Event 7: Mark Wahba Scores Outright Victory

2017 Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino
Event 7
$570 Double Black Chip Bounty NLH/PLO (Single Re-Entry)
Total Entries: 70
Prize Pool: $21,000
January 20, 2017

Mark Wahba

Hollywood, Fla. (January 20, 2017) ā€“ Event 7 of the 2017 Lucky Hearts Poker Open, a $570 Double Black Chip Bounty NLH/PLO (Single Re-Entry), drew 70 entries and generated a prize pool of $21,000 . Only the final table of 9 players made the money and after just shy of 10 hours of play, Mark Wahba emerged victorious for $7,350.

“I play a lot of cash PLO, and I enjoy tournament PLO too,” Wahba told us after his win. “Anytime there’s a tournament that involves PLO I’ll try to play it. I skipped the Main Event today just so I could play this one. I had this one in mind to play for a while.”

The Ohio native now has more than $240,000 in tournament winnings, and this marked his third career cash at the Seminole Hard Rock. What brought him down south for the Lucky Hearts Poker Open?

“The beach,” laughed Wahba. “I’m from Cleveland, so I came down to to get away from the cold and the snow. I’m enjoying it so far, and a little more now.”

PlaceFirst NameLast NamePrize Money
1MarkWahba$7,350
2CarlosAzuaje$3,990
3JonathanToft-Nielsen$2,520
4LaVonneSchaafsma$1,890
5DavidShmuel$,1470
6VitoRecchimurzo$1,260
7JordanMeltzer$1,050
8EitanElbaz-Dahan$840
9DmitrySavelyev$630