$250 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
End of Level 12: Blinds 800/1,600/200 ante
The bounty hunters reached the end of level 12 with 23 players remaining. Average stack is 74k.
They’re now on a 40-minute dinner break. Play will resume at about 7:15pm.
When play resumes, they’ll be just five players away from the money.
$250 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 12: Blinds 800/1,600/200 ante
Only 24 bounty hunters remain in this event, making the average stack 71k.
Alex Daranyi is the chip leader with about 280k — nearly 4 times the average. he’s also got 9 bounties in his pocket for $900!
Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ’N’ Roll Poker Open”
Event 11: $250 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
November 23, 2014
Total Entries: 171
Total Prize Pool: $18,810
PAYOUTS
1st – $5,642
2nd – $3,273
3rd – $2,126
4th – $1,373
5th – $997
6th – $846
7th – $621
8th – $451
9th – $433
10 to 12th – $395
13 to 15th – $339
16 to 18th – $282
$250 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 8: Blinds 300/600/75
They put a little twist on Event 11 and it’s juicing up the action. Each buy-in takes $110 out for the prize pool and puts another $100 bounty on the player.
Instead of “seat open!” calls from dealers, we’re now hearing “bounty!”. Players just need to knock out a few players and they’re already freerolling the tournament.
A few of the 170 entrants already registered are Errol Massey, Michael Ortiz, Igor Skochko, and Carolyn Zegeer.
$250 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$25,000 Guaranteed
Level 1: Blinds 25/50
Today’s first new event is an ever-popular Bounty tournament. Players each have a $100 bounty on their heads, which is awarded to the player who busts them.
Everyone started with 10,000 tournament chips and all levels are 30 minutes long. This is a one-day event, so they’ll play until a winner is determined.
Late registration and re-entry are available until the start of level 9 (about 3:30pm).
Bounty hunting has begun!
Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open
Event 11: $560 Double Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em
August 25, 2014
Entries: 122
Prize Pool: $36,600
RECAP
After a long day of grinding, Carlos Loving (Sarasota, FL) maneuvers his way through a 122 person field to emerge as the victor of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open event 11. This one-day event was a freeze-out, so there were no re-entries, which kept the field size to a manageable number. The tournament started at 12 noon, and was finished just over 13 hours later.
Loving has been a professional poker player for the past 10 years. He plays mostly in the Florida area, but also travels to Las Vegas every summer for the WSOP. Loving is also a poker coach and owns his own poker training website. He started the final table with 5 big blinds and grinded his stack back into contention. One big hand at the final table that he remembers is rivering a Jack against two other players’ pocket pairs to triple up. The most significant hand for him at the final table though is when he went up against chip leader Ilias Liapis during 3-handed play. On a board of 
, Loving checks then snap-calls the shove of Liapis.
Liapis: 
Loving: 
Loving rivers a full house of 3s over Aces to best the flopped 2 pair of Liapis and double up his stack. Liapis was eliminated shortly thereafter.
This is the 3rd tournament that Loving has played in the series. He plans on playing more tournaments at the SHRPO, including the $350 buyin $30K guaranteed 6-max tournament tomorrow.
With 122 players, the tournament more than met its $50k guaranteed prize pool. Event 11 generated a total prizepool of $61,000, including $24,400 in bounties.
FINAL RESULTS
1. CARLOS LOVING (SARASOTA, FL): $12,079
2. JAMES SUTHERLAND (OCALA, FL): $6,844
3. ILIAS LIAPIS (KINGSLAND, GA): $4,538
4. MOHAMED MAGHRAOUI (BRANDON, FL): $3,257
5. JONATHAN MARKS (WESTON, FL): $2,379
6. ZOLTAN CZINKOTA (DAVIE, FL): $1,830
7. JAMES LEHMAN (ROYAL PALM BEACH, FL): $1,427
8. MARK GAUDINO (DAVIE, FL): $1,061
9. RICHARD WHITEBROOK (MIAMI BEACH, FL): $878
10. NGOC VU (SOUTH DAYTONA, FL): $769
11. BERNARD LUBITZ (STUART, FL): $769
12. TOM NGUYEN (TAMPA, FL): $769
$560 Buy-In Double Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 22: 6K/12K/2K ante
1st place – Carlos Loving
Heads Up play began with Carlos Loving having an overwhelming chip lead over his opponent James Sutherland. Sutherland would not give up, however, and kept hanging on…surviving all-in after all-in. After quite a long heads-up battle, Loving shoves all-in and Sutherland makes the call to put his tournament life at risk once again.
Sutherland: 
Loving: 
Sutherland’s Ace-high lead pre-flop doesn’t last long when the board runs 
and Loving flops a pair of Kings to seal Sutherland’s fate. Sutherland finishes in 2nd place, making $6,844 after a hard day’s work.
Our Event 11 champion is Carlos Loving, taking home $12,079 for the win, the championship trophy, and a professionally framed winner’s portrait. Congratulations!
2nd place – James Sutherland
$560 Buy-In Double Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 21: 5K/10K/1K ante
Ilias Liapis
On a flop of 
, Carlos Loving shoves and is eventually called by Ilias Liapis. They table their cards:
Liapis: 
Loving: 
Fourth and fifth street bring the and Liapis’ day comes to an end when his flopped pair of 9s loses to the pocket Kings of Loving. Liapis gets $4,538 for his 3rd place finish.
$560 Buy-In Double Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 21: 5K/10K/1K ante
Maghraoui
Mohamed Maghraoui shoves and is called by Carlos Loving. They turn over their cards as follows:
Loving:
Maghraqui:
The board rolls out 
and unfortunately Maghraoui’s day comes to an end when Loving catches his pair of 4s on the flop. Maghraoui gets $3,257 for his 4th place finish today.
$560 Buy-In Double Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 20: 4K/8K/1K ante
Jonathan Marks
Jonathan Marks is all-in and at risk against Ilias Liapis. Marks turns up the , but he sees the bad news when Liapis turns up his . The board runs out 
and Mark’s turned pair of Queens is no good against Liapis’ pocket rockets. Marks takes home $2,379 for his work in Event 11 today.
Liapis is on quite a roll at this final table, having knocked out 4 players so far…and collecting all their bounties.