2019 Lucky Hearts Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida Event 7 $360 No Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry) $50,000 Guaranteed Entries: 270 Prize Pool: $81,000 January 14, 2019
Reece Lightner – Event 7 Champion
The final table of the $360 No Limit Hold’em event finished late Monday night with Maurice “Reece” Lightner taking home the title, the cash, and the trophy.
Lightner’s victory continues the streak of final tables this series playing down to a winner without any chops or deals made.
There were 270 entries in this one-day event, and Lightner, a local player from Miami, outlasted them all to earn the second-biggest score of his live tournament career, and this victory puts his live tournament earnings over the $100K mark.
Final Table Results:
1st: Maurice Lightner – $18,286 + LHPO trophy 2nd: Benjamin Keathley – $12,874 3rd: Raymond Millard – $8,280 4th: Thomas Gari – $5,050 5th: Spencer Champlin – $3,900 6th: Kerry Scott – $3,232 7th: Jacobo Milhem Mugrabi – $2,714 8th: Christopher Young – $2,268 9th: David Nowling – $1,829 10th: Sherriee Williams – $1,539
$360 No Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry) $50,000 Guaranteed | Payouts Level 13: 1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante Players Remaining; 40 of 270
While we’ve been tracking the Ultimate Re-Entry action, Event 7 went big and drew 270 entries to the single re-entry tournament to easily surpass the $50,000 Guarantee. The combined to put $81,000 in the prize pool and the last 34 spots will be paid.
A min-cash will earn $556 while the Event 7 champ will take home $18,286 plus the LHPO trophy and custom-framed winners photo courtesy of Image Masters.
2019 Lucky Hearts Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida Event 7 $360 No Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry) $50,000 Guaranteed Entries: 270 Prize Pool: $81,000 January 14, 2019
Not everybody could bag up in the Ultimate Re-Entry event but that doesn’t mean they have to miss out on earning one of those LHPO trophies. The next new event is a straight up No Limit Hold’em tournament with some nice money up for grabs.
Event 7 has a $360 buy with a $50,000 guaranteed prize pool and the big blind ante format. Late registration is open until the start of Level 9 at 4:30pm but players are limited to a single re-entry should they bust out. They will have a dinner break at 6pm and return to play down to the champion.
Action kicks off at noon and we will keep you up to date through the day.
$50,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
Players begin with 15,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
Late registration/SINGLE re-entry available until start of Level 9
This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
2018 Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida Event 7 $1,100 No-Limit Hold’em Entries: 170 Prize Pool: $164,900 November 18, 2018
Raminder Singh wins $1,100 no-limit hold’em
Raminder Singh’s trophy case is full of trophies from poker tournaments he has won. From looking at his results, he owns nearly two dozen of them.
In the early hours of Monday morning, he earned another one in the $1,100 no-limit hold’em. In a heads-up chop with Travis Jackson, Singh came out on top of the 170-entry field and earned $37,706 for his efforts, along with the hardware.
Some players love trophies to show off to their friends and family. They validate their skill on the felt. Singh has another motivation for taking the trophies back to his South Florida home.
They are to continually push his daughter to be a better athelete.
“My daughter, Sonya, she’s into ice skating and she wins a lot of trophies too,” said Singh. “She wins some in ice skating and I win some in poker. This is to inspire her. When I take a new trophy home, she is quite inspired to win more in ice skating and do well. That is a great inspiration as a dad.”
Singh is a family man through and through. His mile-long list of victories, including a WSOP Circuit ring from a main event victory, all come from South Florida. He rarely leaves the area, let alone the state to play a poker tournament.
Every single victory he has to his name have all come in South Florida. With multiple businesses to run and two kids to raise, he sticks to local tournaments in order to be there for his family.
In the last six weeks alone, he’s won three tournaments before his victory at the Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood.
“Those are all amateur trophies, I call it,” said Singh. ” I call myself a true amateur in the Slum Donkey Poker Community.”
Singh is part of a larger group of poker players that formed the Slum Donkey Poker Community. They share hand histories and results with each other. Singh is an amateur by definition, but his skills rival most pros.
“I’m one of the decent amateurs,” said Singh. “I’ll describe it like that, but I enjoy poker in my free time.”
Singh expertly navigated the final table. He came into the unofficial final table near the top of chips, bunched together with a few other big stacks.
He opted to get a feel for the table before really turning up the pressure.
“I tried to sit back and take some time as a decent stack,” said the Delray Beach native. “And try to observe the final table. There were players combined from various tables. Later on, when I had a good handle on the play of the various players, I decided to change my game and play accordingly.”
As the table got shorter, Singh started to accumulate chips at a rapid pace. He was the chip leader three-handed when chop talks arose. They were nixed by the short stack, Lucas Braga, who ended up busting in third and left Singh heads-up with Jackson.
After looking at the ICM numbers, the two players agreed to a chop. Singh had the larger stack and got the slightly bigger payout, giving him credit for the win.
He noted that he doesn’t usually chop, but there were events on Monday’s schedule that he wanted to be rested to play.
The 170-entry field paid the top 24 spots. Here are the full results:
1st: Raminder Singh – $37,706* 2nd: Travis Jackson – $34,311* 3rd: Lucas Braga – $16,910 4th: Sherrie Williams – $10,290 5th: David Jackson – $7,940 6th: Edward McNamara – $6,580 7th: Ann Coffen – $5,689 8th: Jason Budish – $4,978 9th: Derek Bowers – $4,434 10th: Gavin O’Rourke – $3,694 11th: Guy Naimi – $3,694 12th: Vitor Coelho – $3,694 13th: Hiren Dharani – $3,125 14th: Hyndi Khomutetsky – $3,125 15th: Dovid Goldfischer – $3,125 16th: Kathryn Lindsey – $2,597 17th: Sukhjinder Hare – $2,597 18th: Chris Moorman – $2,597 19th: Roberto Bendeck – $2,102 20th: Paul Domb – $2,102 21st: Jordan Joeckel – $2,102 22nd: Scott Wright – $1,608
$1,100 No-Limit Hold’em $100,000 Guarantee | Payouts Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with an 8,000 BB ante Players Remaining: 10 of 170
With about seven minutes remaining in the level, the $1,100 no-limit hold’em reached its final 10 players and they have redrawn for seats at the unofficial final table.
Everybody is guaranteed a cash of at least $3,694, but the winner will walk away with $43,341.
Here’s a look at the seating arrangement and chip counts of the final 10 players:
Seat 1: Sherrie Williams – 251,000 Seat 2: Lucas Braga – 338,000 Seat 3: Ann Coffen – 146,000 Seat 4: Jason Budish – 235,000 Seat 5: Gavin O’Rourke – 62,000 Seat 6: David Jackson – 229,000 Seat 7: Raminder Singh – 340,000 Seat 8: Derek Bowers – 183,000 Seat 9: Travis Jackson – 389,000 Seat 10: Ted McNamara – 425,000
2018 Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida Event #7 $1,100 NLH (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guarantee Entries: 170 Prize Pool: $164,900 November 18, 2018
In the shadow of the huge $360/$1,000,000 guarantee bubble, Event 7 of the Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open kicked off in the back of the Hard Rock Event Center. Freshly underway (began at 3pm) and awarding a trophy, Event 7 is a $1,100 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Re-entry tournament. It boasts 15,000 starting chips, 30-minute levels and is structured to play to completion during the early morning hours of Monday.
Here are the details:
3PM: Event 7 – $1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
Players begin with 15,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
Single ante will be paid from the big blind for the entire table
Late registration/single re-entry available until start of Level 9
This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
With a $1,367,400 prize pool up for grabs in the $360/$1,000,000 guarantee, much of our live reporting efforts will be concentrated there. For the $1,100, we’ll provide the prize pool when final, the final table seating chart when they get there and the complete results along with a final report and winner photo when action concludes.
