$5,250 SHRPO Championship
$3 Million Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6: 300/600 with a 75 ante
Total Entries: 404

We mentioned earlier that the four previous Champions of this event are all in attendance, and they’re all seated in a row along the far wall — one per table at four of five adjacent tables.

Blair Hinkle is the first in line, both literally and figuratively. The accomplished tournament standout won the inaugural SHRPO Championship in 2013, earning more than $1.7 million and a career-best score. He’s sharing a table with Steve Karp and Keven Stammen at the moment, sitting with about 18,500 chips.

Dan Colman is next up with about 53,000. The 2014 win was good for close to $1.5 million, which is a lot. It’s not even close to his largest score, though. That came in the $1 million Big One for One Drop, where his victory was worth more than 10 times that amount. Colman is joined at his table by the likes of John Racener and Aron Dermer.

Omar Zazay won in 2015. Zazay pocketed a cool $1 million for outlasting a field of 904 entries two years ago. Colman made that final table, too, ultimately falling in third place just shy of a repeat. Zazay is sandwiched by Jake Schindler on his right and Ian O’Hara on his left, and he has 68,000 chips in front of him.

Jason Koon is the defending Champion. The $1 million top prize he collected was a career-best for him at the time, too, though he’s gone on to add another, larger seven-figure score in the meantime. Koon has close to $10 million in career earnings and is widely considered to be one of the best high-stakes tournament players in the world. He has about 16,500 chips at a table that contains Sam Soverel and Faraz Jaka.

Omar Zazay – 68,000
Dan Colman – 53,000
Blair Hinkle – 18,500
Jason Koon – 16,500