Good morning from the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Fla. and welcome to Day 9 of the Deep Stack Series. Here’s a look at the day’s upcoming schedule, including Flight B of the $1,650 buy-in, $300,000 guaranteed Deepest Stack finale:
11am: $1,650 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em – Flight B
$1,650 buy-in, $300,000 guaranteed
Players begin with 50,000 chips
Day 1 levels are 40 minutes
40-minute dinner break occurs following Level 9 (at about 5:30 p.m.)
Play concludes following Level 15 (at about 10:25 p.m.)
Late registration/unlimited re-entry available until the start of Day 2 (Sunday at 12 p.m.)
Action has come to a close here at the Seminole Hard Rock on this Thursday night. Deep Stack Series events begin again Friday at 11 a.m. with Flight B of the $1,650 Deepest Stack tournament.
Here’s a look at the full upcoming schedule:
11am: $1,650 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em – Flight B
6pm: $250 Multi Satellite into Event 4 + $500 Cash (1-in-10)
$1,650 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em End of Level 15: 2,000/4,000/500 Ante Players Remaining: 24/94
The first of three starting flights in the $1,650 buy-in, $300,000 guaranteed Deepest Stack tournament has concluded. Action began today at 11 a.m. as 94 entries turned out for the opener. Following 15 levels of play, Qasem Jamhour leads the 24 remaining players. Claiming a stack of 559,500, Jamhour sits in pole position looking ahead to Friday’s Flight B.
Complete chip counts from Flight A will be posted by 10 a.m. tomorrow.
$1,650 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em Heading to Level 10: 600/1,200/200 Ante Entries: 85
Players in today’s 11 a.m. Flight A of the $1,650 Deepest Stack event are in the midst of their 40-minute dinner break. The clock shows 85 entries to this point with 57 still jockeying for a Day 2 berth.
Here’s a look at some of the big and notable stacks:
Ryan Sherman – 188,500
Dominique Mosley – 176,500
Robert Oxenberg – 156,000
Joel Harwood – 154,400
Stuart Greenbaum – 150,000
Jeff Trudeau, Jr. – 115,200
Raymond Ruszkowski – 114,300
Ory Hen – 112,000
David Diaz – 80,000
Mukul Pahuja – 68,700
Allen Kessler – 42,600
Cards go back in the air just before 6:15 p.m. and from there they’ll log six more levels of play prior to bagging around 10:30 p.m. We will take a brief look at the end-of-night field with complete chip counts posted by 10 a.m. tomorrow.
$1,650 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em Level 4: 150/300/50 Ante Entries: 61
Play is underway following the first 15-minute recess in Flight A of the $1,650 Deepest Stack tournament. The clock ticked up over 60 entries and currently sits at 61. That number is expected to grow throughout the day with tomorrow’s Flight B and Saturday’s Flight C being the largest of the start days.
SHRP Player of the Year contender Timothy Miles (left) and chip leader Jose Silve (right)
Jose Silva leads the way as of now having more than doubled his 50,000-chip starting stack. He sits on about 117,500 but has a tough table in front of him that includes Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year contender Timothy Miles.
The 117,500 chips of leader Jose Silva
We will provide another glance at the field during the 40-minute dinner break which occurs around 5:30 p.m.
The Deep Stack Series flagship event — a $1,650 buy-in, $300,000 guaranteed tournament — is underway! The finale boasts deep, 50,000-chip starting stacks as well as 40-, 60- and 90-minute levels. Today’s installment marks the first of three starting flights with the second two beginning Friday and Saturday also at 11 a.m. Late registration and unlimited re-entry in the finale are open until the start of Day 2.
In addition to the lion’s share of the guaranteed six-figure prize pool, the tournament’s winner heads home with the guitar trophy and an added $5,250 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship seat.
Here’s more details on today’s schedule:
11am: $1,650 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em – Flight A
$1,650 buy-in, $300,000 guaranteed
Players begin with 50,000 chips
Day 1 levels are 40 minutes
40-minute dinner break occurs following Level 9 (at about 5:30 p.m.)
Play concludes following Level 15 (at about 10:25 p.m.)
Late registration/unlimited re-entry available until the start of Day 2 (Sunday at 12 p.m.)
Day 8 of the Deep Stack Series features the first of three starting flights in the $1,650 buy-in, $300,000 guaranteed Deepest Stack tournament. A championship of sorts, the event boasts 50,000-chip starting stacks and 40-, 60- and 90-minute levels as well as a $5,250 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship seat added to first.
Here’s a look at Thursday’s full schedule:
11am: $1,650 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em – Flight A
$1,650 buy-in, $300,000 guaranteed
Players begin with 50,000 chips
Day 1 levels are 40 minutes
40-minute dinner break occurs following Level 9 (at about 5:30 p.m.)
Play concludes following Level 15 (at about 10:25 p.m.)
Late registration/unlimited re-entry available until the start of Day 2 (Sunday at 12 p.m.)
In addition to the above events, an extra day proved to be necessary to crown a champion in yesterday’s $560 Deeper Stack. Those players still left return today at 2 p.m. to battle it out for the tournament’s $57,746 top prize. Full chip counts are available below.
The premiere event of the Seminole Hard Rock Deep Stack Series — a $1,650 buy-in, $300,000 guaranteed Deepest Stack tournament — begins this Thursday. The series finale boasts three starting flights along with 50,000-chip stacks and 40-, 60- and 90-minute levels. In addition to a hefty top prize, the tournament’s winner earns a $5,250 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship seat added courtesy of the property.
Here’s more on the Deep Stack Series’ flagship tournament:
$1,650 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em
$1,650 buy-in, $300,000 guaranteed
Flight A Thursday at 11am, Flight B Friday at 11am, Flight C Saturday at 11am
Players begin with 50,000 chips
Day 1 levels are 40 minutes, Day 2 levels are 60 and 90 minutes
Late registration/unlimited re-entry available until the start of Day 2 (Sunday at 12 p.m.)
2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood Event #4 $1,100 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max (Single Re-Entry) Total Entries: 122 Prize Pool: $122,000 April 3-4, 2016
Michael Laake takes down $1,100 Six-Max
After a few minutes of discussing some numbers, the $1,100 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max ends in a four-way deal. Seminole Hard Rock Poker Ambassador Michael Laake takes the lion’s share of the prizepool and the trophy.
The 30-year-old poker pro takes home $23,660 as part of the deal and can put another title on an already impressive resume.
“It feels great,” said Laake. “Six-max is a very complicated format and obviously the field was very tough because better players prefer to play short-handed because it’s a more interesting format.
“All these guys I had a lot of history with and made hands very complicated, but overall it feels really good.”
Laake held the chip lead during four-handed play when the talks of a deal began and the other three players (Evan Teitelbaum, Ory Hen and Charlemagen Benjamin) each took home $17,000.
Laake is the first of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Ambassadors to take home a trophy this series. He used the proverbial home field to his advantage.
“People react differently to it,” said Laake about being known as a sponsored pro to his opponents. “Some people come after you. Some people stay away from you and it creates a lot of interesting dynamics.
“I love playing here. I love getting any victory anywhere, but it feels extra nice here.”
Coming into the start of the day, with 12 players remaining, it was Teitelbaum who held a sizable chip lead over the field. He still held it when the final table was set, but Laake had direct position on Teitelbaum and was able to use that to his advantage.
“I couldn’t have asked for a better distribution of the final table draw,” said Laake. “The short stacks were on my left and the bigger stacks were on my right. It made a lot of my decisions pretty cut and dry and that’s nice whenever it is much simpler.”
Here are the results:
1st: Michael Laake -$23,660 2nd: Evan Teitelbaum – $17,000 3rd: Ory Hen – $17,000 4th: Charlemagen Benjamin – $17,000 5th: Matthew Silva – $8,012 6th: Dimitry Agrachov – $6,166 7th: Dalton Mills – $4,627 8th: Donald Lehn – $4,627 9th: Brandon Byars – $4,627 10th: Ryan Van Sanford – $3,077 11th: Daniel Weinman – $3,077 12th: Jeremy Joseph: $3,077 13th: Stewart Newman – $2,130 14th: Christopher Bolek – $2,130 15th: Tanner Millen – $2,130
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