$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 25: 15,000/30,000 with a 5,000 ante Players Remaining: 10 of 696
The $150 no limit hold’em re-entry is down to its final 10 players and they have redrawn for seats at the unofficial final table. With one more elimination, the final nine players will get credit for a final table appearance.
Here is a look at the seating arrangement and chip counts for the final 10 players:
Seat 1: Cuppy Cummings – 675,000 Seat 2: Thomas Gari – 725,000 Seat 3: Manny Amaro – 720,000 Seat 4: Charles Bragg Jr. – 175,000 Seat 5: Eric Panayiotou – 1,570,000 Seat 6: Jim Hamburger – 430,000 Seat 7: Vender Johnson – 585,000 Seat 8: Clayton Colby Johnson – 1,325,000 Seat 9: Antonio Copo – 240,000 Seat 10: Frankie Flowers – 630,000
2017 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, FL Event 29 $2,200 Pot Limit Omaha Entries: 95 Prize Pool: $190,000 April 4-5, 2017
(Hollywood, FL) — Bryan Dillon claimed victory at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Wednesday night defeating 95 players in a $2,200 Pot Limit Omaha tournament. The victory earned Dillon $60,277 along with his third career title.
Event 29, as it was recognized, saw its nearly 100-entry field generate a total prize pool of $190,000. Day 1 played down to just 12 remaining and all of them were in the money. Henri Koivisto lead the way heading to Day 2 but had the likes of defending champion Scott Clements, Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Matt Stout and South Florida pro Peter Vitantonio on his heels. Vitantonio busted 11th while Stout, Koivisto and Clements made consecutive exits in eighth, seventh and sixth. By the time Maxx Coleman was eliminated fourth, the trio of remaining players began talking chop. Both Joni Jouhkimainen and Dillon wanted the trophy, so play went on.
Jouhkimainen succumed to his short stack not long after denying the deal. He earned $22,800 for the third-place finish. Dillon and Joseph Irgon promptly talked ICM with Dillon holding about a two-to-one lead. Irgon declined the deal and play went on. From there, it wasn’t long before Dillon outdrew Irgon all-in preflop and took the title. Irgon earned $36,100 for his runner-up finish.
Already owning two World Series of Poker Circuit gold rings, the trophy victory marked Dillon’s third major title. Additionally, the $60,277 score moved him over $300,000 in reported earnings. Dillon is a 62-year-old attorney from Prospect, KY.
Event 29 final results:
1st: Bryan Dillon $60,277 2nd: Joseph Irgon – $36,100 3rd: Joni Jouhkimainen – $22,800 4th: Maxx Coleman – $14,725 5th: Petko Tsakov – $11,400 6th: Scott Clements – $9,025 7th: Henri Koivisto – $7,600 8th: Matt Stout – $6,650 9th: David Zemel – $6,029 10th: Chris Meyers – $5,510 11th: Peter Vitantonio – $5,310 12th: David Eller – $4,754
$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 24: 40,000/80,000 with a 10,000 Ante Players Remaining: 3 of 116
Loni Harwood
SHRP Team member Loni Harwood moved all in for about 1,600,000 on the button, and Jason Mercier re-shoved for 2,345,000 in the small blind. Justin Bonomo woke up with a monster in the big blind, and he called both shoves, putting both opponents at risk with a chance to win the tournament right there.
Harwood: Mercier: Bonomo:
The flop changed nothing, but the on the turn gave Harwood a big lead with one card to come. She was suddenly looking down the barrel of a triple-up and a heads-up match against Justin Bonomo, but her lead would not hold.
The river was the , and Mercier made a set of tens to scoop the big pot. He more than doubled up, eliminating Harwood in third place in the process.
Mercier and Bonomo are now heads-up for the High Roller title, and they’ve taken their 20-minute break a few minutes prior to the end of the level.
Jason Mercier – 6,410,000 (80 bb) Justin Bonomo – 5,190,000 (65 bb) Loni Harwood – Eliminated in 3rd place ($348,000)
$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 24: 40,000/80,000 with a 10,000 Ante Players Remaining: 4 of 116
Anthony Spinella
Justin Bonomo opened the button to 180,000, and Anthony Spinella three-bet shoved for 1,760,000 in the big blind. Bonomo double-checked his hole cards, then quickly called to put Spinella at risk.
Bonomo: Spinella:
The board ran out safely for Bonomo, coming to give him the pot with his pair of tens. Spinella was eliminated in fourth place, earning just shy of a quarter million dollars.
Justin Bonomo – 6,225,000 (78 bb) Anthony Spinella – Eliminated in 4th place ($240,700)
$2,200 Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry) Level 20: 15,000/30,000 Players Remaining: 2 of 95
Joni Jouhkimainen
In a raised pot, the flop came . Joni Jouhkimainen was in the small blind and got about 125,000 in against Bryan Dillon. Dillon called and Jouhkimainen was at risk.
“I just have a pair,” Dillon said.
Dillon: Jouhkimainen:
They both had a pair, but Dillon’s aces were best.
Runout:
Dillon was best and Jouhkimainen was eliminated in third place good for $22,800.
$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 24: 40,000/80,000 with a 10,000 Ante Players Remaining: 4 of 116
Anthony Spinella moved all in for 890,000 under the gun, and Justin Bonomo called in the small blind to put Spinella at risk.
Spinella: Bonomo:
The was a decent miss for Spinella, giving him eight additional outs with an open-ended straight draw. The turn added even more outs to the win, and the river completed his straight to give him a double-up.
$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 24: 40,000/80,000 with a 10,000 Ante Players Remaining: 5 of 116
Olivier Busquet
Jason Mercier opened to 160,000 under the gun, and Olivier Busquet three-bet shoved for 2,140,000 in the big blind. Mercier quickly called to put Busquet at risk.
Mercier: Busquet:
The flop was a miss for Busquet, and the turn left him dead to one out. He needed to find the Ten of Diamonds to stay alive, but the river was the to seal his elimination in fifth place. Mercier won the pot with a queen-high flush, moving into a dead heat with Justin Bonomo atop the leaderboard
Jason Mercier – 4,740,000 (59 bb) Olivier Busquet – Eliminated in 5th place ($153,700)
2017 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, FL WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship Entries: 1,207 Prize Pool: $3,862,400 March 31 – April 5, 2017
Tony Sinishtaj, WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Champion
The 2017 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown ran two full weeks of big tournaments and all were heading toward the last big set of three World Poker Tour events, kicking off with the $2,000,000 guaranteed Championship. After three long days and a tough final table, Tony Sinishtaj walked away with the WPT title, a seat in the WPT Tournament of Champions, a seat in the 2017 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship, and $661,283.
The $3,500 buy-in tournament drew 1,207 entries in one starting day to push the prize pool up to $3,862,400. Only 476 players were able to advance a stack to Day 2 with Alejandro Duque leading the way.
The Day 2 field had a lot of work to do before making some money. The last 151 players earned part of the huge prize pool and it took most of the day to get them down that far. They hit the money late in the day and packed up for Day 3 with 27 players remaining.
Those 27 players showed off their skill as they tried to make it to the six-handed final table. It took until the early morning hours but the table was set when Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Matt Affleck was eliminated in seventh place.
The WPT live-streamed final table included six players with combined tournament earnings of nearly $40,000,000. The three biggest names left in the game were World Series of Poker Big One for One Drop winner Dan Colman, four-time WSOP champ Robert Mizrachi, and Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Darryll Fish.
Simeon Naydenov and Eric Beller were quick casualties at the final table and the four remaining players settled in to a long battle that saw the lead change several times.
Colman began the day with the chip lead and held it again during four-handed play but was the victim of a tough beat by Sinishtaj to send him out in fourth place.
“It was a tough field right down the stretch, but I got the right cards, got lucky a little bit, got unlucky a little bit,” Sinishtaj said later. “And at the end of the day it happened the way it was supposed to happen I guess and I came out on top.”
Crowd favorite Mizrachi followed him out shortly after to set up the heads-up match between Fish and Sinishtaj.
Fish erased an early deficit but Sinishtaj soon regained the lead for good when he doubled with sevens against deuces. A few hands later, Fish was all-in and at risk before Sinishtaj turned a flush to knock the the SHRP team member out in second place. Fish picked up $453,185 for his runner-up finish while Sinishtaj earned $661,283 for his efforts.
“It feels amazing,” Sinishtaj said. “I can’t wait, I just want to keep playing, it’s awesome.”
Sinishtaj won’t have to wait long to play again. His win today also earns him a seat in the $15,000 buy-in WPT Tournament of Champions that kicks off on Friday.
“I love playing here. It’s been a few years since I’ve been here, but I feel like I run great.” Sinishtaj said when asked about his experience at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood. “It’s a great place to play, [they] do an amazing job with the tournament.”
“The structure, the series, everything is great. The dealers are amazing, the staff, the floor, everything, I love the place.” He continued. “I should definitely be playing here more often, and I definitely will.”
Welcome back to Tony Sinishtaj and congratulations on the big World Poker Tour win.
Final table results:
1st: Tony Sinishtaj – $661,283* + $5,250 SHRPO Seat 2nd: Darryl Fish – $453,185 3rd: Rob Mizrachi – $293,864 4th: Dan Colman – $217,686 5th: Eric Beller – $164,438 6th: Simeon Naydenov – $132,889 * – Includes $15,000 WPT Tournament of Champions seat
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on the turn gave Harwood a big lead with one card to come. She was suddenly looking down the barrel of a triple-up and a heads-up match against Justin Bonomo, but her lead would not hold.
, and Mercier made a set of tens to scoop the big pot. He more than doubled up, eliminating Harwood in third place in the process.
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