2026 LHPO Live Updates

Championship: Day 2 Table and Seat Draw

January 18, 2026 @ 1:47AM by Mickey Doft

$3,500 WPT LHPO Championship
Prize Pool: $3,932,800 | Structure | Payouts
Level 11: 1,500/2,500 with a 2,500 ante
Players Remaining: 430 of 1,229

Day 1A: 628 Entries; 216 Advanced
Day 1B: 601 Entries; 214 Advanced
Day 2: Sunday at 12 p.m.
Day 3: Monday at 12 p.m.
Day 4: Tuesday at 12 p.m.
Day 5: Wednesday at 2 p.m.

Table	Seat	First Name	Last Name	City	ST	Chip Count
3	1	Grant	Wang	Stamford	CT	180,000
3	2	Shoshanna	Dayan	Ft Lauderdale	FL	36,500
3	3	Scott	Weissman	Miami Beach	FL	155,500
3	4	Nicholas	Scholz	Tampa	FL	38,000
3	5	Elliott	Kampen	Fishers	IN	112,500
3	6	Jeffrey	Tomlinson	Jupiter	FL	122,000
3	7	Frederic	Normand	Quebec	QC	88,000
3	8	Scott	Stinson	Indianapolis	IN	91,000
3	9	Lily	Kiletto	Ballwin	MO	71,500
4	1	Tuan	Nguyen	Lilburn	GA	124,500
4	2	Florian	Pesce	Seattle	WA	162,500
4	3	Manny	Amaro	Loxahatchee	FL	366,000
4	4	Skip	McDonough	Jupiter	FL	80,500
4	5	Tyler	Bentz	Ft Lauderdale	FL	118,500
4	6	Peter	Cross	Glendale	CA	286,000
4	7	Aytumen	Akyildiz	Virginia Bch	VA	96,500
4	8	Kevin	Schulz	Fort Lauderdale	FL	342,000
4	9	Dan	Martin	Las Vegas	NV	132,000
5	1	Jeffrey	Schneider	Delray Beach	FL	42,000
5	2	Andreas	Ioakimides	Ballwin	MO	55,000
5	3	Kitty	Kuo	Las Vegas	NV	85,500
5	4	Yotam	Ashkenazi	Haifa	-	143,000
5	5	Ekrem	Bozkurt	Las Vegas	NV	304,500
5	6	Conor	Bergin	Dublin	-	176,500
5	7	Kenneth	O 'Donnell	St Petersburg	FL	194,000
5	8	Abdullah	Faiz	Hauppauge	NY	18,000
5	9	Saber	Salum Penayo	Asuncion	-	143,000
6	1	Nicholas	Davidson	Rochester Hills	MI	67,500
6	2	Sonny	Mineo	Port Charlotte	FL	56,500
6	3	Darryll	Fish	Miami	FL	214,000
6	4	Joe	Mckeehen	Plymouth Mtng	PA	266,000
6	5	Miguel	Capriles	Miami	FL	155,000
6	6	Anatoly	Nikitin	Moscow	-	104,500
6	7	Elias	Nassif	Davie	FL	124,500
6	8	Gary	Gelman	Brooklyn	NY	287,500
6	9	Sheddy	Siddiqui	Pembroke Pines	FL	139,500
7	1	Stoyan	Madanzhiev	Haskovo		50,500
7	2	Benjamin	Zamani	Boca Raton	FL	84,000
7	3	Artem	Metalidi	Kyiv		403,500
7	4	George	Pappas	Roselle	IL	152,000
7	5	Suren	Dharanikota	Oak Creek	WI	366,500
7	6	Spencer	Champlin	Las Vegas	NV	64,000
7	7	Martins	Adeniya	London	-	247,000
7	8	Eric	Firestone	East Hampton	NY	278,000
7	9	Brandon	Kessous	Osprey	FL	264,000
8	1	Gregory	Anda	Fort Myers	FL	97,500
8	2	Ricardo	Eyzaguirre	Miami	FL	52,500
8	3	James	Calderaro	Englewood	FL	165,000
8	4	Matthew	Koh	Singapore	-	228,000
8	5	Luke	Brereton	Prestbury		274,500
8	6	Carlo	Rodriguez	Weston	FL	76,000
8	7	William	Slepcevich	Naples	FL	135,000
8	9	Reynel	Hernandez	Miami	FL	147,000
11	1	Asher	Neaman	Pembroke Pines	FL	139,000
11	2	Dan	Sepiol	Las Vegas	NV	123,500
11	2	Michael	Newman	Fort Lauderdale	FL	119,500
11	4	Bryan	Ponce Zerna	Guayaquil		117,000
11	5	Aram	Zobian	Henderson	NV	106,000
11	6	John	Gordon	Seminole	FL	75,000
11	7	Levi	Berger	Brooklyn	NY	118,500
11	8	Jason	Sagle	Niagara Falls	ON	191,000
11	9	Karanvir	Singh	Sicklerville	NJ	42,500
12	1	Bradley	Moore	Coity		214,000
12	2	David	Finkelstein	Upper Saddle River	NJ	77,500
12	3	Mark	Radoja	London	-	51,500
12	4	Craig	Bagon	Boca Raton	FL	75,000
12	5	Omer	Rotman	Fort Lauderdale	FL	261,000
12	6	Ian	Matakis	Faribault	MN	128,000
12	7	Daniel	Swartz	N Ridgeville	OH	244,000
12	8	Noel	Atherley	Palm Beach	FL	260,500
12	9	Billy	Pilossoph	Presto	PA	148,000
13	1	Michael	Babani	Miami	FL	62,000
13	2	Bob	Bounahra	Pompano Beach	FL	65,500
13	3	Kirk	Clinard	Lexington	NC	48,500
13	4	Drake	Kemper	Austin	TX	91,500
13	5	Gerald	Dunn	Paoli	IN	90,000
13	6	Jorge	Gomez	Miami	FL	100,000
13	7	Sanket	Desai	Las Vegas	NV	39,500
13	8	Corey	Quinn	Sarasota	FL	166,500
13	9	Mitch	Garshofsky	Las Vegas	NV	123,500
14	1	Jonathan	Jaffe	Plantation	FL	233,000
14	2	Cyril	Darmouni	Miami	FL	34,000
14	3	Lior	Rusinek	Boca Raton	FL	133,000
14	4	Kou	Vang	Brooklyn Park	MN	111,500
14	5	Jorge	Confesor	Miami	FL	71,500
14	6	Mark	Davidoff	Miami	FL	22,500
14	7	Jesse	Lonis	Las Vegas	NV	162,500
14	8	Umut	Ozturk	Apple Valley	MN	107,500
14	9	Milan	Patel	Schaumburg	IL	160,500
15	1	Stuart	Paterson	Boca Raton	FL	78,000
15	2	Nicholas	Blumenthal	Mcfarland	WI	262,000
15	3	Artem	Tuliupa	Aventura	FL	92,000
15	4	Chad	Lipton	Fort Lauderdale	FL	57,500
15	5	Ilkin	Dostiyev	Sunny Isles Beach	FL	596,500
15	6	Michael	Webb	Louisville	KY	136,500
15	7	George	James	Toronto	ON	154,000
15	8	Jordan	Westmorland	Lynnwood	WA	373,000
15	9	Dylan	Kahn	Bernardsville	NJ	202,000
16	1	Paul	Fisher	Northbrook	IL	72,500
16	2	Brian	Batt	Highland Park	IL	264,500
16	3	Moshe	Tarich	North Miami Beach	FL	205,500
16	4	Cory	Rock	Boynton Beach	FL	257,000
16	5	David	Nathaniel	Miramar	FL	52,500
16	6	Caio	De Lucca	Davie	FL	345,500
16	7	Paul	Stanechewski	Tampa	FL	146,500
16	8	Cherish	Andrews	Chambersburg	PA	77,000
16	9	Ilir	Maklaj	Windsor	ON	123,500
19	1	Tanupat	Punjarojanakul	Westbury	NY	227,000
19	2	Sergio	Giha	Miami	FL	128,500
19	3	Nick	Yunis	Las Vegas	FL	135,000
19	4	Keith	Stahl	Chester Sprgs	PA	112,000
19	5	David	Adam-Castrillo	New Hope	PA	65,500
19	6	Kenneth	McAdams	Portland	OR	295,000
19	7	Russell	Dizer	Pine City	NY	231,000
19	8	Glen	Gruner	Ballwin	MO	36,000
19	9	Frederic	Konowitz	Montlhery	CA	92,500
20	1	Howard	Mash	Coconut Creek	FL	245,000
20	2	Seth	Fischer	Atlanta	GA	155,500
20	3	Gareth	McMahon	Kildare		73,500
20	4	Ryan	Riess	Las Vegas	NV	117,000
20	5	Aaron	Thivyanathan	St Petersburg	FL	190,500
20	6	Michael	Wang	Las Vegas	NV	193,000
20	7	Andrew	Moreno	Las Vegas	NV	147,000
20	8	Daniel	Chalifour	Spofford	NH	119,000
20	9	Michael	Belov	Miami	FL	72,500
21	1	David	McGowan	Chicago	IL	111,000
21	2	Michael	Tarafa	Homestead	FL	142,500
21	3	Christopher	Arcidiacono	Port Charlotte	FL	83,000
21	4	Nicholas	Verderamo	Baltimore	MD	59,000
21	5	Joel	Wadsworth	Weirsdale	FL	135,500
21	6	Kamel	Mokhammad	Hollywood	FL	119,000
21	7	John	DuBois	Cutler Bay	FL	60,500
21	8	Marc	Remmes	Montauk	NY	58,000
21	9	Moshe	Refaelovitz	New York	NY	25,000
22	1	Shane	Santacroce	Parkland	FL	85,500
22	2	Ludovic	Sultan	Paris		185,000
22	3	Jessica	Cai	Lake Worth	FL	51,000
22	4	Kenneth	Fishman	Tarpon Springs	FL	167,500
22	5	Xiang	Zou	Jersey City	NY	86,000
22	6	Jamey	Kramer	Northville	MI	192,000
22	7	Stewart	Yancik	Delray Beach	FL	263,000
22	8	Matthew	Waxman	Fort Lauderdale	FL	104,500
22	9	Masoud	Jafari	Alexandria	VA	101,500
23	1	Michael	Moskowitz	Brooklyn	NY	213,500
23	2	Kat	Klassen	Eden Prairie	MN	109,500
23	3	Chris	Moorman	Befleet		158,500
23	4	Erik	Seidel	Las Vegas	NV	84,500
23	5	Vitalijs	Zavorotnijs	Boca Raton	FL	111,500
23	6	Alexander	Ferrara	Englewood Cliffs	NJ	80,500
23	7	Tomislav	Krizanic	Dania	FL	158,000
23	8	Jason	Hickey	Dripping Springs	TX	163,000
23	9	Walter	Bravo	Golden Beach	FL	178,000
24	1	Gili	Simon	Biscayne Park	FL	23,000
24	2	Jacob	Kauffman	Davie	FL	74,000
24	3	Lou	Ojeda	Miami	FL	104,000
24	4	Naveen	Sama	Fort Myers	FL	189,500
24	5	Kyle	Lazzaro	Fort Lauderdale	FL	102,000
24	6	Alex	DiFelice	Toronto	-	93,000
24	7	Tony	Cousineau	Cumming	GA	48,000
24	8	Elio	Saade	Laval	QC	142,500
24	9	Krishna	Jammula	Schenectady	NY	143,500
28	1	James	Pillon	Windsor	ON	209,000
28	2	Zhen	Cai	Lake Worth	FL	147,000
28	3	Thomas	Boivin	Walcourt		110,500
28	4	Ginold	Rendel	Lake Worth	FL	102,000
28	5	Maurice	Costigan	Lake Worth	FL	189,000
28	6	Brian	Altman	Boston	MA	277,500
28	7	TK	Miles	Davie	FL	121,500
28	8	Ken	Aldridge	Pleasant Garden	NC	145,000
28	9	Andrew	Pichee	Jupiter	FL	44,000
29	1	Ryan	Hoenig	Fort Collins	CO	207,500
29	2	Matt	Glantz	Lake Worth	FL	68,000
29	3	Fares	Santana	Anthem	AZ	135,000
29	4	John	Pointer	Tampa	FL	189,500
29	5	Daniel	Pearlman	Chamblee	GA	65,000
29	6	Michael	Ruane	Maywood	NJ	58,500
29	7	Yuval	Bronshtein	Fort Lauderdale	FL	191,000
29	8	Colin	Robinson	Tempe	AZ	215,000
29	9	Dale	Roesel	Chattanooga	TN	102,000
30	1	Nicholas	Nieto	Cutler Bay	FL	100,000
30	2	Charles	Bragg	Daytona Beach	FL	141,500
30	3	Antonio	Vaglica	Tampa	NY	41,000
30	4	Shaun	Davis	Fort Lauderdale	FL	129,000
30	5	Antoine	Sankari	Quebec	QC	121,500
30	6	Denys	Bazeliuk	Miami Beach	FL	277,000
30	7	Glenn	Fishbein	Davie	FL	58,500
30	8	Hyndi	Khomutetsky	Orlando	FL	182,000
30	9	Jared	Hemingway	Greenville	TX	234,000
31	1	Christopher	Csik	Austin	TX	40,000
31	2	Natasha	Mercier	Davie	FL	241,500
31	3	Todd	Nichols	Elwood	IN	303,000
31	4	Wayne	Leonard	Tampa	FL	129,000
31	5	Joseph	Shammas	Warren	MI	106,000
31	6	Anthony	Angerami	Sarasota	FL	81,500
31	7	Chad	Wassmuth	Lewiston	ID	134,500
31	8	Tal	Rothman	West Palm Beach	FL	320,500
31	9	Gary	Mell	Schenectady	NY	61,000
32	1	Nicholas	Maimone	Easley	SC	85,500
32	2	Samuel	Bernstein	Boca Raton	FL	207,500
32	3	John	McDonald	Philadelphia	PA	185,000
32	4	Jonathan	Wang	San Francisco	CA	54,500
32	5	David	Vogel	Jacksonville	FL	145,500
32	6	Oleg	Rutskin	Tampa	FL	44,000
32	7	Neil	Warren	Las Vegas	NV	271,000
32	8	Mike	Beasley	Weston	FL	181,000
32	9	Ashton	Griffin	Davie	FL	107,500
36	1	Angelina	Rich	Anacortes	WA	54,000
36	2	Glenn	Becker	Boca Raton	FL	213,000
36	3	Michael	Lavenburg	Rockaway	NJ	99,000
36	4	Rafael	Reis	Winter Garden	FL	127,500
36	5	Michael	Rein	Toronto	ON	34,500
36	6	Keith	Morea	Boca Raton	FL	25,000
36	7	Todd	Ivens	Hinsdale	IL	40,000
36	8	Andrea	Cobbe	Tampa	FL	42,500
36	9	Harvey	Vandeven	Ocala	FL	62,000
37	1	Dani	Genov	Fort Myers	FL	63,000
37	2	David	Frenkel	Davie	FL	151,000
37	3	Nicholas	Palma	Bronx	NY	292,000
37	4	Manny	Tarich	Hollywood	FL	75,000
37	5	Luke	Becker	Boca Raton	FL	318,500
37	6	Eden	Feinboim		-	73,000
37	7	Justin	Datloff	Boca Raton	FL	37,000
37	8	Alan	Raymundo	Argentina	-	152,500
37	9	Josias	Santos	Tampa	FL	55,500
38	1	Max	Harris	Boynton Beach	FL	204,000
38	2	Chun	Kwan	London	-	85,000
38	3	Mauricio	Ferreira		-	102,000
38	4	Yilmaz	Yosul	Boynton Beach	FL	105,000
38	5	Tony	Dunst	Las Vegas	NV	67,500
38	6	Ryan	Torgersen	Estero	NJ	28,000
38	7	Michael	Fogelson	Milton	WA	92,000
38	8	Iman	Dan	Miami	FL	134,000
38	9	Antuan	Bunkley	West Palm Beach	FL	222,500
39	1	Tyler	Jamison	Sioux Falls	SD	349,000
39	2	Robert	Lofaso	Staten Island	NY	64,000
39	3	Nicholas	Ralph	Portsmouth		125,000
39	4	Raffaele	Sorrentino	Langenzersdorf	-	270,500
39	5	Demo	Kiriopoulos	Toronto	ON	131,500
39	6	Matt	Kuba	Plantation	FL	268,000
39	7	Scott	Bohlman	Lemont	IL	147,500
39	8	Victoria	Livschitz	Whitefish	MT	168,000
39	9	Ira	Friedman	Delray Beach	FL	165,000
40	1	Nadya	Magnus	Boca Raton	FL	71,000
40	2	Paulina	Loeliger	Las Vegas	NV	234,000
40	3	Matthew	Lambrecht	Jupiter	FL	221,500
40	4	Brandon	Wilson	Chicago	IL	137,000
40	5	Thien	Nguyen	Fort Myers	FL	262,000
40	6	Sinead	Davenport	Macclesfield	-	178,500
40	7	John	Reading	Coon Rapids	MN	245,500
40	8	Art	Peacock	Jupiter	FL	133,500
40	9	Jake	Schwartz	Ft Lauderdale	FL	120,500
44	1	Joseph	Rossi	Jupiter	FL	73,000
44	2	Srivinay	Irrinki	Los Angeles	CA	200,000
44	3	H Joseph	Hinton	Grand Rapids	MI	45,500
44	4	Matthew	Yorra	Miami	FL	100,000
44	5	Alcides	Gomez	Miami	FL	156,000
44	6	Eric	Cotton	Louisville	KY	104,500
44	7	Ayed	Shweihat	Lapeer	MI	75,500
44	8	A.J.	Kelsall	Tampa	FL	100,500
44	9	Mike	Meskin	Belmont	MA	191,000
45	1	Ricaroo	Villasmil Esparza	Maraicabo	FL	104,500
45	2	Hayden	Toole	Toronto	ON	119,500
45	3	Brandon	Ageloff	Delray Beach	FL	68,500
45	4	Tony	Hoang		AB	143,000
45	5	Christopher	Weber	Chicago	IL	84,500
45	6	Sam	Cohen	Boca Raton	FL	130,000
45	7	Ryan	Seigel	Toronto	ON	238,000
45	8	Daniyal	Gheba	Las Vegas	NV	99,000
45	9	Nicholas	Sena-Hopkins	Islamorada	FL	100,000
46	1	John	Krpan	Oakville	ON	82,000
46	2	Leandro	Bianchini	Munich	-	341,000
46	3	Shundan	Xiao	Las Vegas	NV	201,000
46	4	Christopher	Cornell	Clarksville	TN	315,000
46	5	Richard	Ganesh	Port Saint Lucie	FL	110,500
46	6	Ed	Mcnamara	Parkland	FL	233,500
46	7	Loni	Hui	Tamarac	FL	286,000
46	8	Timothy	Burden	Central City	KY	86,000
46	9	Ryan	Pignatelli	Burlington	ON	73,500
47	1	Gregory	Spinder	Parkland	FL	77,000
47	2	Jonathan	Tamayo	Humble	TX	49,500
47	3	Jake	Cody	Nottinghamshire		116,000
47	4	Maryon	Harper	Palmetto Bay	FL	200,000
47	5	Naromi	Todd	West Park	FL	128,000
47	6	Franklin	Rojas	Plantation	FL	161,500
47	7	Aaron	Massey	Las Vegas	NV	51,500
47	8	Donald	Maloney	Scottsdale	AZ	87,000
47	9	Samuel	Rosen	Cooper	NY	174,000
48	1	Dmitrii	Tamurka	Moscow		116,000
48	2	Andrew	Yurchak	Plantation	FL	133,500
48	3	Steven	Piper	Fort Lauderdale	FL	148,000
48	4	Kevin	Nee	Presto	PA	205,000
48	5	Zak	VanKeuren	Saratoga Springs	NY	412,000
48	6	Satya	Vegi	Hutto	TX	245,000
48	7	Dominique	Mosley	Fort Lauderdale	FL	84,000
48	8	Darren	Elias	Medford	NJ	107,500
48	9	Soheb	Porbandarwala	Norwalk	CT	68,500
52	1	Ivan	Starostin	Hallandale Beach	FL	158,000
52	2	Aleksei	Donets	Naples	FL	79,500
52	3	Steven	Miller	Hollywood	FL	208,500
52	4	Timothy	Mulroy	Romulus	MI	156,500
52	5	Andres	Morales	Boca Raton	FL	52,000
52	6	Christian	Harder	Severna Park	MD	149,500
52	7	Ardit	Kurshumi	Delray Beach	FL	66,000
52	8	Rafael	Rodriguez Arango	Medellin		439,000
52	9	Fawaz	Siddiqui	Beamsville	ON	126,500
53	1	Scott	Wright	Noblesville	IN	117,000
53	2	Dylan	Jaijairam	Hollywood	FL	122,500
53	3	Edgardo	Rosario	Lakeland	FL	183,500
53	4	Raminder	Singh	Delray Beach	FL	124,000
53	5	Marcos	Exterkotter			103,000
53	6	David	Farber	Lake Mary	FL	106,000
53	7	Zachary	Eichenbaum	Delray Beach	FL	31,000
53	8	Christoph	Dittrich	Buonas	-	164,000
53	9	Yoseph	Yehudai	Stuart	FL	301,500
54	1	Daniel	Garcia	Miramar	FL	188,500
54	2	San	Dkhuka	Wheeling	IL	57,500
54	3	Perla	Ojeda	Miami	FL	60,000
54	4	Jorge	De Arruda Feres Ribeiro	Winter Garden	FL	41,500
54	5	Adrian	Konstantinov	Miami	FL	347,500
54	6	Steven	Rosen	Delray Beach	FL	197,500
54	7	Kenneth	Bruno	Atlantis	FL	53,500
54	8	Maksim	Pisarenko	Vhta	NV	145,000
54	9	Brian	Nelli	Palm Bch Gdns	FL	68,500
55	1	Manuel	Fritz	Vienna	-	270,000
55	2	Ross	Fischer	Davie	FL	130,500
55	3	Aaron	Kupin	Miami	FL	129,000
55	4	Calais	Campbell	Sunny Isles Beach	FL	149,500
55	5	Richard	Rice	Ft Lauderdale	FL	56,500
55	6	James	Anderson	Pittsburgh	PA	176,000
55	7	Ben	Ramon	Nashville	TN	124,500
55	8	Joseph	Ozimok	Pittsburgh	PA	149,500
55	9	Juan	Mubarak	Hialeah	FL	44,000
56	1	Hai	Pham	Pflugerville	TX	165,000
56	2	Travell	Thomas	Orchard Park	NY	153,000
56	3	Thomas	Geschrey	Las Vegas	NV	116,000
56	4	Jordan	Schneider	Delray Beach	FL	87,500
56	5	Michael	Morton	Davie	FL	161,000
56	6	Justin	Liberto	Baltimore	MD	71,000
56	7	Fred	Goldberg	Plantation	FL	216,000
56	8	Philipe	Pizzari Pinto	Miami	FL	309,000
56	9	Rob	Wazwaz	White Bear Lk	MN	53,500
60	1	Al	Norman	Boynton Beach	FL	209,000
60	2	Brock	Wilson	Las Vegas	NV	70,000
60	3	David	Jackson	Las Vegas	NV	273,000
60	4	Kevin	Maahs	Chicago	IL	79,000
60	5	Kurt	Jewell	Frankfort	KY	170,500
60	6	Ami	Alibay	Blainville	QC	128,000
60	7	Kyle	Julius	Naperville	IL	159,000
60	8	Maxwell	Young	Boynton Beach	FL	73,500
60	9	William	Parker	Micanopy	FL	180,000
61	1	Juliet	Hegedus	Pembroke Pines	FL	65,000
61	3	David	Datashvili	Miami Beach	FL	192,500
61	4	Alexandros	Kolonias	Volos	-	65,500
61	5	Max	Kingstone	Orlando	FL	239,500
61	6	Mohamad	Alhalwani	Orlando	FL	110,000
61	7	Omar	El-Nasrallah	Ancaster	ON	167,500
61	8	Scott	Eskenazi	Mercer Island	WA	202,000
61	9	Michael	Wetcher	Davie	FL	293,500
62	1	Boutros	Awad			24,500
62	2	Brian	Opyrchal	Troy	MI	18,500
62	3	Jeremy	Wien	Mount Kisco	NY	152,000
62	4	Christopher	Corneroli	West Palm Beach	FL	83,000
62	5	Nicholas	Funaro	Sewell	NJ	71,500
62	6	Shamica	Lamar	Wellington	FL	86,000
62	7	Ronnie	Day	Fairborn	OH	160,000
62	8	Carlos	Guerrero	Orlando	FL	77,500
62	9	Mario	De La Puente	Belle Isle	FL	170,000
63	1	Tony	Ruberto	Davie	FL	26,500
63	2	Mike	Gracz	Raleigh	NC	41,000
63	3	Mike	Vanier	Lincoln	NE	114,000
63	4	Justin	Zaki	Tampa	FL	84,000
63	5	Joey	Weissman	Las Vegas	NV	148,500
63	6	David	Ha	Cupertino	CA	38,000
63	7	Kurt	Krainski	Sanibel	FL	52,500
63	8	Andrzej	Rogowski	Chicago	IL	74,000
63	9	Santiago	Garza	Lake Jackson	TX	244,000
64	1	Carl	Norris	Crossville	TN	132,000
64	2	Lu	Yu	Wesley Chapel	FL	151,500
64	3	Michael	Weiss	Coral Springs	FL	246,000
64	4	Dorian	Rios	Las Vegas	NV	40,000
64	5	Ben	Alush	Danville	NH	105,000
64	6	Jim	Wyatt	Cary	NC	166,000
64	7	Michael	Pawelek	Coconut Creek	FL	234,000
64	8	Michael	Graffeo	Fort Lauderdale	FL	38,000
64	9	Alan	Percal	Jeffersonville	IN	193,500
68	1	Rafael	Lima	Davie	FL	80,000
68	2	Scott	Manzi	West Palm Beach	FL	237,500
68	3	Brett	Murray	Santa Rosa	CA	68,000
68	4	Luke	Graham	Palm City	FL	179,000
68	5	Jeremy	Becker	Tampa	FL	171,500
68	6	Michael	Vela	Newburgh	NY	302,500
68	7	Natan	Lidukhover	Chicago	IL	35,000
68	8	Justin	Fawcett	Gainesville	FL	420,000
68	9	Narimaan	Ahmadi	Alpharetta	GA	59,000
69	1	Eli	Berg	Miami Beach	FL	128,000
69	2	Stephen	Kehoe	Dublin	-	105,500
69	3	David	Kim	Plainfield	IL	219,000
69	4	Kharlin	Sued	Pembroke Pines	FL	365,000
69	5	Chad	Eveslage	Fort Lauderdale	FL	340,000
69	6	Dylan	Wilkerson	Las Vegas	NV	64,500
69	7	Vladislav	Mezheritsky	Sunny Isles Beach	FL	33,000
69	8	Kevin	Paustenbach	Cutler Bay	FL	94,000
69	9	Toby	Boas	Sylva	NC	55,500
70	1	TJ	Shulman	Boynton Beach	FL	177,000
70	2	Niall	Costigan	Lantana	FL	98,000
70	3	Qing	Lu	Walnut	CA	98,500
70	4	Giuseppe	Iadisernia	Boynton Beach	FL	404,000
70	5	Filipp	Khavin	Saint Petersburg	FL	180,500
70	6	Nancy	Birnbaum	Ft Lauderdale	FL	209,000
70	7	Aaron	Gao	Redmond	WA	202,500
70	8	Aaron	Johnson	Red Wing	MN	158,000
70	9	Jordan	Joeckel	Davenport	FL	79,000
71	1	Josh	Kay	Boca Raton	FL	55,500
71	2	Alex	Ziskin	Bonita Springs	FL	234,500
71	3	Esther	Taylor	Media	PA	187,500
71	4	Dennis	Stevermer	Saint Paul	MN	190,000
71	5	Edgar	Varas	Hollywood	FL	69,000
71	6	Jacob	Powers	Las Vegas	NV	78,000
71	7	Eric	Afriat	Miami Beach	FL	232,000
71	8	Georgios	Sotiropoulos	Vienna		48,000
71	9	Eric	Yanovsky	Brooklyn	NY	230,500
72	1	Eugene	Katchalov	Las Vegas	NV	104,500
72	2	Peter	Mugar	Boston	MA	153,500
72	3	Justin	Saliba	Las Vegas	NV	149,500
72	4	Nenad	Medic	Sunny Isles Beach	FL	262,000
72	5	Andrew	Ostapchenko	Las Vegas	NV	353,500
72	6	Alexander	Yen	Indianapolis	IN	128,500
72	7	Jordan	Miller	Coxs Creek	KY	82,500
72	8	Broc	Kuerzi	Louisville	KY	145,500
72	9	Yuhao	Lin	China	-	43,500

2026 LHPO Live Updates

Championship: Day 2 Chip Counts

January 18, 2026 @ 1:47AM by Mickey Doft

$3,500 WPT LHPO Championship
Prize Pool: $3,932,800 | Structure | Payouts
Level 11: 1,500/2,500 with a 2,500 ante
Players Remaining: 430 of 1,229

Day 1A: 628 Entries; 216 Advanced
Day 1B: 601 Entries; 214 Advanced
Day 2: Sunday at 12 p.m.
Day 3: Monday at 12 p.m.
Day 4: Tuesday at 12 p.m.
Day 5: Wednesday at 2 p.m.

Rank	First Name	Last Name	City	ST	Chip Count
1	Ilkin	Dostiyev	Sunny Isles Beach	FL	596,500
2	Rafael	Rodriguez Arango	Medellin		439,000
3	Justin	Fawcett	Gainesville	FL	420,000
4	Zak	VanKeuren	Saratoga Springs	NY	412,000
5	Giuseppe	Iadisernia	Boynton Beach	FL	404,000
6	Artem	Metalidi	Kyiv		403,500
7	Jordan	Westmorland	Lynnwood	WA	373,000
8	Suren	Dharanikota	Oak Creek	WI	366,500
9	Manny	Amaro	Loxahatchee	FL	366,000
10	Kharlin	Sued	Pembroke Pines	FL	365,000
11	Andrew	Ostapchenko	Las Vegas	NV	353,500
12	Tyler	Jamison	Sioux Falls	SD	349,000
13	Adrian	Konstantinov	Miami	FL	347,500
14	Caio	De Lucca	Davie	FL	345,500
15	Kevin	Schulz	Fort Lauderdale	FL	342,000
16	Leandro	Bianchini	Munich	-	341,000
17	Chad	Eveslage	Fort Lauderdale	FL	340,000
18	Tal	Rothman	West Palm Beach	FL	320,500
19	Luke	Becker	Boca Raton	FL	318,500
20	Christopher	Cornell	Clarksville	TN	315,000
21	Philipe	Pizzari Pinto	Miami	FL	309,000
22	Ekrem	Bozkurt	Las Vegas	NV	304,500
23	Todd	Nichols	Elwood	IN	303,000
24	Michael	Vela	Newburgh	NY	302,500
25	Yoseph	Yehudai	Stuart	FL	301,500
26	Kenneth	McAdams	Portland	OR	295,000
27	Michael	Wetcher	Davie	FL	293,500
28	Nicholas	Palma	Bronx	NY	292,000
29	Gary	Gelman	Brooklyn	NY	287,500
30	Peter	Cross	Glendale	CA	286,000
31	Loni	Hui	Tamarac	FL	286,000
32	Eric	Firestone	East Hampton	NY	278,000
33	Brian	Altman	Boston	MA	277,500
34	Denys	Bazeliuk	Miami Beach	FL	277,000
35	Luke	Brereton	Prestbury		274,500
36	David	Jackson	Las Vegas	NV	273,000
37	Neil	Warren	Las Vegas	NV	271,000
38	Raffaele	Sorrentino	Langenzersdorf	-	270,500
39	Manuel	Fritz	Vienna	-	270,000
40	Matt	Kuba	Plantation	FL	268,000
41	Joe	Mckeehen	Plymouth Mtng	PA	266,000
42	Brian	Batt	Highland Park	IL	264,500
43	Brandon	Kessous	Osprey	FL	264,000
44	Stewart	Yancik	Delray Beach	FL	263,000
45	Nicholas	Blumenthal	Mcfarland	WI	262,000
46	Thien	Nguyen	Fort Myers	FL	262,000
47	Nenad	Medic	Sunny Isles Beach	FL	262,000
48	Omer	Rotman	Fort Lauderdale	FL	261,000
49	Noel	Atherley	Palm Beach	FL	260,500
50	Cory	Rock	Boynton Beach	FL	257,000
51	Martins	Adeniya	London	-	247,000
52	Michael	Weiss	Coral Springs	FL	246,000
53	John	Reading	Coon Rapids	MN	245,500
54	Howard	Mash	Coconut Creek	FL	245,000
55	Satya	Vegi	Hutto	TX	245,000
56	Daniel	Swartz	N Ridgeville	OH	244,000
57	Santiago	Garza	Lake Jackson	TX	244,000
58	Natasha	Mercier	Davie	FL	241,500
59	Max	Kingstone	Orlando	FL	239,500
60	Ryan	Seigel	Toronto	ON	238,000
61	Scott	Manzi	West Palm Beach	FL	237,500
62	Alex	Ziskin	Bonita Springs	FL	234,500
63	Jared	Hemingway	Greenville	TX	234,000
64	Paulina	Loeliger	Las Vegas	NV	234,000
65	Michael	Pawelek	Coconut Creek	FL	234,000
66	Ed	Mcnamara	Parkland	FL	233,500
67	Jonathan	Jaffe	Plantation	FL	233,000
68	Eric	Afriat	Miami Beach	FL	232,000
69	Russell	Dizer	Pine City	NY	231,000
70	Eric	Yanovsky	Brooklyn	NY	230,500
71	Matthew	Koh	Singapore	-	228,000
72	Tanupat	Punjarojanakul	Westbury	NY	227,000
73	Antuan	Bunkley	West Palm Beach	FL	222,500
74	Matthew	Lambrecht	Jupiter	FL	221,500
75	David	Kim	Plainfield	IL	219,000
76	Fred	Goldberg	Plantation	FL	216,000
77	Colin	Robinson	Tempe	AZ	215,000
78	Darryll	Fish	Miami	FL	214,000
79	Bradley	Moore	Coity		214,000
80	Michael	Moskowitz	Brooklyn	NY	213,500
81	Glenn	Becker	Boca Raton	FL	213,000
82	James	Pillon	Windsor	ON	209,000
83	Al	Norman	Boynton Beach	FL	209,000
84	Nancy	Birnbaum	Ft Lauderdale	FL	209,000
85	Steven	Miller	Hollywood	FL	208,500
86	Ryan	Hoenig	Fort Collins	CO	207,500
87	Samuel	Bernstein	Boca Raton	FL	207,500
88	Moshe	Tarich	North Miami Beach	FL	205,500
89	Kevin	Nee	Presto	PA	205,000
90	Max	Harris	Boynton Beach	FL	204,000
91	Aaron	Gao	Redmond	WA	202,500
92	Dylan	Kahn	Bernardsville	NJ	202,000
93	Scott	Eskenazi	Mercer Island	WA	202,000
94	Shundan	Xiao	Las Vegas	NV	201,000
95	Srivinay	Irrinki	Los Angeles	CA	200,000
96	Maryon	Harper	Palmetto Bay	FL	200,000
97	Steven	Rosen	Delray Beach	FL	197,500
98	Kenneth	O 'Donnell	St Petersburg	FL	194,000
99	Alan	Percal	Jeffersonville	IN	193,500
100	Michael	Wang	Las Vegas	NV	193,000
101	David	Datashvili	Miami Beach	FL	192,500
102	Jamey	Kramer	Northville	MI	192,000
103	Jason	Sagle	Niagara Falls	ON	191,000
104	Yuval	Bronshtein	Fort Lauderdale	FL	191,000
105	Mike	Meskin	Belmont	MA	191,000
106	Aaron	Thivyanathan	St Petersburg	FL	190,500
107	Dennis	Stevermer	Saint Paul	MN	190,000
108	Naveen	Sama	Fort Myers	FL	189,500
109	John	Pointer	Tampa	FL	189,500
110	Maurice	Costigan	Lake Worth	FL	189,000
111	Daniel	Garcia	Miramar	FL	188,500
112	Esther	Taylor	Media	PA	187,500
113	Ludovic	Sultan	Paris		185,000
114	John	McDonald	Philadelphia	PA	185,000
115	Edgardo	Rosario	Lakeland	FL	183,500
116	Hyndi	Khomutetsky	Orlando	FL	182,000
117	Mike	Beasley	Weston	FL	181,000
118	Filipp	Khavin	Saint Petersburg	FL	180,500
119	Grant	Wang	Stamford	CT	180,000
120	William	Parker	Micanopy	FL	180,000
121	Luke	Graham	Palm City	FL	179,000
122	Sinead	Davenport	Macclesfield	-	178,500
123	Walter	Bravo	Golden Beach	FL	178,000
124	TJ	Shulman	Boynton Beach	FL	177,000
125	Conor	Bergin	Dublin	-	176,500
126	James	Anderson	Pittsburgh	PA	176,000
127	Samuel	Rosen	Cooper	NY	174,000
128	Jeremy	Becker	Tampa	FL	171,500
129	Kurt	Jewell	Frankfort	KY	170,500
130	Mario	De La Puente	Belle Isle	FL	170,000
131	Victoria	Livschitz	Whitefish	MT	168,000
132	Kenneth	Fishman	Tarpon Springs	FL	167,500
133	Omar	El-Nasrallah	Ancaster	ON	167,500
134	Corey	Quinn	Sarasota	FL	166,500
135	Jim	Wyatt	Cary	NC	166,000
136	James	Calderaro	Englewood	FL	165,000
137	Ira	Friedman	Delray Beach	FL	165,000
138	Hai	Pham	Pflugerville	TX	165,000
139	Christoph	Dittrich	Buonas	-	164,000
140	Jason	Hickey	Dripping Springs	TX	163,000
141	Florian	Pesce	Seattle	WA	162,500
142	Jesse	Lonis	Las Vegas	NV	162,500
143	Franklin	Rojas	Plantation	FL	161,500
144	Michael	Morton	Davie	FL	161,000
145	Milan	Patel	Schaumburg	IL	160,500
146	Ronnie	Day	Fairborn	OH	160,000
147	Kyle	Julius	Naperville	IL	159,000
148	Chris	Moorman	Befleet		158,500
149	Tomislav	Krizanic	Dania	FL	158,000
150	Ivan	Starostin	Hallandale Beach	FL	158,000
151	Aaron	Johnson	Red Wing	MN	158,000
152	Timothy	Mulroy	Romulus	MI	156,500
153	Alcides	Gomez	Miami	FL	156,000
154	Scott	Weissman	Miami Beach	FL	155,500
155	Seth	Fischer	Atlanta	GA	155,500
156	Miguel	Capriles	Miami	FL	155,000
157	George	James	Toronto	ON	154,000
158	Peter	Mugar	Boston	MA	153,500
159	Travell	Thomas	Orchard Park	NY	153,000
160	Alan	Raymundo	Argentina	-	152,500
161	George	Pappas	Roselle	IL	152,000
162	Jeremy	Wien	Mount Kisco	NY	152,000
163	Lu	Yu	Wesley Chapel	FL	151,500
164	David	Frenkel	Davie	FL	151,000
165	Christian	Harder	Severna Park	MD	149,500
166	Calais	Campbell	Sunny Isles Beach	FL	149,500
167	Joseph	Ozimok	Pittsburgh	PA	149,500
168	Justin	Saliba	Las Vegas	NV	149,500
169	Joey	Weissman	Las Vegas	NV	148,500
170	Billy	Pilossoph	Presto	PA	148,000
171	Steven	Piper	Fort Lauderdale	FL	148,000
172	Scott	Bohlman	Lemont	IL	147,500
173	Reynel	Hernandez	Miami	FL	147,000
174	Andrew	Moreno	Las Vegas	NV	147,000
175	Zhen	Cai	Lake Worth	FL	147,000
176	Paul	Stanechewski	Tampa	FL	146,500
177	David	Vogel	Jacksonville	FL	145,500
178	Broc	Kuerzi	Louisville	KY	145,500
179	Ken	Aldridge	Pleasant Garden	NC	145,000
180	Maksim	Pisarenko	Vhta	NV	145,000
181	Krishna	Jammula	Schenectady	NY	143,500
182	Yotam	Ashkenazi	Haifa	-	143,000
183	Saber	Salum Penayo	Asuncion	-	143,000
184	Tony	Hoang		AB	143,000
185	Michael	Tarafa	Homestead	FL	142,500
186	Elio	Saade	Laval	QC	142,500
187	Charles	Bragg	Daytona Beach	FL	141,500
188	Sheddy	Siddiqui	Pembroke Pines	FL	139,500
189	Asher	Neaman	Pembroke Pines	FL	139,000
190	Brandon	Wilson	Chicago	IL	137,000
191	Michael	Webb	Louisville	KY	136,500
192	Joel	Wadsworth	Weirsdale	FL	135,500
193	William	Slepcevich	Naples	FL	135,000
194	Nick	Yunis	Las Vegas	FL	135,000
195	Fares	Santana	Anthem	AZ	135,000
196	Chad	Wassmuth	Lewiston	ID	134,500
197	Iman	Dan	Miami	FL	134,000
198	Art	Peacock	Jupiter	FL	133,500
199	Andrew	Yurchak	Plantation	FL	133,500
200	Lior	Rusinek	Boca Raton	FL	133,000
201	Dan	Martin	Las Vegas	NV	132,000
202	Carl	Norris	Crossville	TN	132,000
203	Demo	Kiriopoulos	Toronto	ON	131,500
204	Ross	Fischer	Davie	FL	130,500
205	Sam	Cohen	Boca Raton	FL	130,000
206	Shaun	Davis	Fort Lauderdale	FL	129,000
207	Wayne	Leonard	Tampa	FL	129,000
208	Aaron	Kupin	Miami	FL	129,000
209	Sergio	Giha	Miami	FL	128,500
210	Alexander	Yen	Indianapolis	IN	128,500
211	Ian	Matakis	Faribault	MN	128,000
212	Naromi	Todd	West Park	FL	128,000
213	Ami	Alibay	Blainville	QC	128,000
214	Eli	Berg	Miami Beach	FL	128,000
215	Rafael	Reis	Winter Garden	FL	127,500
216	Fawaz	Siddiqui	Beamsville	ON	126,500
217	Nicholas	Ralph	Portsmouth		125,000
218	Tuan	Nguyen	Lilburn	GA	124,500
219	Elias	Nassif	Davie	FL	124,500
220	Ben	Ramon	Nashville	TN	124,500
221	Raminder	Singh	Delray Beach	FL	124,000
222	Dan	Sepiol	Las Vegas	NV	123,500
223	Mitch	Garshofsky	Las Vegas	NV	123,500
224	Ilir	Maklaj	Windsor	ON	123,500
225	Dylan	Jaijairam	Hollywood	FL	122,500
226	Jeffrey	Tomlinson	Jupiter	FL	122,000
227	TK	Miles	Davie	FL	121,500
228	Antoine	Sankari	Quebec	QC	121,500
229	Jake	Schwartz	Ft Lauderdale	FL	120,500
230	Michael	Newman	Fort Lauderdale	FL	119,500
231	Hayden	Toole	Toronto	ON	119,500
232	Daniel	Chalifour	Spofford	NH	119,000
233	Kamel	Mokhammad	Hollywood	FL	119,000
234	Tyler	Bentz	Ft Lauderdale	FL	118,500
235	Levi	Berger	Brooklyn	NY	118,500
236	Bryan	Ponce Zerna	Guayaquil		117,000
237	Ryan	Riess	Las Vegas	NV	117,000
238	Scott	Wright	Noblesville	IN	117,000
239	Jake	Cody	Nottinghamshire		116,000
240	Dmitrii	Tamurka	Moscow		116,000
241	Thomas	Geschrey	Las Vegas	NV	116,000
242	Mike	Vanier	Lincoln	NE	114,000
243	Elliott	Kampen	Fishers	IN	112,500
244	Keith	Stahl	Chester Sprgs	PA	112,000
245	Kou	Vang	Brooklyn Park	MN	111,500
246	Vitalijs	Zavorotnijs	Boca Raton	FL	111,500
247	David	McGowan	Chicago	IL	111,000
248	Thomas	Boivin	Walcourt		110,500
249	Richard	Ganesh	Port Saint Lucie	FL	110,500
250	Mohamad	Alhalwani	Orlando	FL	110,000
251	Kat	Klassen	Eden Prairie	MN	109,500
252	Umut	Ozturk	Apple Valley	MN	107,500
253	Ashton	Griffin	Davie	FL	107,500
254	Darren	Elias	Medford	NJ	107,500
255	Aram	Zobian	Henderson	NV	106,000
256	Joseph	Shammas	Warren	MI	106,000
257	David	Farber	Lake Mary	FL	106,000
258	Stephen	Kehoe	Dublin	-	105,500
259	Yilmaz	Yosul	Boynton Beach	FL	105,000
260	Ben	Alush	Danville	NH	105,000
261	Anatoly	Nikitin	Moscow	-	104,500
262	Matthew	Waxman	Fort Lauderdale	FL	104,500
263	Eric	Cotton	Louisville	KY	104,500
264	Ricaroo	Villasmil Esparza	Maraicabo	FL	104,500
265	Eugene	Katchalov	Las Vegas	NV	104,500
266	Lou	Ojeda	Miami	FL	104,000
267	Marcos	Exterkotter			103,000
268	Kyle	Lazzaro	Fort Lauderdale	FL	102,000
269	Ginold	Rendel	Lake Worth	FL	102,000
270	Dale	Roesel	Chattanooga	TN	102,000
271	Mauricio	Ferreira		-	102,000
272	Masoud	Jafari	Alexandria	VA	101,500
273	A.J.	Kelsall	Tampa	FL	100,500
274	Jorge	Gomez	Miami	FL	100,000
275	Nicholas	Nieto	Cutler Bay	FL	100,000
276	Matthew	Yorra	Miami	FL	100,000
277	Nicholas	Sena-Hopkins	Islamorada	FL	100,000
278	Michael	Lavenburg	Rockaway	NJ	99,000
279	Daniyal	Gheba	Las Vegas	NV	99,000
280	Qing	Lu	Walnut	CA	98,500
281	Niall	Costigan	Lantana	FL	98,000
282	Gregory	Anda	Fort Myers	FL	97,500
283	Aytumen	Akyildiz	Virginia Bch	VA	96,500
284	Kevin	Paustenbach	Cutler Bay	FL	94,000
285	Alex	DiFelice	Toronto	-	93,000
286	Frederic	Konowitz	Montlhery	CA	92,500
287	Artem	Tuliupa	Aventura	FL	92,000
288	Michael	Fogelson	Milton	WA	92,000
289	Drake	Kemper	Austin	TX	91,500
290	Scott	Stinson	Indianapolis	IN	91,000
291	Gerald	Dunn	Paoli	IN	90,000
292	Frederic	Normand	Quebec	QC	88,000
293	Jordan	Schneider	Delray Beach	FL	87,500
294	Donald	Maloney	Scottsdale	AZ	87,000
295	Xiang	Zou	Jersey City	NY	86,000
296	Timothy	Burden	Central City	KY	86,000
297	Shamica	Lamar	Wellington	FL	86,000
298	Kitty	Kuo	Las Vegas	NV	85,500
299	Shane	Santacroce	Parkland	FL	85,500
300	Nicholas	Maimone	Easley	SC	85,500
301	Chun	Kwan	London	-	85,000
302	Erik	Seidel	Las Vegas	NV	84,500
303	Christopher	Weber	Chicago	IL	84,500
304	Benjamin	Zamani	Boca Raton	FL	84,000
305	Dominique	Mosley	Fort Lauderdale	FL	84,000
306	Justin	Zaki	Tampa	FL	84,000
307	Christopher	Arcidiacono	Port Charlotte	FL	83,000
308	Christopher	Corneroli	West Palm Beach	FL	83,000
309	Jordan	Miller	Coxs Creek	KY	82,500
310	John	Krpan	Oakville	ON	82,000
311	Anthony	Angerami	Sarasota	FL	81,500
312	Skip	McDonough	Jupiter	FL	80,500
313	Alexander	Ferrara	Englewood Cliffs	NJ	80,500
314	Rafael	Lima	Davie	FL	80,000
315	Aleksei	Donets	Naples	FL	79,500
316	Kevin	Maahs	Chicago	IL	79,000
317	Jordan	Joeckel	Davenport	FL	79,000
318	Stuart	Paterson	Boca Raton	FL	78,000
319	Jacob	Powers	Las Vegas	NV	78,000
320	David	Finkelstein	Upper Saddle River	NJ	77,500
321	Carlos	Guerrero	Orlando	FL	77,500
322	Cherish	Andrews	Chambersburg	PA	77,000
323	Gregory	Spinder	Parkland	FL	77,000
324	Carlo	Rodriguez	Weston	FL	76,000
325	Ayed	Shweihat	Lapeer	MI	75,500
326	John	Gordon	Seminole	FL	75,000
327	Craig	Bagon	Boca Raton	FL	75,000
328	Manny	Tarich	Hollywood	FL	75,000
329	Jacob	Kauffman	Davie	FL	74,000
330	Andrzej	Rogowski	Chicago	IL	74,000
331	Gareth	McMahon	Kildare		73,500
332	Ryan	Pignatelli	Burlington	ON	73,500
333	Maxwell	Young	Boynton Beach	FL	73,500
334	Eden	Feinboim		-	73,000
335	Joseph	Rossi	Jupiter	FL	73,000
336	Paul	Fisher	Northbrook	IL	72,500
337	Michael	Belov	Miami	FL	72,500
338	Lily	Kiletto	Ballwin	MO	71,500
339	Jorge	Confesor	Miami	FL	71,500
340	Nicholas	Funaro	Sewell	NJ	71,500
341	Nadya	Magnus	Boca Raton	FL	71,000
342	Justin	Liberto	Baltimore	MD	71,000
343	Brock	Wilson	Las Vegas	NV	70,000
344	Edgar	Varas	Hollywood	FL	69,000
345	Brandon	Ageloff	Delray Beach	FL	68,500
346	Soheb	Porbandarwala	Norwalk	CT	68,500
347	Brian	Nelli	Palm Bch Gdns	FL	68,500
348	Matt	Glantz	Lake Worth	FL	68,000
349	Brett	Murray	Santa Rosa	CA	68,000
350	Nicholas	Davidson	Rochester Hills	MI	67,500
351	Tony	Dunst	Las Vegas	NV	67,500
352	Ardit	Kurshumi	Delray Beach	FL	66,000
353	Bob	Bounahra	Pompano Beach	FL	65,500
354	David	Adam-Castrillo	New Hope	PA	65,500
355	Alexandros	Kolonias	Volos	-	65,500
356	Daniel	Pearlman	Chamblee	GA	65,000
357	Juliet	Hegedus	Pembroke Pines	FL	65,000
358	Dylan	Wilkerson	Las Vegas	NV	64,500
359	Spencer	Champlin	Las Vegas	NV	64,000
360	Robert	Lofaso	Staten Island	NY	64,000
361	Dani	Genov	Fort Myers	FL	63,000
362	Michael	Babani	Miami	FL	62,000
363	Harvey	Vandeven	Ocala	FL	62,000
364	Gary	Mell	Schenectady	NY	61,000
365	John	DuBois	Cutler Bay	FL	60,500
366	Perla	Ojeda	Miami	FL	60,000
367	Nicholas	Verderamo	Baltimore	MD	59,000
368	Narimaan	Ahmadi	Alpharetta	GA	59,000
369	Michael	Ruane	Maywood	NJ	58,500
370	Glenn	Fishbein	Davie	FL	58,500
371	Marc	Remmes	Montauk	NY	58,000
372	Chad	Lipton	Fort Lauderdale	FL	57,500
373	San	Dkhuka	Wheeling	IL	57,500
374	Sonny	Mineo	Port Charlotte	FL	56,500
375	Richard	Rice	Ft Lauderdale	FL	56,500
376	Josias	Santos	Tampa	FL	55,500
377	Toby	Boas	Sylva	NC	55,500
378	Josh	Kay	Boca Raton	FL	55,500
379	Andreas	Ioakimides	Ballwin	MO	55,000
380	Jonathan	Wang	San Francisco	CA	54,500
381	Angelina	Rich	Anacortes	WA	54,000
382	Kenneth	Bruno	Atlantis	FL	53,500
383	Rob	Wazwaz	White Bear Lk	MN	53,500
384	Ricardo	Eyzaguirre	Miami	FL	52,500
385	David	Nathaniel	Miramar	FL	52,500
386	Kurt	Krainski	Sanibel	FL	52,500
387	Andres	Morales	Boca Raton	FL	52,000
388	Mark	Radoja	London	-	51,500
389	Aaron	Massey	Las Vegas	NV	51,500
390	Jessica	Cai	Lake Worth	FL	51,000
391	Stoyan	Madanzhiev	Haskovo		50,500
392	Jonathan	Tamayo	Humble	TX	49,500
393	Kirk	Clinard	Lexington	NC	48,500
394	Tony	Cousineau	Cumming	GA	48,000
395	Georgios	Sotiropoulos	Vienna		48,000
396	H Joseph	Hinton	Grand Rapids	MI	45,500
397	Andrew	Pichee	Jupiter	FL	44,000
398	Oleg	Rutskin	Tampa	FL	44,000
399	Juan	Mubarak	Hialeah	FL	44,000
400	Yuhao	Lin	China	-	43,500
401	Karanvir	Singh	Sicklerville	NJ	42,500
402	Andrea	Cobbe	Tampa	FL	42,500
403	Jeffrey	Schneider	Delray Beach	FL	42,000
404	Jorge	De Arruda Feres Ribeiro	Winter Garden	FL	41,500
405	Antonio	Vaglica	Tampa	NY	41,000
406	Mike	Gracz	Raleigh	NC	41,000
407	Christopher	Csik	Austin	TX	40,000
408	Todd	Ivens	Hinsdale	IL	40,000
409	Dorian	Rios	Las Vegas	NV	40,000
410	Sanket	Desai	Las Vegas	NV	39,500
411	Nicholas	Scholz	Tampa	FL	38,000
412	David	Ha	Cupertino	CA	38,000
413	Michael	Graffeo	Fort Lauderdale	FL	38,000
414	Justin	Datloff	Boca Raton	FL	37,000
415	Shoshanna	Dayan	Ft Lauderdale	FL	36,500
416	Glen	Gruner	Ballwin	MO	36,000
417	Natan	Lidukhover	Chicago	IL	35,000
418	Michael	Rein	Toronto	ON	34,500
419	Cyril	Darmouni	Miami	FL	34,000
420	Vladislav	Mezheritsky	Sunny Isles Beach	FL	33,000
421	Zachary	Eichenbaum	Delray Beach	FL	31,000
422	Ryan	Torgersen	Estero	NJ	28,000
423	Tony	Ruberto	Davie	FL	26,500
424	Moshe	Refaelovitz	New York	NY	25,000
425	Keith	Morea	Boca Raton	FL	25,000
426	Boutros	Awad			24,500
427	Gili	Simon	Biscayne Park	FL	23,000
428	Mark	Davidoff	Miami	FL	22,500
429	Brian	Opyrchal	Troy	MI	18,500
430	Abdullah	Faiz	Hauppauge	NY	18,000

2026 LHPO Live Updates

Ilkin Dostiyev Leads the WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship After Day 1B

January 18, 2026 @ 12:04AM by Mickey Doft

$3,500 WPT LHPO Championship
Prize Pool: $3,932,800 | Structure | Payouts
Level 11: 1,500/2,500 with a 2,500 ante
Day 1B Players Remaining: 214 of 601

Ilkin Dostiyev (Photo Credit: Omar Sader/WPT)

Day 1B of the $3,500 WPT RRPO Championship has wrapped with 214 players advancing to Day 2. Along with the 216 from Day 1A, 430 players from the field of 1,229 entries will return Sunday at 12 p.m. noon.

Ilkin Dostiyev is the overall chip leader with 596,500. Full chip counts, along with the Day 2 table and seat draw, will be posted by about 2 a.m.

Here are the chip leaders from Day 1B:

1. Ilkin Dostiyev –  596,500 (239 bb)
2. Rafael Rodriguez Arango –  439,000 (176 bb)
3. Justin Fawcett –  420,000 (168 bb)
4. Zak VanKeuren –  412,000 (165 bb)
5. Suren Dharanikota –  366,500 (147 bb)
6. Manny Amaro –  366,000 (146 bb)

2026 LHPO Live Updates

Championship: Prize Pool and Payouts; $611,700 to the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open Champion

January 17, 2026 @ 11:19PM by Mickey Doft

2026 Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 36
$3,500 WPT LHPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 1,229
Prize Pool: $3,932,800
January 16 – 21, 2026

In addition to the first-place prize of $611,700, the winner will also receive the Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship trophy (center). (Photo Credit: Omar Sader/WPT)

Registration closed for the 2026 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship with 1,229 entries, setting the prize pool at $3,932,800.

The final 154 players will finish in the money, the last six will earn a six-figure payday, and the WPT LHPO Champion will earn $611,700, which includes a $10,400 seat into the 2026 WPT World Championship.

1st: $611,700
2nd: $395,000
3rd: $295,000
4th: $220,000
5th: $167,000
6th: $127,000
7th: $98,000
8th: $76,000
9th-10th: $60,000
11th-12th: $49,000
13th-15th: $40,500
16th-19th: $33,500
20th-23rd: $28,000
24th-31st: $23,200
32nd-39th: $19,400
40th-47th: $16,300
48th-55th: $13,800
56th-63rd: $11,500
64th-79th: $9,600
80th-99th: $8,200
100th-123th: $7,000
124th-154th: $6,400

2026 LHPO Live Updates

Event 43: Prize Pool and Payouts; $8,880 to the Lightning Stack Winner

January 17, 2026 @ 9:59PM by Mickey Doft

2026 Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 43
$300 WPT Wildcard Lightning Stack
Entries: 124
Prize Pool: $31,000
January 17, 2026

Event 43 of the 2026 Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open was a $300 WPT Wildcard Lightning Stack, drawing 124 entries for a prize pool of $31,000. The final 16 players will finish in the money, with a min-cash paying $690.

Up top for the winner is $8,880.

1st: $8,880 + LHPO Trophy
2nd: $5,580
3rd: $3,350
4th: $2,095
5th: $1,550
6th: $1,335
7th: $1,155
8th: $1,025
9th: $900
10th-12th: $790
13th-16th: $690

2026 LHPO Live Updates

Championship Day 1B: Field Size at 1,229 Entries and Prize Pool Set $3,932,800

January 17, 2026 @ 9:41PM by Mickey Doft

$3,500 WPT LHPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Day 1B Players Remaining: 306 of 601

There were 601 entries on Day 1B of the WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship, setting the total field size at 1,229 entries and the prize pool at $3,932,800.

Payout information will be posted later tonight.

2026 LHPO Live Updates

Championship Day 1B: Gary Gelman Leads the Field at the Final Break

January 17, 2026 @ 9:34PM by Mickey Doft

$3,500 WPT LHPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Day 1B Entries: 601

Gary Gelman (Photo Credit: Omar Sader/WPT)

A scan of the stacks during the break revealed eight players with at least 250K in chips:

1. Gary Gelman –  382,000 (255 bb)
2. Justin Fawcett –  358,500 (239 bb)
3. Todd Nichols –  343,000 (229 bb)
4. Ilkin Dostiyev –  314,500 (210 bb)
5. Jeremy Becker –  291,000 (194 bb)
6. Elias Nassif –  285,500 (190 bb)
7. Ilir Maklaj –  257,000 (171 bb)
8. Howard Mash –  252,000 (168 bb)

2026 LHPO Live Updates

Championship Day 1B: A Few Chip Counts from the Field

January 17, 2026 @ 8:38PM by Mickey Doft

$3,500 WPT LHPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8: 600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Day 1B Entries: 562

Elias Nassif (Photo Credit: Omar Sader/WPT)

Elias Nassif – 232,000
Howard Mash – 230,000
Nancy Birnbaum – 170,000
Shoshanna Dayan – 155,000
Eric Yanovsky – 153,000
Angelo Miele – 145,000
Filipp Khavin – 135,000
Maxwell Young – 13,0000
Aaron Gao – 127,000
Lily Kiletto – 114,000
Brock Wilson – 98,000
Al Norman – 67,000
Ryan Hoenig – 60,000
Benjamin Zamani – 58,000
Aram Zobian – 58,000
John Racener – 55,000
Andrew Moreno – 49,000
Joe Shammas – 49,000
Thomas Carroll – 44,000
Balakrishna Patur – 40,000
John Gordon – 37,000
Landon Tice – 36,000
Toby Boas – 35,000
Aaron Thivyanathan – 34,000
Joseph Petrolino – 20,000

2026 LHPO Live Updates

Event 42: Prize Pool and Payouts; $7,015 to the NLH/PLO Bounty Mix Winner

January 17, 2026 @ 8:08PM by Mickey Doft

2026 Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 42
$400 Black Chip Bounty NLH/PLO Mix
Entries: 101
Prize Pool: $23,230
Bounty Prize Pool: $10,100
January 17, 2026

Event 42 of the 2026 Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open was a $400 Black Chip Bounty No-Limit Hold’em/Pot-Limit Omaha Mix. A field of 101 entries generated a prize pool of $23,230, with an additional $10,100 set aside for bounties. The final 13 players will finish in the money, with a min-cash paying $640.

Up top for the winner is $7,015.

1st: $7,015 + LHPO Trophy
2nd: $4,355
3rd: $2,670
4th: $1,745
5th: $1,360
6th: $1,085
7th: $925
8th: $805
9th: $710
10th-13th: $640

2026 LHPO Live Updates

Championship Day 1B: Action Resumes After Dinner with Zak VanKeuren as Chipleader

January 17, 2026 @ 7:16PM by BJ Nemeth

$3,500 WPT LHPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7: 500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Day 1B Entries: 492

Chipleader Zak VanKeuren (Photo Credit: Omar Sader/WPT)

The players return from dinner to begin Level 7, with increased blinds of 500-1,000 and a big blind ante of 1,000.

Here are the top six chip counts from the dinner break:

1. Zak VanKeuren – 238,700 (239 bb)
2. Kurt Krainski – 210,200 (210 bb)
3. Todd Nichols – 209,900 (210 bb)
4. Keith Stahl – 209,200 (209 bb)
5. Maxwell Young – 204,000 (204 bb)
6. Frank Lagodich – 200,900 (201 bb)

Registration remains open with unlimited re-entries until the end of the next break (around 9:15 pm). Today’s field is up to 492 entries, for a tournament total of 1,120. The prizepool is worth more than $3.58 million, and has another two hours to grow.

The field is playing 10 one-hour levels today, and action is scheduled to end around 11:15 pm.