2024 Poker Showdown Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida Event 16 $400 Deep Stack Pot-Limit Omaha (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed Entries: 390 Prize Pool: $127,700 April 7 – 9, 2024
Registration closed for the $400 Deep Stack Pot-Limit Omaha tournament with 390 entries over three starting flights. They pushed the $100,000 guarantee into a prize pool worth $127,700.
The 50 players returning for Day 2 will be in the money, guaranteed at least $660 for a min-cash and the winner will earn $25,745 plus the Showdown trophy.
2024 Poker Showdown Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida Event 1 $400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed Entries: 4,772 Prize Pool: $1,574,760 April 3 – 8, 2024
Jesus Martinez
Jesus Martinez made his first trip to the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida a good one by topping the field in Event 1 for the top prize worth $169,690 along with the guitar pick trophy in a heads-up chop with Brian Hawkins to bring play to a close. We caught up with Martinez after the win to chat about his victory.
“It feels really good man, I’ve come close in a lot of tournaments. It’s been hard to close them out. A lot of seconds, a lot of thirds so it feels good to finally get there and over the hump,” said Martinez after claiming his first tournament trophy to take his career tournament earnings well above $400,000.
He continued, “It was a lot of heartbreak, a lot of heartache, but I changed a lot of habits, changed a lot of life things, and now we see where we are. It’s been paying off, and the variance is coming around now.”
The Texas native decided to make the trip to Seminole for the Showdown series, and that choice turned out to be a good one. “I’m from San Antonio, Texas so this is my first time over here. I really like it, it’s been fun. I will definitely be back. It’s mostly home games at home that I play. I’m playing one more here, the $200 entry and then I have to get back for some family stuff,” said Martinez.
When asked about his first impression with Seminole Hard Rock poker tournaments after his experience, Martinez responded: “I really like it, the floor guys and all of you guys are real nice, real cool. I liked the way everything was run well. And the turnout was amazing, not bad for a $400 tournament with over 4,700 people.”
The biggest hand at the final table for Martinez saw him make a straight on the turn with in the hole (you can see above that he requested those cards for the winner photo). His opponent Eugene Kotlyarevskiy was trying to make a move in the hand with queen-high, but Martinez used his previous experience playing against Kotlyarevskiy to his advantage. “It was blind versus blind three-handed. He put in the raise and you have to call. It was a really good flop for me coming K-3-2. I knew he was more on the aggressive side already so I took that into account. We had some dynamic from yesterday too, and when the flop came I just wasn’t folding. I put in a raise there, and if the raise was a bit larger I might have folded. And luckily it was a perfect turn, because any other turn I would have had to get away,” said Martinez.
He continued, “Last night before we bagged up he and I had played some big hands together. He saw how I was playing, and I saw how he was playing so obviously you take that into account. You can’t just raise anyone there with the five-high, and he had the queen-high when we showed down.”
And as far as his celebration plans for the evening were concerned. “We want to go hang out for a little bit, maybe take off to party somewhere down in Fort Lauderdale,” said Martinez with a grin at the end of the interview.
$400 Deep Stack Pot-Limit Omaha (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure Return to Level 14: 1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante Players Remaining: 32 of 390
2024 Poker Showdown Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida Event 15 $1,100 Deep Stack Eight-Handed NLH (Re-Entry) Entries: 120 Prize Pool: $116,400 April 7-8, 2024
2024 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown 15 Champion Nick Yunis and his wife Katerina
Event 15 of the 2024 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown was a $1,100 Deep Stack Eight-Handed No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry). A field of 120 entries generated a prize pool of $116,400 and winning the lion’s share of it was Nick Yunis, taking it own outright for $34,005.
$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 37: 300,000/600,000 with a 600,000 ante Players Remaining: 2 of 4,772
Jesus Martinez
After playing heads-up for a little while, Jesus Martinez and Brian Hawkins agreed to an even chop.
Here were the chip counts at the time:
Jesus Martinez – 54,600,000 (91 bb) Brian Hawkins – 40,800,000 (68 bb)
Here were the resulting payouts:
Jesus Martinez – $169,690 Brian Hawkins – $169,690
As the chip leader, Martinez was the official Event 1 winner for $169,690.
An Event 1 winner’s story will be posted later tonight.
$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 36: 300,000/500,000 with a 500,000 ante Players Remaining: 2 of 4,772
Eugene Koltyareskiy
Eugene Kotlyarevskiy was all in preflop for just 700,000, and both Jesus Martinez and Brian Hawkins called to cover.
The two live players then checked down a board dealt . All three players flipped over their cards after that.
Martinez: Kotlyarevskiy: Hawkins:
Kotlyarevskiy was out in third place for a payout of $101,000, Martinez increased his lead to 50 million, but Hawkins was still close behind with 45.4 million before the start of the heads-up final.
Jesus Martinez – 50,000,000 (83 bb) Brian Hawkins – 45,400,000 (90 bb) Eugene Kotlyarevskiy – Eliminated in 3rd Place ($101,000)
$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 36: 300,000/500,000 with a 500,000 ante Players Remaining: 3 of 4,772
Jesus Martinez
The flop read with a few million in the pot when Eugene Kotlyarevskiy bet 1.7 million from the small blind. Jesus Martinez raised to 4 million from the big blind, Kotlyarevskiy reraised to 9 million, and Martinez called before the turn fell .
Kotlyarevskiy moved all in with a slightly covering stack and Martinez called holding for a six-high straight. Kotlyarevskiy had in the hole for a flush draw. The river fell and Martinez survived with a straight to stack up 48 million. Kotlyarevskiy was down to just 700,000 after the hand.
$1,100 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 24: 15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante Players Remaining: 1 of 120
Nick Yunis raised to 65,000 from the button, Roongsak Griffeth reraised all in for about 650,000 from the big blind, and Yunis called with , leading Griffeth’s .
The board ran out , safe for Yunis to win Event 15 outright for $34,005. Griffeth finished runner-up for $21,300.
A recap of Event 15 will be posted later tonight.
1st: Nick Yunis – $34,005 2nd: Roongsak Griffeth – $21,300 3rd: James Carroll – $12,700 4th: Ian Gillespie – $8,150 5th: Ryan Hoenig – $6,170 6th: Brian Green – $5,125 7th: Chris Ackerman – $4,425 8th: Paul Fisher – $3,900 9th: Joseph Duchman – $3,435 10th: Joel Gola – $3,030 11th: Bobby Lupo – $3,030 12th: Bogdan Chornyy – $3,030 13th: Scott Freeman – $2,700 14th: Matthew Lambrecht – $2,700 15th: Christopher Mulhern – $2,700
$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 36: 300,000/500,000 with a 500,000 ante Players Remaining: 3 of 4,772
Gabriel Fuller
Gabriel Fuller was all in short preflop from the big blind with pocket sixes, but he ran right into the pocket sevens of Jesus Martinez.
The final board read , and Fuller was eliminated in fourth place for a payday worth $76,000. Martinez was up to 19.3 million after collecting the pot.
Jesus Martinez – 19,300,000 (38 bb) Gabriel Fuller – Eliminated in 4th Place ($76,000)
in the hole (you can see above that he requested those cards for the winner photo). His opponent Eugene Kotlyarevskiy was trying to make a move in the hand with queen-high, but Martinez used his previous experience playing against Kotlyarevskiy to his advantage. “It was blind versus blind three-handed. He put in the raise and you have to call. It was a really good flop for me coming K-3-2. I knew he was more on the aggressive side already so I took that into account. We had some dynamic from yesterday too, and when the flop came I just wasn’t folding. I put in a raise there, and if the raise was a bit larger I might have folded. And luckily it was a perfect turn, because any other turn I would have had to get away,” said Martinez.
. All three players flipped over their cards after that.
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in the hole for a flush draw. The river fell 
and Martinez survived with a straight to stack up 48 million. Kotlyarevskiy was down to just 700,000 after the hand.
, leading Griffeth’s 
, safe for Yunis to win Event 15 outright for $34,005. Griffeth finished runner-up for $21,300.
