Event 9: Familiar Faces

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$500,000 Guaranteed

Level 8:  Blinds 300/600/75  ante

Lots of familiar faces are filling out this field, which is over 260 entrants as they approach the close of registration.

Just to name a few:

Marsha Wolak
Joe Gibbons
Richard Clayton
Debra Dorcy
Scott Efron
Errol Massey
Ross Fischer
Manny Minaya
Sean Shah
Jeff Trudeau
Kevin Spires
Bruce Yamron
Zachary Kessler
Sheldon Gross
Brian Haas
Michael Moed
Angela Prada-Moed
Michael Laake
Woodrow Pass

Event 9: Returning Winners

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$500,000 Guaranteed

Level 7:  Blinds 250/500/50 ante

A couple of preliminary event winners have been spotted grinding away.

Bruce MacGregor
Bruce MacGregor

Bruce MacGregor, winner of the Seniors event, is back from Port Orange to shoot for win #2 during the Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ’N’ Roll Poker Open”.

Luis Santoni
Luis Santoni

Luis Santoni, winner of the HORSE event, has been here every day, grinding away, looking to add another victory to $1 million in career earnings.

Event 9: Break Time Chip Chirps

$570 Deeper Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed

Level 6:  Blinds 200/400/50 ante

Some players are showing us some Twitter-love during this event, although the #SHRPO is feeling neglected.  We captured these Tweets from the break:

Event 9: Try, Try Again

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$500,000 Guaranteed

Level 5:  Blinds 150/300/25 ante

Natasha Barbour
Natasha Barbour

Another Tampa regular who has made her mark on the poker world is Natasha Barbour.   As a Lebanese immigrant, she put herself through college playing $1/$2 Limit Texas Hold’em at the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa.

She went on to win a WSOP Circuit ring & Ladies Pendant and has accumulated more than $285,000 in career earnings.  Read her story here.

Her first try at this event came up short yesterday, so she’s back today to give it another go.

Event 9: Break Time

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$500,000 Guaranteed

End of Level 4:  Blinds 100/200

Four levels are complete and players have been rewarded with 15 minutes away from the felt.

There are already 240 entries in this flight, making it the largest so far.  With four more levels to late-register and re-enter, there’s plenty of room for more.  Here’s how the numbers went in the first four flights:

Flight – Entries – Survivors
A  –  177  –  44
B  –  139  –  30
C  –  212  –  45
D  –  192  –  49

Total  –  720  – 168

Event 9: If at first you don’t succeed…

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$500,000 Guaranteed

Level 4:  Blinds 100/200

Perry Johnston
Perry Johnston

Perry Johnston (Oak Island, NC) was in flight C yesterday, but that didn’t last very long.  “I decided to go back upstairs and take a nap and start fresh today,” he said.

Perry’s granddaughter Brynn loves the pool here at Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood and she’s enjoyed it on her previous visits.  She always follows her PawPaw’s progress here on the SHRPO.com blog.

His best finish here  was a 3rd place in the $200 Double Green Chip Bounty NLH during the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Showdown, which added to his career earnings of over $61,000.

Event 9: Tampa Regulars

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$500,000 Guaranteed

Level 3:  Blinds 75/150

Quite a few regular players from Seminole Hard Rock Tampa have made an appearance here today.

Richard Hope
Richard Hope

Richard Hope is on his second bullet in this event and he’s sharing a table with Wally Maddah, who is on his 4th bullet.  “I had Kings against AK…and the flop came three Aces!” Wally said of one of his previous bust-outs.

Wally Maddah
Wally Maddah

One table over is Terri Anne Crawford, who says she’s drawn an action table this morning.  “They’re raising 6x,” she says.

Terri Anne Crawford
Terri Anne Crawford

There was also some verbal banter that got out of hand between guys at her table and another table.  The floor person has issued warnings to both tables that penalties will be forthcoming for further bad behavior.

Another Tampa regular spotted in the crowd is John Pappas.

Event 9: Keep Those Tweets Coming!

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$500,000 Guaranteed

Level 2:  Blinds 50/100

Make sure to tag your Tweets with #SHRPO so we can share them via the blog.  A few players have checked in early this morning on Twitter: