2025 May Deep Stack Poker Series
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 3
$600 Deeper Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed
Entries:  339
Prize Pool:  $176,280
May 19 – 21, 2025

May Deep Stack Poker Series Event 3 was a $600 Deeper Stack No-Limit Hold’em tournament with a $600 buy-in and $150,000 guarantee plus two starting flights. Jorge Rivera dominated the final table and took the top spot along with $34,240 after a heads-up deal with Akeelo Rhoden.

Congrats Jorge!

$600 Deeper Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $176,280  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 26:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante

After playing a few hands of heads up, Jorge Rivera and Akeelo Rhoden made a deal to divide up the remaining prize pool. Now they can enjoy their payout and take a shot at the $1,700 Deepest Stack.

1st: Jorge Rivera – $34,240 + DSPS Trophy
2nd: Akeelo Rhoden – $26,100

$600 Deeper Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $176,280  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 26:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  2 of 339

The board was already out and reading when Greg Spinder got his last 1,350,000 in the middle against Akeelo Rhoden.

He was holding for flopped trip fours but Rhoden caught back up with his with his river boat.

Akeelo Rhoden – 5,110,000 (102 bb)
Jorge Rivera – 8,450,000 (169 bb)
Greg Spinder – Eliminated in 3rd Place ($17,900)

$600 Deeper Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $176,280  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 26:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  3 of 339

Seat 1: Greg Spinder – 1,885,000 (38 bb)
Seat 2: Jorge Rivera – 7,875,000 (158 bb)
Seat 3: Akeelo Rhoden – 3,800,000 (76 bb)

1st: $36,240 + DSPS Trophy
2nd: $24,100
3rd: $17,900

$600 Deeper Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $176,280  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 26:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  3 of 339

With about one million in the pot already and the board reading , Akeelo Rhoden was all in and at risk for 1,620,000 against Jorge Rivera.

Rivera was ahead preflop with but Rhoden made trip queens with . The board finished with the turn and river to send Rhoden another double.

Akeelo Rhoden – 4,300,000 (86 bb)
Jorge Rivera – 5,900,000 (118 bb)

$600 Deeper Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $176,280  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 25:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  3 of 339

TK Miles was all in for about 750,000 and Greg Spinder at him at risk.

Miles:
Spinder:

It was a coin flip and Miles needed to improve to double up. But it was Spinder getting better when he made a set on the flop. Miles was drawing dead to the turn and river and fourth place.

Greg Spinder – 4,100,000 (103 bb)
TK Miles – Eliminated in 4th Place ($13,400)

$600 Deeper Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $176,280  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 25:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  4 of 339

Akeelo Rhoden was all in for 845,000 from under the gun and Jorge Rivera had him at risk.

Rhoden:
Rivera:

Rhoden was dominated and drawing thin against the queens. He picked up a backdoor flush draw on the flop, a regular heart draw on the turn and it filled on the river for the unlikely double.

Akeelo Rhoden – 1,750,000 (44 bb)
Jorge Rivera – 6,450,000 (161 bb)

$600 Deeper Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $176,280  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 25:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  4 of 339

Seat 1: Greg Spinder – 4,020,000 (101 bb)
Seat 2: TK Miles – 1,355,000 (34 bb)
Seat 3: Jorge Rivera – 7,085,000 (177 bb)
Seat 4: Akeelo Rhoden – 1,100,000 (28 bb)

1st: $36,240 + DSPS Trophy
2nd: $24,100
3rd: $17,900
4th: $13,400

$600 Deeper Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $176,280  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 25:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  4 of 339

At the 1 am hard stop, the four remaining players in the $600 Deeper Stack bagged up their chips and return on Thursday at 1 pm to play it out.

Jorge Rivera leads but the average stack is 85 big blinds so they can settle in for a grind.

Seat 1: Greg Spinder – 4,020,000 (101 bb)
Seat 2: TK Miles – 1,355,000 (34 bb)
Seat 3: Jorge Rivera – 7,085,000 (177 bb)
Seat 4: Akeelo Rhoden – 1,100,000 (28 bb)

1st: $36,240 + DSPS Trophy
2nd: $24,100
3rd: $17,900
4th: $13,400

$600 Deeper Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $176,280  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 21:  10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining:  15 of 339

We will update results and/or final table lineup if they return for an extra day on Thursday. Until then, we prepare for tomorrow’s first flight of the $1,700 Deepest Stack Main Event.

Table 7
Seat 2: Frederic Bunchan – 730,000 (49 bb)
Seat 3: Brenda Hinds – 1,655,000 (110 bb)
Seat 4: Jeff Garfinkel – 515,000 (34 bb)
Seat 5: Carlos Bermudez – 980,000 (65 bb)
Seat 6: Juan Montoya – 445,000 (30 bb)
Seat 7: Manny Tarich – 360,000 (24 bb)
Seat 8: Jorge Rivera – 755,000 (50 bb)
Seat 9: TK Miles – 1,380,000 (92 bb)

Table 13
Seat 1: Juan Mubarak – 575,000 (38 bb)
Seat 2: Robert Bush – 1,875,000 (125 bb)
Seat 4: Karen Cleveland – 105,000 (7 bb)
Seat 5: Michael Scalice – 445,000 (30 bb)
Seat 6: Greg Spinder – 1,100,000 (73 bb)
Seat 7: Evan Teitelbaum – 1,030,000 (69 bb)
Seat 8: Akeelo Rhoden – 1,590,000 (106 bb)

1st: $36,240 + DSPS Trophy
2nd: $24,100
3rd: $17,900
4th: $13,400
5th: $10,100
6th: $7,700
7th: $5,900
8th: $4,600
9th-10th: $3,620
11th-12th: $2,880
13th-15th: $2,340

16th: Michael Newman – $1,920
17th: Eldo Rodriguez – $1,920
18th: George Dolofan – $1,920