$2,650 No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out)Level 25: 15,000/30,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 529 3r132j
Koray Aldemir raised to 65,000 from late position and Alex Wilson called from his direct left. It folded to James Gilbert in the big blind and he defended. The trio saw a flop of . Gilbert checked sending it back to Aldemir. He C-bet for 80,000 causing a fold out of Wilson. It was back to Gilbert and he called.
The turn was the . Gilbert check a second time and Aldemir bet a second time — 140,000. Gilbert called and the dealer peeled the river.
Gilbert checked once again and Aldemir shoved. Gilbert, who had Aldemir covered, quickly called. Aldemir flipped over for kings and fours. He was best against the — queen and eights — of Gilbert. Aldemir doubled to 960,000.
After three days of play, the four marquee events on the 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open schedule are ready to play out their final tables. The Big 4 includes the $5 Million GTD Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship, the $25,500 High Roller, $2,650 NLH Freeze-Out, and $1,100 Event 24 with a $500,000 Guarantee.
Nine players remain in each event, each with a shot at a major SHRPO title.
Action is set to get underway at 2pm and all four tables will be live-streamed on Poker Night in America’s Twitch page.
SHRPO $5 Million GTD Championship
Level 26: 30,000/60,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 847
Seat 1: Seth Davies – 3,350,000 (56 bb)
Seat 2: Roman Valenstein – 2,895,000 (48 bb)
Seat 3: Thomas Midena – 4,395,000 (73 bb)
Seat 4: Ryan Fair – 1,335,000 (22 bb)
Seat 5: Jason Koon – 3,595,000 (60 bb)
Seat 6: Zo Karim – 1,295,000 (22 bb)
Seat 7: Paul Balzano – 4,120,000 (69 bb)
Seat 8: Joe Serock – 1,845,000 (31 bb)
Seat 9: Tim Burt – 2,575,000 (43 bb)
$25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 22: 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 105
$2,650 No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out) End of Level 24: 12,000/24,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 529
The 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Event 23 Big 4 final table includes players with nearly $9 million in career earning led by double-WSOP bracelet winner Dan Heimller. Newcomber Bradley Snider leads the final table when they return but has some big names trying to chase him down for the trophy.
Nicholas Immekus
Seat 1: Nicholas Immekus
Pittsburg, PA)
495,000 (17 bb)
Immekus is a Pittsburgh native with two cashes during the 2015 SHRPO series including a final table in the $1,650 Purple Chip Bounty event. He has $430,000 in career earnings including a $161,000 win during the 2015 PCA series.
James Gilbert
Seat 2: James Gilbert
Philadelphia, PA
965,000 (32 bb)
Gilbert has over $1 million in earnings in his young career. He earned his first WSOP circuit ring in 2012 in Atlantic City but his biggest finish came last September when he was runner-up to David Peredes for the WPT Borgata Poker Open title.
Chang is lawyer from Maryland with over $480,000 in career earnings. He has several deep tournament run but his biggest came with a fourth place finish in the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open” Championship.
Dan Heimiller
Seat 4: Dan Heimiller
Plymouth, MI
1,370,000 (46 bb)
Heimiller is the elder statesman at the final table with more than $5.7 in career tournament earnings including two WSOP bracelets and two WSOP circuit rings. His first tournament cash came back in 1992 and he won the WSOP Seniors Event in 2014. Not to be put out to pasture, Heimiller added a SHRPO title to his list of credits last week.
Snider is one of the unknowns in today’s Big 4 festivities. He’s studay orginally from Fort Lauderdale with no recorded tournament cashes so he already set to earn the biggest poker payday of his career.
Jerry Wong
Seat 6: Jerry Wong
Brooklyn, NY
1,345,000 (45 bb)
Wong was a local poker celebrity long before he made his mark this summer. He already had some big results to his credit, including a third place finish in the 2013 PCA Main Event, but most will know Wong now as a member of the 2016 WSOP Main Event November Nine.
Koray Aldemir
Seat 7: Koray Aldemir
Vienna, Austria
680,000 (23 bb)
Aldemir is one of our more successful players in the event. He cashed eight times this summer during the World Series of Poker including a second place finish to poker legend Adrian Mateos. But his biggest success came when he finished 3rd in the $111,111 Big One for One Drop High Roller for more than $2 million.
Alex Wilson
Seat 8: Alex Wilson
Wheeling, WV
1,305,000 (44 bb)
Wilson appears to be a short-handed poker specialist with two deep finishes in WSOP Six-Max events with his best finish coming with a 5th place result in the 2009 $2,500 Six-Max Event for more than $100,000.
Dermot Blain
Seat 9: Dermot Blain
Dublin, IR)
630,000 (21 bb)
Blain is our Irish friend and he finished second in our $1,100 NLH Turbo event a few days ago. While that was a nice result, he biggest tournament victory was in 2009 when he won the APPT Macau HK$40,000 buy-in Main Event.
Final table lineup:
Seat 1: Nicholas Immekus – 495,000
Seat 2: James Gilbert – 965,000
Seat 3: Jeffrey Chang – 580,000
Seat 4: Dan Heimiller – 1,370,000
Seat 5: Bradley Snider – 3,210,000
Seat 6: Jerry Wong – 1,345,000
Seat 7: Koray Aldemir – 680,000
Seat 8: Alex Wilson – 1,305,000
Seat 9: Dermot Blain – 630,000
$2,650 No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out) End of Level 24: 12,000/24,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 529
Bradley Snider leads the $2,650 No Limit Hold’em final table
On Monday evening, the second of The Big 4 final tables were set and it’s 21-year-old Florida native Bradley Snider with a big chip lead heading into the final day of play in the $2,650 No Limit Hold’em.
Snider finished the day with 3,210,000 in chips and has more than double his closest competitor. The 21-year-old leads a final table that has plenty of experience at it.
Dan Heimiller, Jerry Wong, James Gilbert, Dermot Blain, and Koray Aldemir will all be ing Snider on Tuesday.
Heimiller is a long-time veteran of the game with two WSOP bracelets to his name. Wong is a current November Niner, Gilbert has over $1 million in career tournament earnings and a second place finish in a WPT main event, while Aldemir final tabled the $100,000 buy-in Big One for One Drop this past summer at the WSOP. Blain brings an international flair to the final table. The Irish pro has over $2 million in tournament earnings and finished second in a preliminary event this series.
Rounding out the final table are Alex Wilson, Jeffrey Chang, and well-known online pro Nicholas Immekus.
The Day 2 action kicked off on Monday at noon with 99 players coming back with hopes of surviving long enough to make the final table.
The top 71 players earned a payday and the bubble was burst fairly quickly in the day’s action, with the final 71 players in the money before the first break of the day hit.
Even after the bubble burst, the eliminations continued to pile up and many top pros hit the rail. TK Miles (61st), John Racener (46th), Jake Cody (34th), Noah Bronstein (32nd), Jake Bazeley (30th), Chino Rheem (28th), Ben Zamani (25th), Jeremy Ausmus (23rd), and Scott Clements (16th) were among the notable pros to hit the rail inside the money.
Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown champion Justin Young fell just shy of making this final table, finishing in 10th place when his king-queen fell victim to Snider’s ace-king.
Young’s elimination secured spots at the final table for the remaining nine players. They will get cards back in the air for the final table on Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Hard Rock Live.
All four of The Big 4 final tables will be running simultaneously alongside one another with Maria Ho and Ali Nejad MC’ing the action.
Here is the seating arrangement and chip counts for the final table:
Seat 1: Nicholas Immekus – 495,000
Seat 2: James Gilbert – 965,000
Seat 3: Jeffrey Chang – 580,000
Seat 4: Dan Heimiller – 1,370,000
Seat 5: Bradley Snider – 3,210,000
Seat 6: Jerry Wong – 1,345,000
Seat 7: Koray Aldemir – 680,000
Seat 8: Alex Wilson – 1,305,000
Seat 9: Dermot Blain – 630,000
$2,650 No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out) End of Level 24: 12,000/24,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 529
Here is a look at the final table chip counts for the nine players that are coming back on Tuesday to play down to a winner in the $2,650 No Limit Hold’em:
Seat 1: Nicholas Immekus – 495,000
Seat 2: James Gilbert – 965,000
Seat 3: Jeffrey Chang – 580,000
Seat 4: Dan Heimiller – 1,370,000
Seat 5: Bradley Snider – 3,210,000
Seat 6: Jerry Wong – 1,345,000
Seat 7: Koray Aldemir – 680,000
Seat 8: Alex Wilson – 1,305,000
Seat 9: Dermot Blain – 630,000
The final table gets kicked off on Tuesday at 2 p.m. inside of the Hard Rock Live. All four of The Big 4 final tables will run alongside each other with Maria Ho and Ali Nejad MC’ing the action.
$2,650 No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out) Level 24: 12,000/24,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 529
Justin Young
Justin Young raised to 48,000 from early position and Dan Heimiller called from the small blind. Bradley Snider three-bet to 160,000 out of the big blind and Young moved all in for about 450,000.
Heimiller folded and Snider called. Snider showed and had Young’s dominated.
The board ran out and Snider crossed the 3 million chip mark while setting up the final table, eliminating Young in 10th.
The remaining nine players will bag up chips and come back to play out their final table tomorrow.
Bradley Snider – 3,200,000 (133 bb)
Justin Young – Eliminated
$2,650 No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out) Level 24: 12,000/24,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining: 10 of 529
With the elimination of Vlad Mezheritzky in 11th place, the remaining 10 players have redrawn for seats at the unofficial final table. After one more elimination, play will stop for the night and the final nine players will come back on Tuesday to play down to a winner.
Here is a look at the seating arrangement and chip counts for the final 10 players:
Seat 1: Nicholas Immekus – 519,000
Seat 2: James Gilbert – 521,000
Seat 3: Jeffrey Chang – 640,000
Seat 4: Dan Heimiller – 1,380,000
Seat 5: Bradley Snider – 2,752,000
Seat 6: Jerry Wong – 1,300,000
Seat 7: Justin Young – 510,000
Seat 8: Koray Aldemir – 1,075,000
Seat 9: Alex Wilson – 1,350,000
Seat 10: Dermot Blain – 550,000
$2,650 No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out) Level 23: 10,000/20,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players Remaining: 10 of 529
Vlad Mezheritzky
Vlad Mezheritzky moved all in for 305,000 from under the gun and Bradley Snider moved all in for about 2,200,000. Koray Aldemir folds from the small blind and James Gilbert takes a few moments in the big blind.
“Give me a second guys,” said Gilbert as he stands up from his seat.
Gilbert took a closer look at how much Aldemir has, even though he already folded.
“I’m just trying to get a grasp on the dynamic of the whole hand,” said Gilbert.
Gilbert eventually folded and the cards were tabled. Mezheritzky showed and was flipping with Snider’s .
The flop was and Snider flopped top two pair to take the lead. The turn was the and the river was the to eliminate Mezheritzky in 11th place.
There is a slight pause in the action as the final 10 players redraw for seats at the unofficial final table.
. Gilbert checked sending it back to Aldemir. He C-bet for 80,000 causing a fold out of Wilson. It was back to Gilbert and he called.
. Gilbert check a second time and Aldemir bet a second time — 140,000. Gilbert called and the dealer peeled the 
river.
for kings and fours. He was best against the 
— queen and eights — of Gilbert. Aldemir doubled to 960,000.
and Snider crossed the 3 million chip mark while setting up the final table, eliminating Young in 10th.
and was flipping with Snider’s 
and Snider flopped top two pair to take the lead. The turn was the 
and the river was the 
. Wilson checked and Snider bet 150,000.
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, good for a queen-high straight and wins the pot.
