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| Earnings | $299,488 |
| Cashes | 2 |
| Final Tables | 1 |
| Titles | 0 |
| Tournaments Played | 13 |
Est. Current Chipcount
Est. Average Chipcount
12,990,000
Current Chipleader
-
Day 3
1,016,500
Day 4
1,038,000
Day 5
2,192,000
Day 6
4th
Level 33: 100,000-200,000, 25,000 ante
When you come into a final table as the big chip leader, things can go a couple of ways. Sometimes, it is a steamroll straight through the competition and on to the title. Other times, the path to victory is a winding one, complete with ups, downs, surprises, and setbacks. Taylor Von Krienbergh’s final table story is one of the winding road type of stories. Or, more appropriately, a roller coaster ride. Von Kriegenbergh began the day at the top of the hill, looking to only climb higher as play unfolded. Instead, it was a long and crazy night of poker that took a lot of twists and turns, but ended just like it started—with Von Kriegenbergh on top.
The inaugural Seminole Hard Rock Showdown final table will be remembered for a lot of suckouts and short stacks surviving and it was Curt Kohlberg who kicked off that trend by doubling thru Tommy Vedes on just the 17th hand of play. Three hands later, it was Abbey Daniels’ turn to double when a cooler of a hand saw her set of sevens hold up against Von Kriegenbergh’s set of threes.
From there, there were plenty more double ups but no eliminations. The chip lead circled around the table as just about every player either doubled someone up or doubled up themselves. Someone had to go out at some point though and the first player to hit the rail was Tommy Vedes, whose hopes of picking up a second WPT title were cut short just two hands after he took the chip lead at the final table. Vedes lost most of his stack when he called Daniels’ river shove with a king-high straight only to run into her rivered flush. The very next hand he got it all-in with top pair and a flush draw to Curt Kohlberg’s two pair and bricked to go home in sixth.
Allen Bari was the next player to fall. Bari seemed pretty card dead all evening and his bad run of luck was capped off when his A
10 couldn’t win a coinflip against Justin Zaki’s pocket fives. Daniels met her demise a few orbits later on the wrong end of a coinflip as well. Getting short on chips, Daniels moved in with A
8 and Kohlberg called her with pocket sixes. The board ran out seven-high and the man who began the day as the shortest stack took the chip lead, while Daniels exited in fourth place.
After Daniels left, the action stalled as the final three sparred in pots for nearly 70 hands without a major all-in confrontation. During that time, the blinds kept climbing and Von Kriegenbergh needed to pick up some chips in order to stay alive. He took a stand with K10
and ran smack into Zaki’s pocket aces, but a ten on the flop and a king on the turn gave new life to Von Kriegenbergh.
The young pro credited a sick run of luck and a little help from a higher power in his victory. That luck was out in full force from that point forward as he doubled thru Kohlberg to take a big chip lead, then finished off Zaki with 6
7 to Zaki’s AJ. With the local grinder out, Von Kriegenbergh only needed to dispatch of one more opponent and victory was his.
Von Kriegenbergh came into heads up play with a more than 5-1 chip lead and Kohlberg was at quite a disadvantage with his less than ten big blind stack. Kohlberg sparred with the big stack for a few minutes, but it only took eight hands of heads-up play for Von Kriegenbergh to eliminate his fellow Bostonian and take the title.
On the final hand of play, Von Kriegenbergh got one last bit of luck as his Q8 made a full house to beat Kohlberg’s A10 and bring the twelve-hour and 220-hand final table to a close. The Seminole Hard Rock had the presidential suite waiting for Von Kriegenbergh after play ended. However, after this long and winding final table, Von Kriegenbergh was much more inclined to get some much deserved rest rather than rock hard celebrating his $1,122,340 victory.
Here are the results from the Seminole Hard Rock Showdown final table:
1st: Taylor Von Kriegenbergh - $1,122,340
2nd: Curt Kohlberg - $586,109
3rd: Justin Zaki - $415,680
4th: Abbey Daniels - $286,819
5th: Allen Bari - $211,997
6th: Tommy Vedes - $166,272
Level 29: 40,000-80,000, 10,000 ante
Curt Kohlberg raises under the gun to 200,000, Abbey Daniels moves all in from the small blind, and Kohlberg asks for an exact count before he calls with 66. Daniels turns over A8, and she'll need to improve to stay alive.
The board comes 53273, and Curt Kohlberg wins the pot with his pocket sixes to eliminate Abbey Daniels in fourth place.
Seat 1. Abbey Daniels - Out in 4th Place ($286,819)
Seat 4. Taylor Von Kriegenbergh - 4,600,000
Seat 5. Curt Kohlberg - 5,560,000
Seat 6. Justin Zaki - 2,815,000
Level 28: 30,000-60,000, 10,000 ante
Taylor Von Kriegenbergh raises under the gun to 150,000, and Abbey Daniels calls from the big blind. Both players check to the turn on a board of AA2J, Daniels bets 185,000, Von Kriegenbergh raises to 400,000, and Daniels thinks for a bit before she calls.
The river card is the 9, Daniels bets 275,000, and Von Kriegenbergh thinks for nearly a minute before raises to 1,000,000. Daniels quickly folds, and Taylor Von Kriegenbergh takes the pot worth 1.7 million.
Seat 1. Abbey Daniels - 1,525,000
Seat 4. Taylor Von Kriegenbergh - 4,340,000
Seat 5. Curt Kohlberg - 3,965,000
Seat 6. Justin Zaki - 3,145,000
Level 26: 20,000-40,000, 5,000 ante
Curt Kohlberg raises from middle position to 100,000, Abbey Daniels reraises from the button to 250,000, and Kohlberg thinks for a while before moving all in for 1,330,000.
Daniels asks for an exact count and thinks for about a minute before she calls with QQ. Kohlberg shows JJ, and he'll need to improve to stay alive.
The board comes 1084J8, and Kohlberg turns a set and rivers a full house to win the pot and double up in chips. Kohlberg leaps around in celebration and actually leaves the stage before he returns and calmly says, "Sorry for my exuberance."
After he takes his seat and begins stacking his chips, Kohlberg quotes Mark Twain and says, "Reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated."
Seat 1. Abbey Daniels - 1,915,000
Seat 2. Tommy Vedes - 1,815,000
Seat 3. Allen Bari - 1,985,000
Seat 4. Taylor Von Kriegenbergh - 3,260,000
Seat 5. Curt Kohlberg - 2,745,000
Seat 6. Justin Zaki - 1,260,000
Level 25: 15,000-30,000, 5,000 ante
Justin Zaki raises from the small blind to 75,000, and Abbey Daniels calls from the big blind. The flop comes 10107, Zaki bets 110,000, and Daniels raises to 250,000. Zaki thinks for about a minute before reraising to 650,000, and Daniels quickly calls. There is already 1.48 million in the pot.
The turn card is the A, Zaki thinks for a while before he checks, and Daniels bets 500,000. Zaki thinks for more than a minute before he folds, and Abbey Daniels takes a huge pot.
Seat 1. Abbey Daniels - 3,455,000
Seat 2. Tommy Vedes - 870,000
Seat 3. Allen Bari - 1,705,000
Seat 4. Taylor Von Kriegenbergh - 4,495,000
Seat 5. Curt Kohlberg - 1,065,000
Seat 6. Justin Zaki - 1,390,000
Level 25: 15,000-30,000, 5,000 ante
A 10 is accidentally exposed during the deal. Tommy Vedes raises under the gun to 65,000, Justin Zaki reraises from the small blind to 170,000, and Abbey Daniels reraises from the big blind to 420,000. Vedes quickly folds.
Zaki thinks for more than a minute before he folds, and Abbey Daniels takes the pot.
Seat 1. Abbey Daniels - 2,745,000
Seat 2. Tommy Vedes - 940,000
Seat 3. Allen Bari - 1,960,000
Seat 4. Taylor Von Kriegenbergh - 4,095,000
Seat 5. Curt Kohlberg - 1,140,000
Seat 6. Justin Zaki - 2,100,000
Level 24: 12,000-24,000, 4,000 ante
Abbey Daniels raises under the gun to 63,000, and Taylor Von Kriegenbergh calls from the button. The flop comes K73, Daniels bets 75,000, and Von Kriegenbergh calls. The turn card is the 9, Daniels bets 150,000, Von Kriegenbergh min-raises to 300,000, and Daniels quickly moves all in.
Von Kriegenbergh immediately calls with 33 for a set of threes, but Daniels dominates him with 77 for a set of sevens.
The river card is the 6, and Abbey Daniels wins the pot with set-over-set to double up in chips.
Seat 1. Abbey Daniels - 2,486,000
Seat 2. Tommy Vedes - 1,094,000
Seat 3. Allen Bari - 1,986,000
Seat 4. Taylor Von Kriegenbergh - 4,102,000
Seat 5. Curt Kohlberg - 1,158,000
Seat 6. Justin Zaki - 2,273,000
Level 24: 12,000-24,000, 4,000 ante
Abbey Daniels raises from the cutoff to 56,000, and Taylor Von Kriegenbergh calls from the big blind. The flop comes Q64, Von Kriegenbergh checks, Daniels bets 80,000, and Von Kriegenbergh calls. The turn card is the 8, Von Kriegenbergh checks, Daniels bets 95,000, and Von Kriegenbergh thinks for about a minute before min-raising to 190,000. Daniels quickly calls.
The river card is the 2, Von Kriegenbergh bets 180,000, and Daniels quickly calls. Von Kriegenbergh shows Q8 to win the pot with two pair, queens and eights, and Daniels mucks.
Pot Size: 1,050,000
Seat 1. Abbey Daniels - 1,567,000
Seat 2. Tommy Vedes - 1,468,000
Seat 3. Allen Bari - 1,924,000
Seat 4. Taylor Von Kriegenbergh - 5,189,000
Seat 5. Curt Kohlberg - 697,000
Seat 6. Justin Zaki - 2,137,000
Level 24: 12,000-24,000, 4,000 ante
By BJ Nemeth
Day 5 began with 18 players, and it took less than five hours to reach the final six for Monday's televised WPT final table. Check out this photographic look back at Day 5 of the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Showdown:
While the WPT set was being constructed in the Seminole Hard Rock Live arena, the playdown day of the tournament moved to the poker room.
Noah Schwartz (standing, center right) shakes hands with Bruce Snell after being eliminated in 18th place by James Mackey (seated, fair right). Schwartz moved all in preflop with A9 but ran into Mackey's 1010 and didn't improve.
After a flop of K44, Abbey Daniels (right, seat 1) moved all in, and Ronny Beda (top left) was conflicted for several minutes before he decided to call with KJ. But Daniels turned over AK, and went on to win the pot and eliminate Beda in 17th place.
Alexander Condon of Sioux City, Iowa didn't finish in the money, but he was the deepest finisher among all the 18-20 year olds who entered this event. For that, he received a prize basket from the Seminole Hard Rock Casino that included an electric guitar autographed by Aaron Lewis, lead singer for the band Staind. Condon is the cousin of poker pro William Reynolds, who made the most recent WPT final table at the Hollywood Poker Open in Indiana.
After a preflop raise from Justin Zaki (far right) and a reraise from Blair Hinkle (foreground, left), Tommy Vedes (center) moved all in. Zaki folded, and Hinkle thought for a while, saying, "I really feel like you're light here." Hinkle called with A9, but Vedes wasn't light -- he had JJ. The pocket jacks held up and Vedes doubled in a huge pot.
Derek Buonano (left) lost a preflop race with QQ against the AK of Kazu Oshima (right) to be eliminated in 12th place.
Bruce Snell (far left), who entered the tournament on Day 2 after winning a last-minute megasatellite, limped under the gun, and then watched as Tommy Vedes (center, right) raised and Justin Zaki (right) reraised. Snell four-bet all in, forcing a quick fold from Vedes. Zaki thought for a bit before he folded, calling it a nice move on the part of Snell.
With the final board showing AK9AJ, Taylor Von Kriegenbergh (left) studies Mike Shklover before betting the river. Shklover would fold, forfeiting the pot to Von Kriegenbergh.
With the board showing 9938 on the turn, Kazu Oshima (foreground, left) raised all in with AA, and Abbey Daniels (foreground, right) called with Q9 (trip nines). The trip nines held up to eliminate Oshima in 11th place, and the remaining 10 players combined to a single table.
With the trophy nearby, the players continued battling for the six seats at Monday's televised WPT final table.
Bruce Snell (standing, left) shakes hands with Tommy Vedes after being eliminated in 10th place at the hands of Allen Bari (center, in black). Snell had moved all in from the small blind with AJ, only to see Bari wake up in the big blind with KK.
With eight players left, Allen Bari (left) raised from early position, Justin Zaki (foreground, right) reraised from the button, and Bari reraised back at him. But when Zaki five-bet all in a few moments later, Bari would quickly fold.
With eight players left, Curt Kohlberg (standing, left) moved all in preflop with A7, but ran into the 1010 of Taylor Von Kriegenbergh (foreground, center). Kohlberg flopped two pair to stay alive and double up.
Day 4 chipleader Blair Hinkle (right) moved all in from the big blind with 88, but ran into the AA of Justin Zaki (standing, left). The aces held up, and Hinkle was eliminated in eighth place, earning $91,450.
With seven players left on the TV bubble and the board showing KQ52, Taylor Von Kriegenbergh (left, in grey and red) moved all in with 55 (set of fives), and Abbey Daniels (foreground, right) called with AK (top pair, nut flush draw). Daniels would need to make her flush to win the pot and eliminate Von Kriegenbergh.
Abbey Daniels (foreground, right) celebrates prematurely when she sees the river card fills her flush with the 2. But why is Taylor Von Kriegenbergh (left) smiling? Because the deuce paired the board, which turns his set of fives into a full house.
It takes a moment, but Abbey Daniels (foreground, right) realizes her mistake, and reacts to losing the biggest pot of the tournament to Taylor Von Kriegenbergh (left, in grey and red). Von Kriegenbergh doubled up into the chip lead.
Abbey Daniels (left) didn't let the loss affect her, and played a big pot with Tommy Vedes (right) two hands later on a board of 1096K10. Daniels would win this 1.5 million pot in a showdown with J10.
James Mackey was the unfortunate TV bubble boy, all in preflop with 55 against the 88 of Taylor Von Kriegenbergh. Mackey never improved, and the pot propelled Von Kriegenbergh to nearly double the stack of anyone else in the final six.
As the players fill out their WPT bio sheets, short stack Curt Kohlberg (right) assures the other final tablists that he will not be moving all in preflop with A-7 at the TV final table. Kohlberg goes on to say that he won't be raising with anything less than A-K, so everyone should just fold whenever he enters a pot.
Allen Bari, who was short-stacked on the money bubble but survived to the final six, was the RISE Player of the Day. Bari is fourth in chips, but fairly close to Justin Zaki (second in chips) and Abbey Daniels (third in chips).
Here are the official chip counts and seating positions for the televised WPT final table:
Seat 1. Abbey Daniels - 2,192,000 (91 BBs)
Seat 2. Tommy Vedes - 1,570,000 (65 BBs)
Seat 3. Allen Bari - 1,984,000 (82 BBs)
Seat 4. Taylor Von Kriegenbergh - 4,384,000 (182 BBs)
Seat 5. Curt Kohlberg - 655,000 (27 BBs)
Seat 6. Justin Zaki - 2,197,000 (91 BBs)
The televised WPT Final Table begins at 4:00 pm ET. Return to WorldPokerTour.com for complete live coverage, included hand-for-hand updates with updated chip counts after every hands.
Level 24: 12,000-24,000, 4,000 ante
With James Mackey's elimination in seventh place, Day 5 is over in just five hours and the televised final table is set. Taylor Von Kriegenbergh will be taking a huge chip lead into tomorrow, ending the day with 4,384,000. That is double that of his next closest competitor.
Joing Von Kriegenbergh at the final table are two players with past WPT final table experience, title holder Tommy Vedes and Curt Kohlberg, who is making his third final table appearance. Unfortunately for these two, they are the short stacks at the table with 1,570,000 and 655,000 respectively.
Rounding out the final table is longtime grinder Allen Bari, who is making his WPT final table debut, and two Floridians representing the locals, Abbey Daniels and Justin Zaki.
Here are the chip counts and seat asignments for tomorrow's final table. When play resumes blinds will be at 12,000-24,000 ante 4,000 for an hour:
Seat 1: Abbey Daniels - 2,192,000 (91 BBs)
Seat 2: Tommy Vedes - 1,570,000 (65 BBs)
Seat 3: Allen Bari - 1,984,000 (82 BBs)
Seat 4: Taylor Von Kriegenbergh - 4,384,000 (182 BBs)
Seat 5: Curt Kohlberg - 655,000 (27 BBs)
Seat 6: Justin Zaki - 2,197,000 (91 BBs)
