Jattin, Mermelstein, Sepiol, and Carroll Win 2023 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Big 4 Titles

The 2023 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown concluded with a bang. The large collection featured 54 occasions, with 4 of the most important concluding on the ultimate day of motion in a spectacle that Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood organizers have dubbed the ‘Big 4’. Below is a take a look at the outcomes from the 4 tournaments that make up the quadfecta.

SHRPO $5,300 No-Limit Hold’em Championship ($3 million GTD)

Colombia’s Farid Jattin emerged victorious from a area of 1,079 entries to seize the title within the $5,300 buy-in no-limit maintain’em championship. Jattin and the opposite three gamers that made it right down to the ultimate 4 struck a deal, and with the chip lead at the moment, Jattin secured the title, the trophy, and the most important payout of $655,000.

“It feels amazing,” Jattin instructed Seminole Hard Rock reporters. “How else can it feel?”

This was the third-largest rating but for Jattin, bringing his lifetime earnings to greater than $8.3 million. It was additionally his third at this venue, having taken down two guitar trophies on the 2022 Lucky Hearts Poker Open for round $365,000 in mixed earnings.

“I think the moment I stopped defining my life by poker results, the results started coming by nature,” Jattin supplied. “I’m playing for my family now — for my wife, for my brother, for my parents. I’m very thankful for poker, but eventually, you’ve got to disconnect.”

Jattin additionally secured 1,920 Card Player Player of the Year factors for the win. This was his second final-table end of the yr. With 2,280 whole factors, he now sits inside the highest 100 within the 2023 POY race standings offered by Global Poker. He completed second final yr.

The sizable turnout blew away the $3 million assure to construct a ultimate prize pool of $5,189,500. the highest 134 finishers cashed. Plenty of massive names ran deep on this occasion, together with four-time World Poker Tour champion Darren Elias (seventeenth), WPT winner and 2022 World Series of Poker foremost occasion Tenth-place finisher Asher Conniff (fifteenth), three-time bracelet winner David Pham (thirteenth), 2013 WSOP foremost occasion champion Ryan Riess (Tenth), bracelet winner and WPT champion Mike Leah (eighth), Nadya Magnus (seventh), 2021 WSOP foremost occasion champion Koray Aldemir (sixth), and three-time bracelet winner Jim Collopy (fifth).

The ultimate 4 hashed out a deal that cut up up the remaining prize cash and introduced the occasion to an finish. Shannon Shorr was the quick stack with 38 large blinds, however was in the end awarded the second-largest payout of $545,000. Omer Rotman, who was second in chips with 48 large blinds, earned $490,762 because the third-place finisher, whereas Kitty Kuo (44 large blinds) took dwelling $480,763.

Here is a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the ultimate desk:

SHRPO $25,500 No-Limit Hold’em

Aaron Mermelstein took down the 2019 $25,000 excessive curler on the SHRPO, and 4 years later managed to safe a win in the identical occasion. This time round, the two-time WPT champion outlasted a area of 86 entries within the high-stakes no-limit maintain’em even to safe the title and a high prize of $614,645.

This was the third-largest rating of Mermelstein’s match profession, bringing his lifetime earnings to greater than $4.7 million.

The high 12 finishers earned a share of the $2,124,200 prize pool on this occasion, with excessive rollers like bracelet winner and WPT champion Alex Foxen (twelfth), two-time bracelet winner Justin Saliba (eleventh), bracelet winner Joey Weissman (Tenth), bracelet winner Frank Funaro (ninth), and Daniel Rezaei (fifth) placing up sturdy showings.

2022 Wynn Millions foremost occasion runner-up Isaac Kempton completed fourth for $189,055 and bracelet winner Brandon Wittmeyer positioned third ($276,150), leaving Mermelstein heads-up with a participant who has requested to stay nameless. Mermelstein closed out to win, locking up his seventh profession title.

Here is a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the ultimate desk:

SHRPO $2,700 No-Limit Hold’em Deep Stack ($1 million GTD)

(*4*)The $1 million assure within the $2,700 no-limit maintain’em deep stack was narrowly surpassed, with 411 entries placing $1,006,950 up for grabs. In the top, the most important chunk of that prize cash was captured by Daniel Sepiol, who earned $204,735 after topping a stacked ultimate desk.

“It feels great, the final table was full of really good players, and I ran really, really hot,” stated Sepiol.

This rating overtook the $162,781 that Seppiol earned because the 2021 MSPT Riverside foremost occasion winner to develop into his largest money. He now has greater than $1.5 million in recorded match earnings.

The high 52 finishers cashed on this occasion, with a number of extremely achieved gamers surviving to the ultimate desk. Among them have been three-time WPT champion and bracelet winner Brian Altman (ninth), 2019 Wynn Winter Classic foremost occasion winner Michael Rocco (seventh), two-time WPT champion and present POY race chief Bin Weng (sixth), WPT champion Nitis Udornpim (4th), two-time bracelet winner Michael Wang (third), and WPT champion and three-time bracelet winner Chance Kornuth (2nd).

The ultimate heads-up battle featured loads of swings, however ultimately, Kornuth ran A-Ok into the pocket kings of Sepiol to hit the rail because the runner-up ($142,335). This was his sixth ultimate desk of the yr, with almost $3.5 million in POY earnings accrued throughout these deep runs. As a end result, Kornuth climbed to seventeenth place on the POY leaderboard. Weng’s money for $39,525 and 360 factors gave him an 808-point benefit over second-ranked Jose Barbero within the standings. He has now made 10 ultimate tables, with 4 titles earned and almost $5 million in POY earnings accrued.

Here is a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the ultimate desk:

SHRPO $1,100 No-Limit Hold’em Deep Stack ($500k GTD)

Two-time WPT champion James Carroll added one other title to his lengthy match resume, taking down the $1,100 buy-in deep stack occasion that rounded out the ‘Big 4’. The match drew 515 entries to only surpass its half-million-dollar assure.

The victory noticed Carroll safe $100,000 in prize cash, bringing his lifetime earnigns to only shy of $6.7 million. This was the longtime professional’s thirty first recorded profession title.

“It was one of the strangest days of poker I’ve ever had. I think in the four hours of play I had pocket aces or pocket kings 16 times, no exaggeration. I got dealt a lot of big hands today so it would have been tough for me to not win,” he instructed SHR reporters.

The high 65 finishers earned a bit of the $515,000 prize pool, with gamers like bracelet winner Raj Vohra (twenty fifth), Kenny Hallaert (twenty second), Jessica Cai (fifteenth), Zhen Cai (14th), three-time bracelet winner Phil Hui (Tenth), WPT champion and three-time bracelet winner David ‘ODB’ Baker (ninth), and Darren Rabinowitz (fifth) making deep runs.

Here is a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the ultimate desk:

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