It was a giant day on Tuesday for “Large Sey” on the $3,500 buy-in World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Arduous Rock Poker Championship.
Richard Seymour, a Professional Soccer Corridor of Famer, reached his first WPT remaining desk and is certainly one of six gamers nonetheless chasing the $656,200 first-place prize at Seminole Arduous Rock Resort & On line casino in Hollywood, Florida.
Seymour, a legendary defensive lineman for the NFL’s New England Patriots and Oakland Raiders, entered Day 4 fourth in chips out of the 16 remaining gamers. He would transfer up the leaderboard rapidly, almost doubling his start-of-day stack early within the session. However he’d end the session with the shortest stack.
That’s the unhealthy information for the Tremendous Bowl champion. The excellent news is, regardless of being the shorty, he’ll enter Wednesday’s remaining desk at 12:30 p.m. PT with 28 large blinds, loads of chips to make a run, and he is assured no less than $138,000.
WPT Seminole Arduous Rock Poker Showdown Remaining Desk Chip Counts
1Ian Cohen17,925,000
2Michael Amato16,200,000
3Frank Funaro13,925,000
4Raj Vohra10,075,000
5Johnny Bromberg7,100,000
6Richard Seymour5,600,000
Ian Cohen is in the perfect place of all, the chip chief with 17,925,000 chips, equal to 90 large blinds. Michael Amato is true on his heels with 16,200,000 chips, adopted by Frank Funaro at 13,925,000. There is a little bit of a dropoff after that, with Raj Vohra in fourth place with 10,075,000 chips, Johnny Bromberg at 7,100,000 in fifth place, and Seymour rounding out the ultimate desk with 5,600,000 chips.
Seymour, who turned an everyday in event poker after retiring from the NFL in 2012, is chasing his largest profession rating and his second large event win this 12 months. The NFL star gained a World Sequence of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) ring in February in a $2,200 buy-in No-Restrict Maintain’em Excessive Curler for $106,577.
No matter who wins the WPT Seminole Arduous Rock Poker Showdown Championship, it will likely be a first-time WPT champion, and it might be a Professional Soccer Corridor of Famer. Seymour was enshrined in Canton in 2022.
The ultimate desk livestream on the WPT’s YouTube channel will start at 12:30 p.m. PT on Friday.
Richard Seymour Voted into Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame
*Pictures courtesy of the World Poker Tour
