$250 Big Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 9: 400/800 with a 100 ante Players Remaining: 40 of 90
Registration closed on Event 6 with exactly 90 entries in the game to create a prize pool worth $17,250. The last nine players will take home some money with the winner earning $6,035 and a $1,650 WPO Championship seat.
2016 Winter Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa, FL Event 6 $250 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em Entries: 90 Prize Pool: $17,250 December 7, 2016
$250 Big Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 1: 25/50
Event 6 is the next tournament on the 2016 WPO schedule and it will be a quick-moving game. It is a $250 buy-in Big Stack No Limit Hold’em tournament with a $15,000 guaranteed prize pool to bring out the players.
Players will sit down to 15,000 starting stacks and play 25-minute levels throughout the tournament. Late registration is open until the start of Level 9 around 9:50pm and unlimited re-entries are available during that time.
This is scheduled as a one-day tournament and we will award our next WPO guitar trophy before the night is through.
$15,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
Players begin with 15,000 in chips and 25-minute levels
Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
The first week of the 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Winter Poker Open wrapped up in the early morning hours with the final two flights of Event 4. Flights C and D combined for 285 more entries to push the Event 4 total up to 508.
Of those starters, only 68 players qualified for Day 2 and 54 of them will walk away tomorrow with something for their efforts. The prize pool blew past the $50,000 guarantee and the Event 4 winner will walk away with more than $14,000 along with the guitar trophy and 2016 WPO Championship seat.
Devaraj Munisekar (pictured above) bagged up a huge lead after Flight B and his advantage held through the last two. His 426,400 is well clear of the rest of the field but that is no guarantee of success.
Event 4 will restart at noon but there are two other options available on the schedule for those who missed Day 2 (or bust early in the restart).
Event 5 kicks off at 11am with a popular $250 Pot Limit Omaha tournament featuring a $15,000 guaranteed prize pool. Event 6 runs later in the day at 6pm and is a $250 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em tournament with another $15,000 guaranteed prize pool
There are plenty of options for those looking for Wednesday poker action and we’ll be here once again watching them all.
2015 Winter Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Tampa Event #6 $150 Double Green Chip Bounty Total Entries: 124 Prize Pool: $8,680 December 9, 2015
Tampa, FL (December 10, 2015) — Jami Cvek is the most recent of champions at the 2015 Winter Poker Open following a three-way chop in the $150 double green chip bounty tournament. The event — the sixth of 14 primary events at the WPO — took place at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Wednesday, December 9, and concluded in less than eight hours. Cvek, a caregiver from Davenport, FL, earned $1,621 while Scott Caracciolo and Daniel Wilson earned $1,620 for their 2nd- and 3rd-place finishes.
For Cvek, the win marks just her second career tournament cash. In addition to the prize money, she earned an undisclosed number of $50 bounties which were paid out in the form of two green $25 chips. The victory complements a runner-up finish she carded in a $125 event in this August’s Summer Deep Stack Poker Series for $770.
Event 6 of the WPO drew a field of 124 entries generating a prize pool of $8,680. In addition to the standard payouts, players received a $50 bounty for each participant they eliminated.
Final results:
1st: Jami Cvek – $1,621 2nd: Scott Caracciolo – $1,620 3rd: Daniel Wilson – $1,620 4th: Anthony Solares – $694 5th: Christopher Ooley – $521 6th: Kellan Schneider – $434 7th: Lawrence Kiang – $347 8th: Ralph Wilks – $260 9th: Rocco Mazzurco – $195 10th: Geoffrey Mikulka – $174 11th: Scott Nichols – $174 12th: James Meyers – $174 13th: Cody Hernandez – $152 14th: Ross Monteleone – $152 15th: Gregg Herreman – $152 16th: Mario Tamayosaco – $130 17th: Michael Gencal – $130 18th: Woodrow Pass – $130
$150 Double Green Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 15: 2,000/4,000/500 Ante
While we’ve been paying attention to the big PLO final table going on in the front of the room, the Double Green Chip Bounty quickly played down into the money and to the final table.
Below is the lineup and we will pick up action after the PLO event ends.
Final Table Seat 1: Ralph Wilks – 35,000 (9 bb) Seat 2: Lawrence Kiang – 46,500 (12 bb) Seat 3: Anthony Solares – 184,000 (46 bb) Seat 4: Scott Caracciolo – 232,500 (58 bb) Seat 5: Jami Cvek – 166,500 (42 bb) Seat 6: Dan Wilson – 253,500 (63 bb) Seat 7: Kellan S – 95,600 (24 bb) Seat 8: Rocco Mazzurco – 50,000 (13 bb) Seat 9: Chris Ooley – 185,000 (46 bb)
Dan Wilson – 253,500 (63 bb) Scott Caracciolo – 232,500 (58 bb) Chris Ooley – 185,000 (46 bb) Anthony Solares – 184,000 (46 bb) Jami Cvek – 166,500 (42 bb) Kellan S – 95,600 (24 bb) Rocco Mazzurco – 50,000 (13 bb) Lawrence Kiang – 46,500 (12 bb) Ralph Wilks – 35,000 (9 bb)
$150 Double Green Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 9: 600/1,200/200 Ante
Level 8 came and went and registration is closed in this evening’s 6 p.m. $150 double green chip bounty tournament. In all, a field of 124 entries generated a prize pool of $8,680. The top 18 players finish in the money with the winner earning $2,604.
$150 Double Green Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 1: 25/50
It’s time to collect some bounties in the 2015 Winter Poker Open. The next new event on the schedule will move quick and run up a nice prize pool. Event 6 is a No Limit Hold’em tournament with a bounty on each player to make things more interesting.
From the $150 buy-in, $70 goes into the normal prize pool while a $50 bounty is placed on each player in the field. Take away their stack, immediately get two $25 cash chips making it possible to profit without making into the payout portion of the tournament.
Event 6 has a $10,000 guaranteed prize pool with up-tempo levels at 25 minutes a pop. The 10,000 stacks should help goose along the action and we’ll have a new champ before the night is complete. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 around 9:50pm.
Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Deep Stack Spring Poker Series
$150 Deep Stack Turbo NLH (Re-Entry) $15,000 Guaranteed May 17, 2015
Total Entries: 172 Total Prize Pool: $20,640
Alan Ramkhalawan – 1st Place
RECAP
Alan Ramkhalawan, a local pharmacist, won his first Seminole Hard Rock Tampa major event title today after agreeing to a heads-up chop with Craig Jenkins. Ramkhalawan was the chip leader when they got heads-up after about eight and a half hours of play.
Despite his amateur status, Ramkhalawan has more than $147,000 in reported tournament earnings over the last eight years that he’s been playing. The biggest portion of which came from a 3rd place finish one year ago in the WSOP Circuit Championship event in New Orleans ($79,356).
The final event of the 2015 Spring Deep Stack Series was a one-day Turbo NLH event carrying a $15,000 guarantee on the prize pool. Players came out in force for this final event, producing a total of 172 entries and pushing the prize pool over the $20,000 mark, to $20,640. The final 18 players earned a piece of the pie.
Second place went to Craig Jenkins, another local who tweeted after it was over that he was finally ‘unstuck for the year’. Linda Strope was the last woman in this event, finishing 3rd. Also of note was perennial favorite and regular on the felt Wally Maddah, who booked his third cash of the series, finishing 18th for $310.
Final Table Results
1st – Alan Ramkhalawan $4,799 2nd – Craig Jenkins $4,798 3rd – Linda Strope $1,961 4th – Woodrow Pass $1,651 5th – Justin King $1,238 6th – Joseph Worth $1,032 7th – Christian Jabbour $826 8th – Joe Williams $619 9th – Ok Haselton $464 10th – Renato Moraes $413
