19-Year-Old Karl Creazzo Wins the First Live Tournament He Ever Played (Event #1) to Win $146,829

2024 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 1
$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed
Entries:  5,870
Prize Pool:  $1,937,100
July 31 – August 5, 2024

Karl Creazzo
Event 1 Champion Karl Creazzo

On Monday afternoon, after six days of play, Event #1 of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open came to an end when 19-year-old Karl Creazzo won the title, the trophy, and $146,829 in a six-way deal.

“It feels amazing,” said Creazzo, who is primarily a cash game player. “This was my first live tournament, anytime, ever. I’ve played a couple online with friends, but that’s it.”

There were eight starting flights for this event over the first four days of the series, attracting a total field of 5,870 entries to generate a prizepool worth $1,937,100 — nearly doubling the $1 million guarantee.

There were 588 players who survived to Day 2, where play began with the field in the money. That was a 13 1/2-hour day that dwindled the field down to the final 29.

Creazzo almost didn’t make it thru Day 2, getting it all in after a flop of AxKxJx with AxKx against his opponent’s AxQx. But a 10x on the river gave his opponent a straight and knocked Creazzo down to about six big blinds.

“That crippled me,” said Creazzo, “but I got a couple of double-ups to survive.”

Creazzo survived Day 2 to finish eighth in chips with 29 players left.

On Day 3, Creazzo stayed out of trouble, and made it to the nine-handed final table third in chips, where he won a nice pot early with pocket kings to contend for the chip lead. Then he knocked out Roy Singer in eighth place to become the first player to 30 million in chips, and Creazzo held onto those chips until the final six players agreed to a deal — a deal that gave Creazzo the title and the trophy in the first live tournament of his career.

“I was the one who mentioned an ICM chop when we got back from break,” said Creazzo. “Getting the trophy in my first tournament was big. If I was second in chips, I probably would have agreed to a chop, but I wouldn’t have suggested it.”

“I love it here,” said Creazzo about Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood. “I’m going to be back for the next tournament series, and I’ll definitely play this event next year. I have to defend the trophy.”


Results:

Place First Name Last Name Prize Amount
1 Karl Creazzo $146,829*
2 Chris Milles $140,492*
3 Kevin Gomez $140,000*
4 David Shmuel $124,476*
5 Alex Ziskin $105,803*
6 Ian Siegel $85,720*
7 George Varga $40,500
8 Roy Singer $31,500
9 Carlos Pichardo $24,600
10 Matt Vinke $24,600
11 Diego Martinez $19,500
12 Joseph Montervino $19,500
13 Frank Weigel $15,500
14 Manuel Mustafa $15,500
15 Gary Fitzgerald $15,500
16 Tony Li $12,400
17 Jason Holzberg $12,400
18 Donald Jackson $12,400
19 Phil Juarez $12,400
20 Julio Delgado $10,000
21 Fred Paradis $10,000
22 Glayson Leroy $10,000
23 Scott Johnson $10,000
24 Raul Hernandez $8,100
25 Shamica Lamar $8,100
26 Scott Heiligman $8,100
27 Ilya Moundoues $8,100
28 Brian Bascome $8,100
29 Barek Faraj $8,100
30 Tal Mor $8,100
31 Christopher Cornell $8,100
32 Hunter Rosling $6,500
33 Lance Winsaft $6,500
34 Evgeny Nikulnikov $6,500
35 Robert Rodriguez $6,500
36 Lou Ojeda $6,500
37 Stephen Allen $6,500
38 James Guidi $6,500
39 Michael Vuong $6,500
40 Bernard Rose $5,300
41 Chris Agnos $5,300
42 Thao Le $5,300
43 Michael Tarafa $5,300
44 Juan Mubarak $5,300
45 Frank Russo $5,300
46 Diane Lepera $5,300
47 Feiwen Wu $5,300
48 Steven Palumbo $4,380
49 Luis Soriano $4,380
50 Juan Trujillo $4,380
51 Fabian Foster $4,380
52 Marcus El-Huaick $4,380
53 Neil Wertheim Jr. $4,380
54 Eric Kolodny $4,380
55 Edwin Rogers $4,380
56 David Xu $3,620
57 Jorge Gomez $3,620
58 Rafael Perez $3,620
59 Ryan Jones $3,620
60 Thomas Berryman $3,620
61 Brenden Gluck $3,620
62 Alexis Kivu $3,620
63 Marcelo Aagesen $3,620
64 Athir Saco $3,000
65 Gregory McNealy $3,000
66 Jorge Bermudez $3,000
67 Chad Summers $3,000
68 Bruce Bailey $3,000
69 Bradley Speight $3,000
70 Thomas Tramutola $3,000
71 Ruslan Dykshteyn $3,000
72 Michael Laufer $3,000
73 Al Norman $3,000
74 Matthew Baker $3,000
75 Jeffrey Himelfarb $3,000
76 Carlos Bermudez $3,000
77 Vencent Welch $3,000
78 Cuinn Griffin $3,000
79 Steffen Lue $3,000
80 William Fife Jr. $2,500
81 Keenon Nelson $2,500
82 Andrei Karas $2,500
83 Nadeem Hirani $2,500
84 Hen Mizrahi $2,500
85 Alan Richel $2,500
86 Jack Nathan $2,500
87 Nicholas Vigilante $2,500
88 Ted Zaborowski $2,500
89 Nicholas Mann $2,500
90 Eric Sabido $2,500
91 Christian Andersen $2,500
92 Robert Rogers $2,500
93 Steven Cabas $2,500
94 Roberto Gonzalez Martelo $2,500
95 Carlos Nieto $2,500
96 Rasam Mohammadian $2,500
97 Raymond Becker $2,500
98 Jonathan Garcia $2,500
99 Joseph Piambino $2,500
100 John Ryan $2,100
101 Song O $2,100
102 Saurabhkumar Patel $2,100
103 Brandon Wilkins $2,100
104 Arthur Peacock $2,100
105 Mark Glazewski $2,100
106 Emmanuel Dimaano Jr. $2,100
107 Robert Jonsson $2,100
108 Leonard Miller $2,100
109 Austin Morin $2,100
110 Matthew White $2,100
111 Mark Winchell $2,100
112 Melissa Doucette $2,100
113 Ramon Martinez $2,100
114 Eric Siegel $2,100
115 Bradley Coultas $2,100
116 James Salmon $2,100
117 Marc Sacheli $2,100
118 Luther Tran $2,100
119 Robert Mason $2,100
120 Guy Hayun $2,100
121 Dustyn Schindewolf $2,100
122 Grant Hart $2,100
123 Dayfran Ortiz Nino $2,100
124 Rafael Oropesa $2,100
125 Jason Underhill $2,100
126 Karim Masarweh $2,100
127 Steven Rosling Jr. $2,100
128 Jessica Vierling $2,100
129 Jahan Sahni $2,100
130 Steven Freifeld $2,100
131 Casey Kaplan $1,780
132 Scott Epstein $1,780
133 Nicolas Yunis $1,780
134 Nipon Subpuan $1,780
135 Butch Jumalon $1,780
136 Joshua Huggins $1,780
137 Dillon Marks $1,780
138 Axel Orellana $1,780
139 Mark Bonacquisti $1,780
140 Ron Yarkony $1,780
141 Austin Silverstein $1,780
142 Kevin Payton $1,780
143 Robert Seaton $1,780
144 Isaiah Robinson $1,780
145 Eric Ward $1,780
146 Daniel Pearlman $1,780
147 George Rovero Spyropoulos $1,780
148 Kenneth Glaser $1,780
149 James Sullivan $1,780
150 Anthony Pathman $1,780
151 Daniel Bozza $1,780
152 Patrick Ibrahim $1,780
153 Mauricio Cajuso Jr. $1,780
154 Alberto Sinani $1,780
155 Arlo Strozewski $1,780
156 Willie Wiggins Jr. $1,780
157 Yaakov Yona $1,780
158 Imre Papp $1,780
159 Caleb Powell $1,780
160 Nicholas Kojkowski $1,780
161 Alfredo Mansur $1,780
162 Jimmy Corrales $1,780
163 Sterling Savill $1,780
164 Neal Corcoran $1,780
165 Anthony Weir $1,780
166 Edgar Varas $1,780
167 Paul Domb $1,780
168 Christopher Carbine $1,780
170 Haim Or Krief $1,780
171 Alan Tsang $1,780
172 Abdelilah Fahsi $1,780
173 Jamar Brown $1,780
174 Harry Binda Jr. $1,780
175 Dan Avitsur $1,780
176 Shawn Stern $1,780
177 Hassan Sader $1,780
178 Carlos Marquez Baglietto $1,480
179 Cuba Levenberry $1,480
180 Gauntlett Holness $1,480
181 Justin Trant $1,480
182 Michael Tufaro $1,480
183 Juan Gelez $1,480
184 Van Vandergriff $1,480
185 Gregory Anda $1,480
187 Steven Cohen $1,480
188 Robert Peoples $1,480
189 John Wiley $1,480
190 Jorge Rivera $1,480
191 James Dean $1,480
192 Jason Wester $1,480
193 Aaron Moorefield $1,480
194 Chanda Wadley $1,480
195 Armando Romero $1,480
196 Habib Basma $1,480
197 William Stanton $1,480
198 Alfredo Fernandez $1,480
199 Rafael Reis $1,480
200 Gregory Barba $1,480
201 Hector Pacheco $1,480
202 Jeevan Nomula $1,480
203 Manuel Fritz $1,480
204 Ariel Rosello $1,480
205 Gregorio Correa $1,480
206 Hanan Ben Abu $1,480
207 Jason Kahan $1,480
208 Kurt Lichtman $1,480
210 Claudio Piedrabuena $1,480
211 Tonino D’Amore $1,480
212 William Slepcevich $1,480
213 Christopher Cote $1,480
214 Victor Park $1,480
215 Henri Azoulay $1,480
216 Eric Penner $1,480
217 Zhen Cai $1,480
218 Paul Mendes $1,480
219 Ashraf Chehata $1,480
220 Ryan Leto $1,480
221 Paul Hobson $1,480
222 Nelson Ferreras $1,480
223 Jake Schwartz $1,480
224 Cyril Darmouni $1,480
225 Jennifer Parker $1,480
226 David Lopez $1,480
227 John Costello $1,480
228 Murray Fershtman $1,480
229 David Jackson $1,480
230 Ivan Suarez $1,480
231 Gabriel Burlacu $1,480
232 Yikuai Dong $1,480
233 Anthony Guagliardo $1,480
234 David Aronson $1,480
235 Vinny Puleo $1,480
236 Andres Reyes Rodriguez $1,240
238 Jayant Chaudhary $1,240
239 Matthew Lessor $1,240
240 Shannon McCould $1,240
241 David Rivera $1,240
242 Andrew Jones $1,240
243 Kamel Mokhammad $1,240
244 Ryan Weiss $1,240
245 Andres Abad Ampudia $1,240
246 Gregory Thorson $1,240
247 Jason Li $1,240
248 Devin Batista $1,240
249 Lynford Pilgrim $1,240
250 Stuart Paterson $1,240
251 Matthew Gallen $1,240
252 Ulises Olortiga $1,240
253 Loni Hui $1,240
254 Dimitry Agrachov $1,240
255 Vitor Coelho $1,240
256 Lenard Adams $1,240
257 Wayne McAlister $1,240
258 Chung Chia $1,240
259 Shawn Fagan $1,240
260 Paul Stanechewski $1,240
261 Juan Rojas $1,240
262 Douglas Decker $1,240
263 Patricia Conrad $1,240
264 Joshua Saltz $1,240
265 Christopher Daly $1,240
266 Sterling Hare $1,240
267 Anel Ibrahimovic $1,240
268 Omer Rotman $1,240
269 Jason Atherley $1,240
270 Haim Toorgeman $1,240
271 Erik Perez $1,240
272 Anthony Berrebi $1,240
273 William Newkirk $1,240
274 Nathan Helmick $1,240
275 Dave Alfa $1,240
276 Brandon Choran $1,240
277 Kevin Arriete $1,240
278 Bryan Green $1,240
279 Dustin Brown $1,240
280 Harrison Gimbel $1,240
281 Rodrick Tyes $1,240
282 Changfeng Fan $1,240
284 Michael Jacobson $1,240
285 Billi Tomlinson $1,240
286 Gilbert Whorrie $1,240
287 Andrew Kloc $1,240
288 Koreen Ford $1,240
289 Tyler Campbell $1,240
290 Mark Flicker $1,240
291 Willy Stadele $1,240
292 Jeremy Eyer $1,240
293 Jaime Montero Garcia $1,240
294 Jason Talbot $1,240
295 Elias Nassif $1,060
296 Jerome Leonardo $1,060
297 John Nugent $1,060
298 Joseph Boulais $1,060
299 Megan Rajablu $1,060
300 Jennifer Mandel $1,060
301 Scott Belovicz $1,060
302 Rodrigo Aldorino $1,060
303 Aleksei Donets $1,060
304 Nikita Kuznetsov $1,060
305 Veton Kastrati $1,060
306 Channing Coe $1,060
307 John Giglio $1,060
308 Corey Major $1,060
309 Ryan Pathman $1,060
310 Hung Tran $1,060
311 Carl Moultrie $1,060
312 Robert Schmal $1,060
313 Gorazd Janevski $1,060
314 Joshua Hanson $1,060
315 Juan Endara $1,060
316 Faye Hall $1,060
318 Sandip Guha $1,060
319 Leonard Tau $1,060
320 Guy Rodas $1,060
321 Joshua Viveros $1,060
323 Jason Li $1,060
324 Adriano Soares Alves $1,060
325 Michael Marrero $1,060
326 Richard Broomes $1,060
327 Gil De St Jeor $1,060
328 Gonzalo Mercade $1,060
329 Kevin Blewitt $1,060
330 Christopher Alen $1,060
331 Vendel Johnson $1,060
332 Paul Valenzuela $1,060
333 Quan Phui $1,060
334 Ernesto Romero $1,060
335 Kevin Paustenbach $1,060
336 Quiontus Griffin $1,060
337 David Oshry $1,060
338 Jonathan Moschel $1,060
339 Carlos Correa $1,060
340 Sergio Gamarra $1,060
341 Celso Leroy $1,060
342 Richard De Carvalho Saunders $1,060
343 Moshe Refaelovitz $1,060
344 Wilfor Marentes Pinto $1,060
345 Alexander Borukhovich $1,060
346 Christopher Liranzo $1,060
347 Luis Alfredo Zedan $1,060
348 Nicholas Velentzas $1,060
349 Stewart Yancik $1,060
350 Solomon Salem $1,060
351 Eric Phan $1,060
352 Antoine Bahi $1,060
353 Richard Rivello $1,060
354 Orlando Sandoval Archilla $1,060
355 Armando Prieto $1,060
356 Eduardo Poletto $1,060
357 Amin Hosein $1,060
358 Jack Perlman $1,060
359 Debra Hedgpeth $1,060
360 Gabriel Cusumano $1,060
361 Andrew Yurchak $1,060
362 Charles Wolfe $1,060
363 Alberto Niebla $1,060
364 Ryan O’Cull $1,060
365 Shane Meenan $1,060
366 Farzan Mobarez $1,060
367 Michael Graffeo $1,060
368 Andrew Stamboulidis $1,060
369 Jose Gonzalez $1,060
370 Brett Sherman $1,060
371 Alexandru Predincea $1,060
372 Chet Sickle $1,060
373 Gary Gelman $1,060
374 Emiliano Guido $1,060
375 James Tomblin $1,060
376 Christopher Abad $1,060
377 Jaime Wu Wang $1,060
378 Gabriel Casals $900
379 Henrique Sevilhano $900
380 Charles Bragg Jr. $900
381 Mauricio Duarte $900
382 Igor Tretyakov $900
383 Steve Olivier $900
384 Mihalache Cean $900
385 Uri Kadosh $900
386 Natali Nguyen $900
387 Joseph Bartholdi $900
388 Jailyn Primus $900
389 William Steinmetz $900
390 Jaime Campos $900
391 William Blackwell $900
392 Anthony Moreda $900
393 John Aboud $900
394 Joseph Shammas $900
395 Jose Chapui $900
396 Shane Santacroce $900
397 Arthur Williams $900
398 Diego Calvino $900
399 Jose Severino Cadoze $900
400 Scott Fahnestock $900
401 Dylan Smith $900
402 Paul Johnson $900
403 Brian Heino $900
404 Tyler Bentz $900
405 Camilo Irizarry Villegas $900
406 Daniel Wirgau $900
407 Brendan Dornan $900
408 Gil Ben-Simhon $900
409 Sabas Ferrer-Ferrer $900
410 Miguel Medrano $900
411 Corel Theuma $900
412 Rajasekar Govindan $900
413 Cory Rock Jr $900
414 Stephen Buda $900
415 Nicholas Raio $900
416 Huifang Zhang $900
417 Kollin Stuart $900
418 $900
419 $900
420 Iker Bairen Vigil $900
421 Angelo Garabia Yero $900
422 Lucas Jumalon $900
423 Richard Fernandez $900
424 Delroy Reid $900
425 Anthony Lavalle $900
426 Andra Zachow $900
427 Sean Barrington $900
428 Alfred Cotton Jr $900
429 Brian Goodman $900
430 Edwin Cubas $900
431 Frederico Dabus $900
432 Jimmy Nunez $900
433 Thomas Puccio $900
434 Craig Smith $900
435 Roman Fomin $900
436 Steven Mckoy $900
437 Brennan Devaney $900
438 Ross Fischer $900
439 Carmelo Maldonado-Nieves $900
440 Matthew Zarcadoolas $900
441 Ernesto Amengual $900
442 William Underdown $900
443 Sebastian Hoyos Villegas $900
444 $900
445 Brett Bader $900
446 Sudharshan Karanam $900
447 Anthony Casas $900
448 Bradley Smith $900
449 Brandon Duvdivani $900
450 Flora-Liviu Arapu $900
451 Stefano Marinzulich $900
452 William Rodriguez $900
453 Ahmed Fahmy $900
454 Jeremy Becker $900
455 Timothy Ritvo $900
456 Pramod Pandey $900
457 Evelyn Rosling $900
458 Chad Stone $900
459 John Jacob $900
460 Juan Barragan Ardila $900
461 Michael Smagala $900
462 Troy Wray $900
463 Shawn Wilmot Jr $900
464 Jordan Schneider $900
465 Danit Dayan $900
466 Mohammed Hossain $900
467 David Mac Donald Jr $900
468 Jarvis Shaw $900
469 $900
470 James Duffey $900
471 Michael Pawelek Ii $900
472 Manelic Minaya $820
473 Mark Evangelista $820
474 Thomas Kaylor $820
475 Kevin Naim $820
476 Son Vo $820
477 Ryan Hogan $820
478 Jesse Mills $820
479 Joseph Kadelock $820
480 Cesar Osorio Lugo $820
481 Jonathan Sanders $820
482 Christopher Kirkpatrick $820
483 Vu Dang $820
484 Bartu Kutlu $820
485 Jonathan Pineda $820
486 Joseph Lockhart $820
487 Daniel Brandsdorfe $820
488 $820
489 Michael Wang $820
490 Jean Paul Drayton $820
491 Soo Se Cho $820
492 Daniel Wilson $820
493 William Cogan $820
494 Jonathan Fortuno Vazquez $820
495 Raymond Nalbandian $820
496 Julio Abreu $820
497 Cameron Zak $820
498 Orlando Serrano $820
499 Sadany Hevia $820
500 Liam Murphy $820
501 Benjamin Heinz Pollan $820
502 Bruce Malyon $820
503 Nawaung Maran $820
504 Brandon Ray $820
506 James Kirkley $820
507 Luciano Nardi $820
508 Claudio Kalili $820
509 Cristopher Estrada $820
510 Mark Johnson $820
511 Conrad Flores $820
512 Russell Williams $820
513 Jeffrie Charlton $820
514 Zion Mesika $820
515 Joshua Robins $820
516 Andres Falla $820
517 Max Harris $820
518 John Barr $820
519 Jose Del Cid Contreras $820
520 Luis Cepero $820
521 Joseph Petrolino $820
522 Robert Moore $820
523 Arturo Garcia $820
524 Eric Hardwick $820
525 Elvis Breton $820
526 Joseph Chase $820
527 Syed Shah $820
528 Lukas Wesche $820
530 David Pain $820
531 Fabio Chaves $820
532 Jackson Martin $820
533 Daniel Belisle $820
534 Dragan Radulov $820
535 Gabriel Ramos $820
536 Lautaro Tell $820
537 Michael Hallen $820
539 Daniel Aviles $820
541 Oscar Apaestigue $820
542 Nicholas McAlister $820
543 Paul Prager $820
544 William Hill $820
545 Luc Gagne $820
546 Ronald Katz $820
547 Juan Marquez $820
548 Kirby Conserve $820
549 Sharon Whalen $820
550 Aaron Thivyanathan $820
551 Pedro Marino $820
552 Craig Bagon $820
553 Eric Johnson $820
554 Daniel Letts $820
555 Christopher Ulrich $820
556 Willie Forrest $820
557 Adam Shankman $820
558 Tyler Denson $820
559 Valendion Bencivenni $820
560 Igor Katsevman $820
561 Carmine Sacco $820
562 Timothy Arnold $820
563 Norman Zapczynski $820
564 Robert Kessler $820
565 Joseph Gelin $820
566 Jackob Datashvili $820
567 Leo Pinamonti $820
568 Dallas Whitaker $820
569 Chao Huang $820
570 Roberto Barreto $820
571 Jason Garofalo $820
572 Judith Bielan $820
573 Aliaksei Tsiareshka $820
574 Eric Valerio $820
575 Bernhard Schmidt $820
576 Neil Zonenashvili $820
577 Ievgen Smyrnov $820
578 Joseph Trupiano $820
579 Scott Blackman $820
580 Roberto Schmeda $820
582 Richard Fleming $820
583 Brandon Deal $820
584 Johnlewis Cascone $820
585 Joseph Torch $820
586 Ashton Nowak $820
587 Nicholas Visconti $820
588 Sandro Vianna De Sa $820

* Indicates the results of a six-way deal.

Karl Creazzo
It was one of Karl Creazzo’s friends, Lucas, who had the idea to come down to Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood for the SHRPO series and share a hotel room.

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