SHRPO Event 23 Pineapple Poker Carried a Buy-In Discrepancy
The event page listed a $400 turbo, while the rules PDF put the entry at $600 and laid out late registration through Level 9.
Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open’s Event 23 was a Pineapple Poker tournament with a wrinkle in the published details: the event page called it a $400 Deep Stack Turbo Pineapple, while the rules PDF listed a $600 buy-in.
The tournament was set up as a one-day event on Sunday, Aug. 2, with cards in the air at 9 p.m., according to the rules sheet. It started players with 20,000 chips and used 15-minute levels in a turbo structure.
The pineapple format was spelled out plainly for anyone who needed a refresher: each player was dealt three hole cards and had to discard one before the flop. The event was 9-handed, with a redraw at 18 and 9 players, or sooner if the tournament director chose.
Late registration and unlimited re-entries ran until the start of Level 9 at 11:15 p.m. The PDF also noted a 15-minute break after Level 8, with registration ending at that point and Level 9 beginning after the break.
The blind structure opened at 100/100, and the tournament used a big blind ante format. In that setup, the big blind paid the ante each hand, with the ante equal to the current blind level.
The rules PDF said players could forfeit their tournament chips at the end of registration to re-enter. Late entries bought after play had started were not live until the player had been dealt in, and alternates and late entries could have to wait for a seat assignment.
The buy-in breakdown in the PDF put $338 into the prize pool and treated $62 as a registration fee. That fee included $21 for staffing and $2 for the SHRPO Tournament Leaderboard promotional fund.
The tournament rules also required players to be at least 18, with proper ID and a Unity Member account, and said a valid photo ID was required to be paid out. People who had been trespassed or banned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida, or who had opted into self-exclusion, were not eligible.
The PDF added the usual fine print too: management reserved the right to alter, change, or cancel the tournament, and by entering, players agreed to allow their names and likenesses to be used for promotional purposes without compensation.
