Winter Open

Event 6: 7 pm Registration Closed

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$125 + $20 + $20 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: Blinds 150/300/25 ante
$40,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool

The last of the 191 entries are in the field and registration is closed.  This first of three flights will play 16 levels before bagging and tagging at ~ 4 am.

The second flight (Day 1A) goes at 11 am Tuesday, with the third flight (Day 1B) at 7 pm tomorrow night.

Winter Open

Event 5:

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$175 + $25 + $20 Seniors 50+ NLH (Re-Entry)
Next Blinds 2.5k/5k/500 ante
25 players remaining, 104k avg (21 bb)

Morino ThomasAll Smiles for Thomas

One of the the nicest players left in the field does the honor of breaking the bubble to send the last 25 players into the money.  Morino Thomas (Clermont) says, “my whole life,” he’s had to explain that his surname should be a first name and vice versa.

Thomas calls the all in of his friend, “Ron something,” with A3 and flops two pairs against KK, “how did I know he had pocket Kings,” he laughs.

“They call me the Godfather in my poker league,” he adds, which is where he knows “Ron” from.

Thomas is up to 160k (32 bb) and is right next to Maroun Akiki (Orlando) who continues to be the chip leader with 355k (71 bb).

Players are on a color-up break as the black (100) chips are raced off.  The next race will be to the cage where everyone will collect their cash.

Winter Open

Event 5: Stop, Bubble Time

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$175 + $25 + $20 Seniors 50+ NLH (Re-Entry)
Blinds 2k/4k/500 ante
26 players remaining, 100k avg. (25 bb)

Play is hand for hand as we’re one spot from the money. Here’s a reminder of what they’re playing for:

Place-Payout

1 $12,652
2 $7,426
3 $4,805
4 $3,058
5 $2,184
6 $1,879
7 $1,442
8 $1,051
9 $1,006
10 $960
11 $919
12 $874
13 $833
14 $787
15 $742
16 $701
17 $655
18 $614
19 $569
20 $523
21-25 $364

Winter Open

Event 5: WWW.SHRTPOKER.COM

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$175 + $25 + $20 Seniors 50+ NLH (Re-Entry)
Level 15: Blinds 1,500/3k/500 ante

As we continue to expand our coverage of the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Winter Poker Open tournament series, we now have an easy way for players to share this site with friends and family.

Simply go to www.shrtpoker.com and it will take straight to live coverage of all the events here in the Poker Room.

Also don’t forget to tag your tweets with @SHRTPoker and we’ll keep track of the live action from the tables.