The 2018 Lucky Hearts Poker Open kicked off January 11 and concluded Wednesday night at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. The 14-day series boasted 24 trophy events and was punctuated by 20 six-figure winners.
Outshining them all in the series two headline events were WPT Championship winner Darryll Fish and WPTDeepStacks champion Scott Baumstein. Baumstein reached the winner’s circle first, capturing the title and a $220,238 score in the opener. Fish, meanwhile, topped that figure ultimately pocketing $511,604 in the Championship.
Here’s a look at each of the series’ 24 champions:
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- Event 1: $1,100 WPTDeepStacks — Scott Baumstein ($220,238)
- Event 2: $300 O8 — Michael Moed ($4,000)
- Event 3: $300 Seniors — Ira Schwartz ($6,624)
- Event 4: $570 Turbo — Jaime Sequeira ($5,580)
- Event 5: $300 Re-Entry — Patrick Chi ($7,720)
- Event 6: $1,650 Purple Chip Bounty — Keith Morro ($35,378)
- Event 7: $300 HORSE — Harry Eisenberg ($4,766)
- Event 8: $570 Eight-Max Double Black Chip Bounty — Drew Johnson ($14,470)
- Event 9: $570 PLO — Sebastian Kos ($7,557)
- Event 10: $300 O8/Stud 8 — Errol Massey ($5,668)
- Event 11: $570 Six-Max — Chris Tham ($15,311)
- Event 12: $50,000 Super High Roller — Stefan Schillhabel ($493,000)
- Event 13: $1,100 Re-Entry — Ari Engel ($45,688)
- Event 14: $2,200 Re-Entry — Zachary Donovan ($88,780)
- Event 15: $3,500 Championship — Darryll Fish ($511,604)
- Event 16: $360 Black Chip Bounty — Brad Albrinck ($6,100)
- Event 17: $300 Turbo — Frank Nerat ($8,850)
- Event 18: $1,100 Turbo — Michael Tureniec ($33,600)
- Event 19: $570 Big Stack — Matt Yorra ($22,697)
- Event 20: $25,500 High Roller — Justin Bonomo ($556,873)
- Event 21: $360 Six-Max PLO — Aaron Duczak ($7,244)
- Event 22: $150 Re-Entry –Carlos Torres Vasquez ($14,598)
- Event 23: $5,000 Re-Entry — Ben Tollerene ($163,944)
- Event 24: $2,200 Deep Stack PLO — Zhen Cai ($46,900)
Thank you to everyone who played and congratulations to all our champions.
Next up at the Seminole Hard Rock is the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown April 5-18! But first, the in-room Escalator II running February 21-March 18.