$200 August Deep Stack Special $100,0000 Guaranteed | Structure Return to Level 13: 1,500/2,500 with a 2,500 ante Players Remaining: 21 of 163
Flight A: 52 Entries; 7 Advanced Flight B: 111 Entries; 14 Advanced Flight C: Thursday at 11 am Flight D: Thursday at 6 pm Flight E: Friday at 11 am Flight F: Friday at 6 pm Flight G: Saturday at 11 am Day 2: Sunday at noon
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.
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.
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 series (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
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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.
We have a lot of things to get to now that we’ve wrapped up the 2026 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open and the first order of business is making the SHRPO Tournament Leaderboard official.
With 11 cashes during the series (out of 59 qualifying events!) including four titles, Raminder Singh stormed ahead early in the series and only improved over the two-week run. Our all-time wins leader earned a $10,400 seat in the WPT Championship plus $1,600 in cash and a special guitar trophy.
Jean Laurent was in contention the entire series with four wins of his own plus two other final tables. He locked up second place and also earned a $10,400 WPT Championship plus $1,600 in cash.
John Daly, Niko Gianno, and Sergiy Alariki rounded out the top five spots and won a $3,500 seat into the 2026 MSPT Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Championship in November plus $500 in cash.
$1,100 Big 4 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em Prize Pool: $250,000 | Structure | Payouts Level 27: 15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante Players Remaining: 5 of 246
The last tournament on the SHRPO schedule, The Curtain Call, starts at 5 pm and there will be some added value at the end. The tournament is a $300 Quad Stack Black Chip Bounty with a $25,000 guaranteed prize pool and we are adding a $3,500 MSPT RRPO Championship seat to 1st place.
They’ll sit with huge 40K stacks and all levels last 20 minutes. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 10 at 8:30 pm.
$25,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
$3,500 MSPT Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open Championship seat added to 1st place
Players begin with 40,000 in chips
Levels last 20 minutes
Late registration until start of Level 10 (8:30pm)
This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
$1,100 Big 4 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em Prize Pool: $250,000 | Structure | Payouts Level 26: 15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante Players Remaining: 6 of 246
$1,100 Big 4 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em Prize Pool: $250,000 | Structure | Payouts Level 26: 15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante Players Remaining: 7 of 246
$1,100 Big 4 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em Prize Pool: $250,000 | Structure | Payouts Level 25: 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante Players Remaining: 8 of 246
