That’s a wrap on the 2026 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open, one of the best series we run during the year, packed with 63 trophy events and more than its share of great memories.
Events: 63
Entries: 15,835
Guarantees: $8,080,000
Prize Pools: $12,334,810
The series drew more than 15,000 entries over the 15-day series with more than $8 million in guarantees and $12 million awarded.
The headliner on the schedule was the 2026 SHRPO Championship with a $5,300 buy-in and $3,000,000 guarantee. After a talented, tough final table and three-hour heads-up match, former WSOP Main Event winner Joe McKeehen took the top spot as our 2026 SHRPO Champ for $462,600 plus the pretty Guitar Tower Trophy.
McKeehen put his name on a very talented list of SHRPO Champions:
2013 – Blair Hinkle
2014 – Dan Colman
2015 – Omar Zazay
2016 – Jason Koon
2017 – Martin Kozlov
2018 – Brandon Eisen
2019 – Sean Winter
2021 – Dimitri Vorbe
2022 – Sergio Aido
2023 – Farid Jattin
2024 – Paul Snead
2025 – Jake Cody
2026 – Joe McKeehen
On the other end of the schedule, we kicked off the series with a $300 Quad Stack Slater Scoops tournament in the Grand Ballroom hosted by our friend Andy Slater. And boy did the players come out.
The tournament drew an incredible 1,024 entries for the tournament, easily building the biggest one-day field in our history.
We followed that up with another 5,069 entries over eight flights of the $400 Deep Stack, putting together a prize pool worth $1,662,632 and popular Poker Room grinder Joseph “Grumpy” won the tournament for $144,758. He has a lot of fans cheering for him.
It seemed like every day we woke to a new record or milestone.
Early in the series, our all-time wins leader went back-to-back with Raminder Singh winning a $300 Bounty and $300 Deep Stack in consecutive days.
Not content with two titles, Singh won two more in the final week and became the first player in our history to win four trophies in a single series. Those wins plus 11 total cashes in the series earned Singh the top spot on our SHRPO Tournament Leaderboard.
But he wasn’t alone at the top of the leaderboard because Jean Laurent went on a win streak of his own. One day after Singh won his fourth title, Laurent won a $400 Deep Stack for his fourth of the series. He kept pace with Singh in the leaderboard chase but had to settle for second.
Yuval Bronshtein was late to the festivities, but he added two more trophies to his case to stay solidly in second on our all-time wins list.
Raminder Singh – 20 wins
Yuval Bronshtein – 18 wins
David Shmuel – 13 wins
Matt Bretzfield – 12 wins
Michael Newman – 12 wins
Phil Hui – 12 wins
The SHRPO Championship capped our Big 4 tournament schedule while Justin Zaki won the $25K Big High Roller, Mehmet Siginc captured the $3,000 Big 4 Deep Stack title, and Jay Jay Wilson took home the $1,100 Big 4 Deep Stack trophy.
Loni Hui had a nice run during the series, winning her fourth major SHRP trophy in the $800 Pot-Limit Omaha 8 event and finishing third in the SHRPO Championship for a cool $250,000.
Hui was also part of one of the best records we’ve set; for the first time in our history, five women earned a title in a single season (four of them outright, take that haters) out of the 59 open events.
Melanie Hochman – $600 Mixed Triple Draw
Esther Petiote – $400 Triple Stack Black Chip Bounty
Loni Hui – $800 Pot-Limit Omaha 8
Maria Hernandez – $1K Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em
Michelle Ceglarek – $400 Black Chip Bounty
Thanks to everyone who came out to support the series; we appreciate you and hope to see you at the next one.
We have the Everglades Poker Open right around the corner and the 2026 Seminole Hard Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open in November.
Results and updates for all events:
SHRPO Championship: Joe McKeehen – $462,600
$25K Big 4 SHRPO High Roller – Justin Zaki – $391,550
$3,000 Big 4 Deep Stack: Mehmet Siginc – $92,017
$1,100 Big Deep Stack: Jay Jay Wilson – $42,682
Event 1 (Slater Scoops): Arie Sibonney – $29,578
Event 2 ($400 NLH): Joseph Duchman – $144,758
Event 3 ($600 Seniors): Kirk Bitu – $11,447
Event 4 ($600 Big O): Robert Mizrachi – $15,605
Event 5 ($300 Mix): Tony Burns – $3,865
Event 6 ($300 Turbo NLH): Jorge Rivera – $4,850
Event 7 ($600 O8): Jean Laurent – $11,755
Event 8 ($1K NLH): Zach Bruch – $23,710
Event 9 ($800 PLO): Rinat Dinmukhametov
Event 10 ($300 Bounty): Raminder Singh – $6,385
Event 11 ($400 Turbo PLO): Eric Lea – $6,934
Event 12 ($600 HORSE): Seth Harless – $9,562
Event 13 ($800 Bounty): Mikhail Chykiliov – $7,870
Event 14 ($600 Bounty PLO): Kenny Hill – $8,670
Event 15 ($300 NLH): Raminder Singh – $8,374
Event 16 ($400 NLH/PLO): Manny Tarich – $4,506
Event 17 ($600 Mixed PLO): Jean Laurent – $13,937
Event 18 ($1K NLH): Shane Santacroce – $74,600
Event 19 ($400 NLH): Yi Li – $26,532
Event 20 ($600 TD): Melanie Hochman – $12,759
Event 21 ($400 PLO): Konstantin Volkov – $9,487
Event 22 ($300 Bounty): Antuan Bunkley – $8,514
Event 23 ($400 Pineapple): David Moreno – $5,127
Event 24 ($600 Seniors): Greg Spinder – $14,982
Event 25 ($600 PLO): Mehmet Siginc – $29,000
Event 26 ($600 DC): Carl Carnevale – $10,342
Event 27 ($600 6-Max): Jamie Smith – $14,314
Event 28 ($600 10-Game): Jason Papastavrou – $10,541
Event 29 ($800 Platinum Stack): Jason Daly – $93,080
Event 30 ($2K 6-Max): Ariel Mantel – $38,453
Event 31 ($400 Bounty): Esther Petiote – $5,084
Event 32 ($400 NLH): Jacobo Montoya – $7,468
Event 33 ($800 PLO8): Loni Hui – $17,591
Event 34 ($10K 6-Max): Dan Sepiol – $134,797
Event 35 ($1K PLO): Steven Sarmiento – $17,125
Event 36 ($300 Bounty): Gideon Chamdi – $6,814
Event 37 ($1K Bounty): Dean Sultan – $6,322
Event 38 ($800 O8): Jeff Gale – $13,754
Event 39 ($1K NLH): Maria Hernandez – $37,508
Event 40 ($10K NLH): Vitalijs Zavorotnijs – $115,549
Event 41 ($300 NLH/PLO): Robert Grossman – $13,418
Event 42 ($1K Turbo): Raminder Singh – $10,978
Event 44 ($400 Seniors): Nicholas Biasevich – $7,625
Event 45 ($600 Mixed PLO): Jean Laurent – $11,675
Event 46 ($400 Bounty): Michelle Ceglarek – $11,808
Event 47 (40/40/40): Ahamad Memad – $11,322
Event 48 ($800 NLH/PLO): Mehmet Siginc – $14,105
Event 49 ($300 NLH): Raminder Singh – $8,205
Event 50 ($600 TORSE): Darin Utley – $9,756
Event 51 ($400 NLH): Jean Laurent – $15,637
Event 53 ($200 NLH): Tomas Lauria – $12,698
Event 54 ($400 Bounty PLO): Niko Gianno – $6,611
Event 57 ($800 Big O): Yuval Bronshtein – $18,432
Event 58 ($400 Turbo Bounty): Jeremy Goureau – $4,995
Event 59 ($600 TOE): Yuval Bronshtein – $9,535
Event 60 ($10K NLH): Daniyal Gheba – $198,426
Event 61 ($400 NLH): Vincent Picardi – $10,934
Event 62 ($1K PLO): Andrew Ostapchenko – $20,850
Event 63 ($300 Bounty): Joseph Ciavola – $9,125