2024 Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 21
$600 Deep Stack Six-Max No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed
Entries:  138
Prize Pool:  $72,450
January 16, 2024

Event 21 of the 2024 Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open was a $600 Deep Stack Six-Max No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry). A field of 138 entries generated a prize pool of $72,450, and emerging victorious was Austin Morin, winning outright for $19,655.

$600 Deep Stack Six-Max No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts | Results
Level 22:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  1 of 138

Bryce McVay raised from the button and Austin Morin defended his big blind.

The flop was , Morin checked, McVay continued, Morin check-raised all in with his chip-leading stack, and McVay called all in for about 320,000.

McVay:   
Morin: 

McVay was ahead with a pair of jacks against Morin’s pair of sevens with a straight draw.

The turn gave Morin the lead with nines and sevens, and the river further improved Morin to nines full of sevens to eliminate McVay and win Event 21 outright for $19,655. McVay finished runner-up for $12,775.

A recap of Event 21 will be posted later tonight.

$600 Deep Stack Six-Max No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts | Results
Level 22:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  2 of 138

Austin Morin raised to 40,000 from the button, Joseph Rossi three-bet to 110,000 from the small blind, Morin four-bet shoved with his chip-leading stack, and Rossi thought for a bit before he called all in for 465,000.

Morin: 
Rossi: 

The board came , no help to Rossi, ending his tournament in third place.

Austin Morin  –  2,235,000  (112 bb)
Bryce McVay  –  525,000  (26 bb)
Joseph Rossi  –  Eliminated in 3rd Place  ($8,550)

1st: $19,655 + LHPO Trophy
2nd: $12,775

Recent Eliminations
4th:  Erick Lindgren  –  $5,900

$600 Deep Stack Six-Max No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts | Results
Level 21: 10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining:  4 of 138

Frank Lagodich raised all in for about 240,000 from the cutoff and got action from Bryce McVay in the small blind holding , leading Lagodich’s .

The board came , no help to Lagodich, ending his tournament in fifth place.

Bryce McVay  –  600,000  (40 bb)
Frank Lagodich  –  Eliminated in 5th Place  ($4,200)

With four players remaining from a field of 138, the average stack is 690,000 (46 bb). The remaining players are guaranteed $5,900.

$600 Deep Stack Six-Max No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts | Results
Level 21: 10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining: 5 of 138

Jonathan Moschel raised all in for about 200,000 from the hijack and Joseph Rossi (immediately after picking up aces and doubling up) called in the big blind with , leading Moschel’s .

The board came , no help to Moschel, ending his tournament in sixth place.

Joseph Rossi  –  840,000  (56 bb)
Jonathan Moschel  –  Eliminated in 6th Place  ($3,090)

$600 Deep Stack Six-Max No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts | Results
Level 21:  10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining: 6 of 138

Joseph Rossi raised to 35,000 from under the gun, Austin Morin called on the button, and Erick Lindgren reraised all in about 575,000 from the small blind. Rossi called all in for 275,000 and Morin folded.

Rossi: 
Lindgren: 

The board came , giving Rossi a set of aces to double through Lindgren.

Joseph Rossi  –  615,000  (41 bb)
Erick Lindgren  –  300,000  (20 bb)

$600 Deep Stack Six-Max No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts | Results
Level 20: 5,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining: 6 of 138

Mike Chiappetta raised all in for 200,000 from under the gun and Bryce McVay called all in for 175,000 in the big blind.

Chiappetta: 
McVay: 

The board ran out , giving McVay Broadway to double through Chiappetta.

The following hand, Frank Lagodich raised to 30,000 from the cutoff and Chiappetta was already all in for 10,000 in the big blind.

Lagodich: 
Chiappetta: 

The board came, ending Chiappetta’s tournament in seventh place.

Frank Lagodich  –  400,000  (27 bb)
Bryce McVay  –  370,000  (25 bb)
Mike Chiappetta  –  Eliminated in 7th Place ($2,350)

With six players remaining from a field of 138, the average stack is 460,000 (31 bb). The remaining players are guaranteed $3,090.