$5,250 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6: 400/800 with a 800 ante
Entries: 525
Level 6 came to an end and tournament staff sent Championship players on a 90-minute dinner break. They will return at 7 pm to play four more levels before bagging up. Late registration will remain open until the start of Level 9 at 9:15 pm.
$5,250 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6: 400/800 with a 800 ante
Entries: 522
Sam Panzica came back this afternoon to play out the $1,100 H.O.R.S.E. Championship final table, won the tournament, posed for pics, and then immediately jumped into the SHRPO Championship.
He joined during Level 6 and they will be going on a break at the bottom of the hour. They will have 90-minutes to enjoy the amenities on the property and return at 7 pm.
$5,250 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6: 400/800 with a 800 ante
Entries: 506
Day 1A of the Championship moved up to Level 6 and the entry counted topped 500 before it got there. They’ve put nearly $2.5 million in the game with registration open until 9:15 pm.
Jermaine “Lion” Gerlin is moving his way up among the leaders. The HPT and MSPT champ is roaring with around 130,000 at the midpoint of the day.
$5,250 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 300/600 with a 600 ante
Entries: 490
The second break came to an end and we have a new chip leader. Garbriel Abusada moved up to the top with 157,800 with a cluster of players behind.
Newly minted WPT champion Chad Eveslage (won the Venetian event that previously mentioned Kyna England finished third) was second with 144,800 followed closely by Kevin Garosshen’s 144,100 and Hal Rotholz’s 141,500.
$5,250 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4: 300/500 with a 500 ante
Entries: 465
Flight A of the SHRPO Championship will hit their second break shortly after the field put $2.25 million towards the $3,000,000 guarantee already. They likey won’t get there today, most likely very early tomorrow.
We found a lot of tough spots in the field with top pros sitting side-by-side, Anthony Zinno and T.K. Miles is one of them. Zinno (three-time WPT, two-time WSOP champ) and Miles (two-time WSOPC, Event 7 winner) make for a rough way to go for the rest of the table.
$5,250 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4: 300/500 with a 500 ante
Entries: 456
We caught up with Alex Foxen in a three-way pot with the board out and reading 
. With about 22,000 in the pot, the player in the big blind checked and Foxen moved all in for 33,000. His opponent in the cutoff called and the big blind folded.
Foxen showed 
for a full house, sevens over queens, and the cutoff tossed his cards in the muck before the dealer to table them. They counted down his stack and he had exactly 33,000 to end his day.
Alex Foxen – 88,500 (177 bb)
Foxen made history during the 2018 SHRPO by winning the same Big 4 tournament in back-to-back years. He won the $2,650 tournament in 2017 for $204,600 and again in 2018 for $208,452.
$5,250 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3: 200/400 with a 400 ante
Entries: 417
Kyna England is having a great couple of months at the poker tables and brought her talents to South Florida. Her run began with a trip to the MSPT Iowa Main Event in March where she picked up $73,782 for a third-place and it was off to Las Vegas.
There she entered the WPT Venetian Main Event against a very tough field and found herself at another big final table. England blasted her way to another third-place finish, just shy of putting her name on the WPT Mike Sexton Champions Cup, but comforted by a $448,755 payday.
In addition to those scores, England picked up a WSOP Circuit Potawatomi ring in February 2020, one of the last events before poker shut down for the year.
Welcome to South Florida!
$5,250 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3: 200/400 with a 400 ante
Entries: 408
The first break came to an end and the entry count climbed over 400 while they were gone. Nearly two-thirds of the way to the $3,000,000 guarantee and we’re looking a big number late tomorrow when registration closes.
Cherish Andrews picked up the most chips over the first two levels and came back as the leader with 124,100. WPT Tampa Championship runner-up Gabriel Abusada was second with 109,800 followed by Carlos Rojas with 101,100.
$5,250 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2: 200/300 with a 300 ante
Entries: 370
Level 2 has come to an end and Championship players were sent on their first 15-minute break. With 390 entries so far, the tournament is more than halfway to making its $3,000,000 guarantee.
$5,250 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2: 200/300 with a 300 ante
Entries: 370
In a three-way pot with the flop reading 
, Carlos Rojas bet 4,5000 and Joseph Cheong raised all in for 23,600. The other player folded and Rojas called.
Rojas: 
Cheong: 
Rojas was ahead with the set of deuces but Cheong made his club flush on the turn. He lead was short-lived because the 
river turned Rojas’s set into a full house to send Cheong out.
Carlos Rojas – 98,000 (327 bb)
Joseph Cheong – Eliminated