$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
End of Level 8: 250/500 with a 500 ante
Flight A Entries: 315
Players in Flight A of the $400 re-entry are on their second break of the day. Tournament staff is racing off the green chips and cards will be back in the air in about 10 minutes.
The clock took a quick jump up as it now shows 315 entries in the action.
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7: 200/400 with a 400 ante
Flight A Entries: 280
Florida’s John Depersio started last September’s WSOP Circuit Coconut Creek in style winning the one-day $50,000 opener. Depersio is a regular at any Seminole poker series and it’s no surprise to see him jockeying here in Flight A of the $400 re-entry. Depersio is a two-time ring winner — both coming in Florida — and he looks for another during this series.
The upward trend in entries has continued over the early stages of play and the clock now shows 280 in the game.
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 100/200 with a 200 ante
Flight A Entries: 242
Flight A of the $400 buy-in, $300,000 guaranteed re-entry event is rolling on and the field is getting more decorated by the minute. With the first break in the rearview mirror, a pair of notable faces are among some of the new entries in the event — Kelly Minkin and Loni Harwood.
Minkin has gone deep in a number of high-profile events, most notably a 29th-place finish in the WSOP Main Event and most recently a 3rd-place finish in a $5,000 buy-in WPT event in Jacksonville. Harwood meanwhile is a WSOP veteran owning two bracelet and five rings.
Together the pair accounts for more than $4,000,000 in career earnings and they look to add to that tally here in the WSOP Circuit re-entry event.
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4: 75/150 with a 150 ante
Flight A Entries: 211
This marks Seminole Casino Coconut Creek’s third time to host the World Series of Poker Circuit and its second time in the month of February. The property is earning its spot on the poker calendar and the fields have reflected that thus far.
There are a number of pros that we didn’t see on the South Florida felt that we are seeing this year. Among them is Chris Tryba. Tryba trekked to Coconut Creek and comes to the property as a 15-time tournament winner and gold bracelet champion. He played yesterday’s Event 1, but ultimately fell short of a cash.
He’s back on the felt today and in search of a deep run in Coconut Creek.
Below is a recap for Event 1 of the WSOP Circuit at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek which concluded just before 4am Friday
2019 February WSOP Circuit
Seminole Casino Coconut Creek
Event 1
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 269
Prize Pool: $88,770
February 7, 2019
(Coconut Creek, FL) — The first event of the World Series of Poker Circuit at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek concluded during the early morning hours of Friday. The series opener was a $400 buy-in one-day event with $50,000 guaranteed. The 269-entry field easily bested that figure with an $88,770 prize pool. Following roughly 15 hours of play, it was Roberto Bendeck that earned the title along with $21,749 and a WSOP Circuit gold ring.
Bendeck’s family came to the States from Honduras and he was born in Miami. He has been in South Florida fulltime for five years and resides with his wife and two children. Friday morning’s Event 1 win moved the recreational grinder’s career earnings to just under $175,000 and marked another highlight in recent successes that included a 7th-place finish in Hollywood’s November $3,500 WPT Championship.
“It was a very tough final table,” Bendeck said of Event 1. “Heads up, from the start, Nick Yunis had the chip lead and he was directly to my left. He made everything miserable for me. But, the flips held and I made some good calls and some good lay downs — some bad ones, too. Things ran my way.”
Yunis has had some recent success, too, finishing in 10th place in Hollywood’s $1,100 WPTDeepStacks Main Event last month.
Event 1 at Coconut Creek drew a strong field with multiple gold bracelet winners among the crew. Bendeck ultimately can hang his hat on having outlasted notable pros like Athansios Polychronopolous, Chris Tryba, Jonathan Hilton and Jason Young. The top 27 players finished in the money with Ory Hen (11th), Young (15th), Hilton (16th) and Raminder Singh (27th) joining Bendeck as cashers in the tournament.
Tournament results:
1st: Roberto Bendeck – $21,749 + Gold ring
2nd: Nick Yunis – $13,438
3rd: Matthew Lambrecht – $9,709
4th: Jermie Anderson – $7,145
5th: Arkadiy Tsinis – $5,353
6th: Bryan Clark – $4,079
7th: Bryce McVay – $3,160
8th: Stanislav Angelou – $2,488
9th: Matthew Bretzfield – $1,990
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$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2: 50/100
Flight A Entries: 145
It took less than a level for the starting field to double in today’s re-entry Flight A. With hours of late registration remaining, the field has already crack the 100 mark and sits at 145 early in Level 2. The number will continue an upward trend as the tournament looks to crack the 300-entry mark.
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 25/50
Flight A Entries: 56
It’s 11am local time and tournament director Charlie Ciresi has put cards in the air for Flight A of the $400 WSOP Circuit re-entry at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek.
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 25/50
Opening weekend of the World Series of Poker Circuit at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek is here and so is one of the series’ headliners, a $400 buy-in, $300,000 guaranteed multi-flight re-entry event.
The first of four flights is slated for an 11am kickoff today and its players begin with 15,000 chips and they’ll log 30-minute levels on Day 1. Registration and re-entry are available until ~5:30pm while play is slated to wrap around 8:40pm.
Here are the details:
11AM: Event 2 Day 1A – $400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Last February this event drew 1,766 entries generating a total prize pool worth $529,800. It was won by Alfred Karlsson who carded $86,067 along with a gold ring.
Updates for this year’s installment will begin when cards go in the air. Good luck, players!
Primary Event Schedule
11AM: Event 2 Day 1A – $400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
4PM: Event 2 Day 1B – $400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Secondary and Satellite Schedule
9AM: $65 Event 2 Turbo Satellite
2PM: $65 Event 2 Turbo Satellite
6PM: $80 Nightly No Limit Hold’em Survivor (Re-Entry)
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
Level 30: 40,000/80,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 1
Roberto Bendeck played a patient game, doubled up once as the heads-up short stack, and then did it again. Shortly after his first double, he took the lead when his 
held against Yunis’ 
.
Yunis dropped to 1,100,000 and moved all in from the button to get a quick call from Bendeck.
Yunis: 
Bendeck: 
A tough spot for Yunis with his suited face cards outkicked. The board ran 
and Bendeck never had a sweat as he earned his first career WSOP Circuit ring.
1st: Roberto Bendeck – $21,749 + Gold ring
2nd: Nick Yunis – $13,438
A full report on the event will be posted Friday before 1pm. In the meantime, here’s a look at the tournament’s final results:
1st: Roberto Bendeck – $21,749 + Gold ring
2nd: Nick Yunis – $13,438
3rd: Matthew Lambrecht – $9,709
4th: Jermie Anderson – $7,145
5th: Arkadiy Tsinis – $5,353
6th: Bryan Clark – $4,079
7th: Bryce McVay – $3,160
8th: Stanislav Angelou – $2,488
9th: Matthew Bretzfield – $1,990
10th: David Katz – $1,617
11th: Ory Hen – $1,617
12th: Jennifer Fitzgibbon – $1,617
13th: David Stokes – $1,333
14th: David Moreno – $1,333
15th: Jason Young – $1,333
16th: Jeff Rodriguez – $1,117
17th: Jaroslaw Osinski – $1,117
18th: Truyen Nguyen – $1,117
19th: Eric Leinwand – $950
20th: Shamica Lamar – $950
21st: Jeffrey Satinoff – $950
22nd: Mark Kottler – $819
23rd: Juan Madrid – $819
24th: John Freidkes – $819
25th: Steven Carswell – $717
26th: Jonathan Hilton – $717
27th: Raminder Singh – $717
