Championship: Final Table Profiles

The 2015 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship is down to just six players after three starting flights and five total days. The tournament stared with 1,476 and here’s a little look at the only players remaining with a shot at the $1,000,000 first place prize.

HR-SHO EV13F Table 2-S9_0680_1 Griffin PaulSeat 1: Griffin Paul – 14,290,000 (143 bb)

From Calabasas, CA with over $74,000 in career tournament earnings and his biggest coming in the 2014 WSOP Main Event for $25,746. Paul has two career WSOP cashes and one WPT cash. He lists his special talent as “country line dancer”.

 


HR-SHO EV13F Table 1-S7_0714 Joe Ebanks

Seat 2: Joe Ebanks – 6,585,000 (66 bb)

From Lubbock, TX with nearly $2.4 million in career tournament earnings and his biggest cash earned for winning the $10,000 WSOP 6-Handed Championship for $1,158,481. Ebanks has tournament cashes in 17 different countries. (US, Uruaguay, Spain, Netherlands, Italy, Romania, Monaco, Aruba, France, Bahamas, Austria, Costa Rica, Estonia, Germany, Portugal, Panama, and Brazil)


HR-SHO EV13F Table 1-S4_0679 Ryan Rivers

Seat 3: Ryan Rivers – 4,170,000 (42 bb)

From Belleville, ON with over $200,000 in career tournament earnings and most of it coming from a 3rd place finish at the PokerStars Canada Cup in 2014. He has one WSOP cash and his first WPT cash came in this event last year. Rivers plans to help his mother retire with this result.


HR-SHO EV13F Table 1-S3_0721 Shawn Nguyen

Seat 4: Shawn Nguyen – 3,615,000 (36 bb)

From West Palm Beach, FL with $28,000 in career tournament earnings making this his biggest cash by far. Primarily a cash game player with one WSOP to his credit, this is his first big buy-in tournament and he lists his special skills as talking and tilting people.


HR-SHO EV13F Table 2-S1_0689_1 Brian Green

Seat 5: Brian Green – 5,205,000 (52 bb)

From Arlington, TX with nearly $800,000 in career tournament earnings including a 2nd place finish in the $5,000 WSOP Limit Hold’em event in 2012. He has one WPT final table with four WPT cashes along with 11 career WSOP cashes.

 


HR-SHO EV13F Table 1-S1_0695 Andre Crooks

Seat 6: Andre Crooks – 10,350,000 (104 bb)

From Lake Worth, FL with over $75,000 in career tournament earnings and the biggest coming from a 2nd place finish during the 2013 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown $1,100 No Limit Hold’em event. Crook’s most recent cash was here two weeks ago in Event 4 and a 4th place finish.