Final Table Set In $10 Million Guaranteed Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Main Event

The final table is set in the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $5,300 no-limit hold’em main event in Hollywood, Florida. A gigantic field of 2,384 entries blew away the event’s $10,000,000 guarantee, building a final prize pool of over $11.9 million. Now only six players remain to battle it out for the title and the first-place prize of $1,745,245. Here is a look at the final table seating assignment and ch counts:

Seat 1: Samuel Bernabeu Guilabert – 4,675,000 (31 bb)
Seat 2: Justin Bonomo – 18,500,000 (123 bb)
Seat 3: Blair Hinkle – 22,800,000 (152 bb)
Seat 4: Greg Lehn – 2,200,000 (14 bb)
Seat 5: Ray Qartomy – 13,050,000 (87 bb)
Seat 6: Mukul Pahuja – 10,200,000 (68 bb)

The chip leader heading into the final table is Blair Hinkle with 22,800,000. Hinkle has already made four final tables this year, winning his first World Series of Poker Circuit main event title in Council Bluffs, Iowa and finishing seventh in the Card Player Poker Tour Choctaw main event as well. Hinkle is guaranteed at least a $378,138 for making the top six, and regardless of his finish from here on out will move at into at least 23rd place in the Card Player Player of the Year race. The eventual champion of this event will take home 2,160 POY points, which would move Hinkle into third place in the overall standings.

Second in chips is Justin Bonomo with 18,500,000. Bonomo is also a POY race contender, having made four final tables already in 2013. If Bonomo were to take down the title he would be only 13 POY points behind current race leader Daniel Negreanu. Ray Qatormy, who enters the final table in third position with 13,050,000 in chips, has also had a successful year on the circuit with three smaller titles and six final-table finishes in 2013.

Notables who made deep runs, but fell short of the final table include Griffin Benger (14th – $90,170), David “Doc” Sands (15th – $90,170), Amir Levahot (16th – $69,810) and Mark Radoja (17th – $69,810).

Here is a look at the payouts that are up for grabs at Wednesday’s final table:

*Photos courtesy of BJ Nemeth / Ryan Lucchesi and the Seminole Hard Rock, Hollywood, Florida

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