1991 Super Bowl of Poker

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]

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
1stBuster Jackson$29,000
2ndBill Nelson$14,500
3rdDave Anderson$7,250
4thPaul Sherr$4,713
5thJohn Stephanian$3,625
6thTom Fisher$2,538
7thJ.C. Pearson$1,812
8thTodd Brunson$1,450
9thEd 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
1stMarlon De Los Santos$15,800
2ndJim Doman$9,875
3rdJoe Holmes$3,950
4thJohn Cernuto$2,765
5thRaymond Mancini$2,173
6thLuc Delrieu$1,778
7thAl Hauck$1,382
8thMike Sexton$987
9thAmarillo 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
1stRich Korbin$19,800
2ndJohn Andiovec$12,375
3rdChuck McCormick$4,950
4thBob Addington$3,465
5thTommy Hugnagle$2,970
6thEric Drache$2,475
7thJim Doman$1,980
8thDave 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
1stJohn Bonetti$11,600
2ndBruce Coons$7,250
3rdBilly Baxter*$2,900
4thFred Sigur$2,030
5thEd Pellegrini$1,740
6thDon Zewin$1,450
7thBob Pendergast$1,160
8thWayne 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
1stTommy Hufnagle$22,000
2ndJohn Cernuto$13,700
3rdErnie Ostreicher$5,500
4thGene Fisher$3,850
5thAmarillo Slim*$3,025
6thBrad Nadell$2,475
7thJim Doman$1,925
8thBret Carter$1,375
9thJoel 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
1stEd Pellegrini$14,400
2ndRalph Hoots$9,000
3rdK Rusi$3,600
4thDavid Brody$2,520
5thBrian Nadell$2,160
6thGeorge Feher$1,800
7thEd Clemente$1,440
8thEd 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
1stJack Keller*$15,200
2ndAmarillo Slim*$9,500
3rdLuc Delrieu$3,800
4thHans Lund$2,660
5thPaul Sherr$2,090
6thGene Fisher$1,710
7thSurinder Sunar$1,330
8thJack Culp$950
9thBob 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
1stJohn Cernuto$14,000
2ndBrian Nadell$7,000
3rdMorris Kessler$4,200
4thRichard 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
1stRick Riolo$22,800
2ndEd Edmundson$14,250
3rdHoyt Corkins$5,700
4thMike Laing$3,990
5thAl Korsin$3,135
6thRalph Levine$2,565
7thSusy Thunder$1,995
8thDon Williams$1,425
9thDave 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
1stElmer Thomas$13,500
2ndFrank Henderson$7,500
3rdGene Fisher$4,500
4thBob Ciaffone$3,000
5thJack 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
1stMori Eskand$13,950
2ndGail Ross$7,750
3rdFred Sigur$4,650
4thHarvey Krendel$3,100
5thAlma 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
1stBill O'Connor$25,800
2ndJohn Bonetti$16,125
3rdTodd Brunson$6,450
4thHal Kant$4,515
5thAllan Stonum$3,548
6thFrank Henderson$2,903
7thAmarillo Slim*$2,257
8thT. J. Cloutier*$1,612
9thDan 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
1stMike Laing$22,950
2ndT. J. Cloutier*$12,750
3rdJim Doman$7,650
4thMike Sexton$5,100
5thFred 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]
Final table
Place Name Prize
1stBarbara Enright*$2,860
2ndAlma McClelland$1,560
3rdPatricia Puckett$780

Event 15: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em
  • Number of buy-ins: 12
  • Total prize pool: $95,000
  • Number of payouts: 3
  • Reference:[20]
Final table
Place Name Prize
1stJack Keller*$52,250
2ndBerry Johnston*$28,500
3rdB Parrott$14,250
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