$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 16: 2,000/4,000 with a 500 ante Players Remaining: 44 of 506
Barely a level into the day, the field has already shrunk by 10 players putting the money bubble less than a table away. The clock shows 44 left and tournament staff is gearing up for hand-for-hand play which is expected to begin within the next level or two.
Here’s a look at the payouts for the final 36 players:
$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante Players Remaining: 52 of 506
Joe Patalano
Robert Williams raised from early position and Martin Robbins called from his direct left. It folded around to Joe Patalano and he shoved the cutoff for 50,000. The button and blinds folded. It was back on Williams and he called. The action was on Robbins and he promptly announced “all-in” having both players covered. Williams called off and Robbins had the opportunity to bust two players.
Patalano: Robbins: Williams:
The flop fell giving Robbins outs to a flush. The turn was the . Robbins needed a spade to bust both players while Williams was looking for a king or queen. Fifth street came the officially earning Patalano the hand. He tripled up while Robbins’ ace-high was enough to take a side pot off Williams. With that, Williams busted while Patalano jumped into contention for the chip lead.
Joe Patalano – 158,500 (52 bb) Martin Robbins – 142,000 (47 bb) Robert Williams – Eliminated
$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante Players Remaining: 54 of 506
The clock strikes 5pm in South Florida and we are back in action on the final event of the 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open. The $150 buy-in tournament began Sunday with the first of two starting flights. Amassing a field of 506 total entries, just 54 remain with only the top 36 finishing in the money.
Out in front of the action is Jeffrey Berry with a stack of 247,500. Rafael Ramos (158,500), Andrew Reid (157,500) and Martin Robbins (157,500) are also still in contention along with Eli Levy (137,000), Joe Patalano (57,000) and Stuart Newman (20,000).
Rafael RamosAndrew ReidMartin Robbins
The remaining players are jockeying for a piece of the tournament’s $60,720 prize pool, but all eyes are squarely fixed on the $16,396 top prize.
Updates throughout the day’s play will be available right here at SHRPO.com.
2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood, FL Event 26: $150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Entries: 506 Prize Pool: $60,720 August 15-17, 2016
Registration is closed for Flight B with the final entry count hitting 272. That brings the two-flight total to 506 and those still alive after the opening days of play reconvene for Day 2 Wednesday in the poker room at 5pm.
Flight B is deep into the structure with play set to conclude at 12:45am local time. Those players fortunate enough to advance are set to join the 29 advancers from yesterday’s Flight A to comprise the full Day 2 field.
Complete chip counts with seat assignments will be posted by noon Wednesday. In the meantime, the chip counts from Flight A are available HERE.
Cards go in the air for the first of two starting flights in Event 26, a $150 buy-in no limit hold’em re-entry tournament, shortly. Players begin with 10,000 chips and are set to log 30-minute levels throughout. Play concludes following Level 14 at about 12:45am and complete chip counts will be posted shortly thereafter.
Tournament details:
5PM: Event 26 Day 1A – $150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
Players begin with 10,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
Day 1 will end after Level 14 or Tournament Director discretion
2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood Event #26 $350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Total Entries: 262 Total Prize Pool: $78,600
Frankie Flowers Wins Event #26 for $20,479
Frankie Flowers won the $350 No Limit Hold’em in the early hours of Wednesday morning, but his sights were set much higher than that.
Flowers bested a field of 262 players in a heads-up deal to take home the trophy and $20,479. He’s got high hopes for that prize money.
“We are going to try tro run it up,” said the 42-year-old poker pro. “I think we might go fire it into the $25K in the morning. I don’t know what the blinds are, but we are going to give it a shot.”
When he was informed that the registration for the High Roller event was already closed, he couldn’t do anything but laugh.
After several cackles, he had another idea for the prize money.
“I’m just going to spin it up and try to roll this up,” he said with laugh. “We’ll just fly to Vegas and bet it all on [Steph] Curry. See how many points he can score in the next game.”
All of this was said with lots of laughter and joy with his win, but one thing he was serious about was taking home the trophy. Flowers is a regular in tournaments on the East Coast and is very well known in the northeast part of the country.
Flowers just missed out on a WPT final table back in 2007 at Foxwoods, finishing 10th in the World Poker Finals main event for $60,429.
Despite the success, this is the first time Flowers gets to take home some hardware.
“This is my first trophy,” said Flowers on a more serious note. “I’ve won a bunch of tournaments where we’ve made deals and then played for the trophy and I’ve always lost. This is the first time I get to take home the hardware.”
Flowers first trophy didn’t come easy. He came into the final table with the chip lead, but still had to top a table that featured WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hui and local tournament regular Michael Newman.
He then got the better part of the deal against Richard Arno heads-up, who puts a bow on a solid series of his own with two final tables.
Heads-up play didn’t last very long before a deal was made, allowing Flowers to be crowned the champion and take home the largest share of the prize pool.
Here is a look at the results:
1st: Frankie Flowers – $20,479 2nd: Richard Arno – $14,500 3rd: Ryan Sherman – $7,467 4th: Evan Young – $6,052 5th: Raymound Ruszkowski – $4,716 6th: Allan Dungo – $3,930 7th: Michael Newman – $3,144 8th: Phillip Hui – $2,358 9th: David Reeder – $1,572 10th: Edwin Roman – $1,022 11th: Nicholas Mahabee – $1,022 12th: Ido Ashkenazi – $1,022 13th: Daren Stabinski – $865 14th: Marc Kropf – $865 15th: Matthew Yorra – $865 16th: Sheldon Gorss – $786 17th: Dolphus Powers – $786 18th: Ory Hen – $786 19th: Xiaoyan Wang – $707 20th: Sheraz Nasir – $707 21st: Michael Ortiz – $707 22nd: Michel Esper Saad Jr. – $707 23rd: Jonathan Ounjian – $707 24th: Howard Darnold – $707 25th: Homero Molina – $707 26th: Paul Shafran – $707 27th: Haim Toorgeman – $707
giving Robbins outs to a flush. The turn was the 
. Robbins needed a spade to bust both players while Williams was looking for a king or queen. Fifth street came the 
officially earning Patalano the hand. He tripled up while Robbins’ ace-high was enough to take a side pot off Williams. With that, Williams busted while Patalano jumped into contention for the chip lead.
