$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 22: 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante Players Remaining: 9 of 105
Francisco Picasso
Francisco Picasso moved all in for 370,000 under the gun, and Ray Qartomy re-shoved for 2,325,000 next to act. The rest of the table folded out of the way, and Picasso was heads up for his tournament life.
Picasso: Qartomy:
The board ran out , and Qartomy won the pot with a set of queens. Picasso was eliminated as the first casualty of this final table, exiting in ninth place.
Ray Qartomy – 2,815,000 (56 bb) Francisco Picasso – Eliminated in 9th place ($78,750)
After three days of play, the four marquee events on the 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open schedule are ready to play out their final tables. The Big 4 includes the $5 Million GTD Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship, the $25,500 High Roller, $2,650 NLH Freeze-Out, and $1,100 Event 24 with a $500,000 Guarantee.
Nine players remain in each event, each with a shot at a major SHRPO title.
Action is set to get underway at 2pm and all four tables will be live-streamed on Poker Night in America’s Twitch page.
SHRPO $5 Million GTD Championship Level 26: 30,000/60,000 with a 10,000 ante Players Remaining: 9 of 847
Seat 1: Seth Davies – 3,350,000 (56 bb) Seat 2: Roman Valenstein – 2,895,000 (48 bb) Seat 3: Thomas Midena – 4,395,000 (73 bb) Seat 4: Ryan Fair – 1,335,000 (22 bb) Seat 5: Jason Koon – 3,595,000 (60 bb) Seat 6: Zo Karim – 1,295,000 (22 bb) Seat 7: Paul Balzano – 4,120,000 (69 bb) Seat 8: Joe Serock – 1,845,000 (31 bb) Seat 9: Tim Burt – 2,575,000 (43 bb)
$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 22: 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante Players Remaining: 9 of 105
$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 22: 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante Players Remaining: 9 of 105
The SHRPO High Roller final table has a very talented group of players returning with nearly $55 million in career earnings including 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open champ Dan Colman. Ray Qartomy returns as the chip leader while Andjelko Andrejevic returns with one big blind.
The German transplant has nearly $5.5 million in career earnings, most of it coming from first WPT title in the 2012 $25K WPT World Championship. He added a second WPT title less than three months later in Cyprus. Rettenmaier came close to winning his first bracelet this summer with a third-place finish in the WSOP Tag Team event.
Daniel Strelitz
Seat 2: Daniel Strelitz Santa Ana, CA 1,595,000 (32 bb)
Strelitz cashed six-time this summer during the WSOP, including a runner-up in Event 48, with three WSOP final tables in the last three years. He has almost $1.5 million in live tournament cash and he’s that much in his online career as “deoxyribo”.
Francisco Picasso
Seat 3: Francisco Picasso Lima, Peru 380,000 (8 bb)
Picasso is the mystery player at the final table, a businessman hailing from Peru with seven results to his credit. He finished deep in the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship in 2013 and finished second in a Brazil Series of Poker event in 2014.
Ray Qartomy
Seat 4: Ray Qartomy Houston, TX 2,335,000 (47 bb)
Qartomy has earned more than $2 million in his career with his biggest cash coming from a fourth place finish in the 2013 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship. He has two WPT televised final table appearance, both coming seven months apart at the Borgata.
Dan Colman
Seat 5: Dan Colman Holden, MA 2,260,000 (45 bb)
The most successful player at the High Roller final table with more than $25 million in career earnings. He earned $15 million of that with his 2014 WSOP $1,000,000 buy-in Big One for One Drop bracelet. Colman finished 31st in this year’s WSOP Main Event and he was the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open champion.
Rainer Kempe
Seat 6: Rainer Kempe Brighton, UK 525,000 (11 bb)
A win today would push Kempe over $8 million in career earnings and he already owns three high roller titles, all coming since December. He earned an even $5 million a few months ago when he won a $300,000 buy-in high roller event in Las Vegas. Kempe has several major final table appearance with his deepest coming in a third-place finish at the 2015 WPT Montreal event.
Barry Hutter
Seat 7: Barry Hutter Sarasota, FL 1,080,000 (22 bb)
Hutter owns a WSOP bracelet from 2015 and a WSOP Circuit ring from 2010 to go with his $3.3 million in career earnings. He won a $25,000 Aria High Roller in 2015 and is also Seminole Hard Rock Deep Stacks event champ. Hutter also finished eighth in the 2014 WPT Seminole Hard Poker Showdown Championship.
Andjelko Andrejevic
Seat 8: Andjelko Andrejevic Belgrade, Serbia 70,000 (1 bb)
Andrejevic has $3.3 million in career earnings including three WPT televised final tables. They last one produced his first major victory when he won the WPT Amsterdam Main Event this past May. Andrejevic finished fourth in the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open” Championship and his biggest cash came from a HK$ 480,000 Super High Roller win in Macau.
Nick Petrangelo
Seat 9: Nick Petrangelo Springfield, MA 1,415,000 (28 bb)
Petrangelo has cashed for more than $5 million his career including two WSOP final table appearance this summer, the last one in the $111,111 Big One for One Drop High Roller in seventh for $628,000. He earned more than $1 million for a second place finish in a 2015 WPT $100,000 Alpha8 tournament and another $670,000 for an EPT High Roller third place finish.
$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 22: 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante Players Remaining: 9 of 105
Ray Qartomy
Monday was Day 1 of the $25,500 High Roller event at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open. Play began at high noon, and by the time registration closed, a total of 105 entries had joined the field, generating a prizepool worth $2,625,000. The final 14 players finished in the money.
Seventeen hours after the cards went in the air, Jan Schwippert was eliminated in tenth place, setting the final table and signaling the end of play for the day.
10th place: Jan Schwippert ($69,563) 11th place: Martin Kozlov ($69,563) 12th place: Joseph Cheong ($69,563) 13th place: Nick Schulman ($61,688) 14th place: Tom Marchese ($61,688)
Some of those who were eliminated without a payout today included Erik Seidel, Joe McKeehen, Shaun Deeb, Seminole Hard Rock Poker Team members Chance Kornuth, Loni Harwood, and Faraz Jaka, along with this event’s defending champion, Jason Mercier.
The finalists will return later today (Tuesday) to play for the title. Everyone left is guaranteed to earn at least $78,750, but all eyes are on the trophy and the top prize of $787,497.
Blinds will be 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante when play resumes, and the average stack is about 23 big blinds. Cards go in the air at 2:00pm, and the cards-up live stream will be emceed by Ali Nejad and Maria Ho.
, and Qartomy won the pot with a set of queens. Picasso was eliminated as the first casualty of this final table, exiting in ninth place.
, giving Petrangelo a pair of aces to eliminate Schwippert in tenth place.
, and Strelitz doubled up with an ace-high flush. After paying off his debt, Andrejevic was left with less than a single big blind.
, giving Schwippert quad tens to double through Kempe.