$1,125 No Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool | Structure
Level 4: 100/200
Entries: 129

Event 8 is back in the ballroom after their first break of the day and they didn’t wait long to hit the $100,000 guaranteed prize pool. The field hit 100 entries after the first hour and now they are pushing it higher.

WSOP Circuit winner Russell Sullivan holds the early lead with SHRP regular Jeffrey Trudeau Jr not far behind.

Russell Sullivan – 46,700 (234 bb)
Jeffrey Trudeau Jr – 44,000 (220 bb)
Harold Mahaffey – 37,000 (185 bb)
AJ Kelsall – 24,200 (121 bb)
Steven Snyder – 21,000 (105 bb)
Ian O’Hara – 20,000 (100 bb)
Loni Harwood – 17,000 (85 bb)
Matt Waxman – 15,500 (78 bb)
Allen Kessler – 15,100 (76 bb)
Wally Maddah – 15,000 (75 bb)
Kurt Jewell – 14,000 (70 bb)
Ari Engel – 14,000 (70 bb)
Phil Hui – 13,000 (65 bb)
Herbert Woodbery – 12,650 (63 bb)
Mark Dube – 12,200 (61 bb)
Erik Christensen – 11,150 (56 bb)
Eli Levy – 9,125 (46 bb)
Elliot Zaydman – 7,000 (35 bb)
Paul Balzano – 6,000 (30 bb)

$365 Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)
Level 22: 10,000/20,000 | Payouts

David Prociak began the heads up battle with a huge chip deficit but quickly erased it in two big hands.

The match evened out after his chips went in after a flop with Borenstein’s ahead of . Prociak made two pair on the river to double up and get back in the game.

Three hands later, there were three pot-sized bets in the middle before the flop. Borenstein opened to 60,000 from the button, Prociak raised to 180,000 and Borenstein put in another big bet to 540,000.

Prociak called to see the flop and all the chips went in the middle.

Prociak:
Borenstein:

“You have two pair?” a very surprised Borenstein asked.

Prociak was ahead with bottom two against Borenstein’s kings. Borenstein picked a flush draw on the turn but the was a blank.

They counted down both stacks and Prociak’s 374,000 barely had Borenstein and the tournament was complete.

Full recap to come.

1st: David Prociak – $14,118 + WSOPC Gold ring
2nd: Jon Borenstein – $8,721

$365 Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)
Level 22: 10,000/20,000 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 2 of 181

The WSOP Circuit ring is on the table and Borenstein holds a big lead to start the heads up match.

Seat 2: David Prociak – 380,000 (19 bb)
Seat 3: Jon Borenstein – 1,430,000 (72 bb)

$365 Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)
Level 22: 10,000/20,000 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 2 of 181

Jon Borenstein opened to 50,000 from the button and John Holley moved all in from the small blind for 88,000. David Prociak called along with Borenstein.

The two live players checked down the board until it read and Borenstein bet 75,000 on the river.

“I’m dead,” said Holley.

Prociak mucked and Borenstein said “boat” before tabling for jacks over fours. Holley showed and hit the payout desk.

Jon Borenstein – 1,430,000 (72 bb)
John Holley – Eliminated in 3rd place ($6,297)

$1,125 No Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool | Structure
Level 3: 75/150
Entries: 94

The $1,125 pricepoint attracts pros from Florida and beyond. With that, comes a tough field that will really make the eventual champion have to work for it. A quick walk through the tournament floor finds Table 62 occupied by two of the Circuit’s most decorated players side-by-side — Phil Hui and Kurt Jewell.

Hui is a four-time ring winner and bracelet holder with nearly $940,000 in WSOP-related earnings. Jewell, meanwhile, edges out Hui in rings, owning five. Though he doesn’t claim the bracelet Hui does, Jewell’s WSOP resume is quite stout as well with $688,000 in reported earnings.

$365 Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)
Level 21: 8,000/16,000 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 3 of 181

John Holley limped the small blind and David Prociak got 48,000 in from the big. Holley called and the pair saw a flop.

Flop:

Holly said pot and Prociak re-potted it. Holley got his last 128,000 in the middle.

Holley:
Prociak:

Turn and River:

Prociak missed everything while Holley improved to a queen-high straight. Holley doubled.

John Holley – 340,000
David Prociak – 780,000

2017 Seminole Hard Rock WSOP Circuit
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 5
$365 No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out)
Entries: 159
Prize Pool: $47,700
September 26-27, 2017

(Hollywood, Fla.) — The World Series of Poker Circuit continued Wednesday at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino with the final day of play in Event 5, a $365 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out. The 159-entry field returned just five players and it was Jeffrey Higgins of Northborough, Mass. that left victorious. For his efforts, Higgins was sent back northeast with $12,877 along with his first-ever WSOP Circuit gold ring.

“This means more to me than it should,” an emotional Higgins said following the win.

Currently splitting his time between multiple businesses, Higgins, 37, quit his first job in in 2006 and played online. In the years that followed, he picked up traditional work. Today, his children and businesses keep him busy and poker has become a hobby he only gets to indulge in sporadically.

The $365 buy-in freeze-out — Event 5 on the WSOP Circuit schedule — saw a prize pool $47,700 that paid the top 18 finishers. Mark Fink (10th), Phil Hui (14th) and Daniel Pearlman (17th) were among those who bowed out in the money but shy of the final table.

The opening day of action moved fast. After an 11am kickoff, the 10-handed final table was reached shortly after 10pm. Fink’s bustout sent pay to the nine-handed finale and Circuit standout Bob Chow was first to go from there. Eric Piderit’s sixth-place elimination was the last of the night as Level 21 expired and play concluded.

When action resumed the following day, Higgins owned the chip lead over Florida pro Sean Shah, Austin Reilly, Stephen Bierman and Steven Disney. Disney, who returned with just five big blinds, went in fifth followed by Shah in fourth and Bierman in third. The heads-up battle between Higgins and Reilly lasted about an hour. They began neck-and-neck in the counts, but Higgins hit a timely flop when he scored bottom two pair against Reilly’s top pair, top kicker. The duo got it all-in and Reilly was left shortstacked while Higgins sprinted to the finish line a short while later. Reilly earned $7,959 for the runner-up finish.

Prior to Wednesday, Higgins’ tournament resume boasted only modest success. His victory in the $365 freeze-out is his first major win and moves him into a tie for second on the Seminole Hard Rock WSOP Circuit Casino Championship leaderboard.

Event 5 final results:

1st: Jeffrey Higgins – $12,877
2nd: Austin Reilly – $7,959
3rd: Stephen Bierman – $5,729
4th: Sean Shah – $4,199
5th: Steven Disney – $3,132
6th: Eric Piderit – $2,377
7th: Jonah Miller – $1,835
8th: Angelo Castaldi – $1,439
9th: Bob Chow – $1,148
10th: Mark Fink – $930
11th: Denis Cyr – $930
12th: Christopher Norton – $930
13th: Christopher Perkins – $765
14th: Phil Hui – $765
15th: Michael Goldfarb – $765
16th: Sean Small – $640
17th: Daniel Pearlman – $640
18th: Stuart Greenbaum – $640

$365 Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)
Level 21: 8,000/16,000 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 3 of 181

The three remaining players took off for another break in the action and they are back underway with David Prociak continuing to lead the way with half of the chips in play.

Seat 1: John Holley – 445,000 (28 bb)
Seat 2: David Prociak – 970,000 (61 bb)
Seat 3: Jon Borenstein – 393,000 (25 bb)

$365 Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)
Level 20: 6,000/12,000 | Payouts
Players Remaining: 3 of 181

Matt Kaplan had the shortest stack of the four remaining players and put his last 115,000 in the middle after two bets between himself and Jon Borenstein.

Borenstein:
Kaplan:

Borenstein was ahead and improved on the flop.

“You have a gutshot,” Borentstein said.

“Now you have two gutshots!” Borenstein continued after the turn.

The river missed his draws and Kaplan was sent out in fourth place.

Jon Borenstein – 275,000 (23 bb)
Matt Kaplan – Eliminated in 4th place ($4,625)