$10,000 SHRPO NLH (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 20: 5,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante Remaining Players: 5 of 117
Sam Gorsfield
Sam Gorsfield moved all in for 115,000 from the button and Noah Schwartz called from the big blind. Gorsfield tabled and was flipping against Schwartz’s .
The board came out and Schwartz wound up with a pair of aces to eliminate Gorsfield.
Noah Schwartz – 225,000 (15 bb) Sam Gorsfield – Eliminated in 6th Place ($48,860)
2019 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida Event 21 $2,650 No-Limit Hold’em $1,000,000 Guaranteed Entries: 385 Prize Pool: $1,000,000 August 11-13, 2019
Jessica Dawley won the $2,650 no-limit hold’em
(Hollywood, Florida) — Jessica Dawley hit the $1,000,000 mark in career earnings in style with a Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Big 4 Trophy. The South Florida poker pro and Air Force veteran won the $2,650 no-limit hold’em single re-entry Tuesday night at the Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood. After a nearly five-hour heads-up battle with Faraz Jaka, Dawley emerged victorious from the 385-entry field, taking home the trophy and $204,610. Jaka earned $142,610 for his runner-up finish.
The score was Dawley’s biggest of her career, besting her $130,230 win from the 2018 ladies event at the World Series of Poker. She not only posted a personal best but now has seven-figures in earnings, a benchmark she knew she was close to coming into the final table.
“Actually, going into the series, a buddy of mine and me were neck-and-neck in total earnings, and I was like ‘I just need a $200K score and then I’ll be over the $1 million-mark and I’ll pass you,'” said Dawley after the tournament. “So that was definitely my goal, for sure.”
Dawley came into the final table third in chips but was struggling to stay alive on Day 2. She was down to just five big blinds during the tournament’s penultimate day before hitting a rush of cards before the money and finishing with piles of chips.
“So many people, when they get short, let’s say five to seven big blinds, they think it’s game over and will punt it in,” said Dawley. “But the thing is, is that it’s all relative to what the other stack sizes are. If you have five big blinds and someone else has 95, of course, you are going to feel defeated. But if the other stack is like 20 bigs, then calling off five bigs is a lot for them. That’s kind of what happened yesterday. I just picked my spots and built my stack up.”
The rungood carried into Day 3 for Dawley. She chipped up early, knocked out Jake Daniels in eighth-place, and was the chip leader with five players left.
“Today, it was like the dream scenario,” said Dawley. “I had the cards at the right times and when I had bluffs, I wasn’t getting picked off. So I was real happy with how everything turned out.”
Dawley and Jaka dominated the early portions of a talented final table that featured Raj Vohra, Justin Zaki, and Jordan Cristos. The two pulled away from the pack and were heads-up just four hours into the day.
That’s when the battle really began. The two traded blows for nearly five levels. Jaka held the experience edge, but the cards went Dawley’s way. She pulled ahead early and despite Jaka putting a few dents in her stack, she never relinquished the lead.
“He definitely has more experience over the course of his career playing heads-up in these high-equity spots,” said Dawley. “But I don’t really get nervous at all, so for me, I just told myself don’t bloat any pots and don’t get out of line.”
Eventually, Dawley’s ace-two outflopped Jaka’s pocket eights and she won her first Hard Rock trophy.
$10,000 SHRPO NLH (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 19: 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante Remaining Players: 7 of 117
Wesom Abdallah shoved from early position and James Romero reshoved from the small blind. The rest of the table folded and it was heads up with Abdallah’s in bad shape against Romero’s .
The board ran out and Romero’s pocket eights held to score the knock out.
James Romero – 285,000 Wesom Abdallah – Eliminated in 8th Place ($37,065)
$10,000 SHRPO NLH (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante Remaining Players: 8 of 117
Joseph Orsino opened with a raise to 18,000 preflop, and Farid Jattin reraised all in for 105,000. Orsino called to cover him so they flipped over their cards.
Orsino: Jattin:
Board:
Jattin was eliminated in ninth place, good for $33,135, and Orsino held 350,000 after the hand.
$5,250 SHRPO Championship (Single Re-Entry) $3,000,000 Guaranteed | Payouts | Live Stream Level 31: 100,000/200,000 with a 200,000 ante Players Remaining: 1 of 809
Sean Winter
HAND #223 – Shalom Elharrar moved all in blind for 450,000, and Sean Winter called blind. The dealer dealt the cards, and Elharrar showed . Winter turned over , and Elharrar needed to improve to stay alive.
The board came , and Winter won the pot — and the SHRPO Championship — with his ace.
Shalom Elharrar finished as the runner-up, earning $487,695.
Sean Winter won the 2019 SHRPO Championship, earning $698,175, a SHRPO trophy, and a custom-framed winner’s photo courtesy of IMPDI. Congratulations to Sean Winter!
Shalom Elharrar
1st: Sean Winter – $698,175 2nd: Shalom Elharrar – $487,695 3rd: Jerry Robinson – $314,230 4th: Jordan Fisch – $232,065 5th: Giuliano Lentini – $176,350 6th: Ben Farrell – $139,705 7th: Joseph Cheong – $115,300 8th: Brandon Carl – $91,365 9th: Nick Schwarmann – $69,800
$10,000 SHRPO NLH (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante Remaining Players: 9 of 117
Stephen Song moved all in preflop on the button, and Rainer Kempe called all in for 165, 000 on the big blind. The two players then tabled their cards.
Song: Kempe:
Board:
Kempe was eliminated in 10th place, good for $33,135, and Song stacked up 832,000.
, Schwartz checks and Song bet 20,000. Schwartz called. The turn was the 
, Schwartz checked and Song bet 60,000. Schwartz called.
, Schwartz checked and Song put him in for 155,000 effective.
for two-pair, but was no good against Song’s 
full house.
and was flipping against Schwartz’s 
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and Schwartz wound up with a pair of aces to eliminate Gorsfield.
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in bad shape against Romero’s 
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. Winter turned over 
, and Winter won the pot — and the SHRPO Championship — with his ace.
