The WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown is on to Day 3 after a record-setting weekend that saw 2,482 players enter the $3,500 buy-in event. Not only did the World Poker Tour surpass its $2 million guarantee, it smashed it.
The prize pool after two Day 1 starting flights nearly hit the $8 million mark. In the process, the event set a record for the most entries in a World Poker Tour event. The previous record was set in May 2020 in the WPT Online Championship when 2,130 players competed in the online poker tournament.
When the Seminole Poker Showdown concludes, the champion will take home more than $1.2 million. But that won't happen until May 18. On April 27, the tournament will play down to the final six players. Those six individuals will hold off for a few weeks and then travel from South Florida to Las Vegas for the final table, which will be held at the PokerGO Studio on the Las Vegas Strip. The Fox Sports TV crew will be on hand to record the final table.
There is a chance that the lead WPT commentator on Fox Sports won't be available to announce this event, however. That is because Tony Dunst is among those still standing in the tournament. If he were to reach the final table, the WPT would use a replacement announcer. That happened in 2016 when the late Mike Sexton, the lead announcer at the time, was competing in the WPT Montreal, an event he ended up winning. Sexton was replaced in the booth by Dunst, who would later replace him permanently after Sexton resigned.
