2016 Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood
$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Entries: 203
Prize Pool: $101,500
January 19, 2016

Hollywood, Fla. (January 20, 2016) – The penultimate day of the 2016 Lucky Hearts Poker Open saw a familiar face earn a victory as 28-year-old Phillip Hui topped a field of 203 in Event 12,  a $570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry), following a heads-up deal.

Hailing from San Antonio, TX, and now residing in Florida, Hui usually prefers to dabble in mixed games. Still, he’s an accomplished hold’em player as this marked his fifth official no-limit-hold’em tournament victory.

Throughout the series, there has been a mix of events that have seen participants willing and eager to agree to deals and those where deals have been shot down. This one, though, was the former.

“We were pretty close in chips, and I was feeling pretty tired, so I didn’t really feel like playing anymore,” Hui told us after. “He was alright with a deal and I happened to be ahead at the time, so I’ll take it.”

Final Table Results
*denotes heads-up deal

1st: Phillip Hui  (Tamarac, FL) – $24,159*
2nd: Zoltan Czinkota (Davie, FL) – $21,000*
3rd: Britt Heath (Wilmington, NC) – $9,643
4th: Richard Meyer (Roscommon, MI) – $7,816
5th: Marc Sacheli (Miami, FL) – $6,090
6th: Miguel Hernandez-Alpizar (Miami Lakes, FL) – $5,075
7th: Eli Levy (Miami, FL)– $4,060
8th: Richard Katz (Pittsburgh, PA) – $3,045
9th: Seth Gilson (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) – $2,030

Full results available from our friends at TheHendonMob.com.