2022 Seminole Hard Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida Event 39 $5,000 Deep Stack Pot-Limit Omaha (Re-Entry) Entries: 42 Prize Pool: $199,500 November 28, 2022
Registration closed on the $5,000 Deep Stack Pot-Limit Omaha tournament with 42 entries creating a very healthy prize pool worth $199,500. The last seven players at the final table will earn some money with a min-cash banking $7,980 and the Event 39 champ will earn $71,815.
$5,000 Deep Stack Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry) Structure Level 1: 100/100
The clock is running out on the RRPO series and we have only two more Omaha tournaments on the schedule. Event 39 gets underway at 4 pm with a $5,000 buy-in Deep Stack Pot Limit Omaha tournament.
Players start with 20K deep stacks and the first 12 levels last 30 minutes, increasing to 40 minutes from Level 13 until the end. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 8:55 pm following the 40-minute dinner break.
Event 39 will play 15 levels and anyone still with chips will bag up for the night to return tomorrow at 2 pm to finish it out.
Players begin with 20,000 in chips
Day 1-12 levels last 30 minutes; Levels 13+ last 40 minutes
2022 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida Event 39 $1,100 Big 4 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed Entries: 563 Prize Pool: $563,000 August 8-9, 2022
Ivan Ruban
Event 39 of the 2022 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open was the $1,100 Big 4 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry). The tournament drew 563 entries, generating a prize pool of $563,000. Taking it down was Ivan Ruban, winning outright for $107,125.
“It feels good to win this tournament,” said Ruban afterward. “I hope to do it again soon.”
Ruban finished Day 1 on top of the chip counts by a healthy margin of 35 big blinds, leading the 17 players who returned on Day 2. He coasted to the final table, and once there stayed out of the way for the most part as players began to fall.
Ruban began heads-up play against 2013 SHRPO champion Blair Hinkle with nearly a 4:1 chip lead and closed it out after making a full house in a limped pot, earning the outright victory.
Ruban, a native of Moscow, Russia, recently moved to South Florida and has registered several cashes at the Seminole Hard Rock in those few months. This marks his second-largest live career tournament score and pushes him past the $420,000 mark in total live earnings according to the Hendon Mob poker database.
$1,100 Big 4 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 32: 50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 ante Players Remaining: 1 of 563
Ivan Ruban
Blair Hinkle limped on the button and Ivan Ruban checked his option in the big blind.
They checked to the turn of a board where Hinkle bet 225,000. Ruban check-raised to 675,000 and Hinkle called.
The river was the , Ruban shoved for effectively 1,700,000, and Hinkle thought for a bit before he called with for eights and fours.
Ruban tabled for a full house, fours full of eights, to win the pot and the $1,100 Big 4 No-Limit Hold’em event outright for $107,125.
Blair Hinkle, the original SHRPO champion, finished runner-up for $73,425.
$1,100 Big 4 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 32: 50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 ante Players Remaining: 2 of 563
George Dolofan
After a chop and a double, George Dolofan raised all in for 225,000 from the button. Ivan Ruban called in the small blind and Blair Hinkle called in the big blind.
They checked to the river of a board where Hinkle isolated the pot with a bet and showed for sevens and deuces, besting Dolofan’s .
Dolofan finished in third place for $48,500.
Ivan Ruban – 8,900,000 (89 bb) Blair Hinkle – 2,350,000 (24 bb) George Dolofan – Eliminated in 3rd Place ($48,500)
$1,100 Big 4 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 32: 50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 ante Players Remaining: 3 of 563
Gary Gelman
On the next hand after the set-over-set confrontation, Gary Gelman raised all in for about 1,600,000 from UTG/cutoff and Ivan Ruban called from the button. With a potential pay jump in play, George Dolofan folded his big blind with just 75,000 behind.
Gelman showed , but Ruban tabled for the second hand in a row.
The board ran out , safe for Ruban to eliminate Gelman in fourth place.
Ivan Ruban – 7,850,000 (79 bb) Gary Gelman – Eliminated in 4th Place ($34,360)
$1,100 Big 4 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 32: 50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 ante Players Remaining: 4 of 563
Ivan Ruban
George Dolofan raised to 300,000 from UTG/cutoff, Ivan Ruban three-bet to 975,000 from the small blind, and Dolofan called.
The flop came down , Ruban continued for 425,000, Dolofan raised all in with a covering stack, and Ruban called all in for 2,425,000 with for a set of aces. Dolofan showed for a set of sixes.
The turn locked it up for Ruban with quad aces, rendering the river moot.
Ivan Ruban – 7,000,000 (70 bb) George Dolofan – 275,000 (3 bb)
$1,100 Big 4 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 32: 50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 ante Players Remaining: 4 of 563
George Dolofan – 4,125,000 (41 bb) Gary Gelman – 2,650,000 (27 bb) Blair Hinkle – 2,250,000 (23 bb) Ivan Ruban – 2,225,000 (22 bb)
$1,100 Big 4 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 31: 40,000/80,000 with an 80,000 ante Players Remaining: 4 of 563
Kharlin Sued
Kharlin Sued raised all in for 805,000 from the cutoff and Blair Hinkle isolated the action from the small blind with a shove of his own.
Sued: Hinkle:
The board ran out , no help to Sued, ending his tournment in fifth place.
Blair Hinkle – 2,200,000 (28 bb) Kharlin Sued – Eliminated in 5th Place ($26,385)
board where Hinkle bet 225,000. Ruban check-raised to 675,000 and Hinkle called.
, Ruban shoved for effectively 1,700,000, and Hinkle thought for a bit before he called with 
for eights and fours.
for a full house, fours full of eights, to win the pot and the $1,100 Big 4 No-Limit Hold’em event outright for $107,125.
board where Hinkle isolated the pot with a bet and showed 
.
for the second hand in a row.
, safe for Ruban to eliminate Gelman in fourth place.
, Ruban continued for 425,000, Dolofan raised all in with a covering stack, and Ruban called all in for 2,425,000 with 
for a set of aces. Dolofan showed 
for a set of sixes.
, no help to Sued, ending his tournment in fifth place.