$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante
Players: 111 of 828 players remaining

Aaron Massey – 270,000
Will Givens – 235,000
Mike Shin – 135,000
Ronnie Bardah – 120,000
Cate Hall – 115,000
Nikolai Sears – 115,000
Ben Keeline – 115,000
Loren Klein – 110,000
Shannon Shorr – 110,000
Tom Middleton – 40,000
Amir Lehavot – Eliminated
Tim Reilly – Eliminated
James Mackey – Eliminated
Tom Hammers – Eliminated
Kane Lai – Eliminated
Darryll Fish – Eliminated
John Dolan – Eliminated
Jessica Dawley – Eliminated

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante
Players: 126 of 828 players remaining

Alex “Assassinato” Fitzgerald – 250,000
Daniel Buzgon – 150,000
Jamie Kerstetter – 145,000
Nick Palma – 120,000
Rachel Kranz – 103,000
David Diaz – 90,000
Asher Conniff -85,000
Allen Kessler – 80,000
Stan Jablonski – 60,000
Phillip Hui – 50,000
Christian Harder – 32,000
Kevin Eyster – 15,000
Brian Hastings – Eliminated
Matt Stout – Eliminated

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante
Players: 126 of 828 players remaining

A player in the cutoff moved all in for 43,500 and action folded to Neil Blumenfield, who if you recall finished third in the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event.

“It’s close,” Blumenfield said before getting an exact count. He then put in the chips to make the call.

Blumenfield:
Opponent:

“That not what I wanted to see,” Blumenfield said. Indeed, he was dominated, but not after the flop came down to pair him.

“So sick,” said his frustrated opponent before watching the appear on the turn followed by the river. “So sick.”

Neil Blumenfield – 200,000

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Players: 153 of 828 players remaining

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Players: 153 of 828 players remaining

Matt Stout raised to 6,000 from middle position and was soon met by an all-in three-bet for 44,600 from Nikolai Sears in the small blind. Stout made a quick call and discovered the bad news.

Stout:
Sears:

Stout was looking for a ten, and he found one on the [flop]. The turn meant Sears could only survive with an ace on the river, and he got it as the spiked!

Stout was left with just 11,000 after the hand, which he moved all in under the gun the very next hand holding the . He received a call from a player holding the , and Stout managed to win the flip after the board ran out .

Nikolai Sears – 90,000
Matt Stout – 25,000

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Players: 153 of 828 players remaining

With around 17,000 in the pot and a flop of , Athe player in the big blind got his stack of 30,000 all in against Alex “Assassinato” Fitzgerald.

Fitzgerald:
Big Blind:

Fitzgerald needed to catch runner-runner to eliminate his opponent, and much to the amazement of the rest of the table, that’s just what he did as the turn and river gave him an improbable straight.

Alex Fitzgerald – 170,000

2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open
Event #24
$1,100 No-Limit Hold’em Reentry
Entries: 828
Prize Pool: $828,000
August 15-16, 2016

1st – $151,100
2nd – $87,600
3rd – $52,900
4th – $45,300
5th – $37,800
6th – $30,200
7th – $22,700
8th – $18,900
9th – $15,500
10th-12th – $11,350
13th-15th – $9,050
16th-18th – $7,550
19th-21st – $6,800
22nd-24th – $6,050
25th-27th – $5,300
28th-36th – $4,550
37th-45th – $3,850
46th-54th – $3,250
55th-63rd – $2,650
64th-107th – $2,250

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 12: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Players: 828

After the under-the-gun player raised to 3,200, Jackson White three-bet all in for 28,000 from middle position. Action folded back to the original raiser and he made the call.

White:
Opponent:

White was looking for a nine, but it wasn’t in the cards as the board ran out .

Jackson White – Eliminated

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 12: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Players: 828

The player in the hijack raised to 3,600 and Mike Shin, who last month finished 12th in the WSOP Main Event, called out of the small blind. It was heads-up action to the flop, and Shin wound up check-calling a bet of 3,000.

Both players then checked the turn and Shin followed it up by leading out for 6,000 on the river.

“Good bluff,” his opponent said before releasing his hand.

Meanwhile, former PCA champ Harrison Gimbel has been eliminated from the tournament.

Mike Shin – 47,000
Harrison Gimbel – Eliminated