2026 Lucky Hearts Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida Event 18 $300 Quad Stack Black Chip Bounty NLH Entries: 241 Prize Pool: $36,150 Bounty Prize Pool: $24,100 January 11, 2026
2026 Lucky Hearts Poker Open Event 18 Champion Bret Grebow
Event 18 of the 2026 Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open was a $300 Quad Stack Black Chip Bounty No-Limit Hold’em. A field of 241 entries generated a prize pool of $36,150, with an additional $24,100 set aside for bounties.
A nine-way deal was reached at the final table and Bret Grebow was the chip leader at the time, making him the official Event 18 winner for $4,424.
2026 Lucky Hearts Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida Event 18 $300 Quad Stack Black Chip Bounty NLH Entries: 241 Prize Pool: $36,150 Bounty Prize Pool: $24,100 January 11, 2026
Event 18 of the 2026 Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open was a $300 Quad Stack Black Chip Bounty No-Limit Hold’em. A field of 241 entries generated a prize pool of $36,150, with an additional $24,100 set aside for bounties. The final 31 players will finish in the money, with a min-cash paying $360.
The last trophy event on today’s busy schedule gets underway at 6 pm. $300 Quad Stack Black Chip Bounty No-Limit Hold’em with plenty of chips and $100 bounties on everyone.
They’ll start with huge 40K stacks and all levels last 20 minutes. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 10 at 9:30 pm.
Players begin with 40,000 in chips
Levels last 20 minutes
Late registration until start of Level 10 (9:30pm)
This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
2025 Seminole Hard Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida Event 18 $300 Quad Stack Black Chip Bounty NLH Entries: 296 Prize Pool: $44,400 Bounty Prize Pool: $29,500 November 23, 2025
2025 Seminole Hard Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open Event 18 Champion Leonardo Jafet
Event 18 of the 2025 Seminole Hard Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open was a $300 Quad Stack Black Chip Bounty No-Limit Hold’em. A field of 296 entries generated a prize pool of $44,400, with an additional $29,600 set aside for bounties.
Taking it down was Leonardo Jafet, winning outright for $9,560.
2025 Seminole Hard Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida Event 18 $300 Quad Stack Black Chip Bounty NLH Entries: 296 Prize Pool: $44,400 Bounty Prize Pool: $29,500 November 23, 2025
Event 18 of the 2025 Seminole Hard Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open was a $300 Quad Stack Black Chip Bounty No-Limit Hold’em. A field of 296 entries generated a prize pool of $44,400, with an additional $29,600 set aside for bounties. The final 37 players will finish in the money, with a min-cash paying $345.
Today’s busy schedule wraps up with bounty action in RRPO Event 18 at 6 pm. It is a $300 Quad Stack Black Chip Bounty No-Limit Hold’em that will have all the action you need on a Sunday evening.
Players start with 40K in their stacks and all levels last 20 minutes. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 10 at 9:30 pm.
Players begin with 40,000 in chips
Levels last 20 minutes
Late registration until start of Level 10 (9:30pm)
This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
2025 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida Event 18 $1,100 Triple Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed Entries: 525 Prize Pool: $509,250 August 2-5, 2025
Event 18 Champion Luckenson Pericles
There were four starting flights over three days to create a field of 525 in the $1,100 Triple Stack, more than doubling the guarantee to create a prizepool worth $509,250. There were 68 players who made it to Day 2, and after more than 12 hours of play, Luckenson “Lucky” Pericles defeated Daniyal Gheba heads-up for the title, the trophy, and the top prize of $87,770.
“It feels great,” said Pericles about the biggest score of his career. “This is my first trophy. I worked hard for it.”
For Pericles, his key moment was late on his Day 1 when he doubled up with against another player’s pocket aces. He carried that momentum to bag the third-largest stack heading into Day 2, and it gave him a lot of confidence.
“I knew when I bagged 620,000 that I was going to win this tournament,” said Pericles. “Everybody said I had a great chance of making the final table. In my mind the whole time, I was saying I’m going to finish in first place.”
Pericles made the final table, again with the third-largest stack, and he made it to heads-up after knocking out Marc Goldman in third place. He was nearly even in chips with Daniyal Gheba, and they both had more than 95 big blinds.
Heads-up play lasted more than 90 minutes, but there was plenty of action. Pericles built up a solid 3-to-2 chip lead, but then Gheba doubled up with a set of nines against Pericles’ flush draw, giving Gheba more than a 3-to-1 lead.
But Pericles stayed aggressive, and he was willing to risk his entire stack whether he was the big stack or the short stack. Meanwhile, Gheba was carefully picking his spots.
“I was very aggressive, and he was playing tight,” said Pericles. “I’d go all in and he kept folding and folding.”
Eventually Gheba called one of his all-ins with , and Pericles turned over , needing to improve to survive. Pericles flopped an ace and turned a five to win the pot with two pair and retake the lead.
Pericles continued to grow his stack with smaller pots until he three-bet shoved with , and Gheba called all in with . Pericles flopped two pair, Gheba never caught up, and just like that, Pericles had won his first trophy and $87,770.
Pericles will put some of his earnings toward a seat in the $5,300 SHRPO Championship, which begins on Friday.
“That’s what I’m here for,” said Pericles. “I’m getting ready for the Championship.”
“I’ve lived here for 25 years,” said Pericles. “I travel, of course, but this is home. Whenever they have a tournament, I’m here. To me, Seminole Hard Rock runs the best tournaments in the world.”
$1,100 Triple Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Prizepool: $509,250 | Structure | Payouts Level 29: 50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 ante Players Remaining: 1 of 525
Event 18 Champion Luckenson Pericles
Daniyal Gheba raised to 250,000, Luckenson Pericles moved all in from the big blind, and Gheba called all in for about 4,350,000 with .
Pericles turned over , and Gheba needed his hand to hold to stay alive.
The board came — Pericles flopped two pair and turned a flush draw, and the river card was a blank. Pericles won the pot — and the trophy and $87,770 — with two pair.
Daniyal Gheba finished as the runner-up, earning $61,000.
Luckenson Pericles (left) and Daniyal Gheba
Congratulations to Luckenson Pericles!
1st: Luckenson Pericles – $87,770 + SHRPO Trophy 2nd: Daniyal Gheba – $61,000 3rd: Marc Goldman – $45,500 4th: Fred Paradis – $34,000 5th: Sadany Hevia – $25,500 6th: Giuseppe Iadisernia – $19,600 7th: Chris Arnold – $15,100 8th: Craig Robertson – $11,700 9th: Leo Taffe – $9,200
against another player’s pocket aces. He carried that momentum to bag the third-largest stack heading into Day 2, and it gave him a lot of confidence.
, and Pericles turned over 
, needing to improve to survive. Pericles flopped an ace and turned a five to win the pot with two pair and retake the lead.
. Pericles flopped two pair, Gheba never caught up, and just like that, Pericles had won his first trophy and $87,770.
— Pericles flopped two pair and turned a flush draw, and the river card was a blank. Pericles won the pot — and the trophy and $87,770 — with two pair.
