Primary Event Schedule

11AM: Event 11 – $400 Omaha 8/Stud 8 (Freeze-Out)

• Players begin with 12,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
• Late registration/single re-entry until start of Level 9 (3:30pm)
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 11 Structure Sheet

12PM: Event 12 – $600 Six-Max NLH (Single Re-Entry)

• $50,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 15,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
• Late registration/single re-entry until start of Level 9 (4:30pm)
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 12 Structure Sheet

3PM: Event 13 – $400 Six-Max Pot Limit Omaha 8 (Single Re-Entry)

• Players begin with 12,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
• Late registration/single re-entry until start of Level 9 (7:30pm)
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 13 Structure Sheet

6PM: Event 14 – $600 Deep Stack Turbo NLH (Freeze-Out)

• Players begin with 20,000 in chips and 15-minute levels
• Late registration/single re-entry until start of Level 9 (8:15pm)
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 14 Structure Sheet

Secondary and Satellite Schedule

9AM: Event 47 – $140 Turbo Satellite (1-in-10)

• 2 seats guaranteed into any $600 LHPO event
• Players begin with 10,000 in chips and 15-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 5
• Satellite will be held in the Poker Room
• Structure Sheet

4PM: Event 48 – $400 WPT LHPO Championship Satellite (1-in-10)

• 5 seats guaranteed into $1,000,000 GTD WPT LHPO Championship
• Players begin with 10,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 8
• Winners will be entered into the earliest starting flight
• Structure Sheet

8PM: Event 49 – $130 Event 15 Turbo Satellite (1-in-10)

• 2 seats guaranteed into $1,100 buy-in LHPO Event 15
• Players begin with 10,000 in chips and 15-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 5
• Structure Sheet

2021 Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 9
$400 Black Chip Bounty PLO (Single Re-Entry)
Entries: 201
Prize Pool:  $47,235
Bounty Prize Pool: $20,100
January 18, 2021

Event 9 of the 2021 Lucky Hearts Poker Open was a $400 Black Chip Bounty Pot-Limit Omaha (Single Re-Entry). A total of 201 entries generated a prize pool of $47,235, with an additional $20,100 set aside for bounties.

The final table featured two players that have a combined three World Series of Poker Pot-Limit Omaha bracelets and $5.3 million in tournament winnings between according to the Hendon Mob. Sure enough, they navigated their respective ways through. In the end, it was Lansing, Michigan native Dash Dudley besting Leif Force heads-up to earn the outright win for $10,945.

“I thought everyone played really well,” said Dudley afterward. “The final table was really tough. We got four-handed and it lasted I don’t know how many hours. Nobody wanted to bust and you could tell that everybody was here to win.”

The 35-year-old Dudley, who is without a doubt a PLO specialist with two WSOP bracelets won in 2019, likes what he’s seeing in the PLO scene in South Florida.

“Omaha is getting bigger down here and you can tell. The cash games are getting bigger, the tournament are getting bigger, and I think only better things are coming.”

$400 Black Chip Bounty PLO (Single Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 27: 25,000/50,000
Players Remaining: 1 of 201

After a series of raises, Leif Force was all in from the big blind for about 500,000 with against Dash Dudley on the button with .

The board ran out , giving both players a flush, but Dudley had the better of it to win Event 9 for $10,945.

Leif Force finished runner-up for $7,295.

2021 Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 8
$600 Double Black Chip Bounty NLH (Single Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed
Entries:  430
Prize Pool:  $139,750
Bounty Prize Pool:  $86,000
January 18, 2021

While there’s no award for “Poker Player of the Pandemic,” Scott Baumstein has a good argument for that title. Since live poker tournaments were slowly reintroduced at Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood in late 2020, Baumstein had won three tournaments.

On Monday night, Baumstein won his fourth, the $600 Double Black Chip Bounty.

“I’ve been really, really lucky the last few months,” said Baumstein. “I’ve won three tournaments since September here, and this is the fourth one. It feels good to be on a hot streak, and I hope to win a bigger one during the series.”

Baumstein already has experience winning bigger events here, as he won the WPTDeepStacks Lucky Hearts Poker Open back in 2018 to earn $220,238.

Baumstein and runner-up Fred Goldberg were fairly close in chips when heads-up play began, but there wasn’t much talk about making a deal, because both players wanted the title and the trophy. So they continued playing.

Baumstein quickly built up a 2-to-1 chip lead, and then his held up against Goldberg’s on the first heads-up all-in situation to give Baumstein his fourth victory here in four months.

“I feel really focused,” said Baumstein. “I’ve been concentrating a lot more on tournaments recently, and I feel like I’m seeing things very clearly at the moment. It helps to run well.”

Final Results:

$400 Black Chip Bounty PLO (Single Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 27: 25,000/50,000
Players Remaining: 2 of 201

With the board reading , Dash Dudley bet 150,000 from the big blind and Leif Force called from the button.

The river was the , Dudley checked, Force bet 400,000 and Dudley thought for about a minute before he called.

Force showed for a jack-high flush, but Dudley tabled for a queen-high flush to win the pot.

Dash Dudley – 1,860,000 (37 bb)
Leif Force – 550,000 (11 bb)

$400 Black Chip Bounty PLO (Single Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 27: 25,000/50,000
Players Remaining: 2 of 201

Dash Dudley – 1,640,000 (33 bb)
Leif Force – 770,000 (15 bb)

1st: $10,945 + LHPO Trophy
2nd: $7,295

$400 Black Chip Bounty PLO (Single Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 27: 25,000/50,000
Players Remaining: 2 of 201

Following a flop of , Svetlozar Nestorov shoved from the big blind for 175,000 and Dash Dudley tanked for a bit before he called.

Nestorov:
Dudley:

Dudley was ahead with a pair of fours against Nestorov’s pair of threes.

Both players made small two pairs when the turn hit, and Nestorov found no help from the river to bust in third place.

Dash Dudley – 1,640,000 (33 bb)
Svetlozar Nestorov – Eliminated in 3rd Place ($5,310)

$400 Black Chip Bounty PLO (Single Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 27: 25,000/50,000
Players Remaining: 3 of 201

John Blalock limped from under the gun, Svetlozar Nestorov completed from the small blind and Dash Dudley raised pot to 200,000. Only Blalock called.

They checked to the turn of a board where Dudley bet 200,000. Blalock called.

The river was the , Dudley shoved and Blalock called all in for about 250,000.

Dudley tabled for kings full of aces, besting Blalock’s for Broadway.

Dash Dudley – 1,300,000 (26 bb)
John Blalock – Eliminated in 4th Place ($3,925)

2021 Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 10
$150 Big Stack NLH (Double Re-Entry)
$10,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 458
Prize Pool:  $54,960
January 18, 2021

Event 10 of the 2021 Lucky Hearts Poker Open, a $150 Big Stack NLH (Double Re-Entry), drew 458 entries and generated a prize pool of $54,960, more than quintupling the $10,000 guarantee.

The final three players agreed to a deal, and as the chip leader it was Richard Paradis who was the official winner.

*denotes three-handed deal

2021 Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 6
$1,100 Deep Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry)
$75,000 Guaranteed
Entries:  301
Prize Pool:  $291,970
January 17-18, 2021

It took two days to get down from 301 entries to a single winner, and Carlos Rodriguez Rojas outlasted them all to win his first poker trophy.

“This is my club, the Hard Rock,” said Rojas. “I always play here. And this is the first trophy that I won, and it’s from the Hard Rock.”

Like most people, Rojas hasn’t played much live poker in the past year.

“I played in Vegas a couple weeks ago,” said Rojas, “and then I played a couple of daily tournaments here at the Hard Rock. Because of the pandemic, I haven’t played that much. But I couldn’t miss this one.”

Now that he’s had his first taste of victory, expect Rojas to go for more trophies. He plans to play the rest of the Lucky Hearts Poker Open, and take his shot in the $3,500 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open coming up this weekend.

Final Results: