Mike Sexton – “Hard Rocking The SHR Poker Showdown!!!”

Seminole Hard Rock’s (“SHR”) Poker Showdown poker festival is steadily rising to an apex as Day 1A of the $5 Million Guaranteed WPT $3,500 No-Limit Hold’em Championship came to a close.

They say this “must play” event has attracted some of the biggest names in poker to play in one or more flights of the unlimited re-entry poker tournament. Each entry is given a 30,000 starting stack and players are allowed to re-enter through the beginning of Level 7 on any, or all, of the three starting days.

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I joined by SHR Tournament Director Keith Grubb, Adam Pliska, RFG: Tugba Ercan, and “The Hard Rock Girls,” for the traditional “Shuffle-up and Deal,” and by the end of the first break, it was evident that SHR was on track to meet the advertised guarantee with 386 entries registered.

There were a ton of champions that fired at Day 1A, but promised to try their luck again were: Amir Babakhani, Andy Hwang, James Calderaro, Jared Jaffee, Mohsin Charania, Paul Klann, Phil Laak and Sean Jazayeri. Other notables otu there were of course : Allen Kessler, Amir Lehavot, Ankush Mandavia, Blair Hinkle, Bryan Campanello, Chad Eveslage, Chance Kornuth, Dan Heimiller, Darryll Fish, David Baker, David Diaz, Dimas Martinez Jr., Gregory Marcus, Harrison Gimbel, Jake Schindler, Jason Mercier, Jeff Madsen, Jennifer Tilly, Jonathan Aguiar, Justin Zaki, Luis Santoni, Marsha Wolak, Matt Stout, Michael Pickett, Mike Beasley, Mike Sowers, Ray Qartomy, Roland Israelashvili, Scott Zakheim, Todd Terry, and Travell Thomas.

Here’s who’s moving on to Day 2 (and possibly playing again tomorrow, just because they can):

Champs going to Day 2		Other Notibles going to Day 2
Tuan Le	202,900	Justin Young	313,200
Jonathan Roy	160,900	Ryan D’Angelo	271,300
Tony Dunst	116,000	Mark Darner	238,700
Will Failla	105,200	Francois Gagne	211,500
Matt Salsberg	95,300	Kyle Keranen	210,400
Scotty Nguyen	84,000	Ronit Chamani	180,900
Lee Markholt	83,300	Rep Porter	167,300
Steve Brecher	82,800	Corrie Wunstel	151,800
Anthony Zinno	74,700	Aaron Massey	147,000
Jordan Cristos	53,000	Ryan Riess	141,800
Noah Schwartz	52,600	Ryan Eriquezzo	133,000
Matthew Waxman	48,000	Corey Burbick	128,800
Eugene Katchalov	47,600	Jerry Wong	114,000
Ben Hamnett	46,400	Loni Harwood	108,000
Matt Giannetti	40,000	Bryn Kenney	105,800
Jonathan Little	37,500	Raj Vohra	104,300
Kevin Eyster	24,000	Keith Ferrera	100,000
		Tyler Patterson	98,200
		Connor Drinan	93,100
		Dan O’Brien	91,800
		Kathy Liebert	85,600
		Eddy Sabat	85,000
		Kyle Julius	84,000
		Blake Bohn	84,000
		David Peters	82,000
		Kevin O’Donnell	76,000
		Dan Shak	64,000
		Jake Schwartz	59,700
		Thayer Rasmussen	55,200
		Adam Levy	53,000
		Luis Velador	52,000
		Scott Vener	51,900
		Jessica Dawley	50,000
		John Dolan	49,200
		Nacho Barbero	48,000
		Mukul Pahuja	44,000
		John Gordon	43,400
		Robert Mizrachi	43,000
		Amanda Musumeci	41,400
		Barry Hutter	40,400
		Carter Gill	40,000
		Joe Kuether	40,000
		Matt Brady	40,000
		Tom Koral	35,000
		Brian Hastings	35,000
		David Paredes	34,000
		Lazaro Hernandez	34,000
		Zo Karim	34,000
		Keven Stammen	33,400
		Shannon Shorr	33,000
		Tom McCormick	32,000
		Patrick Eskandar	30,100
		Dylan Wilkerson	30,000
		Lily Kiletto	28,000
		Faraz Jaka	26,600
		Tony Cousineau	26,200
		Alex Bolotin	25,200
		Jean Max Gaspard	24,500
		Byron Kaverman	21,000
		Eric Baldwin	15,000
		Joe Serock	15,000

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