2015 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open”
$250 Limit Omaha/8 (Re-Entry)

November 19, 2015

Total Entries:  72
Total Prize Pool: $15,120

1st: $4,536
2nd: $3,175
3rd: $2,041
4th: $1,512
5th: $1,134
6th: $907
7th: $756
8th: $605
9th: $454

$250 Limit Omaha/8 (Re-Entry)
Level 9: 1,000/2,000 Limits

Registration closed for Event 2 and it drew an impressive 72 entrants. Tournament staff tweaked the previous Omaha/8 structure and the players responded to the update.

Of those starting 72, we have 40 remaining with a shot to pick up the first trophy of the series.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 10: 500/1,000/100 Ante

Tables are breaking quickly but Seminole Hard Rock Poker ambassador Sheddy Siddiqui is cruising right along in the middle of the room.

He’s looking for a solid series to finish out a great year that saw him post the single biggest cash of his career. Siddiqui has earned more than $1 million in poker tournaments and a nice chunk of that came this summer when he finished 5th out of 7,275 players in the WSOP Millionaire Maker massive event.

$250 Limit Omaha/8 (Re-Entry)
Level 8: 800/1,600 Limits

Players are on the second break of Event 2 and the registration desk will close at the restart. The tournament clock shows 69 entrants, beating the count from this event last year, with time remaining to get in.

Robert Campbell gets another mention, but not in a good way this time. He was seen walking away from the tournament area and we’ll see if he fires off again in his favorite poker variant.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 9: 400/800/100 Ante

They’ve shut the door on new entries into flight 1A and players combined to build up a very nice number. The first flight drew 363 after all the accounting was complete to burst out of the gate. We are going to have a big prize pool for the opening event.

Tournament staff will begin breaking tables as players are eliminated for good from the flight and we’ll see our 1A leaders emerge.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 8: 300/600/75 Ante

Players are on their second break of the day and registration will close for this flight when they return. If players bust after that point, they will have to wait for one of the remaining five flights to try again.

There are 360 entrants showing on the clock with a few more expected to jump in the game.

$250 Limit Omaha/8 (Re-Entry)
Level 7: 600/1,200 Limits

Robert Campbell is one of our familiar faces in Event 2 and he’s always one of the favorites when entering an Omaha/8 tournament.

Campbell has over $800,000 in career earnings including 12 tournament titles. Of those dozen victories, all but one came in an Omaha/8 event. His biggest cash came with a 30th place finish in the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 6: 200/400/50 Ante

One of the more accomplished Seminole Hard Rock Poker regulars took a seat before the first break. Chance Kornuth is usually found grinding the high-limit cash games out in the poker room but he will occasionally take a seat in the big tournaments.

Despite being a cash game pro, Kornuth has run his career tournament to nearly $2.5 million. A number that will probably be topped if he wins this one. His résumé shows seven tournament wins including a Pot Limit Omaha WSOP bracelet in 2010.

$250 Limit Omaha/8 (Re-Entry)
Level 4: 300/600 Limits

We have a nice turnout for the Omaha/8 tournament and we’re seeing a lot of familiar faces. There are 55 entrants in the limit game at the first break and they’ll take 15 minute to relax before starting back up.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 150/300/25 Ante

It wasn’t too tough to find the biggest stack in the room during the break.

Peter Chin is sitting at one of the edge tables in the 5-seat, threatening players on either side and he chip towers were easily spotted. His 84,175 stack eclipsed those closest to him with five other players topping the 50,000 mark.

Chin has past success here including two titles during the 2013 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open.

Top and notables stacks:

Peter Chin – 84,175 (281 bb)
Hung Le – 54,550 (182 bb)
Farzan Nasserzadeh – 53,850 (180 bb)
Jonathan Marlow – 53,600 (179 bb)
Muzaffer Yesilce – 53,275 (178 bb)
Luis Cristobol – 52,125 (174 bb)
Ido Ashkenazi – 47,175 (157 bb)
Scott Tye – 46,050 (154 bb)
Elliott Zaydman – 38,050 (127 bb)
Steven Bennett – 34,550 (115 bb)
Raymond Ruszkowski – 22,975 (77 bb)
Ory Hen – 21,500 (72 bb)
Erik Christensen – 20,675 (69 bb)
Kim Stone – 15,625 (52 bb)
Scott Efron – 11,500 (38 bb)