$10,000 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 23: 15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante Players Remaining: 4 of 111
In the first hand after the break, with the blinds increased to 15,000-25,000, Stephen Song completed the small blind to 25,000, Brandon Lulov raised from the big blind to 80,000, and Song thought for a bit before moving all in for about 500,000.
Lulov called with , but Song turned over . Song needed his hand to hold to stay alive.
The board came , and Lulov paired his ace on the flop to win the pot and eliminate Song in fifth place.
Brandon Lulov – 1,460,000 (58 bb) Stephen Song – Eliminated in 5th Place ($59,675)
The final four players are guaranteed at least $77,250 each.
$10,000 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 23: 15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante Players Remaining: 5 of 111
Brandon Lulov – 965,000 (39 bb) Stephen Song – 490,000 (20 bb) Sean Ragozzini – 345,000 (14 bb) Ed Sebesta – 265,000 (11 bb) Filipp Khavin – 160,000 (6 bb)
2022 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida $5,300 SHRPO Championship (Re-Entry) $3,000,000 Guaranteed Entries: 1,110 Prize Pool: $5,383,500 August 5-9, 2022
There were 1,110 entries in the 2022 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship, enough to smash the $3 million guarantee and create a massive prizepool worth $5,383,500.
On Monday night they got down to the seven-handed final table, with all seven players guaranteed at least $154,185 each. They then played down to a winner on Tuesday on a live-stream broadcast by Poker Night in America.
In a final table that lasted more than nine hours, Sergio Aido was the last player standing to win the title, the iconic Guitar Tower-shaped trophy, and $900,100.
“As you can expect with 90-minute levels,” said Aido, “there was plenty of play. I’m very happy with how I played.”
Justin Liberto began the day as chipleader with a whopping 136 big blinds, but the long final table had taken a toll on his chip stack, and with four players left, he got it all in with against Aido’s . Liberto failed to improve, and he was out in fourth place, earning $305,955. (Click here for more details.)
Chris Brewer started the final table second in chips with 97 big blinds, and made it all the way to the final three. Brewer got it all in preflop with , but never caught up to Jim Collopy’s . Brewer finished third to earn $412,375. (Click here for more details.)
Collopy began heads-up play with the lead over Aido, but Aido cracked Collopy’s queens on a double-paired board to double up to a nearly 3-to-1 chip lead. (Click here for more details.)
Collopy was never able to recover from that deficit, but he went out on his own terms on a board of . Collopy held the , but with action on every street, a lowly pair of fives wasn’t likely to be the best hand.
Aido had turned a flush with , but checked the river to Collopy, who tanked for a while before bluffing all in. Aido snap-called with his flush to win the trophy, the title, and the $900,100 first prize. (Click here for more details on the final hand.)
Aido is originally from Spain, and you know he must have an impressive poker resume when this $900,100 prize is only his third largest. He finished fourth last week in Event 30, the $50,000 Super High Roller, and this victory will put Aido over $14 million in career earnings.
Aido has played in some of our big events here at Seminole Hard Rock over the past two years, and we might be seeing more of him in the future.
“Now I’m living in Mexico,” said Aido. “It’s closer to Miami, and I think this stop will be in my schedule in the following months. So I will be back for sure.”
$10,000 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 22: 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante Players Remaining: 5 of 111
Brandon Lulov opened to 40,000 in the cutoff, Ren Lin three-bet all n for about 290,000 in the big blind, and Lulov called.
Lulov: Lin:
The board ran out , no help to Lin, ending his second final table of the day in sixth place.
Bradon Lulov – 740,000 (37 bb) Ren Lin – Eliminated in 6th Place ($49,025)
8th: Eli Pollack – $4,370 9th: Artem Metaldi – $3,400 10th: Dash Dudley – $3,400 11th: Anderson Ireland – $2,800 12th: Tom Thomas – $2,800 13th: Iman Dan – $2,375 14th: Phil Hui – $2,375 15th: Jordan Miller – $2,095 16th: Javier Sanchez – $2,095 17th: Andres Rodriguez – $1,920 18th: Michael Wang – $1,920
$10,000 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 21: 10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante Players Remaining: 6 of 111
Ed Sebesta raised to 30,000 from under the gun, Elio Fox three-bet all in for about 140,000 from the hijack, and Sebesta called with , flipping with Fox’s .
The board ran out , no help to Fox, ending his tournament in seventh place.
Ed Sebesta – 460,000 (31 bb) Elio Fox – Eliminated in 7th Place ($41,555)
$10,000 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 20: 5,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante Players Remaining: 7 of 111
Darren Elias was all in from the big blind for roughly 110,000 against Brandon Lulov on the button.
Elias: Lulov:
The board ran out , further improving Lulov to a five-high straight to eliminate Elias in eighth place.
Brandon Lulov – 655,000 (43 bb) Darren Elias – Eliminated in 8th Place ($36,230)
2022 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida Event 42 $400 Black Chip Bounty No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Entries: 153 Prize Pool: $35,955 Bounty Prize Pool: $15,300 August 9, 2022
Event 42 of the 2022 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open was a $400 Black Chip Bounty No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry). A field of 153 entries produced a prize pool of $35,955, with an additional $15,300 set aside for bounties.
A four-handed deal took place at the final table. David Baize was the chip leader at the time, making him the official Event 42 champion for $6,599.