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Event 16: Former Champs Battle

$300 + $50 No Limit Hold’em 6-Max Deep Stack Turbo

Blinds: 75/150

The field is slowly building and now includes two former 2013 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open” champions. Peter Striano and Andrew Frier won Events 5 and 6 early in the series, both are now seated at Table 40 to battle it out.

Both players are also tied for second place on the Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open” Leaderboard with both adding a 4th place finish to their win.

The entrant count has begun to grow and the tournament board is now showing 32 entrants in the field with five more levels of late registration/re-entry available.

Event 16: Short-handed Poker

$300 + $50 No Limit Hold’em 6-Max Deep Stack Turbo

Blinds: 25/25

It’s the final day of preliminary events for the Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open” before a day off on Thursday and the Main Event kicking off on Friday. Both events today will be full of action and gambling starting with Event 16.

The noon tournament today combines a turbo format with 6-Max tables. Players have come to enjoy the short-handed version of the game and we expect a great field. The $350 buy-in tournament has a $20,000 guarantee and players start with 16,000 stacks to play 15-minute levels.

The math tells us they will begin with 640 big blinds, plenty of room to make moves regardless of the fast structure.

They will play down to a winner this evening, no one wants to come back on Thanksgiving to finish it out.

We’ll be here all day bringing live updates from the final two tournaments before the $1,650 Main Event and its $500,000 guarantee.

Tournament Schedule for November 27th

Today in The Poker Room at Seminole Hard Rock:

Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open” Schedule and Structure

12pm – Event 16 ($350 NLH 6-Max Deep Stack Turbo – $20,000 Guaranteed)

Registration open until end of Level 8
Eliminated players may re-enter until end of Level 8
Player begin with 16,000 chips and play 15-minute levels
The tournament will be played 6-handed throughout
Final table will consist of 7 players

2pm – Main Event Mega Satellite ($200 NL Holdem – 5 Seats Guaranteed)

Registration open until end of Level 4
Eliminated players may re-enter until end of Level 4
Players begin with 7,500 and play 30-minute levels
Five $1,650 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open” Main Event seats guaranteed

6pm – Event 17 ($150 NL Hold’em Double Stack Turbo – $15,000 Guaranteed)

Registration open until end of Level 8
Eliminated players may re-enter until end of Level 8
Player begin with 12,000 chips and play 15-minute levels

8pm – Main Event Turbo Mega Satellite ($200 NL Holdem – 5 Seats Guaranteed)

Registration open until end of Level 8
Eliminated players may re-enter until end of Level 8
Players begin with 7,500 and play 15-minute levels
Five $1,650 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open” Main Event seats guaranteed

Event 15: Growing Field

$120 + $30 No Limit Hold’em

Blinds: 100/200

Players have moved into Level 4 of Event 15 and the number of entrants continues to climb closer to the magic number. There are 167 players showing on the board with more coming all the time looking for a piece of the $20,000 guaranteed prizepool.

With multiple tournaments going at once, Event 15 players are split between the downstairs tables and the upstairs tournament area.

Event 15: Evening Grind

$120 + $30 No Limit Hold’em

Blinds: 25/50

Event 15 of the Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open” is another small buy-in, big prizepool No Limit Hold’em tournament. The $150 buy-in tournament sports a $20,000 guaranteed prizepool and will draw a big field.

Players begin with 6,000 in their stacks and 30-minute levels to make their moves. Late registration is available unti the start of Level 5 and players can re-enter during that time if they are knocked out.

Players are taking their seats and cards are in the air.

Gil Haim Nagar outlasts everyone to win Event 13

$260 + $40 No Limit Hold’em

Blinds: 6k/12k/2k ante

There was a significant delay as the final three players tried to hammer out a deal. The sticky point was actually who would get the winner trophy but they were able to work out a chip chop.

Staff gave the players one 30 minute level to play for the trophy and they went for it.

Ultimately it was Santana Noronha who won the trophy they all desired but Gil Haim Nagar is the champion of Event 13 as the always talking, always having fun local grabbed the most chips at the right time.

Gil Haim Nagar, Event 13 Champion
Gil Haim Nagar, Event 13 Champion
PlacePlayerPayout
1stHaim Gil Nagar$7,096
2ndSantana Noronha$6,797
3rdJason Kwartler$6,237
4thPeter Striano$2,650
5thCourtland Twyman$2,105

Event 13: 4th place, Peter Striano – $2,650

$260 + $40 No Limit Hold’em

Blinds: 6k/12k/2k ante

It took nearly two hours to knocked out Twyman in 5th place but just one more hand to get the next one. Peter Striano raised from the cutoff and Gil Haim Nagar shoved from the small blind.]

Striano shrugged his shoulders and called with AcTs but was dominated by AdKc. Nagar improved even more with the Ks9d2h flop but Striano picked up a gut shot on the Js turn.

“Dont’ do it!” yelled Nagar.

Someone was listening and the harmless Jc hit the river to send Striano out in the 4th place for $2,650.

Peter Striano, 4th place
Peter Striano, 4th place