2023 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 12
$200 Big Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 1,775
Prize Pool: $284,000
April 17-19, 2023
Event 12 of the 2023 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown was a multi-flight $200 Big Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry). A field of 1,775 entries across six starting flights generated a prize pool of $285,000, nearly doubling the guarantee.
A six-way deal was reached at the final and Rick Kalgstein was the chip leader, making him the official Event 12 champion for $26,177.
This marked Kalgstein’s first official win at the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, having previously taken a runner-up finish in a multi-way deal in the 2019 September Deepstack for $32,079. Kalgstein’s biggest career live score came at Seminole Hard Rock Tampa, also in 2019, for $32,133.
“It’s nice to get the win in my hometown,” said Kalgstein afterward.
| Place | First Name | Last Name | Prize Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rick | Kalgstein | $26,117* |
| 2 | James | Tomblin | $24,894* |
| 3 | Erick | Ortiz | $22,925* |
| 4 | Haopeng | Yang | $21,034* |
| 5 | Curtis | Daye | $20,973* |
| 6 | Truyen | Nguyen | $20,912* |
| 7 | Micah | Trexler | $8,000 |
| 8 | Daniel | Quesada | $6,300 |
| 9 | Robert | Schmal | $4,705 |
| 10 | Andrew | Frier | $4,705 |
| 11 | Richard | Saunders | $3,555 |
| 12 | David | Inselberg | $3,555 |
| 13 | Kevin | Blewitt | $2,750 |
| 14 | Robert | Kessler | $2,750 |
| 15 | Athanasios | Polychronopoulos | $2,750 |
| 16 | Michael | Decesare | $2,210 |
| 17 | Albert | Prendergast | $2,210 |
| 18 | Vencent | White | $2,210 |
| 19 | Robert | Stam | $1,800 |
| 20 | Michael | Tarafa | $1,800 |
| 21 | Tomer | Akerman | $1,800 |
| 22 | Nader | Bahhur | $1,485 |
| 23 | Frank | Martin | $1,485 |
| 24 | Louis | Leo IV | $1,485 |
| 25 | Joseph | Linville | $1,260 |
| 26 | Gregory | Pessine | $1,260 |
| 27 | Mikhail | Chykiliov | $1,260 |
| 28 | Salvatore | Pipitone | $1,080 |
| 29 | Frederic | Bunchan | $1,080 |
| 30 | Jose | Rodriguez | $1,080 |
| 31 | Clinton | Fromal | $1,080 |
| 32 | Marcel | Jimenez | $1,080 |
| 33 | Trung | Le | $1,080 |
| 34 | Adilzhan | Ibrayev | $1,080 |
| 35 | Tuan | Phan | $1,080 |
| 36 | Andre | Bryan | $1,080 |
| 37 | Steve | Zhang | $920 |
| 38 | Paul | Hassett | $920 |
| 39 | Carlos | Torres Vazquez | $920 |
| 40 | Jordan | Miller | $920 |
| 41 | Braxton | Lake | $920 |
| 42 | Jorge | Rivera | $920 |
| 43 | Trever | Phelps | $920 |
| 44 | Min | Zhang | $920 |
| 45 | Christopher | Audrain | $920 |
| 46 | Soma | Gubacsi | $800 |
| 47 | Lawrence | Strenk | $800 |
| 48 | Shawn | Farmer | $800 |
| 49 | Jairo | Velasquez | $800 |
| 50 | Perrin | Rodrigue | $800 |
| 51 | David | Laufer | $800 |
| 52 | Philip | Toister | $800 |
| 53 | Frederick | Diser | $800 |
| 54 | Stephanie | Sullivan | $800 |
| 55 | Praise | Ogwo | $700 |
| 56 | Michael | Stratos | $700 |
| 57 | Matthew | Swinick | $700 |
| 58 | Peter | Shapiro | $700 |
| 59 | Jarrod | Parr | $700 |
| 60 | Nicholas | Quatse | $700 |
| 61 | Christopher | Moffitt-Gabis | $700 |
| 62 | Noah | Flaum | $700 |
| 63 | Kevin | Fitzpatrick | $700 |
| 64 | Ira | Horowitz | $640 |
| 65 | Betty | Davis | $640 |
| 66 | Danielle | Bastarache | $640 |
| 67 | James | Anderson | $640 |
| 68 | Oniel | McCalla | $640 |
| 69 | Pavel | Smejkal | $640 |
| 70 | Lucca Cecilio | Salgueiro | $640 |
| 71 | Randall | Wagnon | $640 |
| 72 | Steven | Bennett | $640 |
| 73 | Franklin | Guevara | $605 |
| 74 | Omer | Rotman | $605 |
| 75 | Nir | Sharon | $605 |
| 76 | Jakub | Neubauer | $605 |
| 77 | Timothy | Little | $605 |
| 78 | Randal | Fernandez | $605 |
| 79 | James | Nadolski | $605 |
| 80 | Jeffrey | Silverstein | $605 |
| 81 | George | Rovero | $605 |
| 82 | Joshua | Hanson | $570 |
| 83 | Shannon | McCloud | $570 |
| 84 | Philip | Consolo | $570 |
| 85 | Carlos | Fonseca Rojas | $570 |
| 86 | Robert | Goldberg | $570 |
| 87 | Solange | Zambrano | $570 |
| 88 | Michael | Tweedlie | $570 |
| 89 | Patrick | Biancone | $570 |
| 90 | Vlad-Alexandru | Leonte | $570 |
| 91 | Christopher | Mott | $540 |
| 92 | Hector | Pacheco | $540 |
| 93 | $540 | ||
| 94 | Tracy | Allen | $540 |
| 95 | Steven | Freifeld | $540 |
| 96 | Frederico | Dabus | $540 |
| 97 | Gregorio | Correa | $540 |
| 98 | Jamie | Maas | $540 |
| 99 | Franco | Parodi | $540 |
| 100 | Joshua | Bowman | $510 |
| 101 | Victor | Goldfluss | $510 |
| 102 | Eldo | Rodriguez Jimenez | $510 |
| 103 | Brandon | Curry | $510 |
| 104 | Ronald | Higgins Jr. | $510 |
| 105 | Michelle | Fox | $510 |
| 106 | Jose | Gonzalez | $510 |
| 107 | Alexander | Cole-Gardner | $510 |
| 108 | Jozsef | Szivos | $510 |
| 109 | Bradley | Grossman | $485 |
| 110 | Patricia | Conrad | $485 |
| 111 | Jorge | Soto | $485 |
| 112 | Alberto | Niebla | $485 |
| 113 | Cameron | Collins | $485 |
| 114 | Peter | Kambolin | $485 |
| 115 | Joseph | Ricco | $485 |
| 116 | Joseph | Romeo | $485 |
| 117 | Edgar | Varas | $485 |
| 118 | Claudio | Piedrabuena | $460 |
| 119 | $460 | ||
| 120 | Nicholas | Chiappetta | $460 |
| 121 | Henry | Billete | $460 |
| 122 | Justin | Guzman | $460 |
| 123 | $460 | ||
| 124 | Eric | Siegel | $460 |
| 125 | Alvin | Davis | $460 |
| 126 | Valery | Litvak | $460 |
| 127 | Mike | Beasley | $440 |
| 128 | James | Sullivan | $440 |
| 129 | Noah | Bitton | $440 |
| 130 | Paul | Brettler | $440 |
| 131 | Olivier | Deschamps | $440 |
| 132 | Daniel | Aviles | $440 |
| 133 | Marcela | De Aguilar Fumero | $440 |
| 134 | Dante | Collier | $440 |
| 135 | Mark | Miller | $440 |
| 136 | Richard | Schmitt | $420 |
| 137 | Hugh | Coley Jr. | $420 |
| 138 | Earl | Gallegos | $420 |
| 139 | Walid | Maddah | $420 |
| 140 | Joshua | Wright | $420 |
| 141 | Craig | Jacobson | $420 |
| 142 | Caio | De Lucca Sobral | $420 |
| 143 | John | Gorsuch | $420 |
| 144 | Barry | Roth | $420 |
| 145 | Christopher | Safaya | $405 |
| 146 | Ryan | Reeder | $405 |
| 147 | Kevin | Davis | $405 |
| 148 | William | Mattison | $405 |
| 149 | Pavel | Krapivin | $405 |
| 150 | Jason | Fitzpatrick | $405 |
| 151 | Christopher | Zito | $405 |
| 152 | Daniyal | Gheba | $405 |
| 153 | Benjamin | Murphy | $405 |
| 154 | Shon | Perez | $390 |
| 155 | Raymond | Nalbandian | $390 |
| 156 | Arthur | Boatman | $390 |
| 157 | Cory | Biddle | $390 |
| 158 | Arthur | Holmes III | $390 |
| 159 | David | Albertson | $390 |
| 160 | Vincent | Guerra | $390 |
| 161 | Robert | Martin | $390 |
| 162 | Paul | Garritson | $390 |
| 163 | Brian | Hardy | $375 |
| 164 | Karen | Cleveland | $375 |
| 165 | Matthew | Zarcadoolas | $375 |
| 166 | Adam | Rothschild | $375 |
| 167 | Michael | Goldfarb | $375 |
| 168 | Dan | Avitsur | $375 |
| 169 | Josias | Cardoso Dos Santos | $375 |
| 170 | Aleksandr | Tishchenko | $375 |
| 171 | Robert | Bendy | $375 |
| 172 | John | Les | $375 |
| 173 | Constantinos | Psallidas | $375 |
| 174 | Kai | Oki | $375 |
| 175 | Di | Wang | $375 |
| 176 | Brandon | Lewis | $375 |
| 177 | Boris | Goldfeder | $375 |
| 178 | Mark | Poirier | $375 |
| 179 | Noah | Piderit | $375 |
| 180 | Vendel | Johnson | $375 |
| 181 | Irwin | Block | $375 |
*denotes six-way deal