Dylan Smith and Jerry Wong Among the Winners at WPT SHRPS

The World Poker Tour has been on the Seminole Exhausting Rock Resort & On line casino in Hollywood, Florida, since April 8 for the WPT Seminole Exhausting Rock Poker Showdown (SHRPS), and greater than three dozen gamers have been topped champions.

The 2016 World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) Most important Occasion finalist Jerry Wong and $5 million man Dylan Smith are simply two of the standout names among the many lengthy winner’s checklist. Though Wong and Smith’s prizes had been on the decrease finish of the size, a victory is a victory and serves as a confidence booster for the upcoming 2026 WSOP.

Smith Gallops Away With H.O.R.S.E. Title

Whereas Dylan Smith is extra accustomed to enjoying in tournaments with $10,000+ buy-ins, he graced the $600 H.O.R.S.E. together with his look final week. Smith was one in every of 67 entrants earlier than turning into the final man standing and strolling away with $12,135 for his efforts.

The ultimate desk featured such luminaries as Serbian star Damjan Radanov, who later gained the $600 Huge Guess Combine Sellers Selection occasion, 12-time WSOP Circuit ring winner John Holley, and the harmful Lengthy Nguyen; the latter fell in fifth place.

Elias Nassif and Eric Polier busted in fourth and third-place, respectively, earlier than Smith used his vastly superior expertise to brush apart Ahmet Alper within the heads-up conflict.

Smith now has virtually $5.1 million in dwell event earnings.

Wong Reveals His Combined Recreation Prowess within the Combined Triple Draw

The $600 buy-in Combined Triple Draw occasion drew in a crowd of 66 entrants, 9 of whom had been in the end paid a slice of the $34,320 prize pool. All however a kind of 9 finalists hailed from the US, with seventh-place finisher Alejandro Burzaco calling Argentina residence.

Combined sport specialist John Holley bowed out in fifth, lower than per week after he reached the ultimate desk of the $600 H.O.R.S.E. and completed second within the $400 Pot-Restrict Omaha Deep Stack occasions. Holey is now approaching $3.1 million in earnings.

Wong navigated his solution to heads-up, the place he confronted Florida native Eric Polier for the title and the $12,010 prime prize. Wong received the job executed within the one-on-one battle, defeating Polier and pushing his dwell poker event earnings north of $6.55 million.

Six gamers have bolstered their poker bankrolls with six-figure prizes, the proper solution to heat up for the upcoming $3 million assured Most important Occasion.

Colombia’s Sebastian Toro Henao navigated previous 4,782 opponents within the $400 No-Restrict Maintain’em Deep Stack occasion and acquired $201,030, resigning second-place finisher Alejandro Exposito to a $134,000 comfort prize.

The opposite huge winners to this point got here courtesy of two,937 gamers shopping for into the $800 No-Restrict Maintain’em Mid-Sequence Showdown Platinum Stack. These entrants’ leads to a $2,070,585 prize pool, double the marketed $1 million assure.

Johnny Bromberg, a prolific participant, got here out on prime and walked away with a career-best $258,125, taking his lifetime winnings previous the $2 million mark. Bromberg defeated Duc Vu heads-up, leaving Vu to console himself with a $176,000 second-place prize. Orlando’s Joshua Hillock and David Moses of North Carolina, busted in third and fourth place, banking $131,000 and $101,000, respectively.

$3 Million Assured WPT SHRPS Most important Occasion Begins April 24

The crown jewel of the WPT SHRPS schedule is, no doubt, the $3,500 buy-in, $3 million assured Most important Occasion. That includes two flights, with Day 1a beginning at 11:00 a.m. native time on April 24 and Day 1b on the identical time on April 25, the WPT SHRPS Most important Occasion must be nothing in need of enormous, particularly if earlier editions give us one thing to go on.

Final yr, Arthur Peacock outlasted 1,754 opponents and received his arms on $776,000 of the guarantee-busting $5,616,000 prize pool. The pot was so massive that runner-up Mihai Niste took residence $515,000.

Earlier 4 WPT SHRPS Most important Occasion Champions

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Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the UK, and has labored within the poker trade since 2008, and labored for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he turned the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from dwell reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his position of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.