$150 Deep Stack Turbo NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 9: 400/800 with a 100 ante
Entries: 78
Scott “Twitch” Anderson is having himself a nice little run over the last few days. He’s played in two tournaments this week and final tabled both. Anderson picked up $24,730 for fifth place in the big, multi-day Event 7 and followed that up with another $1,557 as part of a three-way deal in the $150 Double Green Chip Bounty last evening.
He’s back today and can make it three-for-three.
$150 Deep Stack Turbo NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 8: 300/600 with a 75 ante
Entries: 70
The Turbo Event 12 field continues to move towards last year’s number of 86. We expect to get there before registration closes in 90 minutes and start whittling down the field from there.
Wayne Brown is a regular face in our SHRP and looking for his second career SHRP trophy. Brown’s sole tournament win came in the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Omana/8 event. He came close to earning another earlier this series when he finished seventh in the $250 Big Stack Event 6.
$150 Deep Stack Turbo NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 3: 75/250 with a 25 ante
Entries: 45
Less than an hour into the Turbo event and they are already putting out antes. This promises to flow fast until the end. We have 45 entries in the game and we expect a steady stream to the re-entry desk.
Alan Phillips knows a little something about winning Turbo tournaments. He was the big stack standing at the end of Sunday’s Event 8 Turbo for $4,900 and he’s back again today. That win continued a nice recent run for Phillips. He won $360 Big Stack event during the Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open” and followed that up with a fourth-place finish in WPO Event 6.
$150 Deep Stack Turbo NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50
Tuesday evening offers up the last tournament of the series before the $300,000 Guarantee Winter Poker Open Championship kicks off on Thursday. And this one will move along at a brisk pace.
Event 12 is a $150 buy-in Turbo tournament with a $10,000 guaranteed prize pool and plenty of action for all getting involved.
Players sit down to 20,000 deep starting stacks and play 15-minute levels throughout the day. Late registration is available until the start of Level 13, around 9:30pm, and unlimited re-entries are available during that time.
Cards go in the air at 6pm and we’ll keep an eye on both tournaments running in the poker room.
Main Event Schedule
11AM: Event 11 – $180 Seniors Classic Rockers 50+ (Re-Entry)
6PM: Event 12 – $150 Deep Stack Turbo NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Secondary and Satellite Schedule
2PM: Event 21 – $55 Qualifier into Championship Satellite (1-in-5)
2015 Winter Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Tampa
Event #12
$150 Deep Stack Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Total Entries: 86
Prize Pool: $10,320
December 15, 2015
The $150 buy-in Turbo Event 12 was billed as a fast-structured tournament for players looking for some action before the Winter Poker Open Championship on Thursday. It beat the $10,000 guarantee and John Pishos was the latest champion after less than seven hours of play.
They were down to the final table ten after five hours of action, 90 minutes after registration closed, but only nine would make the money. Melody Murphy was short stacked through much of the late play and went out on the money bubble in 10th place.
It looked like Jay Giles was going to go out next when he lost a big pot to leave him with just 4,000. He managed a quadruple-up and watched as Chris Kobil and Nicholas Koulouvaris went out ahead of him.
Giles night came to an end along with Victor Hernandez when both were eliminated in the last hand before the final break. The remaining five players went an extended time without a big hand but it was Seminole Hard Rock Tampa ambassador Wally Maddah dropping out in 5th place.
James Mori and Griffin Arnold were eliminated soon after and Pishos took care of David Pierce in a half dozen hands to earn the title. He earned the $2,948 first place prize along with the $1,650 Winter Poker Open Championship seat.
Pishos is a transplant from Greece and the former cosmetologist now resides in Palm Beach Gardens, FL. This win pushes him over $18,000 in career earnings which includes a WSOP Circuit win, final table appearance in a Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Deep Stack series event, and deep finish last May during the Spring Poker Series.
It was a fast, entertaining tournament that gave players a chance at some nice money in a short amount of time.
Event 12 Results:
1st: John Pishos – $2,948 + $1,650 WPO Championship Seat
2nd: David Pierce – $1,725
3rd: Griffin Arnold – $1,127
4th: James Mori – $824
5th: Wally Maddah – $616
6th: Victor Hernandez – $477
7th: Jay Giles – $381
8th: Nicholas Koulouvaris – $312
9th: Chris Kobil – $260
$150 Deep Stack Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 23: 25,000/50,000/5,000 Ante
The heads up match ended quickly when David Pierce moved all-in after the 
flop. John Pishos thought for half a beat before calling with middle pair 
which was ahead of Pierce’s bottom pair 
.
The tournament was complete when Pierce couldn’t catch the 
turn and Pishos made an overkill two pair on the 
river to win the title.
Full results and details coming soon.
$150 Deep Stack Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 23: 25,000/50,000/5,000 Ante
After a couple battles back and forth, Griffin Arnold and David Pierce went at it one last time. This time it was a quick all-in and call with Arnold in trouble.
His 
needed a lot of help against 
but couldn’t get there as the dealer spread 
to send Arnold out and set up the heads up battle.
$150 Deep Stack Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 23: 25,000/50,000/5,000 Ante
James Mori open-shoved for 230,000 with 
and David Pierce called in the small blind with 
. Griffin Arnold let his hand go and they were underway.
Pierce flopped an open-ended straight draw on the 
board and hit it on the 
turn to take the hand and send Mori out in 4th place.
$150 Deep Stack Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 23: 25,000/50,000/5,000 Ante
Even with the quickly climbing blinds, the final table played five-handed for more than two levels before something big happened.
And it was two players catching two top hands that got things moving. John Pishos opened to 150,000 and Wally Maddah moved all-in over the top. They didn’t even try to count the stacks when Pishos quickly called with 
.
Maddah needed to win the race with 
to stay in the game but Pishos caught the 
flop to take the lead. The board completed and to give Pishos the big hand and send the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa ambassador out in 5th place.