Friday was another busy one in the Seminole Ballroom as the 2019 RRPO series made its way into the weekend. Event 1 nearly made the $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool a day early and we awarded another RRPO trophy.
Pot Limit Omaha is a popular game in South Florida and 137 entries joined up trying to win a PLO trophy. The $400 buy-in tournament put nearly $45,000 in the prize pool with 18 getting paid. The final table included Gabriel Ramos going for his sixth SHRP trophy, former Hollywood champs Sean Shah and David Moreno, and 2019 LHPO PLO champ Hyndi Khomutetsky.
They all fell to the wayside as Tommy Tran took the outright win after defeating Khomutetsky heads-up. He earned $11,705 along with the RRPO trophy and custom-framed winner’s photo courtesy of Image Masters.
Event 5 results:
1st: Tommy Tran – $11,705 + RRPO Trophy
2nd: Hyndi Khomutetsky – $7,805
3rd: David Moreno – $5,455
4th: Iman Nikmaram – $3,915
5th: Sean Shah – $2,895
6th: Wilfor Marentes Pinto – $2,205
7th: Kenny McCollough – $1,730
8th: Steve Roth – $1,400
9th: Gabriel Ramos – $1,170
10th: Trenton Pippin – $1,170
11th: Federico Herrera – $1,010
12th: Brandon Sinawi – $1,010
13th: Aaron Kupin – $905
14th: Christopher Back – $905
15th: David Carvara – $840
16th: Hossein Ghodosi Fard – $840
17th: Stewart Yancik – $810
18th: Joshua Adkins – $810
Event 1 ran Flights E and F in the Seminole Ballroom and the two combined to put nearly 1,200 new entries into the tournament. The two flights pushed the Event 1 total up to 2,783 leaving an easy $1,000,000 guarantee make Saturday morning.
Daniel Rambally and Nigel Murray were the two biggest stacks to bag from Flight E and they were separating but a single 1K chip in their counts. John “Two-Bears” Hill was the leader at the end of Flight F and his 400,000 puts him in second overall.
Another 171 players advanced to Day 2 to make it 427 set for a return on Sunday at noon.
Top 10 Event 1 stacks so far:
- Naing Thu – 409,500
- John Hill – 400,000
- Raminder Singh – 387,000
- Seyed Hosseini – 386,000
- Gilles Dalco – 381,500
- Alfredo Guevara – 379,000
- Daniel Rambally – 372,000
- Nigel Murray – 371,000
- Perla Ojeda – 363,500
- Jonathan Gordon – 357,500
Event 1 chip counts through Flight F
Images courtesy of Eric Harkins and Image Masters. If you would like to purchase any prints of your pictures, you can visit his booth in the hallway or visit the Image Masters website.