$300 H.O.R.S.E. (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 100/200 Limits
Total Players: 42
The HORSE event is more than halfway to matching last year’s entrant count before the end of the first level and they have some time to reach it.
The players are spread around the back of the ballroom with more than a few tough spots. Phil Hui, Shawn Lytle, and Glen Cressman make a tough three-spot at a five-handed table. Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Matt Affleck is also an early entrant as they near the level up.
$300 H.O.R.S.E. (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 100/200 Limits
The first mixed game SHRPO event is underway in the ballroom and it will test skills across five variants. Event 6 is a $300 H.O.R.S.E. tournament that will attract a small but talented field.
They’ll switch up the game every eight hands from Limit Hold’em, Limit Omaha/8, Razz, Seven-card Stud, and Seven Card Stud/8. Players begin with 10,000 starting stacks and 30-minute levels with late registration open until the start of Level 8 at 3pm.
They are underway and we’ll have our next new SHRPO winner sometime this evening. Bruce McGregor is the defending champ when he picked up his second SHRP trophy last August.
2016 Deep Stack Series
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino
Hollywood, Fla.
Event #6
$150 Deep Stack Turbo
Entries: 115
Prize Pool: $13,800
May 30, 2016
Esteban Garcia claimed victory in Event 6 ($150 Deep Stack Turbo) of the Seminole Hard Rock Deep Stack Series following a four-way chop. Garcia, who was born in Puerto Rico but now resides in Pembroke Pines, held the chip lead at the time and walked with a $2,530 as well as the guitar trophy.
Event 6 results:
1st : ESTEBAN GARCIA – $2,530
2nd : EVAN TOEPEL – $2,310
3rd : GEORGES BOYADJIAN – $2,310
4th : ERROL MASSEY – $1,680
5th : DAVID SHMUEL – $828
6th : MARC LEVY – $690
7th : CAROLYN ZEGEER – $552
8th : HAROLD PAWLUK – $414
9th : FRED ALESI – $311
10th : ROSS FISCHER – $276
11th : ALFREDO GUEVARA – $276
12th : CAMILLE PONTILLO – $276
13th : JOSE AVILA – $242
14th : DOLPHUS POWERS – $242
15th : RAFIKI BROWN – $242
16th : SETH GILSON – $207
17th : DAVID MORENO – $207
18th : LOU STADLER $207
$150 Deep Stack Turbo
Level 14: 2,000/4,000/500 Ante
Players Remaining: 32/115
Registration is closed in tonight’s 6 p.m. $150 buy-in, $10,000 guaranteed Deep Stack Turbo. The field topped out at 115 entries generating a total prize pool of $13,800. The top 18 head home with a score of $207 while the tournament’s champion earns $4,000 along with the Seminole Hard Rock Poker guitar trophy.
Full prize structure:
1st – $4,000
2nd – $2,346
3rd – $1,380
4th – $1,104
5th – $828
6th – $690
7th – $552
8th – $414
9th – $311
10th-12th – $276
13th-15th – $242
16th-18th – $207
We will post the winner’s photo and any chop information following the event’s conclusion. The full results, meanwhile, will be posted tomorrow.
$150 Deep Stack Turbo
Level 1: 50/100
Entries: 31
It’s 6 p.m. and Event 6 of the Deep Stack Series at the Seminole Hard Rock is underway. The $150 buy-in, $10,000 guaranteed Deep Stack Turbo follows the same structure as Event 2 and 5 before it and sees its winner earn a Deep Stack Series guitar trophy.
Here’s how the one-day tournament will play out:
6pm: $150 Deep Stack Turbo – One-Day Event
We will provide another update when registration closes and then from there we’ll post the winner’s photo following the event’s conclusion.
Sunday marks Day 11 of the Seminole Hard Rock Deep Stack Series and two additional winners are scheduled to be crowned. The day’s headliner is the restart of the $1,650 Deepest Stack which begins at noon. Up for grabs in the series finale is a chunk of its $500,000+ prize pool as well as a $5,250 seat in the $5,000,000 guaranteed Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open.
Here’s more on the day’s slate:
12pm: $1,650 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em – Day 2
Day 2 chip counts and table draws will be posted by 10am
6pm: $150 Deep Stack Turbo – One-Day Event
Updates begin when cards go in the air at noon.
2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood
Event #6
$350 No Limit Hold’em Black Chip Bounty
Total Entries: 140
Prize Pool: $28,000 + $14,000 in Bounty prizepool
April 4, 2016
After 12 hours of no limit hold’em, Carlos Loving takes down the $350 No Limit Hold’em Black Chip Bounty event, earning the fifth trophy of the series.
Loving topped a field of 140 players to take home $8,120 along with $100 for each bounty he earned along the way. The Tampa native battled Daren Stabinski heads-up for about an hour before taking down the title.
“It feels great to win,” said Loving. “It’s always awesome. I’m very competitive so I want to win every time I play.”
Loving is now a professional poker player, but made the transition to poker after having an extensive engineering background and a successful career as computer engineer. Loving’s engineering experience made the transition to poker easier.
“When I first started playing, I like it and realized that I was pretty good at it,” said Loving. “So I started studying it and when I got into the math of the game, it was pretty easy for me. I started using that in my game and my engineering background helped a lot.”
As the tournament got later, Loving’s stack began to grow and he was the chip leader at the outset of the final table. There was a discussion about giving everyone their bounties back at the final table, but Loving dismissed that notion right away and wanted to continue playing for the bounties.
“Saying no to that was because I was the chip leader,” he said. “I knew that there were short stacks and I knew that if I knocked them out, I gained $100. I knew that it was an advantage for me to put pressure on them, so there was no reason for me to let them take back their $100.”
Even though he was the dissenting voice against a bounty deal at the final table, Loving didn’t pick up many bounties along the way.
Almost all of the money he won was from the first place finish.
“I didn’t accumulate a bounty until I knocked out one person when we were down to 11,” he recalled.
That knockout solidified his chip lead at the final table and he never was short once that last table began. The action was fast for most of the final table and the eliminations quickly piled up, but once Loving was heads-up with Stabinski, things slowed down.
“We were 60 big blinds deep,” said Loving. “So I didn’t want to make any mistakes and try to get it all in preflop with any mediocre hand. I wanted to play postflop a lot. That’s why we were seeing a lot flops and playing small ball poker. It worked out for me.”
Here is a look at the results:
1st: Carlos Loving: $8,120
2nd: Daren Stabinski – $4,760
3rd: Joel Duarte – $2,800
4th: Howard Talesnick – $2,240
5th: Donte Larsen – $1,680
6th: Eric Riley – $1,400
7th: Seth Gilson – $1,120
8th: Shawn Nguyen – $840
9th: Francisco Milanes – $630
10th: Johanssy Joseph – $560
11th: Cesar Fuentes – $560
12th: Wendy Freedman – $560
13th: Ariel Rosello Quintana – $490
14th: Nissin Vaknin – $490
15th: Edward Mroczkowski – $490
16th: Ido Ashkenazi – $420
17th: Joseph Duchman – $420
18th: Robert Marcocchio – $420
$350 No Limit Hold’em Black Chip Bounty
Level 22: 6,000/12,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining: 2 of 140
Average Stack: 700,000
There is about 150,000 in the pot on the turn with the board reading 
and Daren Stabinski bets 85,000 out of the big blind.
Loving takes a minute in the tank and then calls. The river is the 
and Stabinski moves all in for about 340,000. Loving snap-calls.
Stabinski looks visibly unhappy about the call and shows 
. Loving tables 
, good for the king-high flush and he wins the pot and tournament.
Loving earns $8,120 for the win, along with the trophy and Stabinski takes home $4,760 for his runner-up finish.
Carlos Loving – Winner of $350 No Limit Hold’em Black Chip Bounty ($8,120)
Daren Stabinski – Eliminated in 2nd ($4,760)
$350 No Limit Hold’em Black Chip Bounty
Level 22: 6,000/12,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining: 2 of 140
Average Stack: 700,000
Carlos Loving raises to 25,000 on the button and Daren Stabinski calls out of the big blind. The flop is 
and both players check.
The turn is the 
and Stabinski checks again. Loving bets 23,000 and Stabinski calls. The river is the 
and Stabinski leads out for 70,000.
Loving takes a few moments and calls. Stabinski tables 
, having missed his flush draw and playing the board. Loving drags the pot with his 
.
Carlos Loving – 795,000
Daren Stabinski – 605,000
$350 No Limit Hold’em Black Chip Bounty
Level 21: 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 2 of 140
Average Stack: 700,000
On a flop of 
, Carlos Loving bets 20,000 out of the big blind and Daren Stabinski calls on the button.
The turn is the and Loving bets 55,000. Stabinski calls again and the river is the 
. Loving bets 200,00 and Stabinski goes into the tank for a couple minutes.
“What a stupid river,” said Stabinski.
Stabinski eventually tosses his hand into the muck and Loving drags the pot to take a small chip advatage.
Carlos Loving – 800,000
Daren Stabinski – 600,000