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
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!”
| Place | First Name | Last Name | Prize Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Valerie | Novak | $52,030 |
| 2 | Alessio | Isaia | $35,800 |
| 3 | Niall | Costigan | $23,800 |
| 4 | Charlemagne | Benjamin | $17,625 |
| 5 | Jason | Rocha | $13,330 |
| 6 | Orlando | Maldanado | $10,640 |
| 7 | John | Freidkes | $8,815 |
| 8 | Matthew | Kaplan | $7,010 |
| 9 | Jeffrey | Farnes | $5,250 |
| 10 | William | Noonan | $5,250 |
| 11 | James | Calderaro | $4,250 |
| 12 | Eric | Baldwin | $4,250 |
| 13 | Chad | Lipton | $3,340 |
| 14 | Rafael | Rodriguez Arango | $3,340 |
| 15 | David | Laufer | $3,340 |
| 16 | Bohdan | Slyvinskyi | $2,765 |
| 17 | Michael | Steinbacher | $2,765 |
| 18 | Ayed | Shweihat | $2,765 |
| 19 | Tyler | McKinney | $2,315 |
| 20 | Oleksii | Koiev | $2,315 |
| 21 | Carlos | Pino | $2,315 |
| 22 | Zachary | Ryan | $1,950 |
| 23 | Jesse | Cohen | $1,950 |
| 24 | Daniel | Belisle | $1,950 |
| 25 | Soheb | Porbandarwala | $1,595 |
| 26 | Taylor | Hart | $1,595 |
| 27 | Dale | Roesel | $1,595 |
| 28 | Timothy | Shortell | $1,370 |
| 29 | Frank | Lagodich | $1,370 |
| 30 | Jonathan | Moschel | $1,370 |
| 31 | Rob | Brown | $1,370 |
| 32 | MIchael | Amato | $1,370 |
| 33 | Sergiu | Cornea | $1,370 |
| 34 | Andrey | Bereza | $1,370 |
| 35 | Mukul | Pahuja | $1,370 |
| 36 | Donald | Gibbs | $1,370 |
| 37 | Timothy | Ulmer | $1,190 |
| 38 | MIchael | Newman | $1,190 |
| 39 | Jeremy | Meacham | $1,190 |
| 40 | Kevin | Davis | $1,190 |
| 41 | Frederic | Konowitz | $1,190 |
| 42 | Keld | Curtis | $1,190 |
| 43 | Hany | Ayoub | $1,190 |
| 44 | Carlos | Bolanos | $1,190 |
| 45 | Scott | Robbins | $1,190 |
| 46 | Arman | Bolouri | $1,050 |
| 47 | Paul | Garritson | $1,050 |
| 48 | Juan | Montoya Bernal | $1,050 |
| 49 | Raul | Paez Corral | $1,050 |
| 50 | David | Rivera | $1,050 |
| 51 | Garold | Casterline | $1,050 |
| 52 | Shannon | McCloud | $1,050 |
| 53 | James | Burke | $1,050 |
| 54 | Richard | De Carvalho Saunders | $1,050 |
| 55 | Raminder | Singh | $955 |
| 56 | Ducarmel | Beaubien | $955 |
| 57 | Alex | Findlay | $955 |
| 58 | Guillermo | Hamilton | $955 |
| 59 | Charles | Honkonen | $955 |
| 60 | Shad | Morris | $955 |
| 61 | Joseph | Iannacone | $955 |
| 62 | Fabian | Gumz | $955 |
| 63 | Nicholas | Fischer | $955 |
| 64 | Willyam | Moura | $875 |
| 65 | Dan | Stavila | $875 |
| 66 | John | Gorsuch | $875 |
| 67 | Walter | Buss | $875 |
| 68 | Carlos | Bermudez | $875 |
| 69 | Frank | Russo | $875 |
| 70 | Ranganath | Kanchi | $875 |
| 71 | Francisco | Perez Moreno | $875 |
| 72 | Alfonso | Delgado III | $875 |
| 73 | Elijah | Ruffin | $800 |
| 74 | Hitesh | Patel | $800 |
| 75 | Luis | Suarez | $800 |
| 76 | Craig | Pollak | $800 |
| 77 | Vamsi | Magam | $800 |
| 78 | Alejandro | Romero Bristol | $800 |
| 79 | Mahmoud | Hamed | $800 |
| 80 | Gil | Nachum | $800 |
| 81 | Robert | Levin | $800 |
| 82 | Jim | Collopy | $725 |
| 83 | Steven | Cohen | $725 |
| 84 | Jerry | Ding | $725 |
| 85 | Allan | Bieler | $725 |
| 86 | Daniel | Boilard | $725 |
| 87 | Melissa | Kaiser | $725 |
| 88 | Joseph | McNeely | $725 |
| 89 | Long | Nguyen | $725 |
| 90 | Marcela | De Aguilar Fumero | $725 |
| 91 | David | Childs | $660 |
| 92 | Anibal | Pabon | $660 |
| 93 | Chet | Sickle | $660 |
| 94 | Esther | Taylor | $660 |
| 95 | Manuel | Soltero Luna | $660 |
| 96 | RIchard | Paradis | $660 |
| 97 | Eric | Ward | $660 |
| 98 | Jamiel | Asghar | $660 |
| 99 | Bradley | Grossman | $660 |
| 100 | Donald | Williams | $600 |
| 101 | Victor | Shkurka | $600 |
| 102 | Daniel | Saffer | $600 |
| 103 | Alcides | Gomez II | $600 |
| 104 | Scott | Epstein | $600 |
| 105 | David | Oshry | $600 |
| 106 | Pierre | Rodriguez | $600 |
| 107 | Jeremy | Drobushevich | $600 |
| 108 | Bill | Oderat | $600 |
| 109 | Roni | Zelichonok | $580 |
| 110 | John | MacDonald | $580 |
| 111 | Nancy | Birnbaum | $580 |
| 112 | Phillip | Stuttman | $580 |
| 113 | Luis | Ramos | $580 |
| 114 | Maxime | Lenders | $580 |
| 115 | Francois | Zayas | $580 |
| 116 | Alejandro | Fernandez | $580 |