$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.
$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)
September WSOP Circuit
Seminole Casino Coconut Creek
Event 2
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 1,207
Prize Pool: $398,310
September 14-16, 2018
The first big, multi-day event on the WSOP Circuit schedule kicked off on Friday morning and drew a huge crowd over the four starting flights. More than 1,200 entries were put in the game and South Florida attorney Ryan Weiss outlasted them all to capture his first WSOP Circuit ring along with more than $70,000.
The 1,207 entries in Event 2 pushed the prize pool over the $300,000 Guarantee and it topped out at $398,310 when registration closed on Saturday evening. The tournament paid out the last 135 players and only 143 returned for Day 2 on Sunday.
The money bubble burst early in the day, taking less than 15 minutes to lose eight players. From that point, the tournament ran at a blistering pace until only 20 remained when they went on dinner break.
Multiple SHRP champ Julio Fernandez was the chip leader and he stayed there until the final table was formed. At that point, the action had slowed down with the deep stacks and 45-minute levels. Fernandez seemed to be in command of the final table but ran into some unfortunate hands. The biggest came at the hands of Ken Berman when his aces were cracked and the lead switched seats.
Several other players took turns with the final table lead including Event 1 fourth-place finisher Tom Bielecky. He made it to fifth place this time around for a great start to his series.
Husband and wife players Nataliya Iakovleva and Yuriy Paccamakih both made the final table with Yuriy outlasting Nataliya in the household battle.
Simon Philip dropped out in third place when Berman hit a three-out river to set up the heads-up battle against Weiss with similar stacks. That match did not last long and after only a few hands, Weiss earned the title with pocket queens dodging a beat to send all the chips his way.
Weiss came on strong at the end of the tournament, knocking several players out once they were short-handed, and he dominated late to capture his first career WSOP Circuit ring along with $70,718.
Final table results:
1st: Ryan Weiss – $70,718 + WSOP Circuit ring
2nd: Ken Berman – $43,814
3rd: Simon Philip – $32,156
4th: Yuriy Paccamakih – $24,297
5th: Tom Bielecky – $18,541
6th: Mirco Scharen – $14,271
7th: Nataliya Iakovleva – $11,113
8th: Julio Fernandez – $8,755
9th: Herbert Woodbery – $6,978
10th: Fred Lee – $5,624
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
Level 34: 100,000/200,000 with a 30,000 ante
Heads-up play got underway and the match was settled before the WSOP Circuit ring was transported to the table.
Ryan Weiss opened to 600,000 from the button and Ken Berman moved all in. Weiss quickly called with a heads-up monster and Berman was in trouble.
Weiss: 
Berman: 
Weiss had a huge lead, faded the 
flop but it gave him a heart sweat. The 
turn changed nothing and the match, and the tournament was complete after the 
river.
Tournament staff counted down both stacks and confirmed that Weiss had Berman covered by a few thousand to lock up his first career WSOP Circuit ring.
Tournament recap to come shortly.
1st: Ryan Weiss – $70,718 + WSOP Circuit ring
2nd: Ken Berman – $43,814
