 Big Stack tournament, drew 257 entries generating a $128,500 prize pool. That number shattered the event’s $50,000 guarantee and helped in padding the payouts. Each of the top 27 finishers earn prize money of at least $1,157. The eventual champion, expected to be crowned during the early morning hours of Tuesday, scores $35,971
Full payouts:
1st – $35,971
2nd – $21,203
3rd – $12,208
4th – $9,895
5th – $7,710
6th – $6,425
7th – $5,140
8th – $3,855
9th – $2,570
10th-12th – $1,671
13th-15th – $1,414
16th-18th – $1,285
19th-27th – $1,157
The clock currently shows 108 players remaining toward the beginning of Level 10. We will provide another update when the 10-handed final table is reached.
$570 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50
While most eyes will be focused on the $10,000 WPT Finale restarting on one side of the ballroom, there’s another new Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown event kicking off on the other. Event 23 is a $570 buy-in Big Stack No Limit Hold’em tournament with a $50,000 guaranteed prize pool and single re-entry option.
Entrants start with 15,000 big stacks and play 30-minute levels from noon until we have a champion. Late registration is open until the start of Level 9 at 4:30pm and players are limited to a single re-entry if they bust out. This is a one-day tournament, so we’ll be handing out a new, shiny Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown trophy before too long.
Players are taking their seats and about to get underway.
2015 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open
$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
August 17-18, 2015
Total Entries: 794
Total Prize Pool: $794,000
David Eldridge came into this afternoon’s showdown in Hard Rock Live as the chip leader in this tournament. He continued to stay on a roll for most of the final table and then hung on to claim the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Event 23 championship.
The final table in Hard Rock Live started off with two quick exits as Gavin O’Rourke put away Mohammed “Sheddy” Siddiqui in 9th and Jamie Lewin in 8th. But then David Eldridge started to let his presence be known.
Eldridge used his chip advantage and managed to take out the next four players in the tournament. Eldridge was ahead in the first three eliminations taking out Viet Vo in 7th place, Evan Panesis in 6th place and Anthony Nardi in 5th. Eldridge then hit a flop with 
and called down Dan Ikashi’s all-in with 
holding the nut flush draw. Iskashi missed sending him out in 4th place and we were down to three with Eldridge well in control.
But then this event got very interesting. Both Gavin O’Rourke and Rubin Ybarra doubled up through Eldridge. Ybarra continued to pound away on both of his opponents and eventually found himself out in front. Ybarra continued his outstanding play and after taking out O’Rourke found himself with a two million chip lead over Eldridge as they went into heads-up play.
Ybarra had a shot to win the tournament as he held 
against Eldridge’s 
but Eldridge turned a five to win the hand and flipped things around on Ybarra in just one hand. On the final hand, Ybarra found himself ahead again with 
against Eldridge’s 
. But Eldridge hit a club flush on the river and completed his comeback to wrap up the Event 23 title.
Congratulations to our Event 23 Champion – David Eldridge!
1st: David Eldridge (Gibosnia, PA) – $146,100
2nd: Rubin Ybarra (Park Ridge, IL) – $84,700
3rd: Gavin O’Rourke (Portlaosie, Ireland) – $51,100
4th: Dan Ikashi (Miami, FL) – $43,800
5th: Anthony Nardi (Madison, WI) – $36,500
6th: Evan Panesis (St. Petersburg, FL) – $29,200
7th: Viet Vo (Pearland, TX) – $21,900
8th: Jamie Lewin (Cibralda) – $18,300
9th: Mohammed Siddiqui (Pembroke Pines, FL) – $14,050
$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 31: 60,000/120,000/20,000 Ante
After nearly letting this tournament get away, David Eldridge came from behind again and clinched the Event 23 title.
Eldridge did his usual 260,000 chip raise but this time Rubin Ybarra pushed his stack into the middle and Eldridge quickly made the call. But Eldridge found himself dominated as Ybarra showed to his .
Once agains after the flop of 
Ybarra found himself in a strong position to win the hand and even things out. But the 
came on the turn giving Eldridge outs to a flush and he got there after the 
came on the river. The flush gave Eldridge the hand and the championship. After a terrific run, Rubin Ybarra finishes in 2nd place for $84,700.
Congratulations to our Event 23 Champion – David Eldridge!
$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 31: 60,000/120,000/20,000 Ante
David Eldridge raised to 260,000 and Rubin Ybarra went over the top to 520,000. Eldridge went all-in and was quickly called.
Eldridge turned over and Ybarra showed he was in the lead with . Ybarra was two cards from the title after a 
flop but the 
rolled off on the turn giving him the lead. The 
on the river finished the hand off and Eldridge doubled to 9.56 million leaving Ybarra with only 2.4 million and an uphill climb to come back here in Event 23.
$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 31: 60,000/120,000/20,000 Ante
Seat 3: Rubin Ybarra: 4,790,000
Seat 5: David Eldridge: 7,125,000
$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 31: 60,000/120,000/20,000 Ante
After a fast set of elimination in the $500,000 Guarantee, they settled in for a long battle once it was three-handed.
Gavin O’Rourke was the shortest of the three and finally made a move after David Elridge opened to 250,000. He put in his 1,020,000 stack and Eldridge called with 
.
O’Rourke was ahead with 
but Eldridge hit the 
flop. O’Rourke had a gutshot draw with his over card and paired the turn. He had nine outs to the river but couldn’t find one on the 
river to go out in 3rd place for $51,100.
Heads up counts:
David Eldridge: 5,100,000
Rubin Ybara: 6,090,000
$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 30: 50,000/100,000/15,000 Ante
Seat 3: Ruben Ybarra – 5,050,000
Seat 4: Gavin O’Rourke – 4,500,000
Seat 5: David Eldridge – 2,350,000