$150 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 28: 50,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante Players Remaining: 8 of 1,258
Rebecca Dellagloria raised all in for about 900,000 from the cutoff and Diane Linke isolated the pot with a shove from the small blind.
Dellagloria: Linke:
The board came down , no help to Dellagloria, ending her tournament in ninth place.
Diane Linke – 4,900,000 (65 bb) Rebecca Dellagloria – Eliminated in 9th Place ($2,845)
$150 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 28: 50,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante Players Remaining: 9 of 1,258
2021 Seminole Hard Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida $3,500 WPT Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open Championship $2,000,000 Guaranteed Entries: 1,566 Prize Pool: $5,011,200 November 26 – December 1, 2021
This was the largest field in history for the Seminole Hard Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open Championship, with 1,566 entries across two starting flights. And the prizepool of $5,011,200 more than doubled the $2 million guarantee.
The six-handed WPT Final Table was live-streamed online on Wednesday, and in a dramatic cooler of a final hand, Gediminas Uselis defeated Jacob Ferro to win $778,490 and an RRPO trophy. Uselis’s name will also be inscribed on the one-and-only WPT Champions Cup alongside all of the other champions in the WPT’s 19-season history.
The field reached the money back on Day 2, with the final 196 earning at least $5,265 each. There were some interesting people that cashed in the RRPO Championship, including William Hung of American Idol fame (finished 85th for $9,480) and political/sports analyst Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight (35th place for $18,390).
Day 4 began with just 15 players remaining, and those final two tables included two local regulars making deep runs, with Scott Levitt finishing 13th to earn $48,900, and Willie Wiggins just missing the live-streamed final table in seventh place, earning $139,610.
Two of poker’s top pros also made it to the final two tables, with Kristen Bicknell finishing 15th to earn $40,860, and Joseph Cheong busting in 10th place to earn $79,630.
Both players flopped sets, and the case jack never came to Ferro’s rescue, as he was knocked out in second place to earn $573,605.
Gediminas Uselis won the title, the trophy, and $778,490 for the biggest cash of his career. And you can expect to see him in more tournaments here at Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood.
“This is a really nice place,” said Uselis, who then looked ahead to the Lucky Hearts Poker Open, which begins on January 13th. “I’ll be coming back in January for sure. This is one of the best hotels in the United States.”
$150 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 27: 30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante Players Remaining: 14 of 1,258
$150 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 25: 20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante Players Remaining: 18 of 1,258
19th: Jorge Leidi – $1,335 20th: Christian Aguilera – $1,335 21th: Scott Blackman – $1,335
22th: Eric Diaz – $1,110 23th: Juan Endara – $1,110 24th: Nathan Soufeh – $1,110
$150 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 23: 15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante Players Remaining: 27 of 1,258
28th: Jeff Kessler – $780 29th: Anthony Leto – $780 30th: Alexander Borukhovich – $780 31th: Jason Andrews – $780 32th: Jason Campbell – $780 33th: Sheila Fisher – $780 34th: Sebastian Crema – $780 35th: John Nguyen – $780 36th: Justin Lerner – $780
$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship $2,000,000 Guaranteed | Payouts | Live Stream Level 33: 250,000/500,000 with a 500,000 ante Players Remaining: 2 of 1,566
Jacob Ferro raised to 1.0 million with , Gediminas Uselis reraised to 3.3 million with , and Ferro moved all in for 17.5 million.
Uselis called with his queens, and Ferro turned over his jacks. Ferro needed to improve to stay alive.
There was a jack in the window as the flop came — Ferro saw his set of jacks, only to have the rug pulled out from under him when the queen gave Uselis a set of queens.
Ferro needed the fourth jack to stay alive, but the turn card was the , and the river card was the .
Uselis won the pot — and the WPT Seminole Hard Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open Championship for $778,490 — with a set of queens.
Jacob Ferro finished as the runner-up, earning $573,605.
Congratulations to Gediminas Uselis!
1st: Gediminas Uselis – $778,490 2nd: Jacob Ferro – $573,605 3rd: Harout Ghazarian – $380,000 4th: Selahaddin Bedir – $282,380 5th: Clayton Maguire – $211,925 6th: Anshul Rai – $170,835
$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship $2,000,000 Guaranteed | Payouts | Live Stream Level 33: 250,000/500,000 with a 500,000 ante Players Remaining: 2 of 1,566
Gediminas Uselis raised to 1.2 million with , Jacob Ferro reraised to 3.1 million with , and Uselis called.
The flop came , Ferro bet 2.0 million, Uselis raised to 6.0 million, and Ferro folded.
Gediminas Uselis – 45.0 million (90 bb) Jacob Ferro – 17.6 million (36 bb)
The next hand, Jacob Ferro raised to 1.0 million with , Gediminas Uselis reraised to 3.6 million with , and Ferro four-bet all in for 18.1 million. Uselis folded, and Ferro took the pot.
Jacob Ferro – 22.0 million (44 bb) Gediminas Uselis – 40.6 million (81 bb)
$150 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 21: 10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante Players Remaining: 36 of 1,258
37th: Carl Cajuste – $675 38th: Steven Idels – $675 39th: Joseph Metcalfe – $675 40th: Alexander Green – $675 41th: Breno Dos Santos Alencas – $675 42th: Pedro Cairat – $675 43th: Eric Feldman – $675 44th: Samuel Abay – $675 45th: Jean Deromedi Delplanque – $675