The opening day of the Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open was a big one and included the first two flights of the $1,000,000 guarantee Event 1 plus two one-day trophy events. The Event 1 turnout was huge but the big headline of the day came from the $200 Double Green Chip Bounty tournament.
Gabriel Ramos had his fair share of SHRP Hollywood hardware with five non-hold’em trophies coming into the day. He was unable to secure a deep run in the Limit Omaha 8 tournament, entered the bounty tournament, cruised to the final table, and picked up win number six after a four-way deal.
2018 Showdown – $360 Omaha 8/Stud 8
2018 SHRPO – $360 Big O
2019 LHPO – $360 Six-Max PLO
2019 Showdown – $360 Pot Limit Omaha 8
2019 SHRPO – $400 Omaha 8/Stud 8
2021 RRPO – $200 Double Green Chip Bounty
The win put him in a three-way tie with Brian Altman and Michael Newman for the second-most titles in our history behind David Prociak and Raminder Singh with seven.
David Prociak – 7 wins
Raminder Singh – 7 wins
Brian Altman – 6 wins
Gabriel Ramos – 6 wins
Michael Newman – 6 wins
$200 Double Green Chip Bounty Results
While Ramos was winning it all at the bounty final table, Jay Kerbel was nearby working his way to a title in the $400 Limit Omaha 8 tournament. He earned the outright win after defeating Ziya Rahim heads-up for the title.
Kerbel took home $11,315 for the win and his first career Hollywood trophy.
We kicked things off for the series with the first two flights of the $400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em tournament. It has eight starting flights with a $1,000,000 guarantee and the players came out.
Flights A and B combined to put 1,031 entries into the tournament, the biggest starting day of this tournament in our history and we’re looking to break more records before the weekend is through.
WSOP bracelet winner John Spadavecchia bagged the biggest stack in Flight A but was topped by both Samuel Kim and Matias Morana in Flight B.
We had a total of 104 players book a seat for Day 2 on Sunday at 1 pm, in the money and set to go.
Top 10 stacks so far:
- Samuel Kim – 685,000
- Matias Morana – 582,000
- John Spadavecchia – 519,000
- Kenny Han – 500,000
- Ben Boston – 478,000
- Michael Goldfarb – 471,000
- Michael Graffeo – 459,000
- Evan Beard – 442,000
- Jeff Charlton – 434,000
- Stephen Bristow Jr – 417,000