Event 24: Seat Open! Never Mind

$200 Buy-In Big Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $50K Guaranteed
Level 6: 150/300/ 25 ante

Players are just coming back from their 10 minute break. Now at blinds of 150/300/ 25 ante. There are 311 entries so far. This is the last level where people can enter or re-enter the event. Angel Vu was just seen exiting the tournament area after busting out, but has quickly re-entered and sat right back down. That is the beauty of re-entry tournaments…multiple chances at making the big bucks.

Championship: Dolan Doubles

$5,300 Championship NLH $10 Million Guaranteed (Re-Entry)
Level 32: Blinds 60k/120k/20k ante

John Dolan moved his short stack in several times over the first few hands then found a caller about 30 minutes into play.

Mike Leah opened to 240,000 from the button and Dolan moved all-in for 2,740,000 with 9s9h against Mike Leah’s AhQh. Leah took the lead in the race on the QsTh2c flop but Dolan hit his saving card on the 9c river to lock up his double.

Mike Leah – 12,270,000
Dan Colman – 10,115,000
Joe Kuether – 6,670,000
Martin Hanowski – 6,370,000
John Dolan – 5,720,000
Shawn Cunix – 3,755,000

Championship: Final Table Underway

$5,300 Championship NLH $10 Million Guaranteed (Re-Entry)
Level 32: Blinds 60k/120k/20k ante

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Players have unbagged their chips for the last time and one of the final six players will take home $1.4 million for the title. The final table features players who dominated the tournament at various times during play and each earned their seat in front of the live audience at Paradise Live.

Mike Leah leads the pack to start the final table after a great run on Day 4. The Canadian pro has nearly $5 million in combined online and live career earnings. Right behind him is Dan Colman, winner of the 2014 Big One for One Drop event for the second biggest WSOP payout in history.

Those two have a little distance on the other four players but they cannot be discounted. Poker pro Joe Kuether has an impressive number of results to his credit including $2.2 million in career tournament earnings and a runner-up finish in the 2014 WSOP National Championship.

Shawn Cunix joins Colman as the other player at the final table with a major title. The Ohio resident captured the 2012 WPT Jacksonville Main Event for just under $500,000. John Dolan knows a little something about high pressure final tables as a member of the 2010 WSOP November Nine.

The wildcard today will be Martin Hanowski. He is the least known at the final table but the German national final tabled the WSOP $3,000 No Limit Hold’em tournament this summer. Hanowski spent most of this tournament among the leaders and deserves his spot at this final table.

Chip Counts:
Mike Leah – 15,455,000
Dan Colman – 10,230,000
Joe Kuether – 7,090,000
Martin Hanowski – 5,210,000
Shawn Cunix – 4,870,000
John Dolan – 2,045,000

Seat 1: Martin Hanowski – 5,210,000
Seat 2: Joe Kuether – 7,090,000
Seat 3: Dan Colman – 10,230,000
Seat 4: Shawn Cunix – 4,870,000
Seat 5: Mike Leah – 15,455,000
Seat 6: John Dolan – 2,045,000

1: $1,446,710
2: $1,047,638
3: $748,313
4: $548,763
5: $424,044
6: $324,269
7: $249,438
8: $199,550
9: $149,663
10-12: $99,775
13-15: $77,326
16-18: $59,865

Event 24: Just Getting Started

$200 Buy-In Big Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $50K Guaranteed
Level 1: 25/ 50

We’ve got 132 grinders and growing in today’s $200 Buy-In $50K guaranteed tournament. It’s your last chance to get your hands on some decent moolah here at the SHRPO, as this is the last event of this year’s SHRPO series.

$200 gets you 15K in chips, 30 minute levels, and you can sign up until the start of Level 7. We’re just getting warmed up down here in the ballroom. Come on down and get your SHRPO trophy!

SHRPO Final Results – Event 20: $100K Super High Roller

Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open
Event 20: $100,000 Super High Roller Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
September 1 – September 2, 2014

Entries:  9
Prizepool: $927,500

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Jake Schindler

 

 

 

 

 

RECAP
This $100K big buy-in event was stacked with talented poker superstars such as Jason Mercier, Dan Smith, Josh Arieh, and Scott Seiver. Seiver came into the Day 2 final table as the commanding chip leader with 5 players left. However, when the dust settled after over 8 hours of play it was high stakes tournament expert Jake Schindler that rose to the top of this power-packed field to take down the $570,375 top prize. Seiver ended up finishing 3rd for $50,000.

Schindler said that he definitely ranks this win pretty high up on his list of poker accomplishments. “It had really, really tough competition…but not a lot of players, so the hands were way more difficult than average,” Schindler said after the win. He mentioned that one of his short term goals is to find a place to live. Today’s win will definitely help towards that.

Schindler also wanted to make note “The Hard Rock did a really really good job by making things right, and adding money to the prize pool for 3rd place and fixing the discrepancy from yesterday. I commend them for that, that was really good management.” He also said that he didn’t expect the final table to last so long, expecting it would have ended maybe a few hours earlier. Heads-up play alone lasted for over 2.5 hours. Ryan Fee ends up taking 2nd place for $307,125.

This is Schindler’s fourth high roller final table in this year alone. He placed 3rd in a High Roller event this summer for $549,450. Today’s win amount is second only to his win at the High Roller event at this year’s Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure, where he won $1,192,624.

FINAL RESULTS
1. Jake Schindler $570,375
2. Ryan Fee $307,125
3. Scott Seiver $50,000

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