2023 Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida Event 26 $150 Big Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Entries: 175 Prize Pool: $20,650 January 19, 2023
2023 Lucky Hearts Poker Open Event 26 Champion David Oshry
Event 26 of the 2023 Lucky Hearts Poker Open was a $150 Big Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry). A field of 175 entries created a prize pool of $20,650, and winning the lion’s share of that was David Oshry, earning the outright victory for $5,205.
2023 Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida Event 26 $150 Big Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Entries: 175 Prize Pool: $20,650 January 19, 2023
Event 26 of the 2023 Lucky Hearts Poker Open was a $150 Big Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry). A field of 175 entries generated a prize pool of $20,650. The final 22 players will cash, earning at least $275.
$150 Big Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Structure Level 1: 100/100
Another night and another Big Stack tournament on our schedule, something our regulars will love. The $150 buy-in tournament starts at 5 pm and will award another LHPO trophy later this evening.
Players start with 15,000 big stacks and all levels last 20 minutes. Late registration and re-entries are available until the start of Level 10 at 8:25 pm. They will cruise through the field and only stop when we are ready to take a winner’s pic with the champ.
Players begin with 15,000 in chips
Levels last 20 minutes
Late registration until start of Level 10 (8:25pm)
This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
2022 Seminole Hard Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida $3,500 WPT RRPO Championship $2,000,000 Guaranteed Entries: 1,541 Prize Pool: $4,931,200 November 25-30, 2022
WPT Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open Champion Andrew Wilson
After two second-place finishes for WSOP bracelets in the past few years, Andrew Wilson has broken thru with a major victory in a live tournament, defeating Josh Kay in an epic heads-up battle on Wednesday night to win the WPT Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open Championship.
“It feels pretty incredible,” said Wilson, who overcame a field of 1,541 entries to win $785,800. “I picked the right moment to finally come out on top. It’s going to take a little while to sink in, but it’s what I’ve been going for ever since I first started playing.”
This was one of the toughest WPT final tables in a long time, with half of the seats filled with WPT champions — defending RRPO Champion Gediminas Uselis, two-time WPT champ Chad Eveslage, and three-time WPT champ Brian Altman.
“As far as WPT final tables are concerned, I think this is definitely one of the tougher ones that I’ve been a witness to,” said Wilson. “All of these guys have had so much success live, and I assume they’ll continue to do so in the future. Especially since they play these stops over and over again, and they continually show this level of success.”
Wilson began the six-handed WPT Final Table with a massive lead, holding 43% of all the chips for a stack worth 167 big blinds.
Wilson had a big chip lead for most of the final table, eliminating short-stack Robel Andemichael in the first 10 minutes (click here for details), and knocking out defending champion Gediminas Uselis within the first half hour (details here).
Brian Altman was sent home in fourth place, but this time it was Kay who scored the knockout. (Click here for details.) Three-handed play continued for more than an hour and a half, but eventually Eveslage found himself on the wrong end of an aces-vs.-jacks cooler against Wilson, and Eveslage was out in third place. (Click here for details.)
“You had to fight for every pot,” said Wilson, “because these guys weren’t going to just roll over.”
Runner-Up Josh Kay
Wilson began heads-up play with a 3-to-1 chip lead over Kay, but then Wilson won a massive pot to increase his lead to 10-to-1. (Click here for details.) Wilson had been on one of the hottest WPT Final Table runs we’ve ever seen, and there was no reason to think it would change.
But it did.
Shortly after that, Wilson got about as close to a WPT title as you can get. Down 10-to-1 in chips, Kay got it all in preflop with , only to see Wilson turn over . Kay was dominated and facing elimination.
But the board came , forcing a chopped pot with two pair on the board and an ace kicker. Even though he was saved by the river, Kay was still down 10-to-1 in chips. But that chopped pot seemed to give him new life.
Everything had been going right for Wilson, and then suddenly everything started going wrong. Over the next 20 minutes, Kay won three straight all-ins to take the lead.
Thanks to the great blind structure, they were still incredibly deep — Kay had 115 big blinds to Wilson’s 78 big blinds, so this wasn’t a simple shove fest. The heads-up battle would continue for another hour or so, and the momentum went back and forth between them.
Kay made some impressive moves at this final table, but in the final hand (click here for details), Kay picked the wrong spot to make a stand when Wilson was showing strength with a big preflop reraise. After a flop of , Wilson bet, and Kay moved all in with for middle pair.
Wilson snap-called with , and the kings held up for Wilson to win the title, the trophy, and $785,800.
“It’s surreal,” said Wilson. “I was in England watching the World Cup. I was of two minds of whether to stay in England and carry on watching the World Cup with my friends, but I had already taken a month-long break from poker. I decided to kickstart myself since I was going to play the WPT at the Wynn, so I thought this would be a great stop to come to for the weather and the great field. One singular bullet [buy-in] later, it’s been quite the decision.”
$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship $2,000,000 Guaranteed | Payouts | Live Stream Level 35: 300,000/600,000 with a 600,000 ante Players Remaining: 1 of 1,541
WPT Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open Champion Andrew Wilson
Josh Kay raised from the small blind to 2,200,000 with , Andrew Wilson reraised to 7,000,000 with , and Kay thought for a while before he called.
The flop came , Wilson bet 6,500,000, Kay moved all in for 24,300,000, and Wilson snap-called with his . Wilson turned over his for a pair of sevens, and he needed to improve to stay alive.
The turn card was the , the river card was the , and Wilson won the pot — and the WPT title — with pocket kings.
Josh Kay finished as the runner-up, earning $525,000.
Andrew Wilson won the WPT Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open, earning $785,800. Wilson will get his name engraved on the one-and-only Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup alongside every other WPT champion from all 20 seasons of the World Poker Tour. Wilson will also receive a $10,400 seat into the season-ending WPT World Championship, which begins in about a week in Las Vegas.
Congratulations to Andrew Wilson!
1st: Andrew Wilson – $785,800 + $10,400 WPT World Championship seat 2nd: Josh Kay – $525,000 3rd: Chad Eveslage – $390,000 4th: Brian Altman – $290,000 5th: Gediminas Uselis – $219,000 6th: Robel Andemichael – $167,000
$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship $2,000,000 Guaranteed | Payouts | Live Stream Level 34: 300,000/500,000 with a 500,000 ante Players Remaining: 2 of 1,541
Andrew Wilson
Josh Kay raised from the small blind to 2,700,000 with , Andrew Wilson reraised to 6,500,000 with , and Kay called.
Both players checked to the river on a board of . Wilson checked, Kay moved all in, and Wilson snap-called all in for about 25,000,000 with for a rivered set of nines.
Kay showed his for king high, and Wilson won the pot with his set to double up in chips.
Andrew Wilson – 62,500,000 (125 bB) Josh Kay – 14,500,000 (29 bb)
And here are the remaining payouts:
1st: $785,800 + $10,400 WPT World Championship seat 2nd: $525,000
$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship $2,000,000 Guaranteed | Payouts | Live Stream Level 33: 200,000/400,000 with a 400,000 ante Players Remaining: 2 of 1,541
Josh Kay
Andrew Wilson completed the small blind to 400,000 with , Josh Kay raised from the big blind to 2,200,000 with , and Wilson called.
The flop came , Kay bet 1,600,000, and Wilson called.
The turn card was the , Kay checked, Wilson bet 5,800,000, and Kay called.
The river card was the , Kay checked, and Wilson used one of his Time Chips to tank for nearly a minute before he moved all in.
Kay thought for a while before he called all in for 13,200,000 with for a pair of aces. Wilson turned over for a ten-high bluff, and Kay won the pot to double up in chips.
Josh Kay – 46,000,000 (115 bb) Andrew Wilson – 31,000,000 (78 bb)
And here are the remaining payouts:
1st: $785,800 + $10,400 WPT World Championship seat 2nd: $525,000
, only to see Wilson turn over 
. 
, forcing a chopped pot with two pair on the board and an ace kicker. Even though he was saved by the river, Kay was still down 10-to-1 in chips. But that chopped pot seemed to give him new life.
, Wilson bet, and Kay moved all in with 
, and the kings held up for Wilson to win the title, the trophy, and $785,800.
, the river card was the 
, and Wilson won the pot — and the WPT title — with pocket kings.
, and Josh Kay called all in for 12,800,000 with 
, and Kay paired his king on the flop to win the pot and double up in chips, cutting Wilson’s lead to about 2-to-1.
, and Kay called.
. Wilson checked, Kay moved all in, and Wilson snap-called all in for about 25,000,000 with 
, and Wilson called.
, Kay bet 1,600,000, and Wilson called.
, Kay checked, Wilson bet 5,800,000, and Kay called.
, Kay checked, and Wilson used one of his Time Chips to tank for nearly a minute before he moved all in.