$2,650: Meet the Final Table

The final table of nine for the $2,650 No Limit Hold’em Big 4 event at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open boasts an impressive lineup of players that includes the defending champion of this event, Alex Foxen.

These players’ accolades include WSOP gold bracelets, WSOP Circuit rings, and SHRPO Main Event titles. You can check out the highlights from their poker resumes below.

They are set to return at 1 p.m. on Tuesday to play out the final table in front of the Poker Night in America cameras.


Seat 1: Matt O’Donnell
Chip count – 1,190,000

 

O’Donnell won a WSOP gold bracelet back in 2015 in a $2,500 no-limit hold’em event, and that victory was good for $551,941 in prize money. The 30-year-old resident of Tampa, FL holds career earnings worth $1,327,771.


Seat 2: Blair Hinkle
Chip count – 1,095,000

Hinkle is one of the most accomplished poker professionals at the final table with $4,125,978 in career earnings. His largest score came when he won the 2013 SHRPO Main Event and took home $1,745,245 in prize money. Hinkle won a WSOP gold bracelet back in 2008, and the 32-year-old resident of Kansas City, MO has the unique distinction of winning the WSOP Circuit Main Event in Council Bluffs, Iowa three times.


 

Seat 3: Rick Alvarado
Chip count – 735,000

 

Alvarado is from Las Vegas, and the 29-year-old has one SHRPO preliminary victory on his resume. He won the $1,100 no-limit hold’em six-max freezeout in 2015. Alvarado has one six-figure score to his name, and he booked that with a third-place finish ($104,784) in the $1,500 no-limit hold’em/pot-limit Omaha event at the WSOP in 2016.


Seat 4: Brandon Hall
Chip count – 555,000

Hall holds $1,407,397 in career earnings, and his largest score came when he won the 2009 UltimateBet Aruba Poker Classic, which was good for a payday of $753,330. The 29-year-old Las Vegas resident has logged over 30 cashes in his poker tournament career.


 

Seat 5: Matthew Kuba
Chip count – 380,000

 

Kuba is from nearby Plantation, FL, and the 31-year-old holds career earnings worth $139,141. His best score to date came when he cashed in 304th place in the 2014 WSOP Main Event for a haul worth $33,734.


Seat 6: Jake Schwartz
Chip count – 765,000

This poker professional from New York City holds $1,610,929 in career tournament earnings, and he has made multiple final tables at both the World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour. The largest score for the 27-year-old came when he took fourth place ($412,817) at the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic back in 2015.


Seat 7: Alex Foxen
Chip count – 2,915,000

Returning to this final table for the second year in a row, Foxen took home this tournament title and $204,600 in prize money one year ago when he topped a field of 395 players. The biggest score to be found in the 27-year-old Cold Spring Harbor, NY resident’s career earnings worth $4,322,834 came when he took second place ($1,134,202) at the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic this past December.


Seat 8: Michael Esposito
Chip count – 960,000

Esposito is from Seaford, NY, and his biggest claim to fame in the poker world came when he took seventh place ($1,258,040) in the WSOP Main Event in 2012. The 50-year-old holds total career earnings worth $1,751,723.


Seat 9: Tom Nguyen
Chip count – 1,970,000

Nguyen has been one of the perennial chip leaders in this event, and the Tampa, FL resident will add a nice chunk of change to his career earnings worth $411,870 at the final table. The 50-year-old scored the biggest cash of his career earlier at this tournament series when he took home $60,514 for finishing in sixth place in Event 1 ($570 No-Limit Hold’em DeepStack).