2022 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 33
$400 Black Chip Bounty Turbo NLH (Re-Entry)
$30,000 Guaranteed
Entries:  241
Prize Pool:  $56,635
Bounty Prize Pool:  $24,100
August 5, 2022

Registration closed for Event 33 with 241 entries in the $400 Black Chip Bounty tournament. They combined to put $56,635 in the regular prize pool and another $24,100 up for grabs with bounties. The last 31 spots will be paid with $420 for a min-cash and $13,150 for the champ.

1st: $13,150 + SHRPO trophy
2nd: $8,925
3rd: $5,805
4th: $3,530
5th: $2,725
6th: $2,260
7th: $1,925
8th: $1,610
9th-10th: $1,300
11th-12th: $1,120
13th-15th: $960
16th-18th: $800
19th-21st: $660
22nd-24th: $520
25th-27th: $455
28th-31st: $420

2022 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 29
$2,200 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed
Entries:  229
Prize Pool:  $458,000
August 4-5, 2022

The last big tournament before the SHRPO Championship was a $2,200 buy-in tournament with the final table played out on the Poker Night in America live stream. Ian O’Hara began play near the bottom of the counts but quickly rose up the ranks to win his first career Hollywood title along with more than $100,000.

The two-day tournament features a $200,000 guarantee and drew 229 entries to more the double that number. They created a prize pool worth $458,000 and the last 30 players were paid. But it was the last seven players who bagged for Day 2 to play the final table.

O’Hara has the fifth biggest stack out of those seven but that did not last long. He built his chip castle while other dropped around him including an early double elimination of Brock Wilson and Elvis Toomas.

Minnesota pro Blake Bohn hung on to finish third after a very cold run of cards and it took only two hands for O’Hara to defeat Johhny Landreth heads-up for the win.

After a ton of success elsewhere, the long-time Hollywood regular earned his first career Hard Rock Poker trophy along with $107,155 and the payout pushed O’Hara’s career total over $4,000,000 in earnings.

Congratulations to Ian and thanks to everyone for great warmup to the Championship.

Results:

$5,300 SHRPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Day 1A Entries:  475

Miguel Capriles  –  259,000
Justin Liberto  –  195,000
Matt Stout  –  157,000
Vanessa Kade  –  113,000
Steve Karp  –  110,000
Frank Funaro  –  104,000
Kharlin Sued  –  87,000
Dylan Linde  –  83,000
Jason Wandling  –  82,000
Francis Anderson  –  81,000
Blair Hinkle  –  78,000
Darren Rabinowitz  –  76,000
Mukul Pahuja  –  74,000
Ryan Van Sanford  –  70,000
Nadya Magnus  –  67,000
Vincent Chauve  –  67,000
Aaron Mermelstein  –  60,000
Jonathan Jaffe  –  59,000
Elvis Toomas  –  54,000
Howard Mash  –  53,000
Jonathan Little  –  49,000
Ralph Massey  –  48,000
Aaron Massey  –  48,000
Bob Mather  –  44,000
Elia Ahmadian  –  41,000
James Carroll  –  40,000
Jeremy Ausmus  –  36,000
Joseph Cheong  –  33,000
Paul Domb  –  30,000
Anna Antimony  –  22,000
Chris Brewer  –  20,000

$5,300 SHRPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Day 1A Entries:  470

Jorge Gomez was all in with in the hole from the cutoff, and Andrew Ostapchenko had him covered holding from middle position.

The final board read , and Gomez was eliminated on the hand. Ostapchenko stacked up 92,500 after collecting the pot.

Andrew Ostapchenko – 92,500 (92 bb)

$5,300 SHRPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Day 1A Entries:  467

Mark Davis  –  161,000
Josh Reichard  –  152,000
Andrew Moreno  –  135,000
Dash Dudley  –  107,000
Justin Zaki  –  86,000
Ankush Mandavia  –  85,000
Michael Newman  –  81,000
Steve Buckner  –  71,000
Anthony Zinno  –  64,000
Richard Rice  –  63,000
Adil Khan  –  62,000
Matt Wantman  –  60,000
Jordan Cristos  –  47,000
Josh Cranfill  –  46,000
Stanley Lee  –  44,000
John Gordon  –  44,000
Isaac Kempton  –  41,000
Michael Wang  –  35,000
James Mackey  –  34,000
David Jackson  –  29,000
Jim Collopy  –  28,000
Sergio Aido  –  27,000
Solange Lucas  –  26,000
David Coleman  –  25,000
Al Gomez  –  25,000
Giuseppe Iadisernia  –  20,000

$1,100 H.O.R.S.E. (Freeze-Out)
Structure | Payouts
Level 26:  40,000/80,000 Limits
Players Remaining:  2 of 72

$50,000 Super High Roller (Single Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 15:  8,000/16,000 with a 16,000 ante
Players Remaining:  2 of 25

After the elimination of Elio Fox in third place, the final two players agreed to an ICM deal to split up the remaining prizepool. These were their official chip counts:

David Peters  –  1,793,000  (112 bb)
Byron Kaverman  –  1,330,000  (83 bb)

And these were the adjusted payouts that they agreed to:

David Peters  –  $407,545
Byron Kaverman  –  $380,580

As chipleader, Peters was awarded the title and the trophy, becoming our Super High Roller champion.

Congratulations to David Peters!

1st:  David Peters  –  $407,545 + SHRPO Trophy
2nd:  Byron Kaverman  –  $380,580
3rd:  Elio Fox  –  $194,000
4th:  Sergio Aido  –  $133,375
5th:  Krishna Lawrence  –  $97,000

Stay tuned for a recap from this event, which will be posted later tonight.

$50,000 Super High Roller (Single Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 15:  8,000/16,000 with a 16,000 ante
Players Remaining:  2 of 25

Now that one of the two short stacks had busted (Sergio Aido in third place), Elio Fox moved all in on the next hand from the button for 138,000.

Byron Kaverman called from the big blind with , and Fox turned over . Fox needed to improve to stay alive.

The board came , and Fox turned a gutshot straight draw, but improved no further. Kaverman won the pot with his ace to eliminate Fox in third place.

Byron Kaverman  –  1,330,000  (83 bb)
Elio Fox  –  Eliminated in 3rd Place  ($194,000)

With two players remaining from a field of 25, the average chip stack is about 1,562,000 (98 big blinds), and the remaining players are guaranteed at least $303,125.

$50,000 Super High Roller (Single Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 15:  8,000/16,000 with a 16,000 ante
Players Remaining:  3 of 25

Byron Kaverman raised from UTG/cutoff to 37,000, and Sergio Aido moved all in from the button for 342,000. David Peters thought for a while before he called from the big blind, and Kaverman quickly folded.

Aido turned over , but he needed to improve to stay alive against Peters’ .

The board came , and Aido turned an open-ended straight draw, but improved no further. Peters won the pot with his pocket kings to eliminate Aido in fourth place.

David Peters  –  1,810,000  (113 bb)
Sergio Aido  –  Eliminated in 4th Place  ($133,375)

With three players remaining from a field of 25, the average chip stack is about 1,041,000 (65 big blinds), and the remaining players are guaranteed at least $194,000.

$5,300 SHRPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Day 1A Entries:  456

Cards are back in the air for Day 1A in the $5,300 SHRPO Championship. There are 456 entries in the field with registration still open until the start of Level 9 at 9:15 pm. The tournament day will come to a conclusion at the end of Level 10 around 11:30 pm.