HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (Dec. 10, 2014) — The Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open (LHPO) returns to Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida Jan. 22-Feb. 11, 2015 held in the resort’s ballrooms. The series will feature 21 main events along with several secondary events and qualifiers. The exciting live poker action culminates with the Seminole Hard Rock WPT Lucky Hearts $3 Million Guaranteed Championship February 5-11, with a $3,500 buy-in and six starting flights. The live-streamed Championship final table will be held at the resort’s Paradise Live theater in Seminole Paradise.
The annual series kicks-off on Jan. 22 at 11a.m. with a four-day $570 buy-in Deep Stack No-Limit Hold'em event featuring a $1 million guaranteed prize pool with six starting flights.
Super Bowl weekend will bring even more action with the WPTDeepStacks (WPTDS) which will kick-off its 2015 tour at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. WPTDS is a one-of-a-kind partnership between the world’s most established poker tour, WPT® and the world’s fastest growing poker tour, the DSPT. The $1,100 buy-in, $300,000 Guarantee WPTDeepStacks-Hollywood will start Jan. 29 at 12 p.m. in the resort’s ballrooms.
Other highlight tournaments a four-day $350 buy-in Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em, $250,000 Guarantee from Jan. 25-28 and a four-day $150 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em $150,000 Guarantee from Jan. 28-31.
Satellite events for the Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship will be held at the Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood Jan. 22-Feb 10, 2015.
Registration for all LHPO events will be open Dec. 15, 2015. To participate, players must obtain a free “Wild Card” at the Player’s Club or in The Poker Room at Seminole Paradise. Located on State Road 7 (U.S. 441) in Hollywood, Florida. Take I-95, exit Stirling Rd. and travel west to 1 Seminole Way.
For more information and schedule visit www.SHRPO.com.
In the last hand before the break, Davidi Kitai had raised to 10,500 and an opponent from Czech had three-bet to 28,500. Kitai called and both players then checked down the board of and the Czech showed . He then asked to reveal the cards of Kitai and the dealer opened .
Petr Jelinek is up nicely after a hand against Andras Nemeth. Jelinek had raised to 13,000 and one opponent called, Nemeth three-bet to 34,000 and then called the four-bet of 80,000 by the Czech, the other player folded. On the flop, Jelinek bet a further 105,000 and was called before both opponents checked down the turn and a blank river. Nemeth showed jacks and Jelinek won the pot with queens including the .
Peter Turmezey bet the turn of a board reading putting out 28,000. Zoltan Szabo raised him to 65,000 and Turmezey made the call to see the come on the river.
Turmezey cautiously checked and Szabo checked behind turning over his . A frustrated Turmezey turned over his to show he had been ahead until that unwelcome last card.
We arrived at the table with the flop reading . The action was back on Georgy Komarov in the big blind after Jonathan Wong had led out for 35,000 from the hijack.
Komarov deliberated over his decision for over a minute before announcing all in for just over 100,000 and Wong snap called.
Komarov:
Wong:
Komarov had run into the flopped set held by Wong and didn’t improve as the dropped on the turn. It did give him outs to a flush but it wouldn’t come as the completed the board improving Wong to a full house.
In one of the last few hands before the break, Niclas Adolfsson moved all in from under the gun for his last 15 big blinds and Romain Follet looked him up out of the big blind with . Adolfsson, who recently finished runner-up to Alex Goulder at the WPT Prague a few days ago, had a coin flip with but could not hold up on a board of .
Liv Boeree's seat was empty and last years runner up Georgios Sotiropoulos had some more chips in front of him. As Sotiropoulos was in a hand, eventually winning again, we asked Robert Schulz to fill us in on the details.
Schulz was kind enough to tell us that Liv Boeree had opened to 10,000 with a stack of around 130,000. Sotiropoulos had made it 26,000 right behind her. Action folded back to Boeree who shoved and Sotiropoulos called.
Boeree had ace-queen and was up against Sotiropoulos's pocket tens. The tens held up and Boeree exited. The British Team PokerStars Pro exited in 118th place, just enough to get the next pay out of €10,740.
Davidi Kitai had just lost a smallish pot calling down with ace high and he was involved in the next hand calling a 11,000 open from Suat Uyanik in position. The blinds folded and it was a heads-up pot.
The flop was and Uyanik continued for 12,000. Kitai called and the turn card peeled off. A bet of 20,000 from Uyanik this time and again Kitai called. On the river Uyanik shoved for his last 67,000 and Kitai looked as if he’d got himself into a spot he didn’t exactly love. Less than a minute passed however before he tossed a single chip in to indicate a call.