On Friday, the World Poker Tour (WPT) $3,500 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown kicked off in South Florida. The first of two starting flights proved to be a smashing success with 1,135 entrants, which means the prize pool is already at $3,632,000 (it actually surpassed the $3 million guarantee before the dinner break).
It marked the fourth-largest flight for the Showdown Championship behind only 2021’s 1,434 entries on Day 1b, 2016’s 1,222 entries, and 2017’s 1,207 entries.
After 10 levels of play, 378 players remained with Anthony Spinella and his stack of 473,000 leading the Day 1a field.