The first stop on the Seminole Florida Pro Tour had a full field of 64 players at Capone's in Springhill Florida and as expected, there was no shortage of top talent vieing for the $7000 in added prize money.
John Schmidt made his way to the match for the hot-seat where he defeated Rodney Morris 9-7. Meanwhile, on the one-loss side, Robb Saez was avenging an earlier loss to Earl Strickland and sending Strickland to the bleachers 9-6.
Saez was not done there, as he then defeated Morris 9-5 to earn his spot in the finals.
Schmidt went way ahead quickly in the final match, but Saez clawed back to cut the deficit to 1 game at 10-9. That was as close as he would get as Schmidt won the next three games for the 13-9 victory.
Schmidt collected $4000 for first place, while Saez settled for $2000 in second place prize money. Morris and Strickland filled out the top four spots.
The Seminole Florida Pro Tour will be at Player's Billiard Club in Melbourne, Florida for their next event on April 24th - 25th.
Complete Payouts:
1st John Schmidt $4000
2nd Robb Saez $2000
3rd Rodney Morris $1500
4th Earl Strickland $1150
5th/6th Shane McMinn, Bill Ferguson $850
7th/8th Buddy Hall, Charlie Williams $600
9th/12th Nathan Rose, Rob Melrose, David Grossman, BJ Ussery $450
13th/16th Ron Park, John Hennessee, Pablo Matheu, Tony Crosby $300
17th/24th James Ladira, Adam Wheeler, Rich Ruthven, Mario Cruz, Corey Deuel, Richie Richeson, Paul Lordi, John Ditoro
Photo courtesy of Diana Hoppe - Pool Pics by Hoppe
