Primary Event Schedule
2PM: Final Table – $3,500 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship
5PM: Event 33 Day 2 – $2,200 Deep Stack Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)
5PM: Event 30 Day 2 – $200 Big Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$2,200 Deep Stack Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 13: 3,000/5,000
Players Remaining: 12 of 107
Day 2 is at 5 p.m. in the Poker Room.
Table 6
Seat 1: Kyle Bowker – 98,000 (20 bb)
Seat 2: Shay Shabtai Mashaih – 150,000 (30 bb)
Seat 3:
Seat 4: Mark Wahba – 213,000 (43 bb)
Seat 5: Richard Kellett – 115,000 (23 bb)
Seat 6: Michael Prendergast – 211,000 (42 bb)
Seat 7:
Seat 8: Farid Jattin – 231,000 (46 bb)
Seat 9:
Table 7
Seat 1:
Seat 2: Eric Salazar – 310,000 (62 bb)
Seat 3: Elliott Kampen – 240,000 (48 bb)
Seat 4: Kan Ying – 47,000 (9 bb)
Seat 5:
Seat 6: Ayed Shweihat – 106,000 (21 bb)
Seat 7: Ari Oxman – 23,000 (5 bb)
Seat 8: Gregory Nerenberg – 397,000 (79 bb)
Seat 9:
1st: $58,410 + LHPO Trophy
2nd: $39,105
3rd: $26,500
4th: $18,670
5th: $13,650
6th: $10,375
7th: $8,215
8th: $6,785
9th-10th: $5,850
11th-12th: $5,285
Results Thus Far
13th: Phil Hui – $5,010
14th: David Moreno – $5,010
2022 Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 33
$2,200 Deep Stack Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)
Entries: 107
Prize Pool: $214,000
January 25-26, 2022
Event 33 of the 2022 Lucky Hearts Poker Open is a $2,200 Deep Stack Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry). A field of 107 entries produced a prize pool of $214,000. The final 14 places pay, with a min-cash set at $5,010.
Up top for the winner is $58,410.
1st: $58,410 + LHPO Trophy
2nd: $39,105
3rd: $26,500
4th: $18,670
5th: $13,650
6th: $10,375
7th: $8,215
8th: $6,785
9th-10th: $5,850
11th-12th: $5,285
13th-14th: $5,010
$2,200 Deep Stack Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)
Structure
Level 1: 100/100
We can’t close out the Lucky Hearts Poker Open without throwing one more Pot Limit Omaha tournament and this is a big one at 4 pm. Event 33 has a $2,200 buy-in with a slow, two-day structure for our PLO players.
They’ll start with 20,000 deep stacks and all levels last 40 minutes. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 7 at 8:30 pm. They will continue playing down through Level 12 and survivors will bag up their chips for Day 2 return tomorrow at 5 pm in the Poker Room to play on the last day.
Primary Event Schedule
11AM: Event 30 Flight B – $200 Big Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
12PM: Day 4 – $3,500 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship
12PM: Event 31 – $5,000 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
12PM: Event 32 – $600 H.O.R.S.E. (Re-Entry)
1PM: Day 2 – $25,500 High Roller NLH (Re-Entry)
4PM: Event 33 – $2,200 Deep Stack Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)
5PM: Event 30 Flight C – $200 Big Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
Secondary and Satellite Schedule
10AM: $550 Event 31 Turbo Satellite (1-in-10)
11AM: $350 Multi-Event Satellite (1-in-10)
2021 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 33
$50,000 Super High Roller No-Limit Hold’em
Entries: 29
Prize Pool: $1,406,500
August 5-6, 2021
In most parts of the country, Zhuang Ruan isn’t old enough to set foot on a casino gaming floor. Luckily for the 20-year-old poker pro, you only need to be 18 to play poker at Seminole Hard Rock properties.
Even at that age, most card players are still learning the game, getting their feet wet and deciding how seriously to take it.
Ruan, on the other hand, defeated a 29-entry field comprised of some of poker’s best players. He defeated Dan Smith, who is fifth on poker’s all-time money list with north of $37 million in live earnings, to win the $50,000 Super High Roller Friday evening, earning $562,600 in the process.
“It feels pretty good,” said Ruan with a laugh.
Aside from one of the high-stakes end bosses Ruan bested heads-up, the field also featured crushers like Alex Foxen, Nick Petrangelo, Ali Imsirovic, Elio Fox and David Peters, who was eliminated on the bubble in sixth place.
Despite his age, Ruan has already played very high-stakes. He starting playing poker during his high school years in 2016 for play money and eventually started grinding the smallest stakes available online two years later. He quickly rose up from the $1 buy-in cash games all the way up to $100-$200 pot-limit Omaha in just a couple of years.
“I started at $1NL. Half a cent-one cent [blinds] and eventually worked my way up,” said Ruan. “I actually switched to PLO and made it to the $100-$200 games.”
During his brief stint in college, Ruan started playing tournaments and it wasn’t long before he was beating high-stakes tournaments as well.
“I took six months off from poker to try and go to college,” said Ruan. “But after that I found tournaments, so I started playing that… And then I was playing high-stakes MTT’s. And now I’m here.”
Since he doesn’t turn 21 for another several months, he won’t be able to play in most American tournaments until 2022, but his poker resume is already filled with victories.
He won an $1,100 pot-limit Omaha event at the 2019 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, finished third in a $2,200 pot-limit Omaha a few months later at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown and took down the $5,000 no-limit hold’em during the World Poker Tour series at the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa.
His win on Friday was just his fourth cash, but three of them were outright wins.
Coming into Friday, six players remained, but only five would leave with a payday of at least $112,520. David Peters was eliminated by Dan Smith on the bubble.
Smith dominated much of the early portion of the final table before Ruan made a run late and overtook him for the chip lead during three-handed play.
After eliminating eliminating Cary Katz in third place, Ruan held a small chip lead heading into heads-up play. After failed negotiations regarding a possible deal, Smith went on a rush of cards and opened a more than 2-to-1 lead.
But as the blinds got larger, Ruan got a shove through on the turn to pull the chip counts back to even, and then regained it for good when he made a good river call with fourth pair.
“It was just like a heads-up sit n’ go,” said Ruan. “I used to play those back in the day, so I’m familiar with the swingy-ness of heads-up.”
Once Smith was on the short stack, Ruan was able to flop trip jacks and get three streets of value, including a river shove, against Smith’s A-Q, which turned top pair to secure the biggest payday of his life.
Results:
1st: Zhuang Ruan – $562,600
2nd: Dan Smith – $351,625
3rd: Cary Katz – $225,040
4th: Giuseppe Iadesernia – $154,715
5th: Sean Perry – $112,520
$50,000 Super High Roller (Single Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 20: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 1 of 29
Dan Smith limped in on the button and Zhuang Ruan checked his option in the big blind.
The flop was 
and Ruan led for 125,000. Smith called and the turn was the 
.
Ruan bet again, this time 250,000 and Smith called. The river was the 
.
Ruan shoved all in for effectively Smith’s remaining 585,000. Smith mulled over his decision for a while before eventually committing the chips.
Ruan showed 
, good for trip jacks, and he won the pot against Smith’s 
.
Zhuang Ruan – Super High Roller Champion
Dan Smith – Eliminated in 2nd Place
$50,000 Super High Roller (Single Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 20: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 2 of 29
Zhang Ruan won a pot by shoving the turn and getting a fold to Dan Smith to get the heads-up match back to even.
A few hands later, with about 300,000 in the middle on a completed board of 
, Ruan checked and Smith bet 250,000.
Ruan tanked for about a minute before tossing in a chip, indicating a call.
“Jack-six,” said Smith, as he briefly tabled his hand.
Ruan showed 
, good for fourth pair and won the pot to take back the chip lead.
Zhang Ruan – 2,350,000 (47 bb)
Dan Smith – 1,300,000 (26 bb)
$50,000 Super High Roller (Single Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 19: 20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining: 2 of 29
Dan Smith raised on the button and Zhuang Ruan called out of the big blind.
The flop was 
and Ruan checked. Smith bet 70,000 and Ruan called.
The turn was the 
and Ruan led out for 110,000. Smith called. The river was the 
and Ruan led again, this time for 400,000.
Smith mulled it over for quite some time before moving all in. Ruan quickly folded his hand.
“That was like a James Bond board right there,” said Smith after the hand. “Straight flush versus quads or something.”
Dan Smith – 2,655,000 (66 bb)
Zhuang Ruan – 975,000 (24 bb)
$50,000 Super High Roller (Single Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 19: 20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining: 2 of 29
With about 400,000 in the pot on a board of 
, Dan Smith checked and Zhuang Ruan bet 250,000. Smith called.
The river was the 
and both players checked. Smith showed 
and Ruan tossed his hand into the muck.
A few hands later, in a limped pot, Smith checked a flop of 
and Ruan bet 40,000.
Smith check-raised to 140,000 and Ruan called. The turn was the 
and Smith checked. Ruan bet 100,000 and Smith called. Both players checked the 
river.
Smith showed and Ruan mucked.
Dan Smith – 2,625,000 (65 bb)
Zhuang Ruan – 1,000,000 (25 bb)