Last night, the opening evening of the 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open was completed with a record number of participants. Regardless that it came to a multi-day event, an additional day of play was needed in order for the opening event to be finally closed. Nicholas Mahabee got the first-place trophy after winning the starting flight $360 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) event. This is the second Seminole Hard Rock Poker title for Mahabee to date.
Apart from the event’s shiny guitar pick tournament trophy, Mahabee also got home a prize pool estimated to $66,435 after a six-way deal was stroke between him and the other five remaining opponents at the final table.
Six starting flights were featured in the $360 buy-in tournament with a guaranteed prize of $500,000. The guaranteed prize pool amount was met on Saturday morning after the registration process came to an end with a total of 2,570 entries. Its amount reached $771,000 on Sunday afternoon and distributed among the final 250 players left in the competition. The play was pretty intense and quick as the final table was reached in the early morning hours when the game was stopped to be restarted on Monday afternoon with the last ten players standing.
The first event of the 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open tournament was scheduled to be finalised on Sunday. However, with a total of ten players left at that point, the organizers of the event made a decision to allow an additional day that gathered the last standing survivors at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood.
At this stage of the game, Harjinder Chawla was the chip leader with a total of $8,625,000 in chips. Only two hours of play were necessary for four players to be eliminated and the six remaining players to form the final table after a short break. Shortly after the game at the final game started, the last contestants decided to split the prize pool.
Under the terms of the six-way deal, the prize pool had to be split in almost even chunks and the trophy, of course, had to be granted to the chip leader at this stage. So, the four players who held the largest number of chips got a prize of $66,435, while the last two were granted with $66,434.
Nicholas Mahabee was crowned as the champion of the tournament. Vito Polera finished as a runner-up, while Harhinder Chawla took the third position.
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Harry Evans
