$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

$5,250 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2:  200/300 with a 300 ante
Entries:  340

Blinds are up in the Championship with 340 entries in line to make this one of the biggest starting flights we’ve had. We had 396 entries for Day 1A in 2019 and that number is sure to be topped this afternoon.

Plenty of familiar faces in the crowd including Kitty Kuo, Shawn Mohamed, and Asher Conniff.

$5,250 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1:  100/200 with a 200 ante
Entries:  314

The first-ever Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open ran in 2013 and the Championship featured a huge $10,000,000 guaranteed prize pool. That tournament put us on the poker map in a big way.

The tournament drew 2,384 entries and Blair Hinkle made history as our first SHRPO Champion. That was our biggest Championship field until the recent WPT Poker Showdown and Hinkle made it 12th out of 2,482 entries.

Those are two nice results in our two biggest Championships.

$5,250 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1:  100/200 with a 200 ante
Entries:  275

The clock hit 11 am and tournament staff put cards in the air for Day 1A of the 2021 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship.

They will play two 60-minute levels before taking their first break.

$5,250 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1:  100/200 with a 200 ante

The preliminary tournaments are in the books and we are rolling into the final weekend of the series by kicking off the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship with Day 1A at 11 am. The $5,250 buy-in tournament features a $3,000,000 guaranteed prize pool with two starting days and four days of play.

Championship players start with 40,000 deep stacks and levels last 60 minutes each until the tournament reaches the last three tables when they increase to 90 minutes. Late registration is available until the start of Level 9 at 9:15 pm with a single re-entry available per day.

Day 1 will come to an end after Level 10 and survivors will bag their chips for a Day 2 return on Sunday at noon.

This is just the beginning of a great weekend and we’ll close it out by awarding the new SHRPO Championship trophy on Tuesday.

• $3,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 40,000 in chips
• Levels last 60 minutes until 27 players remain then 90 minutes until heads-up
• Late registration until start of Level 9 (9:15pm)
• Single re-entry per day
• Day 1 will come to an end after Level 10
• Championship Structure Sheet