$600 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 1: 100/100 Flight A Entries: 110
Michael Tait
Cards are in the air for the 2024 Lucky Hearts Poker Open with 110 early entries. A fine start on a Thursday morning with less-than-optimal weather.
A few friendly faces at the start include Michael Tait, Francis Margaglione, Jennifer David, Nick Raio, Walter Bravo, Paula Alibrandi, Rafael Lima, and Scott Robbins.
The new year is here, so it’s time to kick off the popular Lucky Hearts Poker Open series with 52 trophies events and millions of dollars in prize money. We get things running with Flight A of LHPO Event 1 at 10 am in the Grand Ballroom and the $600 Deep Stack NLH tournament features a $1,000,000 guarantee.
Players start with 20,000 stacks out front and all Day 1 levels last 30 minutes, increasing to 40 on Day 2 and 60 minutes when the field is down to 24 players. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 2:30 pm.
Flight A will continue until 12.5% of the field remains and they will advance to Day 2 on Sunday at 1 pm in the money.
$1,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
Players begin with 20,000 in chips
Day 1 levels last 30 minutes; Day 2 levels last 40 minutes
The new year is here so it’s an excellent time to start looking into the future, to the first big series in 2024. The Lucky Hearts Poker Open returns on January 11 and runs through January 24 with 52 trophy events and a $2,000,000 guarantee LHPO Championship.
The weather is lovely in South Florida all year long; we look forward to seeing you!
2024 Lucky Hearts Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida Event 34 $3,500 LHPO Championship (Re-Entry) Entries: 1,188 Prize Pool: $3,801,600 January 18 – 23, 2024
Another series means another packed Grand Ballroom
The 2023 Lucky Hearts Poker Open kicked off the new year with a huge series. Over 43 trophy events, more than 16,000 entries came through the door to earn a piece of the $14,776,880 in prize money.
This was the biggest LHPO series in our history based on the entry counts, top five all-time across all festivals, and second most money we’ve awarded for a LHPO series.
We couldn’t do it without our old friends and the new ones we made during the series. Thank you.
The LHPO Championship headlined the series and drew 1,692 entries to smash the $2,000,000 guarantee. They created a prize pool worth $5,414,400 and Austrian Marius Gierse took the title along with $605,000 after a four-way deal.
Marius Gierse
We had another great round of notable wins during the series and Matt Bretzfield started things off with a big milestone. He captured the $600 Mixed PLO title early in the first week and became the first player in our history to win a trophy in four consecutive series.
Alessio Isaia and John Holley won two LHPO trophies. Isaia won his two tournaments in back-to-back days and Holley earned his seventh and eighth major Hollywood titles.
2023 Lucky Hearts Poker Open Event 9 Champion Alessio Isaia
Isaia came close to winning a third on the final night of the series, getting heads-up with a big lead but fell short against Valerie Novak. Had he won, Isaia would have been only the third player (and first in more than a decade) to win three in a series.
2023 Lucky Hearts Poker Open Event 37 Champion John Holley
Those eight wins for Holley were enough to move him into a tie for the second most ever and he joined Yuval Bronshtein with eight after he won the $600 Big O. Holley and Bronshtein are tied in second place with Michael Newman, one behind all-time leader Raminder Singh’s nine wins.
Most Major Hollywood Wins:
Raminder Singh – 9 John Holley – 8 Michael Newman – 8 Yuval Bronshtein – 8 Brian Altman – 7 David Prociak – 7 David Shmuel – 7 Gabriel Ramos – 7 Scott Baumstein – 6
Thank you again to everyone who came out for the series; we couldn’t do it without you. We look forward to seeing everyone for the 2023 Poker Showdown from April 13 to May 2!