2021 Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 8
$600 Double Black Chip Bounty NLH (Single Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 430
Prize Pool: $139,750
Bounty Prize Pool: $86,000
January 18, 2021
While there’s no award for “Poker Player of the Pandemic,” Scott Baumstein has a good argument for that title. Since live poker tournaments were slowly reintroduced at Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood in late 2020, Baumstein had won three tournaments.
On Monday night, Baumstein won his fourth, the $600 Double Black Chip Bounty.
“I’ve been really, really lucky the last few months,” said Baumstein. “I’ve won three tournaments since September here, and this is the fourth one. It feels good to be on a hot streak, and I hope to win a bigger one during the series.”
Baumstein already has experience winning bigger events here, as he won the WPTDeepStacks Lucky Hearts Poker Open back in 2018 to earn $220,238.
Baumstein and runner-up Fred Goldberg were fairly close in chips when heads-up play began, but there wasn’t much talk about making a deal, because both players wanted the title and the trophy. So they continued playing.
Baumstein quickly built up a 2-to-1 chip lead, and then his 
held up against Goldberg’s 
on the first heads-up all-in situation to give Baumstein his fourth victory here in four months.
“I feel really focused,” said Baumstein. “I’ve been concentrating a lot more on tournaments recently, and I feel like I’m seeing things very clearly at the moment. It helps to run well.”
Final Results:
| Place | First Name | Last Name | Prize Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scott | Baumstein | $28,040.00 |
| 2 | Frederick | Goldberg | $18,675.00 |
| 3 | Yulia | Lisichkina | $13,770.00 |
| 4 | Daniel | Kuntzman | $10,265.00 |
| 5 | Michael | Hudson | $7,740.00 |
| 6 | Stephen | Hilowitz | $5,900.00 |
| 7 | Christopher | Vincent | $4,050.00 |
| 8 | Josias Cardoso | Dos Santos | $4,050.00 |
| 9 | Bradley | Mercer | $2,800.00 |
| 10 | Harry | Pavasko | $2,800.00 |
| 11 | Eric | Siegel | $2,235.00 |
| 12 | Salvatore | Sollecito | $2,235.00 |
| 13 | John | Ripnick | $1,810.00 |
| 14 | Daniel | Doucet | $1,810.00 |
| 15 | Andrew | Thompson | $1,480.00 |
| 16 | Sean | Obrien | $1,480.00 |
| 17 | Christiano | Souza | $1,225.00 |
| 18 | Blake | Whittington | $1,225.00 |
| 19 | Trung | Pham | $1,225.00 |
| 20 | Sean | Thomson | $1,225.00 |
| 21 | Javier Zarco | Sanchez | $1,025.00 |
| 22 | Michael | Levin | $1,025.00 |
| 23 | Joshua | Elrich | $1,025.00 |
| 24 | Spencer | Alexander | $1,025.00 |
| 25 | Greg-Eliot | Rosen | $870.00 |
| 26 | Stephen | Brown | $870.00 |
| 27 | Andrew | Moser | $870.00 |
| 28 | Ryan | Maloney | $870.00 |
| 29 | James | Wright | $870.00 |
| 30 | Mitchell | Huff | $870.00 |
| 31 | Cheri | Beatty | $870.00 |
| 32 | Mark | Wahba | $870.00 |
| 33 | Michael | Johnson | $750.00 |
| 34 | Steve | Zhang | $750.00 |
| 35 | Alvaro Jirau | Ramos | $750.00 |
| 36 | Ryan | Luker | $750.00 |
| 37 | Patrick | Bowe | $750.00 |
| 38 | Aaron | Berman | $750.00 |
| 39 | Joseph | Kearns | $750.00 |
| 40 | Johnny | Tan | $750.00 |
| 41 | Terrence | Doyle | $650.00 |
| 42 | Joseph | Lamkin | $650.00 |
| 43 | Clair | Mills II | $650.00 |
| 44 | Charles | Granados | $650.00 |
| 45 | Marco | Rodriguez | $650.00 |
| 46 | Michael | Dinardi | $650.00 |
| 47 | Thanhlong | Nguyen | $650.00 |
| 48 | Harold | Silva | $650.00 |
| 49 | Richard | Vielhak | $575.00 |
| 50 | Cheryl | Parker | $575.00 |
| 51 | Dien | Levin | $575.00 |
| 52 | Jeffrey | Sanders | $575.00 |
| 53 | Noam | Muallem | $575.00 |
| 54 | Carl | Cajuste | $575.00 |