1991 Super Bowl of Poker explained

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. This resulted in the smallest SBOP fields ever; the Main Event only had 12 participants. 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.

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.[2] Slim called upon his connections and friendships with poker's elite to start a new tournament in 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."[3] 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.[4] 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.

Key

Elected to the Poker Hall of Fame.
†Denotes player who is deceased.
PlaceThe place in which people finish.
NameThe name of the player
Prize (US$)Event prize money

Event 1: $500 Limit Hold'em

Final table
PlaceNamePrize
1st Buster Jackson$
2nd Bill Nelson$
3rd Dave Anderson$
4th Paul Sherr$
5th John Stephanian$
6th Tom Fisher$
7th J.C. Pearson$
8th Todd Brunson$
9th Ed Gar$

Event 2: $500 Limit Omaha

Final table
PlaceNamePrize
1st Marlon De Los Santos$
2nd Jim Doman$
3rd Joe Holmes$
4th John Cernuto$
5th Raymond Mancini$
6th Luc Delrieu$
7th Al Hauck$
8th Mike Sexton$
9th Amarillo Slim$

Event 3: $500 Limit Seven Card Stud

Final table
PlaceNamePrize
1st Rich Korbin$
2nd John Andiovec$
3rd Chuck McCormick$
4th Bob Addington$
5th Tommy Hugnagle$
6th Eric Drache$
7th Jim Doman$
8th Dave Anderson$

Event 4: $1,000 Limit Ace To Five Lowball

Final table
PlaceNamePrize
1st John Bonetti$
2nd Bruce Coons$
3rd Billy Baxter$
4th Fred Sigur$
5th Ed Pellegrini$
6th Don Zewin$
7th Bob Pendergast$
8th Wayne Sharpe$

Event 5: $1,000 Limit Omaha Hi/Lo

Final table
PlaceNamePrize
1st Tommy Hufnagle$
2nd John Cernuto$
3rd Ernie Ostreicher$
4th Gene Fisher$
5th Amarillo Slim$
6th Brad Nadell$
7th Jim Doman$
8th Bret Carter$
9th Joel Cohn$

Event 5: $1,000 Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo

Final table
PlaceNamePrize
1st Ed Pellegrini$
2nd Ralph Hoots$
3rd K Rusi$
4th David Brody$
5th Brian Nadell$
6th George Feher$
7th Ed Clemente$
8th Ed Gallant$

Event 6: $ 1,000 Pot Limit Omaha

Final table
PlaceNamePrize
1st Jack Keller$
2nd Amarillo Slim$
3rd Luc Delrieu$
4th Hans Lund$
5th Paul Sherr$
6th Gene Fisher$
7th Surinder Sunar$
8th Jack Culp$
9th Bob Ciaffone$

Event 7: $1,000 Limit Seven Card Razz

Final table
PlaceNamePrize
1st John Cernuto$
2nd Brian Nadell$
3rd Morris Kessler$
4th Richard Schwartz$

Event 8: $1,000 Limit Hold'em

Final table
PlaceNamePrize
1st Rick Riolo$
2nd Ed Edmundson$
3rd Hoyt Corkins$
4th Mike Laing$
5th Al Korsin$
6th Ralph Levine$
7th Susy Thunder$
8th Don Williams$
9th Dave Anderson$

Event 9: $1,000 Limit Omaha

Final table
PlaceNamePrize
1st Elmer Thomas$
2nd Frank Henderson$
3rd Gene Fisher$
4th Bob Ciaffone$
5th Jack Culp$

Event 10: $1,000 Limit Seven Card Stud

Final table
PlaceNamePrize
1st Mori Eskand$
2nd Gail Ross$
3rd Fred Sigur$
4th Harvey Krendel$
5th Alma McClelland$

Event 11: $1,500 Limit Hold'em

Final table
PlaceNamePrize
1st Bill O'Connor$
2nd John Bonetti$
3rd Todd Brunson$
4th Hal Kant$
5th Allan Stonum$
6th Frank Henderson$
7th Amarillo Slim$
8th T. J. Cloutier$
9th Dan Sargent$

Event 12: $2,500 No-Limit Deuce To Seven Lowball with Rebuys

Event 13: $1,500 Limit Hold'em

Final table
PlaceNamePrize
1st Mike Laing$
2nd T. J. Cloutier$
3rd Jim Doman$
4th Mike Sexton$
5th Fred Sigur$

Event 14: $400 Seven Card Stud (Ladies)

Final table
PlaceNamePrize
1st Barbara Enright$
2nd Alma McClelland$
3rd Patricia Puckett$

Event 15: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Final table
PlaceNamePrize
1st Jack Keller$
2nd Berry Johnston$
3rd B Parrott$

Notes and References

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  2. Web site: From the Poker Vaults: Amarillo Slim's Super Bowl of Poker, Part I . PokerNews . Reback . Storm . March 5, 2009 . June 15, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090514092401/http://www.pokernews.com/news/2009/03/poker-vaults-amarillo-slim-super-bowl-poker-1197.htm . May 14, 2009 . live .
  3. Web site: 1982 SBOP: A Win For the Longshot Doc. Poker Hand of the Day. Poker Listing. Wise. Gary. June 19, 2009.
  4. Web site: From the Poker Vaults: Amarillo Slim's Super Bowl of Poker, Part II. PokerNews. Reback. Storm. March 12, 2009. June 15, 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090515034442/http://www.pokernews.com/news/2009/03/poker-vaults-amarillo-slim-super-bowl-poker-part-2-1227.htm. May 15, 2009 . live.
  5. Web site: 1991 Super Bowl of Poker $500 Limit Hold'em . Tournament Results . The Hendon Mob . June 16, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070718141458/http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=23387 . July 18, 2007 . live .
  6. Web site: 1991 Super Bowl of Poker $500 Limit Omaha. Tournament Results . The Hendon Mob. June 16, 2009.
  7. Web site: 1991 Super Bowl of Poker $500 Limit 7 Card Stud. Tournament Results . The Hendon Mob. June 16, 2009.
  8. Web site: 1991 Super Bowl of Poker $500 Limit 7 Card Stud. Tournament Results . The Hendon Mob. June 16, 2009.
  9. Web site: 1991 Super Bowl of Poker $1,000 Limit Omaha Hi/Lo. Tournament Results . The Hendon Mob. June 16, 2009.
  10. Web site: 1991 Super Bowl of Poker $1,000 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo. Tournament Results . The Hendon Mob. June 16, 2009.
  11. Web site: $1,000 Pot Limit Omaha. Tournament Results . The Hendon Mob. June 16, 2009.
  12. Web site: $1,000 Limit 7 Card Razz. Tournament Results . The Hendon Mob. June 16, 2009.
  13. Web site: 1991 Super Bowl of Poker $1,000 Limit Hold'em. Tournament Results . The Hendon Mob. June 16, 2009.
  14. Web site: 1991 Super Bowl of Poker $1,000 Limit Omaha. Tournament Results . The Hendon Mob. June 16, 2009.
  15. Web site: 1991 Super Bowl of Poker $1,000 Limit 7 Card Stud. Tournament Results . The Hendon Mob. June 16, 2009.
  16. Web site: 1991 Super Bowl of Poker $1,500 Limit Hold'em. Tournament Results . The Hendon Mob. June 16, 2009.
  17. Web site: 1991 Super Bowl of Poker $2,500 + 60 No Limit Deuce To 7 Lowball Rebuys for first 3 hours. Tournament Results . The Hendon Mob. June 16, 2009.
  18. Web site: 1991 Super Bowl of Poker $1,500 Limit Hold'em. Tournament Results . The Hendon Mob. June 16, 2009.
  19. Web site: 1991 Super Bowl of Poker $400 7 Card Stud. Tournament Results . The Hendon Mob. June 16, 2009.
  20. Web site: 1991 Super Bowl of Poker $10,000 No Limit Hold'em. Tournament Results . The Hendon Mob. June 16, 2009.

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