$150 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed
Level 9: Blinds 600/1,200/200 ante
Total 4B Entries: 65 4B Players Remaining: 31 Average Stack: 42,000 (35 big blinds)
Registration is closed for this flight. There were a total of 65 entrants who took to the felt in this second of nine starting flights.
One more flight today (started at 7pm) is followed by six more over the next two days. There are still plenty of opportunities to take a shot (or two, or three) at this event.
The third of nine starting flights of the $100,000 Guaranteed Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em event is underway!
Players began with 20,000 chips and all levels are 30 minutes long. They will play 13 levels then players will bag up their chips and advance to Day 2 on Thursday at 12 noon.
Late registration and re-entry are available until the start of Level 7 (about 10:30pm). Players who bust out may re-enter the same flight or any subsequent flight until registration closes.
The second of nine starting flights of the $100,000 Guaranteed Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em event is underway!
Players began with 20,000 chips and all levels are 30 minutes long. They will play 13 levels then players will bag up their chips and advance to Day 2 on Thursday at 12 noon.
Late registration and re-entry are available until the start of Level 7 (about 6:30pm). Players who bust out may re-enter the same flight or any subsequent flight until registration closes.
The first of nine starting flights of the $100,000 Guaranteed Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em event is underway! For the low, low, price of $150 you can take a shot at that $100,000 guaranteed prize pool!
Players began with 20,000 chips and all levels are 30 minutes long. The plan is to play 13 levels or until only 12% of the starting entries remain, then players will bag up their chips and advance to Day 2 on Thursday at 12 noon.
Late registration and re-entry are available until the start of Level 7 (about 2:30pm). Players who bust out may re-enter the same flight or any subsequent flight until registration closes.
This is NOT a best-stack forward event. If a player has chips at the end of their flight, they must forfeit those chips if they wish to play a subsequent flight.
Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Winter Poker Open Event 4: $150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed December 7-11, 2014
Entries: 1,069 Total Prize Pool: $128,280
Gabriel Tudorache – 1st place
RECAP
“It feels great!” said Gabriel Tudorache (Reddick, FL) after winning the $100,000 Guaranteed Event 4, $150 No Limit Hold’em. He claimed $13,720 for the win, along with the $1,650 seat in the Seminole Hard Rock Winter Poker Open Championship and the signature guitar trophy. “I can’t wait to show my wife!”
Tudorache took a massive chip lead before the dinner break when he turned a better two-pair hand against Nick Tzoumas, who finished 12th. When the final eight returned from dinner, they played for a short while before deciding to chop it up and call it a night. The other seven players each took $10,000 and gave Tudorache all the rest.
After seven starting flights over four days there were a total of 1,069 entries in this event for a prize pool of $128,280. This more than covered the $100,000 guarantee. The prize pool was distributed among the final 100 players.
Only 125 made it to Day 2 and the bubble burst after only an hour of play. 82-year-old Franklin Walker came into Day 2 as co-chip-leader with Tom Nguyen. Walker made it to 14th place, earning $1,076. Nguyen went out in 49th place for $393, booking his second cash of this series. He was part of the 10-way chop that ended Event 1.
The second-oldest player in this event, Max Dertke, held the chip lead when three tables remained. The 81-year-old made it to the final table, then busted out in 10th place, outlasting Walker by four places.
This is Tudorache’s first tournament win. He plays poker professionally and usually sticks to cash games, $2/$5 or $5/$10 No Limit Hold’em. He started Day 2 seventh in chips and at one point had pocket Aces two hands in a row in the big and small blinds — and they held up both times. Good luck and solid play led him to victory.
“Great food and service,” he said about the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa. He’s planning to be back on Saturday for Event 5 and of course the Championship event next week for which he earned his seat today.
He’s got two sons, seven and five years old, and they love to hear his poker stories. “I love them to death” he said about his wife and kids. No one at his house plays the guitar, but it may be time to sign them up for lessons!
They played for a little while after returning from dinner, then decided on an 8-way chop.
Gabriel Tudorache – 1st place
Gabriel Tudorache’s massive chip lead earned him the win, the $1,650 seat in the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Winter Poker Open Championship, and the signature guitar trophy. He agreed to a deal taking $13,720 of the prize pool.
The other seven players each get $10,000.
2nd – Steven Bennett 3r d – Eric Moffett 4th – Claudemir Osorio 5th – Alan Korpi 6th – John Stillitano 7th – Raymond Dwyer 8th – Gene Stone
Dinner-time chip counts for the final eight players are below. Average stack is 1.6 million (20 big blinds).
Gabriel Tudorache 3.4 million (42.5 big blinds) Claudimer Osorio 2.22 million Steven Bennett 1.7 million Raymond Dwyer 1.5 million John Stillitano 1.1 million Alan Korpi 1.03 million Eric Moffett 950k Gene Stone 905k (11 big blinds)
