$250 Big Stack Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 19: Blinds 5k/10k/1k ante
Blinds are climbing relentlessly in this Turbo.
As of the previous break, Sebastian Gallego (above) was the chip leader with 210k.
Lou Ojeda(below) was a distant second with 166k.
Now they’re down to three tables with 25 players remaining (18 get paid). Average stack is ~133k.
Sebastian has further distanced himself from the field. He’s up to 300k.
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
End of Level 23 : Blinds 12k/24k/3k ante
End of level and time for a dinner break! Players have scattered to enjoy an hour away from the felt.
Here are the next batch of players cashing out.
Earning $1,156
37 – Brenda Nelson (Delray Beach, FL)
38 – Jie Lin (Tampa, FL)
39 – Derek Chambers (Tampa, FL)
40 – Diancel Machado-Rojas (St. Petersburg, FL)
41 – Manny Minaya (Tampa, FL)
42 – Aura Kerr (Charlotte, NC)
43 – Christopher Kazolias (Wesley Chapel, FL)
44 – Haley Taylor-Pappalardo (Lutz, FL)
Earning $986
45 – Marc Lowe (Tampa, FL)
46 – John Pappas (Tampa, FL)
47 – Michael Laake (Boca Raton, FL)
48 – John Nugent (Titusville, FL)
49 – Nicholas Costa (Port Orange, FL)
50 – Russell Rucks (Ft. Myers, FL)
51- Roger Stewart (Sanford, FL)
52 – David DeBoer (Winter Haven, FL)
53 – Marc Patrick Davis (Orlando, FL)
54 – Omar Yates (Lehigh Acres, FL)
Earning $867
55 – Michael Gigante (Riverview, FL)
56 – Giancarlo DiSalvo (St. Petersberg, FL)
57 – Stephen Allen (Bradenton, FL)
58 – Emerson Bielen (Orlando, FL)
59 – Ryan Arkin (Tampa, FL)
60 – Jeffrey Thompson (Nokomis, FL)
61 – Joel Schmidt (Anastasia Island, FL)
62 – Akiva Pearlman (New York, NY)
63 – Jason Weber (St. Petersberg, FL)
Earning $792
64 – Madhusudhan Jakkidi (Jacksonville, FL)
65 – Sean Hampson (Tampa, FL)
66 – Wanda Weirich (Longwood, FL)
67 – Luqman Alghanim (Tampa, FL)
68 – Ben Lomsak (Valrico, FL)
69 – Jeffrey McHugh (Bristol, TN)
70 – James Garrett Topping (Alpharetta, GA)
71 – Roberto Quintano (Tampa, FL)
72 – Wadie Khalaf (Tampa, FL)
Earning $731
73 – Greg McNealy (Valrico, FL)
74 – Alexandru Ivan (Palm Harbor, FL)
75 – James Brown (Jacksonville Beach, FL)
76 – Roman Fedorov (Orlando, FL)
77 – Robert O’Rourke (Dade City, FL)
78 – Michael Dimitry (Spring Hill, FL)
79 – Scottsworth Gertiser (Nokomis, FL)
80 – Nicholas Conant (Orange Park, FL)
81 – Jeff Metajan (Seffner, FL)
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 23 : Blinds 12k/24k/3k ante
Before the blinds went up, Yousef Nassr (Celebration, FL) picked up a 1.1 million chip pot. On a flop of A 5 5, an opponent was all-in holding AT and Yousef had him out-kicked with AJ.
With that pot, Yousef chipped up to over 1.3 million.
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 23 : Blinds 12k/24k/3k ante
Down to 45 players heading into the last level before dinner break.
Before the blinds went up, a huge hand took place on table 6, just before it broke.
Marc Davis (Orlando, FL)
45th place
Marc Davis (cutoff) was all-in for 328k and got calls from both James Kerr (button) and Aura Kerr (no relation) in the big blind.
On the flop of 6 6 3, Aura checked and James bet 100k. Aura folded.
Marc tabled J9 offsuit and he was in bad shape against James’ A6 (trips). The Jack on the turn gave Marc a glimmer of hope, but the river was a 2 and he was busted in 45th place ($1,156).
James chipped up to over 2.3 million, which took a while to rack up for his move to a new table.
Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Summer Poker Open
Event 2: $250 Big Stack Turbo No Limit Hold’em
June 1, 2014
Total Entries: 148
Total Prize Pool: $31,080
PAYOUTS
1: $9,324
2: $5,128
3: $2,953
4: $2,486
5: $1,865
6: $1,554
7: $1,243
8: $932
9: $699
10-12: $622
13-15: $544
16-18: $466
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 20 : Blinds 8k/16k/2k ante
Players are back from their break and anxious for their dinner break, which comes at the end of level 23 (about 7:45pm).
Chris Adams shipped most of his stack across the felt to the new chip leader, Brett Streicher (above, Odessa, FL). Brett leads the field with over 1.5 million.
The only other player over 1 million is Tom Nguyen with 1.175 million.
Other top stacks from the break:
Richard Hope 732k
Li Yi 712k
Adam Woodard 702k
Hoang Nguyen 685k
Anthony Brammer 682k
Marc Davis 671k
Michael Laake 668k
Anna Kerr 631k
Ellianne Munoz 616k
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
End of Level 20 : Blinds 6k/12k/2k ante
Players are on break. They’re already down to under 81 players. Average is 356k.
Here are the first players to cash out:
Earning $673
82 – Maria Harrell (Tampa, FL)
83 – Jess Louk (Lenexa, KS)
84 – Jin Chen (Tampa, FL)
85 – Derek Bowers (Alliance, OH)
86 – Russell Waggoner (Nokomis, FL)
87 – Peter Williams (New Port Richey, FL)
88 – Jonathan Wolff (Sarasota, FL)
89 – Shane Bolda (Tarpon Springs, FL)
90 – Amaury Lopez (Orlando, FL)
Earning $656
91 – David DiBernardi (Youngstown, OH)
92 – John Ingold (Odessa, FL)
93 – Mark Shulla (Palm Beach Gardens, FL)
94 – Ricky Welch (Lakeland, FL)
95 – Kaleb Hanshaw (Lakeland, FL)
96 – John Templeton (Sarasota, FL)
97 – Francisco Gomez (Lakeland, FL)
98 – Herbert Woodbery (Winter Garden, FL)
100 – Shawn Kasper-Daniel (Gotha, FL)
Earning $639
101 – Christopher Carlson (Fayetteville, NC)
102 – Barry Jacobs (Palmetto, FL)
103 – Hung Le (Casselberry, FL)
104 – Andrew Koski (Navarre, FL)
105 – John Cacomanolis (Bradenton, FL)
106 – Robert Morris (Ruskin, FL)
107 – Craig Comerford (Apopka, FL)
108 – Samir Agamiyev (Tampa, FL)
109 – Troy Bercot (Palmetto, FL)
110 – Andre Pillow (St. Augustine, FL)
$250 Big Stack Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$30,000 Guaranteed
Level 7: Blinds 300/600/75
The break that was supposed to come at the end of level 8 came early, at the end of level 6.
Players are back in action following that break. There will be another break at the end of level 8 to color up the green 25 chips.
Registration still closes at the start of level 9, which will now be at about 5:45pm.
There are 133 entrants so far including quite a few bustouts from Event 1.
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 19 : Blinds 5k/10k/1k ante
The march to the money had begun. Players are lining up at the payout desk to be the first players ever to cash in a Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Summer Poker Open event.
91 players remain in action for an average stack of 317k. Chip leader Chris Adams is up to 1.487 million.
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 18 : Blinds 4k/8k/1k ante
With less than a minute remaining in the level, three players busted, two from the same table.
On table 7, three players were all-in pre-flop:
Andre Pillow: AA
Chris Adams: KK
Seat 9: 44
Board: K 4 2 9 7
Chris Adams (pictured above, Ormond Beach, FL) flopped a set to crack the pocket Aces and bust both opponents. He’s the first player to 1 million chips and has zoomed past that to 1.28 million.
When the remaining players were counted, they were down to 109 players and in the money.
Andre Pillow finished in 110th place, earning $639. He’s a Hard Rock – Hard Beat of the Day Nominee!
Play resumed and the blinds went up.
Level 19: Blinds 5k/10k/1k ante