$365 Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $50,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 11: 500/1,000 with a 100 ante Players Remaining: 108 of 295
Registration is closed in Event 2, today’s $365 No Limit Hold’em Turbo ring event, and the final numbers are in. The tournament drew 296 entries creating a total prize pool of $88,500. The top 30 finish in the money earning at least $600. Payouts escalate from there and top out in the form of a $21,239 first prize. In addition, the winner slides on a WSOP Circuit gold ring.
Tournament details and payouts:
2017 Seminole Hard Rock WSOP Circuit Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida $365 No Limit Hold’em Turbo (Re-Entry) $50,000 Guaranteed Entries: 295 Prize Pool: $88,500 September 24, 2017
Cory Waaland and Mark Fink are far from new to the World Series of Poker Circuit. Together, they account for 11 gold ring wins and more than $680,000 in Circuit earnings. While the Circuit grind is old hat to them, they are new faces to Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood.
Four-time Circuit gold ring winner Mark Fink
The pair arrived in town earlier in the week in search of additional jewlery and now find themselves sharing a table in the $365 Turbo. The first-timers have spoken well of the property, and they’re looking some beginner’s luck of different sorts here in Event 2.
wow just realized I’ve never been here before and my excitement level has gone from a 7 -> 8.6…@shrpo is pretty sick!
The clock strikes 3pm and the second of 14 World Series of Poker Circuit gold ring events is underway in South Florida. Event 2 is a $365 buy-in No Limit Hold’em tournament that permits unlimited re-entry. With the prize pool guaranteed at $50,000 or better, participants begin with 12,000 chips and will log 20-minute levels throughout. This is a one-day event expected to play out to a winner during the early morning hours of Monday.
Event 2 details:
3PM: Event 2 – $365 Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
Players begin with 10,000 in chips and 20-minute levels
Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
With the $580 playing out, much of our live reporting efforts will be concentrated across the room. Periodic updates from the turbo — including prize pool information, the final table lineup and tournament results along with a winner photo — will be provided throughout the day.
2017 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood, FL Event #2 $300 Deep Stack Turbo NLH (Re-Entry) Entries: 354 Prizepool: $90,270 August 6, 2017
Nigel Murray
Nigel Murray is the winner of Event 2 at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open. He defeated a field of 354 entries in the $300 Deep Stack Turbo event to claim the trophy and the top prize of $18,570 in a three-way deal.
Born and raised in Jamaica, the 36-year-old Murray relocated to South Florida about a dozen years ago, jumping headlong into one of the more robust poker communities in the county. He plays the game full-time now — and with some good success, too.
During his time in the States, Murray has amassed nearly $700,000 in live tournament earnings, including several victories right here at this venue. After this most recent win, he was congratulated by SHRP’s own Stewart Newman, among others.
“Everybody knows me around here because I’m always winning,” Murray beamed in his postgame interview. “I’m a sick poker player. You guys will see in the future.”
The confident Murray entered the ten-handed final table with a commanding chip lead that he never relinquished. Things happen quickly in an event of this format, and it took less than an hour to run from there down to the final three players.
With the stacks all shallowing out and some big pay jumps looming, the trio decided to pause and talk numbers. An agreement was quickly reached, and Murray’s big stack earned him the hardware and the lion’s share of the prizepool.
“I just bullied the table,” he told reporters about his final table strategy. “They were so soft. That’s it. They didn’t understand. They kept on folding, folding, folding until they missed their opportunity.”
The trophy for Event 2 was the first one handed out for this edition of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open, and it joins a few others residing on Murray’s mantel.
Final Table results:
1st: Nigel Murray – $18,570* + trophy 2nd: Jeff Fogel – $12,432* 3rd: Hector Pacheco – $10,000* 4th: Rafael Ramos – $5,588 5th: Gary Malcom – $4,306 6th: Vitor Coelho – $3,561 7th: Vincent Spadavecchia – $2,988 8th: Angel Jara – $2,442 9th: Justin Levy – $1,907
$300 Deep Stack Turbo NLH (Re-Entry) $50,000 Guaranteed | Payouts Level 31: 60,000/120,000 with a 20,000 ante Players Remaining: 1 of 351
Nigel Murray
After a blistering run down to three players, Nigel Murray has parlayed his big chip lead into a trophy and the lion’s share of the prizepool in a three-way deal.
2017 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood, FL Event #2 $300 Deep Stack Turbo NLH (Re-Entry) Entries: 354 Prizepool: $90,270
$300 Deep Stack Turbo NLH (Re-Entry) $50,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 15: 1,500/3,000/500 ante Total Entries: 351
Players went on a 15 minute break, registration closes at the end of break. There are currently 351 entrants. Prizepool information to be posted when official.
