$10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale Level 21: 10,000/20,000 with a 3,000 Ante Players Remaining: 10 of 349 4ey2e

Seat 1: Ken Einiger – 280,000 (14 bb)
Seat 2: Josh Kay – 460,000 (23 bb)
Seat 3: Tim West – 2,040,000 (102 bb)
Seat 4: Jason Koon – 1,420,000 (71 bb)
Seat 5: Ryan Riess – 3,135,000 (157 bb)
Seat 6: Marvin Rettenmaier – 540,000 (27 bb)
Seat 7: Cliff Josephy – 1,680,000 (84 bb)
Seat 8: Terry Schumacher – 1,400,000 (70 bb)
Seat 9: Jonathan Jaffe – 775,000 (39 bb)
Seat 10: Alan Sternberg – 2,260,000 (113 bb)

Remaining payouts:

1st: $716,088
2nd: $491,081
3rd: $315,726
4th: $204,466
5th: $157,599
6th: $130,370
7th: $109,412
8th: $89,609
9th: $70,103
10th: $59,079

$10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale
Level 21: 10,000/20,000 with a 3,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 10 of 349

Cliff Josephy opened to 45,000 from under the gun and action folded around the Jake Cody in the big blind. He moved all-in for 400,000 and Josephy called.

Cody:
Josephy:

Cody ran into a monster and couldn’t find a save on the board to exit the tournament in 11th place.

Tournament staff paused the clock and the remaining ten players a redrawing seats for final table.

Cliff Josephy – 1,680,000 (84 bb)
Jake Cody – Eliminated in 11th place ($59,079)

$10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale
Level 21: 10,000/20,000 with a 3,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 11 of 349

Marvin Rettenmaier open/shoved for 254,000 from the button and Terry Schumacher called from the big blind.

Schumacher:
Rettenmaier:

Rettenmaier had two live cards and found three on the flop.

“Welcome to the US,” Tim West joked with Schumacher, the Belgian.

Quad kings were good for Rettenmaier’s needed double.

Marvin Rettenmaier – 542,000 (27 bb)
Terry Schumacher – 1,370,000 (69 bb)

$10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale
Level 21: 10,000/20,000 with a 3,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 11 of 349

Table 1
Seat 1: — Empty —
Seat 2: — Empty —
Seat 3: Cliff Josephy – 1,327,000 (66 bb)
Seat 4: Alan Sternberg – 2,180,000 (109 bb)
Seat 5: Ryan Riess – 3,014,000 (151 bb)
Seat 6: — Empty —
Seat 7: Ken Einiger – 309,000 (15 bb)
Seat 8: — Empty —
Seat 9: Jake Cody – 410,000 (21 bb)

Table 2
Seat 1: Josh Kay – 763,000 (38 bb)
Seat 2: Terry Schumacher – 1,646,000 (82 bb)
Seat 3: Tim West – 1,984,000 (99 bb)
Seat 4: Jonathan Jaffe – 1,049,000 (52 bb)
Seat 5: — Empty —
Seat 6: — Empty —
Seat 7: — Empty —
Seat 8: Jason Koon – 991,000 (50 bb)
Seat 9: Marvin Rettenmaier – 293,000 (15 bb)

Remaining payouts:

1st: $716,088
2nd: $491,081
3rd: $315,726
4th: $204,466
5th: $157,599
6th: $130,370
7th: $109,412
8th: $89,609
9th: $70,103
10th: $59,079
11th: $59,079

$10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale
Level 20: 8,000/16,000 with a 2,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 10 of 349

Josh Kay opened to 35,000 from the cutoff and Tim West moved all-in for 929,000 from the small blind. Jonathan Jaffe called in the big blind and Kay released.

West:
Jaffe:

West missed the flop but the turn was friendly. For West. The river finished the board and West had his double.

“I didn’t want to get shoved on after the flop,” West told us. “So I ripped it in with AK.”

Tim West – 1,875,000 (117 bb)
Jonathan Jaffe – 560,000 (35 bb)

$10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale
Level 20: 8,000/16,000 with a 2,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 11 of 349

Kunal Patel opened to 210,000 from the button, leaving only ~40,000 behind, and Yevgeniy Timoshenko moved all-in for 620,000 on the button. Cliff Joseph called from the blind and Patel called after checking the board a few times for the pay jump.

Timoshenko:
Josephy:
Patel:

Patel had the shortest stack and in the most trouble. Timoshenko stayed ahead on the flop and turn but Josephy, the biggest of the three stacks, hit the river for a huge pot along with a double KO.

Cliff Josephy – 1,570,000 (98 bb)
Yevgeniy Timoshenko – Eliminated in 12th place ($59,079)
Kunal Patel – Eliminated in 13th place ($50,168)

$10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale
Level 20: 8,000/16,000 with a 2,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 13 of 349

Noah Vaillancourt open/shoved from the small blind for 259,000 and Jason Koon called in the big blind for less.

Vaillancourt:
Koon:

Vaillancourt was far behind and couldn’t catch up as the dealer spread to leave him with only two big blinds.

He was eliminated on the next hand in 14th place.

Jason Koon – 454,000 (28 bb)
Noah Vaillancourt – Eliminated in 14th place ($50,168)

$10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale
Level 20: 8,000/16,000 with a 2,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 14 of 349

It was four-ways to a flop when Qartomy moved all-in after a Terry Schumacher bet. The shove was quickly called and Qartomy’s top/top was drawing thin against Schumacher’s bottom set.

Qartomy:
Schumacker:

Qartomy needed a miracle but he was drawing dead after the turn to 15th place.

Terry Schumacher – 2,580,000 (161 bb)
Ray Qartomy – Eliminated in 15th place ($50,168)

$10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale
Level 20: 8,000/16,000 with a 2,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 15 of 349

Yevgeniey Timoshenko opened to 36,000 from middle position and Richard Rice moved all-in for ~150,000 from the small blind. Timoshenko quickly called to put the SHRP regular at risk.

Rice:
Timoshenko:

Rice was dominated and the closest he could get to a comeback were a few chop outs on the river as the board ran .

“I like the move,” Timoshenko told Rice. “Just unlucky this time.”

Yevgeniy Timoshenko – 510,000 (32 bb)
Richard Rice – Eliminated in 16th place ($41,421)

$10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale
Level 20: 8,000/16,000 with a 2,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 16 of 349

Table 1
Seat 1: Kunal Patel – 382,000 (24 bb)
Seat 2: Yevgeniy Timoshenko – 308,000 (19 bb)
Seat 3: Cliff Josephy – 975,000 (61 bb)
Seat 4: Alan Sternberg – 1,540,000 (96 bb)
Seat 5: Ryan Riess – 2,399,000 (150 bb)
Seat 6: Richard Rice – 222,000 (14 bb)
Seat 7: Ken Einiger – 386,000 (24 bb)
Seat 8: — Empty —
Seat 9: Jake Cody – 1,048,000 (66 bb)

Table 2
Seat 1: Josh Kay – 799,000 (50 bb)
Seat 2: Terry Schumacher – 1,856,000 (116 bb)
Seat 3: Tim West – 990,000 (62 bb)
Seat 4: Jonathan Jaffe – 1,539,000 (96 bb)
Seat 5: — Empty —
Seat 6: Ray Qartomy – 378,000 (24 bb)
Seat 7: Noah Vaillancourt – 280,000 (18 bb)
Seat 8: Jason Koon – 294,000 (18 bb)
Seat 9: Marvin Rettenmaier – 665,000 (42 bb)

Remaining payouts:

1st: $716,088
2nd: $491,081
3rd: $315,726
4th: $204,466
5th: $157,599
6th: $130,370
7th: $109,412
8th: $89,609
9th: $70,103
10th: $59,079
11th: $59,079
12th: $59,079
13th: $50,168
14th: $50,168
15th: $50,168
16th: $41,421