$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 22: 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 105
The SHRPO High Roller final table has a very talented group of players returning with nearly $55 million in career earnings including 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open champ Dan Colman. Ray Qartomy returns as the chip leader while Andjelko Andrejevic returns with one big blind.
Seat 1: Marvin Rettenmaier
Stuttgart, Germany
860,000 (17 bb)
The German transplant has nearly $5.5 million in career earnings, most of it coming from first WPT title in the 2012 $25K WPT World Championship. He added a second WPT title less than three months later in Cyprus. Rettenmaier came close to winning his first bracelet this summer with a third-place finish in the WSOP Tag Team event.
Seat 2: Daniel Strelitz
Santa Ana, CA
1,595,000 (32 bb)
Strelitz cashed six-time this summer during the WSOP, including a runner-up in Event 48, with three WSOP final tables in the last three years. He has almost $1.5 million in live tournament cash and he’s that much in his online career as “deoxyribo”.
Seat 3: Francisco Picasso
Lima, Peru
380,000 (8 bb)
Picasso is the mystery player at the final table, a businessman hailing from Peru with seven results to his credit. He finished deep in the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship in 2013 and finished second in a Brazil Series of Poker event in 2014.
Seat 4: Ray Qartomy
Houston, TX
2,335,000 (47 bb)
Qartomy has earned more than $2 million in his career with his biggest cash coming from a fourth place finish in the 2013 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship. He has two WPT televised final table appearance, both coming seven months apart at the Borgata.
Seat 5: Dan Colman
Holden, MA
2,260,000 (45 bb)
The most successful player at the High Roller final table with more than $25 million in career earnings. He earned $15 million of that with his 2014 WSOP $1,000,000 buy-in Big One for One Drop bracelet. Colman finished 31st in this year’s WSOP Main Event and he was the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open champion.
Seat 6: Rainer Kempe
Brighton, UK
525,000 (11 bb)
A win today would push Kempe over $8 million in career earnings and he already owns three high roller titles, all coming since December. He earned an even $5 million a few months ago when he won a $300,000 buy-in high roller event in Las Vegas. Kempe has several major final table appearance with his deepest coming in a third-place finish at the 2015 WPT Montreal event.
Seat 7: Barry Hutter
Sarasota, FL
1,080,000 (22 bb)
Hutter owns a WSOP bracelet from 2015 and a WSOP Circuit ring from 2010 to go with his $3.3 million in career earnings. He won a $25,000 Aria High Roller in 2015 and is also Seminole Hard Rock Deep Stacks event champ. Hutter also finished eighth in the 2014 WPT Seminole Hard Poker Showdown Championship.
Seat 8: Andjelko Andrejevic
Belgrade, Serbia
70,000 (1 bb)
Andrejevic has $3.3 million in career earnings including three WPT televised final tables. They last one produced his first major victory when he won the WPT Amsterdam Main Event this past May. Andrejevic finished fourth in the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open” Championship and his biggest cash came from a HK$ 480,000 Super High Roller win in Macau.
Seat 9: Nick Petrangelo
Springfield, MA
1,415,000 (28 bb)
Petrangelo has cashed for more than $5 million his career including two WSOP final table appearance this summer, the last one in the $111,111 Big One for One Drop High Roller in seventh for $628,000. He earned more than $1 million for a second place finish in a 2015 WPT $100,000 Alpha8 tournament and another $670,000 for an EPT High Roller third place finish.
Final table lineup.
Seat 1: Marvin Rettenmaier – 860,000 (17 bb)
Seat 2: Daniel Strelitz – 1,595,000 (32 bb)
Seat 3: Francisco Picasso – 380,000 (8 bb)
Seat 4: Ray Qartomy – 2,335,000 (47 bb)
Seat 5: Dan Colman – 2,260,000 (45 bb)
Seat 6: Rainer Kempe – 525,000 (11 bb)
Seat 7: Barry Hutter – 1,080,000 (22 bb)
Seat 8: Andjelko Andrejevic – 70,000 (1 bb)
Seat 9: Nick Petrangelo – 1,415,000 (28 bb)