It was the second big Sunday on the 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Winter Poker Open and two more guitar trophies were awarded before the night was through.
It began with Day 2 of the $570 buy-in, $200,000 Guarantee Event 7 and 113 players returned to play it down. The tournament pushed the prize pool over $300,000 with more than half of the returners set to take home some money.
There were plenty of top players returning, including Tony March, John Holley, David Tuthill, 2010 WSOP November Niner John Dolan, and reigning SHRP Player of the Year David Prociak but none of them played a part when the big money was handed out.
A double knockout set up a nine-handed final table and they chopped it up eight ways after Ari Prostak was eliminated in tenth. SHRP regular Dmitry Agrachov (pictured above) had the biggest stack and was awarded the title along with the $1,650 WPO Championship seat.
Event 8 was the one-day tournament on the schedule and the $150 Deep Stack Turbo drew a big crowd of 236 entries to crush the $15,000 guaranteed prize pool. It played down like the Turbo it was supposed to be and those 236 were down to the final table in a half dozen hours.
That tournament made a deal with four players remaining and Alan Phillips (pictured below) won his second tournament in less than a month. He put another trophy on his mantle after winning the 2016 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open” $360 Big Stack event.
Monday brings two more tournaments and both will play out in one day. The opening event kicks off at 11am and the $250 buy-in tournament has a $20,000 guaranteed prize pool.
The evening tournament starts at 6pm with part of the buy-in going towards a bounty on the player’s heads. It’s a $150 buy-in green chip bounty event with $25 paid out for each player knocked out. It has a $10,000 guaranteed prize pool and will also award a guitar trophy before the night is through.