Patrick Mahoney emerged victorious from the 2016 edition of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker‘s premier tournament Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open $3,500 Main Event. He became the latest champion in the tournament which drew a total of 760 players and kicked off on November 25th and ended after five days of action.
The tournament offered a guaranteed prize pool of $2,432,000 of which the American player scooped a prize of $564,227 as well as the special tournament trophy. This was the largest cash in his career as a professional poker player. Up to date, his tournament winnings amount to more than $700,000.
As already mentioned above, the tournament has gathered a total of 760 players. However, only the top 72 of them got paid for the efforts. Some of the poker players who got cash portions of the guaranteed prize pool but did not manage to reach the final table were Batt Berkey, Jason Mercier, Natasha Mercier, Will Failla, Jake Bazeley, John Racener, etc. Ben Keeline was the player who got eliminated on the 10th position, so that his departure from the tournament put the start of the final table’s play.
The competition at the final table was fierce, as each and every one of the nine players was aimed at winning the champion’s title. Ari Engel, for example, was looking for another large winning in 2016, after the one in January at this year’s edition of the Aussie Millions. However, he did not manage to stick to the end of the competition and became the first player to hit the rail.
By the time when seven players have been eliminated from the final table, it took Patrick Mahoney only about half an hour to beat his last standing opponent, winning the 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open Main Event.
With Patrick Mahoney at the first position in the ranking, Matthew Humphrey remained as a runner-up, taking home a guaranteed prize pool cash portion of $328,320. The third place was occupied by Upeshka De Silva, who got a consolation prize of $200,640.
Billy Pilossoph got fourth, followed by Mark Dube who occupied the fifth place in the ranking, scooping a cash portion of $133,760. The sixth position was taken by Bill Jennings, while Matthew Zarcadoolas got seventh. The eighth and ninth positions in the event’s ranking were occupied by John Spadavecchia Jr. and Ari Engel, respectively.
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Harry Evans
