Happy Thanksgiving from the Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ’N’ Roll Poker Open”!
There are no trophy events running today due to the holiday, but there are two secondary events if you need to get your poker fix after you’ve gotten your turkey fix.
6pm: Event 48, $200 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry). Players get 10,000 chips and levels are 30 minutes long. Late registration and re-entry are available until the start of level 7 (about 9:15pm).
8pm: Event 49, $385 Turbo Qualifier where 1 in 10 players gets a seat. This is a re-entry event and late registration is allowed until the start of level 9 (about 11:10pm). Players start with 7,500 chips and levels are 15 minutes long.
There are no Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ’N’ Roll Poker Open” trophy ‘main events’ running today, but there are FOUR Championship Qualifiers taking place in the Ballroom.
Players can win their way into the $2 Million Guaranteed Championship event for a discount in any of these satellites:
12pm: Event 44, $385 Qualifier where 1 in 10 players gets a seat. There are 20 SEATS GUARANTEED! This is a re-entry event and late registration is allowed until the start of level 5 (about 2:10pm). Players start with 7,500 chips and levels are 30 minutes long.
3pm: Event 45, $200 Qualifier where 1 in 20 players gets a seat. This is a re-entry event and late registration is allowed until the start of level 7 (about 5:10pm). Players start with 5,000 chips and levels are 20 minutes long.
5pm: Event 46, $750 Qualifier where 1 in 5 players gets a seat. Five seats are guaranteed. This is a re-entry event and late registration is allowed until the start of level 5 (about 7:10pm). Players start with 7,500 chips and levels are 30 minutes long.
8pm: Event 47, $385 Turbo Qualifier where 1 in 10 players gets a seat. Five seats are guaranteed! This is a re-entry event and late registration is allowed until the start of level 9 (about 10:10pm). Players start with 7,500 chips and levels are 15 minutes long.
Seminole Hard Rock “Rock N’ Roll” Poker Open Event 14: $350 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (Freezeout)
November 25, 2014
Allan Bieler – Event 14 Champoin (7,163)
It was a story of surges and some heated discussions but through all of it, Allan Bieler kept his cool and walked away with the Event 14 championship.
Bieler fought his way back from being short stacked with four tables left to easing his way to the chip lead and never let go once he got on top.
Eliminations came in bunches as after a slow run, 14th-18th places all came though quickly and then 9th-12th places also followed suit leaving the final table eight handed for what must have seemed like an eternity to the players. Vincent Mallia pulled a rabbit out of the hat cracking Jorge Gomez’s straight taking out one of the short stacks leaving himself, Bieler and Robert “Car Wash” Williams controlling most of the chips at the table.
Then suddenly four players busted out in a matter of six hands leaving Bieler, Mallia, Williams and Brazilian Paulo Bertholdo to duke it out. Bertholdo managed to get back into contention but he and Williams controlled only one-third of the chips in play. Bieler and Mallia held the other two-thirds and were in a commanding position.
But after a heated chop discussion brought no resolution and play continued for another few levels, Bertholdo had actually built his stack up to what appeared to be a small lead but relinquished it right back putting the four players nearly right where they’d left off before.
Finally, the players came an agreement to end it and Bieler found himself the chip leader and declared the champion.
“I’d actually taken two months off playing because I’d been running so badly. Then I played a couple of events here and didn’t cash in those either. The only reason I played this was because it was a freezeout. I was just trying to hang in there. It took a long time but I played solid and at the end I didn’t want to let the cards jeopardize where I was. They were all solid players at the this table.”
Bieler hasn’t made a decision on playing the Main Event yet but he’s very happy to have put this title in the books.
Congratulations to our Event 14 Champion, Allan Bieler!
Event 14 Results
1st – Allan Bieler (Sunrise, FL) – $10,691 2nd – Vincent Mallia (Jensen Beach, FL) – $6,059 3rd – Paulo Bertholdo (Curotiva, Brazil) – $5,163 4th – Robert Williams (Miami, FL) – $5,163 5th – Jeff Silverstein (Fort Lauderdale, FL) – $2,106 6th – Joe Budd (Boca Raton, FL) – $1,620 7th – Michael Sinisgalli (Miami, FL) – $1,264 8th – Robert Wiercinski (Los Angeles, CA) – $940 9th – Jorge Gomez (Fort Lauderdale, FL) – $778
$350 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (FREEZE-OUT) Level 24: Blinds 12,000/24,000/4,000 ante
After a few chips swings and a lot of tough poker, it’s all over in Event 14. The players agreed to a chop leaving Allan Bieler as the champion.
Paulo Bertholdo had surged up the chip counts but fell back down enough to convince the players it was time call it quits at nearly the same spots they were in at the last chop discussion a few hours ago.
With the chop, Bieler wins $7,163 and the championship. Vincent Mallia comes in second for $6,163, Paulo Bertholdo takes third for $5,163 and Robert “Car Wash” Williams settles for fourth and $5,163.
Congratulations to everyone left standing and to our Event 14 Champion, Allan Bieler!
Allan Bieler – Event 14 Champoin (7,163)Vincent Mallia – 2nd Place ($6,163)Paulo Bertholdo – 3rd Place ($5,163)Robert Williams – 4th Place ($5,163)
$350 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (FREEZE-OUT) Level 21: Blinds 6,000/12,000/2,000 ante
The Hard Rock sunglasses were not enough to keep Jeff Silverstein alive. Silversteing made another short-stacked push and this time it was Allen Bieler putting it away.
Silverstein: Bieler:
Silverstein was hoping to catch and got more outs on the board with a straight draw on the turn but the spoiled the party and sent Silverstein out of Event 14 in 5th place for $2,106.
$350 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (FREEZE-OUT) Level 21: Blinds 6,000/12,000/2,000 ante
Business just picked up.
In the second of three back-to-back-to back eliminations, Michael Sinisgalli made a run with his dwindling stack holding . Unfortunately, Robert Williams was sitting on .
The kings held and Sinisbgalli fell in 7th place for $1,264.
$350 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (FREEZE-OUT) Level 21: Blinds 6,000/12,000/2,000 ante
We’ve moved up to Level 21 but not much has changed since the last bustout. Vincent Mallia, Allen Bieler and Robert Williams are the three big stacks on the table with everyone else trying to chase them down.
At least the table chatter is starting to loosen up a little bit as we get later into the night. A few smiles and situational laughter is starting to pop up as this Event 14 drags on.
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