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A week into the action at
Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown, one thing has become crystal clear: this festival is going to be huge.
Record-breaking crowds have flooded the property throughout the first dozen events or so, as a consistent word keeps appearing in all of the company s press releases: history. Seemingly each event run has become the biggest of its type in Seminole Hard Rock history. And this coming from a venue that has hosted $10 million guarantees and fields in excess of 5,000. Tournaments tripling and quadrupling their guarantees has become the norm.
If that holds true going forward, it could mean the champ of the $2 million guaranteed
PokerStars
$195,486
Before Kaladjurdjevic was once, twice, three times a champion, he was Montenegro’s first Spring Championship of Online Poker winner. The European country of only 622,137 residents now has a triple SCOOP champion to call their own. Kaladjurdjevic’s historic run began on April 4 with a win in the $530 SCOOP Kickoff. Topping a field of 1,321 entrants was good for title number one and $78,406. He was back on the grind two days later in Event #11 ($530 NLHE 8-Max PLO). This time, another 987 players fell in Kaladjurdjevic’s wake, meaning he collected a second title and $64,337. The Montenegrin scored his third victory last Thursday in Event #17 ($1,050 NLHE Deep Stacks). Stepping up in stakes didn’t seem to matter, as the result was the same. Kaladjurdjevic beat 276 players to win $52,743 and take his overall earnings to $195,486.