$5,300 SHRPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8:  600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Day 1A Entries:  501

Landon Tice got it all in preflop for about 22,000 with , but he needed to improve to stay alive against Brian Altman’s .

The board came , and Altman won the pot with two pair, kings and deuces, with his ace kicker to eliminate Tice.

Brian Altman  –  133,000  (111 bb)
Landon Tice  –  Eliminated

The tournament clock shows 501 entries so far here on Day 1A, and registration remains open until the end of the next break, around 9:15 pm.

$5,300 SHRPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8:  600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Day 1A Entries:  496

Alex Foxen  –  200,000
Thomas Boivin  –  200,000
Jake Ferro  –  170,000
Raffaello Locatelli  –  145,000
Sam Sternfield  –  142,000
Asher Conniff  –  135,000
Boris Kravets  –  125,000
Carlos Rodriguez  –  125,000
Brock Wilson  –  115,000
Andrew Heckman  –  88,000
Maurice Hawkins  –  85,000
Brian Altman  –  84,000
Neal Blumenfield  –  81,000
Jerry Wong  –  74,000
Fred Goldberg  –  70,000
James Calderaro  –  65,000
Brett Apter  –  54,000
Theo Tran  –  47,000
Lexy Gavin  –  43,000
Filipp Khavin  –  35,000
Landon Tice  –  34,000
Elio Fox  –  31,000
Vitor Coelho  –  25,000
Blake Bohn  –  24,000
Michael Mizrachi  –  23,000
Phil Hui  –  22,000
Adam Hendrix  –  20,000

$5,300 SHRPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8:  600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Day 1A Entries:  492

Blair Hinkle reraised to 3,500 preflop from the hijack, the small blind called, and UTG also called after originally raising to open the pot.

All three players checked down the board dealt before Hinkle bets 7,000. The small blind folded, and UTG check-called. Hinkle flipped over , and UTG folded his cards. Hinkle was up to 82,000 after collecting the pot.

Blair Hinkle – 82,000 (68 bb)

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

$5,300 SHRPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8:  600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Day 1A Entries:  487

Loni Hui was all in for about 28,000 from the cutoff against John Allan Hinds in middle position.

Hui: 
Hinds: 

The board ran out , giving Hui a pair of aces to double up.

Loni Hui  –  59,000  (49 bb)
John Allan Hinds  –  25,000  (21 bb)

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

$5,300 SHRPO Championship (Re-Entry)
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8:  600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Day 1A Entries:  483

Joey Weissman was all in preflop for 15,400 from the big blind, and three players had him covered. Those remaining live players checked the board dealt , and then Kristen Foxen bet 13,000 UTG+1.

Both the cutoff and button folded, and Foxen flipped over . Weissman showed , and he was eliminated after the river delivered the . Foxen stacked up 148,000 after the hand.

Kristen Foxen – 148,000 (123 bb)
Joey Weissman – Eliminated

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