Great balls of fire! The Seminole Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open is lighting up Hollywood, Florida, with a $3,500 WPT Championship event that more than doubled its $2 million guaranteed prize pool. It continues a trend of surpassing prize pool guarantees — sometimes in a big way — throughout the series that began Nov. 17. Luke Martinelli brings a big stack to Day 3 of Seminole Hard Rock Casino’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open. (Image: BJ Nemeth/Seminole Hollywood) Day 3 of the $3,500 WPT championship event is currently underway. Day 4 action will take place on Tuesday, with the six-player final table being streamed live starting at 2:30 pm ET on Wednesday.
The $5,011,200 prize pool was generated by 1,566 total entrants. All of the remaining players are guaranteed to bank at least $11,675, but are all chasing the six-figure, first-place payday worth $778,490. Big names in the mix
Luke Martinelli, an Australian pro with more than $721K in tournament cashes, started the day as the chip leader with 2.68 million (107 bb’s). Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight fame and fresh off a second-place finish at the WSOP in Las Vegas last month was second in chips with 2.345 million (94 bb’s), while Delray Beach’s Scott Levitt rounded out the top three with 2 million even (80 bb’s).
Other notables taking seats on Day 3 included low-key tournament crusher Joseph Cheong who started just outside the top-10, and Kristen Bicknell who has two WPT Online Championship wins on her resume. Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open smashing records
Since its start on Nov. 17, the Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open has been drawing record turnouts and shattering guarantees across its schedule .
Aside from the $3 million the players added to the $3,500 championship, all eight of the preliminary events surpassed their guarantees. Event 1: $1 million guarantee — 2 million prize pool generated by 6,196 entries.
Event 8: $50K guarantee — $204K prize pool generated by 51o entries.
Event 9: $100K guarantee — $183K prize pool generated by 189 entries.
Event 10: $250K guarantee — $505K prize pool generated by 972 entries. […]
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