The Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open (LHPO) returns to Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida, Jan. 22 through 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 beginning Feb. 5-11, with a $3,500 buy-in and three 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. ET 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, DSPT. The $1,100 buy-in, $300,000 Guarantee WPTDeepStacks-Hollywood will start Jan. 29 at 12 p.m. ET in the resort’s ballrooms.
Other highlight tournaments include a $350 buy-in deep-stack no-limit hold'em, $250,000 guarantee with five starting flights, from Jan. 25-28 and a two-day $150 buy-in no-limit hold’em $150,000 guarantee with eight starting flights 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. 7, 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.
Niall Farrell moved all in for 170,000 and was called by Dominik Nitsche. Farrell turned over and let out a friendly "f***!" when he saw Nitsche's . "At least my flush draws are alive," said the amiable Farrell.
The flop came leading Farrell to say "that's not good" as it gave Nitsche a set of eights.
The turn was the and the river was the and Farrell wished the table good luck as he was eliminated in 21st place.
We got to the table with Vicente Delgado mulling over a call that would be for his tournament life. There was approximately 250,000 in the pot and the board was complete and showing . Oleksii Khoroshenin had moved all in after Delgado checked. Arms crossed, leaning back, Delgado said "aaahhhhh" as he tried to think of whether to fold or call. After several minutes he placed some chips in front of him indicating a call.
Khoroshenin turned over and Delgado tried to muck his hand. The dealer turned his hand over revealing for a busted flush draw that paired up jacks on the turn. Delgado was eliminated in 19th place and the tournament is now down to three tables of six players apiece.
Piotr Franczak raised to 33,000 from the cutoff only to have Robert Tepper ship all in for 210,000 from the small blind. Action folded back to Franczak and he dropped out calling chips.
Franczak:
Tepper:
The board fell , giving Franczak a set of fives for the win. Tepper was eliminated in 18th place and will take home $69,720 in prize money.
A short-stacked Garrett Greer moved all in for his last 143,000 with and found one taker in Faraz Jaka who held . The board ran out to give Jaka the pot. Greer was eliminated in 17th place.
The tournament staff is now redrawing the remaining 16 players to two new tables.