Valerie Novak Wins Her Second SHRP Major Series Trophy With Outright Win in Event 36 for $52,030

2023 Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 36
$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed
Entries:  917
Prize Pool:  $302,610
January 22–24, 2023

2023 Lucky Hearts Poker Open Event 36 Champion Valerie Novak

Event 36 of the 2023 Lucky Hearts Poker Open was a multi-flight $400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry). Across three starting flights, a field of 917 entries generated a prize pool of $302,610. Emerging victorious was Valerie Novak, winning outright for $52,030 and her second SHRP major series trophy.

It was deja vu for Novak, being heads-up for an SHRP trophy against an accomplished professional. At the 2022 Showdown, Novak defeated Chance Kornuth, and this time she was heads-up with Alessio Isaia, who was in search of his third SHRP trophy of the 2023 Lucky Hearts alone. Novak, though, had other ideas.

“I knew he had won once, but didn’t know he had two. We played together a lot today and he was very aggressive, but once I had some chips I was able to take some advantages. Playing against Chance last year it was just constant aggression, so I felt comfortable in this spot.”

“I don’t even know what to say, I’m so excited and happy. Thank you to all the staff and dealers that are a part of putting on such a great event!”

PlaceFirst NameLast NamePrize Amount
1ValerieNovak$52,030
2AlessioIsaia$35,800
3NiallCostigan$23,800
4CharlemagneBenjamin$17,625
5JasonRocha$13,330
6OrlandoMaldanado$10,640
7JohnFreidkes$8,815
8MatthewKaplan$7,010
9JeffreyFarnes$5,250
10WilliamNoonan$5,250
11JamesCalderaro$4,250
12EricBaldwin$4,250
13ChadLipton$3,340
14RafaelRodriguez Arango$3,340
15DavidLaufer$3,340
16BohdanSlyvinskyi$2,765
17MichaelSteinbacher$2,765
18AyedShweihat$2,765
19TylerMcKinney$2,315
20OleksiiKoiev$2,315
21CarlosPino$2,315
22ZacharyRyan$1,950
23JesseCohen$1,950
24DanielBelisle$1,950
25SohebPorbandarwala$1,595
26TaylorHart$1,595
27DaleRoesel$1,595
28TimothyShortell$1,370
29FrankLagodich$1,370
30JonathanMoschel$1,370
31RobBrown$1,370
32MIchaelAmato$1,370
33SergiuCornea$1,370
34AndreyBereza$1,370
35MukulPahuja$1,370
36DonaldGibbs$1,370
37TimothyUlmer$1,190
38MIchaelNewman$1,190
39JeremyMeacham$1,190
40KevinDavis$1,190
41FredericKonowitz$1,190
42KeldCurtis$1,190
43HanyAyoub$1,190
44CarlosBolanos$1,190
45ScottRobbins$1,190
46ArmanBolouri$1,050
47PaulGarritson$1,050
48JuanMontoya Bernal$1,050
49RaulPaez Corral$1,050
50DavidRivera$1,050
51GaroldCasterline$1,050
52ShannonMcCloud$1,050
53JamesBurke$1,050
54RichardDe Carvalho Saunders$1,050
55RaminderSingh$955
56DucarmelBeaubien$955
57AlexFindlay$955
58GuillermoHamilton$955
59CharlesHonkonen$955
60ShadMorris$955
61JosephIannacone$955
62FabianGumz$955
63NicholasFischer$955
64WillyamMoura$875
65DanStavila$875
66JohnGorsuch$875
67WalterBuss$875
68CarlosBermudez$875
69FrankRusso$875
70RanganathKanchi$875
71FranciscoPerez Moreno$875
72AlfonsoDelgado III$875
73ElijahRuffin$800
74HiteshPatel$800
75LuisSuarez$800
76CraigPollak$800
77VamsiMagam$800
78AlejandroRomero Bristol$800
79MahmoudHamed$800
80GilNachum$800
81RobertLevin$800
82JimCollopy$725
83StevenCohen$725
84JerryDing$725
85AllanBieler$725
86DanielBoilard$725
87MelissaKaiser$725
88JosephMcNeely$725
89LongNguyen$725
90MarcelaDe Aguilar Fumero$725
91DavidChilds$660
92AnibalPabon$660
93ChetSickle$660
94EstherTaylor$660
95ManuelSoltero Luna$660
96RIchardParadis$660
97EricWard$660
98JamielAsghar$660
99BradleyGrossman$660
100DonaldWilliams$600
101VictorShkurka$600
102DanielSaffer$600
103AlcidesGomez II$600
104ScottEpstein$600
105DavidOshry$600
106PierreRodriguez$600
107JeremyDrobushevich$600
108BillOderat$600
109RoniZelichonok$580
110JohnMacDonald$580
111NancyBirnbaum$580
112PhillipStuttman$580
113LuisRamos$580
114MaximeLenders$580
115FrancoisZayas$580
116AlejandroFernandez$580