2026 Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 36
$3,500 WPT LHPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 1,229
Prize Pool: $3,932,800
January 16 – 21, 2026
The 2026 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship began last Friday and drew 1,229 entries, producing a prize pool of $3,932,800, which easily beat the $3 million guarantee. Taking it down was Giuseppe Iadisernia, winning outright for $611,700.
Iadisernia is no stranger to tournament poker at the Seminole Hard Rock, with cashes dating back to 2018, including several High Roller and Super High Roller cashes. In fact, on the same day Iadisernia entered this Championship event, he finished runner-up in the $25K High Roller for $187,700. However, there would be no runner-up finish this time, as from the start his sights were set on nothing but the top prize.
His path to victory started with smooth sailing on Day 1A, as Iadisernia finished as the chip leader of the 216 players that advanced. In fact, his lead atop the Day 1A chip counts could have been bigger, but on the last hand of the night he ran pocket queens into pocket aces. Iadisernia started Day 2 in great shape, and made it to Day 3 with an above-average chip stack. Another solid day of poker followed, and Iadisernia finished that day 5th in chips with 16 players remaining. He separated himself from the pack on Day 4, scoring two knockouts and chipping up consistently to finish as chipleader of the remaining seven players.
Remember that High Roller event where Iadisernia finished runner-up, and then immediately entered the Championship? The top three finishers in that event (winner Thomas Boivin, runner-up Iadisernia, and third-place finisher Anatoly Nikitin) all made it to the final five here. Nikitin would be the first of the three to fall once again, finishing fifth here to earn $167,000. And while Boivin got the best of Iadisernia in the High Roller, this time it was Iadisernia who won the last hand between them.
Boivin was short-stacked and made his final stand with ace-seven, but Iadisernia picked up pocket aces to win the pot and eliminate Boivin in third place, which was worth $295,000.
Beginning heads-up play with more than a 2-to-1 lead, Iadisernia extended his lead and fought off two short-stack doubles from Jorge Gomez before ultimately closing out the win for his first SHRP major series trophy victory.
| Place | First Name | Last Name | Prize Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giuseppe | Iadisernia | $611,700* |
| 2 | Jorge | Gomez | $395,000 |
| 3 | Thomas | Boivin | $295,000 |
| 4 | Martins | Adeniya | $220,000 |
| 5 | Anatoly | Nikitin | $167,000 |
| 6 | Eddie | Blumenthal | $127,000 |
| 7 | Ted | McNamara | $98,000 |
| 8 | Maryon | Harper | $76,000 |
| 9 | Andrew | Ostapchenko | $60,000 |
| 10 | John | McDonald (Philly) | $60,000 |
| 11 | Gary | Gelman | $49,000 |
| 12 | Peter | Cross | $49,000 |
| 13 | Elio | Saade | $40,500 |
| 14 | Matthew | Koh | $40,500 |
| 15 | Juliet | Hegedus | $40,500 |
| 16 | Loni | Hui | $33,500 |
| 17 | Jonathan | Jaffe | $33,500 |
| 18 | Srivinay | Irrinki | $33,500 |
| 19 | Artem | Tuliupa | $33,500 |
| 20 | Darryll | Fish | $28,000 |
| 21 | Mike | Vela | $28,000 |
| 22 | Ryan | Riess | $28,000 |
| 23 | Ken | Fishman | $28,000 |
| 24 | Milan | Patel | $23,200 |
| 25 | Philipe | Pizzari Pinto | $23,200 |
| 26 | Mike | Wetcher | $23,200 |
| 27 | Denys | Bazeliuk | $23,200 |
| 28 | Eric | Firestone | $23,200 |
| 29 | Kevin | Schulz | $23,200 |
| 30 | Nadya | Magnus | $23,200 |
| 31 | Umut | Ozturk | $23,200 |
| 32 | Ilkin | Dostiyev | $19,400 |
| 33 | John | Reading | $19,400 |
| 34 | Nicholas | Palma | $19,400 |
| 35 | Samuel | Rosen | $19,400 |
| 36 | Ekrem | Bozkurt | $19,400 |
| 37 | Dennis | Stevermer | $19,400 |
| 38 | Yuval | Bronshtein | $19,400 |
| 39 | Natasha | Mercier | $19,400 |
| 40 | Kharlin | Sued | $16,300 |
| 41 | Michael | Pawelek | $16,300 |
| 42 | Saber Salum | Penayo | $16,300 |
| 43 | David | Jackson | $16,300 |
| 44 | Ross | Fischer | $16,300 |
| 45 | Asher | Neaman | $16,300 |
| 46 | Tony | Hoang | $16,300 |
| 47 | Matthew | Waxman | $16,300 |
| 48 | Lily | Kiletto | $13,800 |
| 49 | Ludovic | Sultan | $13,800 |
| 50 | Rafael | Reis | $13,800 |
| 51 | Conor | Bergin | $13,800 |
| 52 | Caio | De Lucca | $13,800 |
| 53 | Hayden | Toole | $13,800 |
| 54 | Jamey | Kramer | $13,800 |
| 55 | Nicholas | Ralph | $13,800 |
| 56 | Daniel | Swartz | $11,500 |
| 57 | Luke | Brereton | $11,500 |
| 58 | Nancy | Birnbaum | $11,500 |
| 59 | Brian | Altman | $11,500 |
| 60 | Robert | Lofaso | $11,500 |
| 61 | Ken | McAdams | $11,500 |
| 62 | Michael | Lavenburg | $11,500 |
| 63 | Santiago | Dkhuka | $11,500 |
| 64 | Luke | Becker | $9,600 |
| 65 | Glenn | Fishbein | $9,600 |
| 66 | Nick | Yunis | $9,600 |
| 67 | Artem | Metalidi | $9,600 |
| 68 | Michael | Morton | $9,600 |
| 69 | Alan | Raymundo | $9,600 |
| 70 | Joseph | Shammas | $9,600 |
| 71 | Kurt | Jewell | $9,600 |
| 72 | Jared | Hemingway | $9,600 |
| 73 | Franklin | Rojas | $9,600 |
| 74 | William | Slepcevich | $9,600 |
| 75 | Zak | VanKeuren | $9,600 |
| 76 | Ryan | Torgersen | $9,600 |
| 77 | Howard | Mash | $9,600 |
| 78 | Zhen | Cai | $9,600 |
| 79 | Nenad | Medic | $9,600 |
| 80 | Seth | Fischer | $8,200 |
| 81 | Aaron | Kupin | $8,200 |
| 82 | Fares | Santana | $8,200 |
| 83 | Jason | Hickey | $8,200 |
| 84 | Nick | Maimone | $8,200 |
| 85 | James | Pillon | $8,200 |
| 86 | Joey | Weissman | $8,200 |
| 87 | Jesse | Lonis | $8,200 |
| 88 | Colin | Robinson | $8,200 |
| 89 | Carl | Norris | $8,200 |
| 90 | Ashton | Griffin | $8,200 |
| 91 | Shamica | Lamar | $8,200 |
| 92 | George | Pappas | $8,200 |
| 93 | Iman | Dan | $8,200 |
| 94 | George | James | $8,200 |
| 95 | Rafael | Rodriguez Arango | $8,200 |
| 96 | Max | Harris | $8,200 |
| 97 | Daniyal | Gheba | $8,200 |
| 98 | David | Finklestein | $8,200 |
| 99 | Alexander | Yen | $8,200 |
| 100 | Raminder | Singh | $7,000 |
| 101 | Jake | Cody | $7,000 |
| 102 | Ian | Matakis | $7,000 |
| 103 | Mike | Meskin | $7,000 |
| 104 | Moshe | Tarich | $7,000 |
| 105 | Dmitrii | Tamurka | $7,000 |
| 106 | Alexandros | Kolonias | $7,000 |
| 107 | Christopher | Corneroli | $7,000 |
| 108 | Samuel | Bernstein | $7,000 |
| 109 | Tyler | Jamison | $7,000 |
| 110 | Bradley | Moore | $7,000 |
| 111 | Joe | McKeehen | $7,000 |
| 112 | Michael | Webb | $7,000 |
| 113 | Yotam | Ashkenazi | $7,000 |
| 114 | Billy | Pilossoph | $7,000 |
| 115 | Raffaele | Sorrentino | $7,000 |
| 116 | Jordan | Westmorland | $7,000 |
| 117 | Esther | Taylor | $7,000 |
| 118 | Thien | Nguyen | $7,000 |
| 119 | Tyler | Bentz | $7,000 |
| 120 | Vitalijs | Zavorotnijs | $7,000 |
| 121 | Luke | Graham | $7,000 |
| 122 | Michael | Babani | $7,000 |
| 123 | Thomas | Geschrey | $7,000 |
| 124 | Tal | Rothman | $6,400 |
| 125 | Elliott | Kampen | $6,400 |
| 126 | Justin | Fawcett | $6,400 |
| 127 | Yilmaz | Yosul | $6,400 |
| 128 | Santiago | Garza | $6,400 |
| 129 | Niall | Costigan | $6,400 |
| 130 | Michael | Wang | $6,400 |
| 131 | Satya | Vegi | $6,400 |
| 132 | Russell | Dizer | $6,400 |
| 133 | Christopher | Arcidiacono | $6,400 |
| 134 | Yoseph | Yehudai | $6,400 |
| 135 | Jake | Schwartz | $6,400 |
| 136 | Ricardo | Villasmil Esparaza | $6,400 |
| 137 | Jordan | Miller | $6,400 |
| 138 | Aaron | Thivyanathan | $6,400 |
| 139 | Christopher | Cornell | $6,400 |
| 140 | Andrzej | Rogowski | $6,400 |
| 141 | Gili | Simon | $6,400 |
| 142 | Maksim | Pisarenko | $6,400 |
| 143 | Aram | Zobian | $6,400 |
| 144 | Sinead | Davenport | $6,400 |
| 145 | David | Kim | $6,400 |
| 146 | Corey | Quinn | $6,400 |
| 147 | Chad | Wassmuth | $6,400 |
| 148 | Max | Kingstone | $6,400 |
| 149 | Sergio | Giha | $6,400 |
| 150 | Tomislav | Krizanic | $6,400 |
| 151 | Paul | Fisher | $6,400 |
| 152 | Steven | Piper | $6,400 |
| 153 | Tanupat | Punjarojanakul | $6,400 |
| 154 | Paulina | Loeliger | $6,400 |
* First-place amount includes the winner’s $10,400 entry into the WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas, which takes place in December 2026.