The Super Bowl of Poker (also known as Amarillo Slim's Super Bowl of Poker or SBOP ) was the second most prestigious poker tournament in the world during the 1980s. While the World Series of Poker was already drawing larger crowds as more and more amateurs sought it out, the SBOP "was an affair limited almost exclusively to pros and hard-core amateurs."[1]
The 1991 Tournament was the last SBOP. After Caesar's Casino in Las Vegas closed its poker room, Amarillo Slim had to find a new location for the event and the best deal that he could find forced participants to drive two hours.[2] This resulted in the smallest SBOP fields ever; the Main Event only had 12 participants.[2] Because of the small size of the field, fewer people were paid than in previous tournaments and the prestige of winning the events suffered a setback that doomed the SBOP and made 1991 the last year for the tournament.[2]
The winners of the tournament, however, continued to represent some of the biggest names in poker. Barbara Enright , the only woman in the Poker Hall of Fame , won the ladies event. Jack Keller , another Hall of Famer, won two events, the $1,000 Pot Limit Omaha and the $10,000 Main Event. Having won the event in 1984, this was his second time to have won the $10,000 Main Event.
Prior to SBOP, the only high dollar tournament a person could enter was the WSOP. "The World Series of Poker was so successful that everybody wanted more than one tournament," Amarillo Slim said.[3] Slim called upon his connections and friendships with poker's elite to start a new tournament in the February 1979. Before the SBOP had developed a reputation of its own, many of the most respected names in poker attended the tournament "more to support Slim and take advantage of the very fat cash games the event would obviously inspire."[4] Slim modelled his SBOP after the WSOP with several events and a $10,000 Texas Hold'em Main Event.
One of the principal differences between the WSOP and the SBOP was the prize structure. The WSOP's prize structure was flat, ensuring more people received smaller pieces of the prize pool. The SBOP typically used a 60-30-10 payout structure. In other words, only the first three places received money and generally in the ratio of 60% to first place, 30% to second place, and 10% to third.[2] This payment schedule dominated in the SBOP for the first 5 years of the event, but as the event grew the number of payouts increased while keeping the payout schedule top heavy.[2]
Contents
1 Key
1.1 Event 1: $500 Limit Hold'em
1.2 Event 2: $500 Limit Omaha
1.3 Event 3: $500 Limit Seven Card Stud
1.4 Event 4: $1,000 Limit Ace To Five Lowball
1.5 Event 5: $1,000 Limit Omaha Hi/Lo
1.6 Event 5: $1,000 Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo
1.7 Event 6: $ 1,000 Pot Limit Omaha
1.8 Event 7: $1,000 Limit Seven Card Razz
1.9 Event 8: $1,000 Limit Hold'em
1.10 Event 9: $1,000 Limit Omaha
1.11 Event 10: $1,000 Limit Seven Card Stud
1.12 Event 11: $1,500 Limit Hold'em
1.13 Event 12: $2,500 No-Limit Deuce To Seven Lowball with Rebuys
1.14 Event 13: $1,500 Limit Hold'em
1.15 Event 14: $400 Seven Card Stud (Ladies)
1.16 Event 15: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em
2 References
Key [ ]
*
Elected to the Poker Hall of Fame .
†
Denotes player who is deceased.
Place
The place in which people finish.
Name
The name of the player
Prize (US$)
Event prize money
Event 1: $500 Limit Hold'em[ ]
Number of buy-ins: 145
Total prize pool: $72,500
Number of payouts: 18
Reference: [5]
Final table
Place
Name
Prize
1st
Buster Jackson
$29,000
2nd
Bill Nelson
$14,500
3rd
Dave Anderson
$7,250
4th
Paul Sherr
$4,713
5th
John Stephanian
$3,625
6th
Tom Fisher
$2,538
7th
J.C. Pearson
$1,812
8th
Todd Brunson
$1,450
9th
Ed Gar
$1,087
Event 2: $500 Limit Omaha[ ]
Number of buy-ins: 79
Total prize pool: $39,500
Number of payouts: 9
Reference: [6]
Final table
Place
Name
Prize
1st
Marlon De Los Santos
$15,800
2nd
Jim Doman
$9,875
3rd
Joe Holmes
$3,950
4th
John Cernuto
$2,765
5th
Raymond Mancini
$2,173
6th
Luc Delrieu
$1,778
7th
Al Hauck
$1,382
8th
Mike Sexton
$987
9th
Amarillo Slim *
$790
Event 3: $500 Limit Seven Card Stud[ ]
Number of buy-ins: 99
Total prize pool: $49,500
Number of payouts: 8
Reference: [7]
Final table
Place
Name
Prize
1st
Rich Korbin
$19,800
2nd
John Andiovec
$12,375
3rd
Chuck McCormick
$4,950
4th
Bob Addington
$3,465
5th
Tommy Hugnagle
$2,970
6th
Eric Drache
$2,475
7th
Jim Doman
$1,980
8th
Dave Anderson
$1,485
Event 4: $1,000 Limit Ace To Five Lowball[ ]
Number of buy-ins: 29
Total prize pool: $29,000
Number of payouts: 8
Reference: [8]
Final table
Place
Name
Prize
1st
John Bonetti
$11,600
2nd
Bruce Coons
$7,250
3rd
Billy Baxter *
$2,900
4th
Fred Sigur
$2,030
5th
Ed Pellegrini
$1,740
6th
Don Zewin
$1,450
7th
Bob Pendergast
$1,160
8th
Wayne Sharpe
$870
Event 5: $1,000 Limit Omaha Hi/Lo[ ]
Number of buy-ins: 55
Total prize pool: $55,000
Number of payouts: 9
Reference: [9]
Final table
Place
Name
Prize
1st
Tommy Hufnagle
$22,000
2nd
John Cernuto
$13,700
3rd
Ernie Ostreicher
$5,500
4th
Gene Fisher
$3,850
5th
Amarillo Slim *
$3,025
6th
Brad Nadell
$2,475
7th
Jim Doman
$1,925
8th
Bret Carter
$1,375
9th
Joel Cohn
$1,100
Event 5: $1,000 Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo[ ]
Number of buy-ins: 36
Total prize pool: $36,000
Number of payouts: 8
Reference: [10]
Final table
Place
Name
Prize
1st
Ed Pellegrini
$14,400
2nd
Ralph Hoots
$9,000
3rd
K Rusi
$3,600
4th
David Brody
$2,520
5th
Brian Nadell
$2,160
6th
George Feher
$1,800
7th
Ed Clemente
$1,440
8th
Ed Gallant
$1,080
Event 6: $ 1,000 Pot Limit Omaha[ ]
Number of buy-ins: 38
Total prize pool: $38,000
Number of payouts: 9
Reference: [11]
Final table
Place
Name
Prize
1st
Jack Keller *
$15,200
2nd
Amarillo Slim *
$9,500
3rd
Luc Delrieu
$3,800
4th
Hans Lund
$2,660
5th
Paul Sherr
$2,090
6th
Gene Fisher
$1,710
7th
Surinder Sunar
$1,330
8th
Jack Culp
$950
9th
Bob Ciaffone
$760
Event 7: $1,000 Limit Seven Card Razz[ ]
Number of buy-ins: 28
Total prize pool: $28,000
Number of payouts: 4
Reference: [12]
Final table
Place
Name
Prize
1st
John Cernuto
$14,000
2nd
Brian Nadell
$7,000
3rd
Morris Kessler
$4,200
4th
Richard Schwartz
$2,800
Event 8: $1,000 Limit Hold'em[ ]
Number of buy-ins: 57
Total prize pool: $57,000
Number of payouts: 9
Reference: [13]
Final table
Place
Name
Prize
1st
Rick Riolo
$22,800
2nd
Ed Edmundson
$14,250
3rd
Hoyt Corkins
$5,700
4th
Mike Laing
$3,990
5th
Al Korsin
$3,135
6th
Ralph Levine
$2,565
7th
Susy Thunder
$1,995
8th
Don Williams
$1,425
9th
Dave Anderson
$1,140
Event 9: $1,000 Limit Omaha[ ]
Number of buy-ins: 30
Total prize pool: $30,000
Number of payouts: 5
Reference: [14]
Final table
Place
Name
Prize
1st
Elmer Thomas
$13,500
2nd
Frank Henderson
$7,500
3rd
Gene Fisher
$4,500
4th
Bob Ciaffone
$3,000
5th
Jack Culp
$1,500
Event 10: $1,000 Limit Seven Card Stud[ ]
Number of buy-ins: 31
Total prize pool: $31,000
Number of payouts: 5
Reference: [15]
Final table
Place
Name
Prize
1st
Mori Eskand
$13,950
2nd
Gail Ross
$7,750
3rd
Fred Sigur
$4,650
4th
Harvey Krendel
$3,100
5th
Alma McClelland
$1,550
Event 11: $1,500 Limit Hold'em[ ]
Number of buy-ins: 43
Total prize pool: $64,500
Number of payouts: 9
Reference: [16]
Final table
Place
Name
Prize
1st
Bill O'Connor
$25,800
2nd
John Bonetti
$16,125
3rd
Todd Brunson
$6,450
4th
Hal Kant
$4,515
5th
Allan Stonum
$3,548
6th
Frank Henderson
$2,903
7th
Amarillo Slim *
$2,257
8th
T. J. Cloutier *
$1,612
9th
Dan Sargent
$1,290
Event 12: $2,500 No-Limit Deuce To Seven Lowball with Rebuys[ ]
Number of buy-ins: Not Recorded
Total prize pool: Not Recorded
Number of payouts: Not Recorded
Reference: [17]
Event 13: $1,500 Limit Hold'em[ ]
Number of buy-ins: 34
Total prize pool: $51,000
Number of payouts: 5
Reference: [18]
Final table
Place
Name
Prize
1st
Mike Laing
$22,950
2nd
T. J. Cloutier *
$12,750
3rd
Jim Doman
$7,650
4th
Mike Sexton
$5,100
5th
Fred Sigur
$2,550
Event 14: $400 Seven Card Stud (Ladies)[ ]
Number of buy-ins: 13
Total prize pool: $5,200
Number of payouts: 5
Reference: [19]
Event 15: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em[ ]
Number of buy-ins: 12
Total prize pool: $95,000
Number of payouts: 3
Reference: [20]
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^ "1991 Super Bowl of Poker $1,000 Limit 7 Card Stud" . Tournament Results . The Hendon Mob. Retrieved 2009-06-16 .
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