$600 Deep Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry Per Flight)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 15: 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining: 53 of 400

Solange Lucas raised al in from the cutoff for 40,000 and Matt Yorra called from the big blind.

Lucas:
Yorra:

The board ran out , safe for Lucas after a scary turn, giving her the double.

Solange Lucas – 86,000 (22 bb)
Matt Yorra – 82,000 (21 bb)

$600 Deep Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry Per Flight)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 100/100
Flight B Entries: 231 (Total: 631)

Cards are in the air for Flight B of LHPO Event 1 and the $300,000 guaranteed prize pool was already surpassed before they got underway. The combined count stands at 631 to put the prize pool up to $331,000 with five full flights to go.

Players sit down to 20,000 starting stacks and all Day 1 levels will last 30 minutes long, going up to 40 on Day 2. Late registration is available until the start of Level 9 at 10:30pm and players are limited to a single re-entry. The field will be capped this evening at 400 unique players, at that point only re-entries will be allowed.

They will continue into the evening until only 12.5% of the field remaining. Survivors will advance to Day 2 in the money and return on Sunday to play it out.

• $300,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 20,000 in chips
• Day 1 levels last 30 minutes; Day 2 levels last 40 minutes
• Late registration until start of Level 8 (2:30pm)
• Single re-entry per flight
• 400 players max per flight
• Day 1 will end when field reaches 12.5%
• Event 1 Structure Sheet

$600 Deep Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry Per Flight)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 15: 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining: 58 of 400

With 58 players remaining in Flight A of the opening event, the field is just eight players away from cashing. Play will conclude once the field is down to 50 players.

As a reminder, players must make Day 2 in order to cash.

Here are some chip counts from a few players remaining in the field:

Scott Baumstein – 440,000 (110 bb)
T.K. Miles – 194,000 (49 bb)
Jake Schwartz – 151,000 (38 bb)
Jonah Miller – 138,000 (35 bb)
Theo Lawson – 125,000 (31 bb)
Matt Yorra – 120,000 (30 bb)
Scott Stewart -107,000 (27 bb)
Ian O’Hara – 65,000 (16 bb)
Solange Lucas – 58,000 (15 bb)
Dimitry Agrachov – 57,000 (14 bb)

$400 Limit Omaha 8 (Freeze-Out)
Structure | Payouts
Level 10: 1,000/2,000 Limits
Players Remaining: 86 of 123

The numbers are in and official. Event 2 drew 123 players to create a prize pool worth $41,205 with the last 16 spots getting paid.

A min-cash is worth $800 while the first LHPO champion will walk away with $10,730 and the big trophy.

2021 Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 2
$400 Limit Omaha 8 (Freeze-Out)
Entries:  123
Prize Pool:  $41,205
January 14, 2021

1st: $10,730 + LHPO Trophy
2nd: $7,170
3rd: $4,975
4th: $3,555
5th: $2,620
6th: $1,995
7th-8th: $1,420
9th-10th: $1,075
11th-12th: $935
13th-14th: $850
15th-16th: $800

$400 Limit Omaha 8 (Freeze-Out)
Structure
Level 9: 800/1,600 Limits
Entries: 123

The second break came to an end and the last of the last-minute players took their seats including two-time SHRP Omaha champ Peter Walsworth.

The final total shows 123 players joined to create the second-biggest Limit Omaha 8 tournament in any of our majors. The only one to top it ran a decade ago during the 2011 Poker Showdown and it had a $230 buy-in with re-entries.

Cheers to our Omaha gang.

Top five biggest SHRP Limit Omaha 8 fields:

• 2011 Poker Showdown – 153
• 2021 LHPO – 123
• 2018 SHRPO – 113
• 2012 Poker Showdown – 106
• 2013 SHRPO – 105

$600 Deep Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry Per Flight)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10: 600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Players Remaining: 128 of 400

It looks like Flight A players will have plenty of time to build a Day 2 stack. With 128 players remaining, the stacks are still very deep with the average at 78,000 and 65 big blinds.

They’ll need to make the last 50 to advance to Day 2 and that is still a good ways off in the distance.

$600 Deep Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry Per Flight)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight A Entries: 400

Players returned from their second break and registration closed for Flight A of the opening LHPO event. An even 400 entries took part this afternoon, including unique and single re-entries, to put more than $200,000 in the prize pool towards the $300,000 guarantee.

Flight A will continue playing this evening until only 50 players remain, 12.5% of the field, and those who survive will return for Day 2 on Sunday in the money.

Flight B goes tonight at 6pm with two more flights each on Friday and Saturday.

$400 Limit Omaha 8 (Freeze-Out)
Structure
Level 4: 200/400 Limits
Entries: 109

Event 2 is bringing out the Omaha players in a big way. As they head on their first break, The 109 players in the freeze-out easily surpassed the 88 from this time last year. We will have to take a deep dive into the history books to see how it rates all time.

A few of the familiar faces in the field include Daniel Pearlman, Ian Feller, Steve Flacco, and five-time SHRP champ Gabriel Ramos.

$600 Deep Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry Per Flight)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6: 300/500 with a 500 ante
Flight A Entries: 356

The entry count continued its climb over the last level and the 356 so far has the prize pool more than halfway towards its $300,000 guarantee. With five more full flights to go, plus another 90 minutes in Flight A to enter, we are going to have a pretty big number in the end.

We found two successful Youngs in the field this afternoon. Six-time WSOP Circuit champ Max Young joined the Tampa Winter Poker Open Main Event in December and added another title to his résumé with a win for $226,510.

Jason Young is a regular in our Poker Room and a former Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year. His crowning moment during his run that year came was a live-streamed WPTDeepStacks Hollywood Main Event win in 2019 for $263K. Young’s biggest win came in 2008 when he captured the $1,500 NLH Shootout WSOP bracelet for some nice jewelry.

$600 Deep Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry Per Flight)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 200/400 with a 400 ante
Flight A Entries: 333

The staggered break is over and the field is back together at the start of Level 5 with 333 entries. We are getting an updated number on the unique count as it nears.

The new break format made it a little more interesting to find chip leaders with a fluid movement of chips at all times. It looks like Rick Kalgstein has the biggest stack at the moment with 73,000 but things could change quickly.