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Poker in South Florida received a big boost this weekend as both the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino properties in Hollywood and Coconut Creek reopened their doors on Friday, June 12.

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The properties, which have been closed since March 20 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, opened under “Safe+Sound” guidelines, which include guests being required to wear a mask, temperature screenings, and a 50 percent max occupancy.

For poker players, the following precautions and procedures will be in place:

• The poker room will run 25 of their 45 tables
• Active tables will feature Plexiglass dividers
• All games will be played max six-handed
• Both players and staff will be required to wear masks
• Cards and chips will be cleaned on a regular basis
• Food not permitted in the poker room. Players can request a 60-minute dinner break.
• One table or seat change allowed per session

Both Seminole properties have host prolific tournament series including Seminole Showdowns, World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit stops, and Moneymaker's Road to PSPC. The reopening come about three weeks after their sister property, Hard Rock Tampa, resumed their operations on May 21.

'Major tournament series for Seminole Hard Rock Poker have been well-established globally over the last 10 years,' the poker team at Seminole Gaming told PokerNews. 'When the time is right, these series will return with the same first-class experience that the players have come to know and love.'

The Hard Rock Tampa poker room, which opened under the same guidelines outlines above, saw an immediate demand as poker players not only flocked to the tables, but were willing to put their names on long waiting lists.

'The opening of poker at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa went extremely well. It has been open for over three weeks and the tables remain full, with lists,' the Seminole poker team added. 'Much of the credit goes to Director of Poker Operations, Pablo Perez.'

All Seminole Hard Rock properties have also been equipped with air purification and disinfecting systems

“The health and safety of our team members and guests has always been of upmost importance to our senior leadership team and Tribal Council,” Seminole Hard Rock said in a statement. “We want to make sure that we are doing everything that we can to provide a safe environment for our team members and you, our loyal customers.”

It continued: “As information is changing rapidly and we are learning more daily about COVID-19 and how to stop the spread, we will continue to regularly update the Safe+Sound protocols based on facts and data provided by our partners, industry councils, as well as global and governmental agencies.”

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Live poker is slowly making its return to the U.S., and one of the former hotspots is getting back up and running.

At the Seminole Hard Rock properties in Florida, poker games were being dealt as early as May with the new plexiglass-equipped tables, but action has really started to pick back up in recent months. Not only have some of the normal tournaments been running at the property, but a special event coming up in October will give players the chance to play for bigger prizes and do some good at the same time.

The turning of the calendar will mean it's time for Pinktober.

Pinktober Returns in Support of Breast Cancer Awareness

Breast Cancer Awareness Month begins in October. Sports fans are used to seeing their favorite players don pink accessories in commemoration, but poker players in Florida know that Pinktober is the poker world's way of giving.

The Seminole Hard Rock Tampa property's annual tournament series will provide $250,000 in guarantees for the players and raise tens of thousands of dollars for charity, most going to the American Cancer Society. With Pinktober as one of the driving forces, the venue raised more than $57,000 last year.

One dollar from every tournament buy-in recorded will go into the charity pool. The action begins Oct. 7 and runs through Oct. 18, with two big multi-flight events promising to build huge prize pools.

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Last year, David Nathaniel won $95K in the Main Event.

Baumstein Dominating Recent Tournament Action

Speaking of winnings at Seminole Hard Rock, one player in particular has to be extraordinarily happy that tournament action has resumed at the venue. Scott Baumstein has been on fire of late.

In the middle of September, SHR Hollywood hosted the $360 September Deep Stack Special (Single Reentry), which drew 201 entries. Baumstein took the second-place stack into the final day and topped the field for a payday of $14,832.

He followed that up with another victory over the past weekend, this time in $1,100 September Big Slick NLH (Single Re-Entry). There, Baumstein topped an 80-entry field for $26,229 in prize money.

With plenty more action on tap, Baumstein will have a chance to add to his winnings as Pinktober takes over the popular Tampa poker room next month.

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