Fun in the Sun Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
$560 Buy-In No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Entries: 221
Prize Pool: $110,500
December 30, 2018
The final event of the 2018 Fun in the Sun Poker Open took place on Sunday. The $560 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Main Event drew 221 entries and generated a prize pool of $110,500, easily surpassing the $75,000 guarantee. Outlasting the field was Alcides Gomez, winning the tournament outright for $26,348.
Gomez scored several eliminations with two tables remaining and brought a sizable chip lead into the final table. He never relinquished it, going wire-to-wire to win his first Seminole Hard Rock Trophy.
It was also a bit of redemption for Gomez. Last year, he final tabled this same event and finished 10th. However, this time around it was a much different story.
“I’ve had a few deep runs in the trophy events before,” said Gomez, “But I usually got sucked out on. It’s nice to finally win one.”
| Place | First Name | Last Name | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alcides | Gomez | $26,348 |
| 2 | Paul | Tran-Hau | $18,433 |
| 3 | Richard | Ptasnik | $11,326 |
| 4 | Alex | Ortiz Vazquez | $6,890 |
| 5 | David | Oshry | $5,321 |
| 6 | Robert | Tannenbaum | $4,409 |
| 7 | George | Hortelano | $3,757 |
| 8 | Marc | Sacheli | $3,205 |
| 9 | Efthimios | Piperakis | $2,635 |
| 10 | Michael | Newman | $2,321 |
| 11 | Joseph | Duchman | $2,321 |
| 12 | Juan | Solares Mejia | $2,321 |
| 13 | TK | Miles | $1,989 |
| 14 | Richard | Leger | $1,989 |
| 15 | Fariborz | Zojaji | $1,989 |
| 16 | James | Hamburger | $1,658 |
| 17 | Joseph | Levitt | $1,658 |
| 18 | Alex | Boytan | $1,658 |
| 19 | Pierrot | Massenat | $1,326 |
| 20 | Almog | Biton | $1,326 |
| 21 | Janet | Solov | $1,326 |
| 22 | Dmitrii | Nazarov | $1,022 |
| 23 | Jorge | Gomez | $1,022 |
| 24 | Scott | Baumstein | $1,022 |
| 25 | Ofer | Peleg | $821 |
| 26 | Nicolas | Yunis | $821 |
| 27 | Nigel | Murray | $821 |
| 28 | Paul | Freedman | $765 |