Event 7: Reece Lightner Wins $360 No Limit Hold’em ($18,286)

2019 Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 7
$360 No Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed
Entries:  270
Prize Pool:  $81,000
January 14, 2019

Reece Lightner - Event 7 Champion
Reece Lightner – Event 7 Champion

The final table of the $360 No Limit Hold’em event finished late Monday night with Maurice “Reece” Lightner taking home the title, the cash, and the trophy.

Lightner’s victory continues the streak of final tables this series playing down to a winner without any chops or deals made.

There were 270 entries in this one-day event, and Lightner, a local player from Miami, outlasted them all to earn the second-biggest score of his live tournament career, and this victory puts his live tournament earnings over the $100K mark.

Final Table Results:

1st:  Maurice Lightner  –  $18,286 + LHPO trophy
2nd:  Benjamin Keathley  –  $12,874
3rd:  Raymond Millard  –  $8,280
4th:  Thomas Gari  –  $5,050
5th:  Spencer Champlin  –  $3,900
6th:  Kerry Scott  –  $3,232
7th:  Jacobo Milhem Mugrabi  –  $2,714
8th:  Christopher Young  –  $2,268
9th:  David Nowling  –  $1,829
10th:  Sherriee Williams  –  $1,539