The identify ‘Singh’ comes from a Sanskrit phrase for a lion. This appears becoming for Raminder Singh, who has grow to be an apex predator within the Florida event poker scene. Despite being a businessman first and beginner poker participant second, the Delray Beach resident has managed to build up almost 90 event titles prior to now 11 years, with most of these coming in his residence state. His most up-to-date victory was additionally his largest.
In the early morning hours of Wednesday, Jan. 24 he took down the 2024 Lucky Hearts Poker Open $3,500 buy-in no-limit maintain’em predominant occasion on the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood for a career-best payday of $486,353. Singh now has almost $2.8 million in recorded event earnings after this newest win.
“It feels really great, I don’t really ever play any big tournaments that go into the week. I need to have a pretty fine schedule to skip all my work and play, so normally I don’t play these. But this time my friends, they convinced me to play in this. This was the time to play. I’ve been in good form, I’ve been playing well, I couldn’t miss this tournament,” Singh informed SHR reporters after popping out on prime.
In addition to the title and the cash, Singh additionally earned 1,440 Card Player Player of the Year factors because the champion of this occasion. This was already his second POY-qualified last desk of the yr, having positioned fourth in a $400 turbo occasion earlier on this similar pageant. With 1,493 whole factors, Singh now sits in second place within the 2024 POY standings introduced by Global Poker.
This event drew an enormous area of 1,188 entries, almost doubling the $2 million assure to construct a last prize pool of $3,801,600. The prime 148 finishers made the cash, with six-figure paydays for the ultimate seven.
This occasion ran from Jan. 19-23. After the 2 beginning flights and two extra days of motion, the sphere had been narrowed all the way down to 16 contenders with Justin Datloff within the lead and Singh in a digital tie for third place within the chip counts. 2021 Wynn Millions champion Andrew Moreno (fifteenth) and two-time bracelet winner Sean Troha (14th) have been among the many notables that fell on the best way to the official last desk.
Plenty of extremely completed gamers joined Singh among the many last 9, together with six-time bracelet winner Brian Hastings (ninth), bracelet winner Toby Joyce (eighth), five-time bracelet winner Benny Glaser (seventh), 2023 World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown third-place finisher Mitch Garshofsky (sixth), and WPT champion Jonathan Jaffe (fifth).
The elimination of Datloff in fourth place ($229,000) left Singh enjoying three-handed with Dan Martin and two-time bracelet winner Jesse Lonis. That trio battled it out for a bit earlier than deciding to try some chop numbers. They in the end agreed to a deal that introduced the event to an finish. The chip counts on the time of the deal have been as follows:
Raminder Singh – 27,100,000
Dan Martin – 21,700,000
Jesse Lonis – 10,600,000
As the chip chief on the time, Singh was awarded $486,353 and the title. Martin took residence $460,000, whereas Lonis secured $404,247 because the third-place finisher. Martin climbed to 3rd place within the POY standings with 1,200 factors, whereas Lonis moved to fourth with 1,104. Lonis had completed sixth in a $5,300 occasion on the PGT Kickoff pageant earlier this month for $22,500 and 144 factors.
Here is a have a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the last desk:
Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
1 | Raminder Singh | $486,353 | 1,440 |
2 | Daniel Martin | $460,000 | 1,200 |
3 | Jesse Lonis | $404,247 | 960 |
4 | Justin Datloff | $229,900 | 720 |
5 | Jonathan Jaffe | $173,500 | 600 |
6 | Mitch Garshofsky | $132,300 | 480 |
7 | Benny Glaser | $102,000 | 360 |
8 | Toby Joyce | $79,400 | 240 |
9 | Brian Hastings | $62,500 | 120 |
Photo credit: Seminole Hard Rock Poker Blog.
We have a champ!
Raminder Singh wins the 2024 LHPO Championship in a three-way deal for $486,353 and @PokerTrue breaks his personal file together with his eleventh main Hollywood title.
Amazing run!
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