Escalator VII Series
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 3
$400 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guarantee
Entries: 1,351
Prize Pool: $452,585
February 22-26, 2023
Event 3 of the Escalator VII Series was a multi-flight $400 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry). Across six starting flights, a field of 1,351 entries generated a prize pool of $452,585, crushing the $300,000 guarantee.
Emerging victorious was Alejandro Arana Torres, winning outright for $73,775.
There were 173 players who returned on Day 2 in the money and Torres was in good shape, coming back 13th in chips. When the final table was reached, Torres was in the middle of the pack sitting fifth in chips.
His key hand came with eight players left, as he picked up ace-king and scored a double elimination to vault into the chip lead. He scored one more elimination by the time heads-up play was reached, where he had a slight lead over Michael Fryett. However, pretty soon into the heads-up match, Torres flopped a set and Fryett check-raised all in on the turn with top pair. Torres found a call and had it clinched.
Torres’ showing was his largest career live tournament score per the Hendon Mob poker database and his first win at the Seminole Hard Rock.
| Place | First Name | Last NamE | Prize Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alejandro | Arana Torres | $73,775 |
| 2 | Michael | Fryett | $50,570 |
| 3 | Peter | Fellows | $34,425 |
| 4 | A.K. | Iminov | $25,510 |
| 5 | Gil | Guadalpi | $19,200 |
| 6 | Stuart | Greenbaum | $15,530 |
| 7 | Jeffrey | Green | $12,800 |
| 8 | Jason | Korb | $10,100 |
| 9 | Owen | Lynn | $7,530 |
| 10 | Tuan | Nguyen | $7,530 |
| 11 | Neal | Corcoran | $5,705 |
| 12 | Paul | Koster | $5,705 |
| 13 | William | Chase | $4,425 |
| 14 | Cameron | Bellamy | $4,425 |
| 15 | Calixto | Rodriguez | $4,425 |
| 16 | Steven | Bennett | $3,555 |
| 17 | Mohammed | Al Balushi | $3,555 |
| 18 | Steven | Cohen | $3,555 |
| 19 | Ernesto | Castellano | $2,870 |
| 20 | James | Newcomb | $2,870 |
| 21 | Richard | Blume | $2,870 |
| 22 | Kevin | Naim | $2,395 |
| 23 | Gili | Prizament-Simon | $2,395 |
| 24 | Feiwen | Wu | $2,395 |
| 25 | Jose | Garcia | $2,035 |
| 26 | Joseph | Krasner | $2,035 |
| 27 | Karl | Nelson | $2,035 |
| 28 | Aleksandr | Tishchenko | $1,755 |
| 29 | Ernest | Bush | $1,755 |
| 30 | Ricardo | Velasco | $1,755 |
| 31 | Christopher | Echenique | $1,755 |
| 32 | Sandy | Sanchez | $1,755 |
| 33 | Cesar | Mendoza | $1,755 |
| 34 | Michael | Scheinberg | $1,755 |
| 35 | Jason | Unger | $1,755 |
| 36 | Rodrigo | Sardi | $1,755 |
| 37 | Tariq | Haji | $1,475 |
| 38 | Alejandro | Funes | $1,475 |
| 39 | Jorge | Gomez | $1,475 |
| 40 | Joel | Diaz | $1,475 |
| 41 | Andrew | Del Rio | $1,475 |
| 42 | Matthew | Kuba | $1,475 |
| 43 | David | Kahan | $1,475 |
| 44 | Denavol | Wilson | $1,475 |
| 45 | David | Shmuel | $1,475 |
| 46 | Lenol | Clark Jr. | $1,270 |
| 47 | David | Castranova | $1,270 |
| 48 | Ariel | Amendola Cuadra | $1,270 |
| 49 | Jacob | Kauffman | $1,270 |
| 50 | Gustavo | Vazquez | $1,270 |
| 51 | Scott | Livingston | $1,270 |
| 52 | Erik | De Souza | $1,270 |
| 53 | Leroy | Grant | $1,270 |
| 54 | Alex | Guzman | $1,270 |
| 55 | Jonathan | Gordon | $1,140 |
| 56 | Alexander | Baer | $1,140 |
| 57 | Ariel | Rosello | $1,140 |
| 58 | Timothy | Mulroy | $1,140 |
| 59 | Jack | Ranallo | $1,140 |
| 60 | Frederick | Attias | $1,140 |
| 61 | Brian | Goldberg | $1,140 |
| 62 | Manny | Tarich | $1,140 |
| 63 | Paulius | Bikus | $1,140 |
| 64 | Joel | Borden | $1,055 |
| 65 | Raul | Hernandez | $1,055 |
| 66 | Gary | Gelman | $1,055 |
| 67 | Antonio | Colon | $1,055 |
| 68 | Scott | Levitt | $1,055 |
| 69 | Jason | Saltzman | $1,055 |
| 70 | Michael | Turchin | $1,055 |
| 71 | Steven | Thoman | $1,055 |
| 72 | Greg-Eliot | Rosen | $1,055 |
| 73 | Alexander | Roth | $1,000 |
| 74 | Thomas | Morgado | $1,000 |
| 75 | Jose | Gonzalez | $1,000 |
| 76 | Daniel | Morillo Santaella | $1,000 |
| 77 | Pavel | Zakharov | $1,000 |
| 78 | Glayson | Leroy | $1,000 |
| 79 | Anwar | Mohamed | $1,000 |
| 80 | Evan | Lash | $1,000 |
| 81 | Roberto | Schmeda | $1,000 |
| 82 | Steven | Richardson | $945 |
| 83 | Al | Norman | $945 |
| 84 | Ryan | Estrada | $945 |
| 85 | Alexander | Perez | $945 |
| 86 | Jonathan | Moschel | $945 |
| 87 | Richard | Leger | $945 |
| 88 | Victor | Haynes | $945 |
| 89 | Sam | Spira | $945 |
| 90 | Guillermo | Hamilton | $945 |
| 91 | Pinchas | Chakchakov | $890 |
| 92 | Perry | Shiao | $890 |
| 93 | Brandon | Noe | $890 |
| 94 | Toan | Vu | $890 |
| 95 | Leonardo | Clavel | $890 |
| 96 | Adam | Larkin | $890 |
| 97 | William | Manzueta | $890 |
| 98 | Thomas | Van Keuren | $890 |
| 99 | Craig | Pollak | $890 |
| 100 | Jeffrey | Palermo | $840 |
| 101 | Jairo | Nunez Cardozo | $840 |
| 102 | Jennifer | David | $840 |
| 103 | Lorenzo | Di Chiazza | $840 |
| 104 | Jeff | Rodriguez | $840 |
| 105 | Ido | Ashkenazi | $840 |
| 106 | Jackie | Lee | $840 |
| 107 | Frederico | Dabus | $840 |
| 108 | Bernardo | Abramovich | $840 |
| 109 | Eduardo | Soares | $800 |
| 110 | Ezriel | Leibovici | $800 |
| 111 | Rina | Coss | $800 |
| 112 | Raymond | Nalbandian | $800 |
| 113 | Chen | Turjeman | $800 |
| 114 | Richard | Saunders | $800 |
| 115 | Frank | Brannan | $800 |
| 116 | Derrick | Foster | $800 |
| 117 | Yossi | Ben-Kessous | $800 |
| 118 | Bill | Gazes | $760 |
| 119 | David | Mac Donald Jr | $760 |
| 120 | Sebastian | Gallego | $760 |
| 121 | Richard | Rice | $760 |
| 122 | Steven | Dockswell | $760 |
| 123 | David | Poces | $760 |
| 124 | Maikel | Cruz | $760 |
| 125 | Jonathan | Dobson | $760 |
| 126 | Rosman | Marquez | $760 |
| 127 | David | Rauch | $720 |
| 128 | Carlos | Pereira | $720 |
| 129 | Sandeep | Velkuru | $720 |
| 130 | Victor | Taieb | $720 |
| 131 | Chet | Sickle | $720 |
| 132 | Willie | Wiggins Jr | $720 |
| 133 | Donald | Williams | $720 |
| 134 | Joel | Gola | $720 |
| 135 | Shawn | Vrenna | $720 |
| 136 | John | Magnetta | $685 |
| 137 | Douglas | Miranda | $685 |
| 138 | Luke | Rosenberg | $685 |
| 139 | Georges | Boyadjian | $685 |
| 140 | Gregory | Buonocore | $685 |
| 141 | Frank | Afonso | $685 |
| 142 | Mark | Singer | $685 |
| 143 | Robert | Kessler | $685 |
| 144 | Juan | Endara | $685 |
| 145 | Carlos | Torres Vazquez | $650 |
| 146 | Robert | Tannenbaun | $650 |
| 147 | Frederick | Allenspach | $650 |
| 148 | Steven | McKoy | $650 |
| 149 | Neil | Ho | $650 |
| 150 | Ephraim | Uzan | $650 |
| 151 | Timothy | Anstett | $650 |
| 152 | Scott | Hecker | $650 |
| 153 | Joshua | Tzur | $650 |
| 154 | Ducarmel | Beaubien | $625 |
| 155 | David | Shifrel | $625 |
| 156 | Eric | Kolodny | $625 |
| 157 | Guy | Naimi | $625 |
| 158 | Moshe | Refaelovitz | $625 |
| 159 | Robert | Brown | $625 |
| 160 | Matthew | Zarcadoolas | $625 |
| 161 | Myles | German | $625 |
| 162 | Francois | Zayas | $625 |
| 163 | Daryl | Ahrens | $625 |
| 164 | James | Dike | $625 |
| 165 | Bassel | Harmouche | $625 |
| 166 | Paul | Chang | $625 |
| 167 | German | Zaga Ramos | $625 |
| 168 | Raymond | Mcdonough | $625 |
| 169 | James | Anderson | $625 |
| 170 | Antonio | Parrado | $625 |
| 171 | Rastislav | Antala | $625 |
| 172 | Jose | Chapui | $625 |
| 173 | Kevin | Love | $625 |