The Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open has been the cornerstone of our majors since that first run in 2013 when we shocked the world with a $10,000,000 guarantee Championship but also introduced them to the South Florida poker scene.
The 2024 run featured the most events in SHRPO series history and we offered up more than $8,000,000 in guaranteed prize pools and nearly doubled that amount in prize money awarded.
Events: 61
Entries: 16,636
Guarantees: $8,090,000
Prize Pools: $15,636,775
In historical numbers, this is the 15th consecutive major series where we awarded at least $10,000,000 in prize money.
We had a packed Grand Ballroom, and the Meeting Room was often filled. We threw one of our biggest single-day Deep Stacks ever, with 612 entries in $400 buy-in Event 13 and more than $200K up for grabs.
Top one-day Deep Stack fields:
2023 RRPO – 731 entries
2024 SHRPO – 612 Entries
2024 Showdown – 572 entries
2024 Showdown – 548 entries
2022 LHPO – 527 entries
As we’ve done over the last few years, we headlined the series with more than one huge tournament, we rolled out the Big4 format once again.
The Big 4 consists of four scheduled so there are always multiple big events running for the last five days of the series. First up was the $3,000,000 guaranteed SHRPO Championship, followed by a $3,000 Deep Stack, a $1,100 Deep Stack, and the big-money $25K High Roller.
Paul Snead took the top spot in the SHRPO Championship, earning $529,428 after a heads-up deal. Bryn Kenney won the $25K High Roller after dominating the final table as it went from nine players to a winner in less than 90 minutes.
Kevin Ordet won the $3,000 Deep Stack and Benjamin Moschel took the $1,100 Deep Stack title, both after long, tough heads-up battles.
SHRPO Championship: Paul Snead – $529,428
Big 4 $25K High Roller: Bryn Kenney – $487,990
Big 4 $3,000 Deep Stack: Kevin Ordet – $190,800
Big 4 $1,100 Deep Stack: Ben Moschel – $89,800
We opened the series with a multi-flight $400 Deep Stack with a $1,000,000 guarantee, and an incredible 5,870 entries showed up, nearly doubling the mark. 19-year-old Karl Creazzo capped off the weekend with his first win in his first live tournament.
That started our series, but we had history throughout, including the last tournament on the last night; Event 61 bookended the SHRPO series with one final shining moment.
All-time Hollywood wins leader Raminder Singh spent most of the series with his family, his focus, until the last few days. He had a one-win lead over Michael Newman on the wins list but added to it late Tuesday evening when he captured the $300 Quad Stack Black Chip Bounty for his 13th major Hollywood trophy.
Singh wasn’t the only one who tweaked our all-time leaderboard; David Shmuel won his tenth, Phil Hui captured his eighth, and Ari Engel joined the conversation with six.
The updated all-time wins leaderboard:
Raminder Singh – 13 wins
Michael Newman – 11 wins
Yuval Bronshtein – 10 wins
David Shmuel – 10 wins
Matt Bretzfield – 9 wins
John Holley – 8 wins
Phil Hui – 8 wins
Brian Altman – 7 wins
David Prociak – 7 wins
Gabriel Ramos – 7 wins
Other notable wins include:
- Poker Hall of Famer Erik Seidel walked into the Grand Ballroom on his first day and won the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Event 26 title.
- Nick Seward won the $1,100 Deep Stack preliminary on our Gorilla Gaming live stream; max late regged the $2,200 Deep Stack when he was done and won that the next day.
- Christopher rode away with wins in our $600 and $1,100 H.O.R.S.E. events.
- Lenard Adams won two turbos during the series, and Shahar Biniaminov and Matthew Wolfson also won two 2024 SHRPO trophies.
As always, we could not do any of this without the support of our players, our local favorites, and our traveling friends. You keep showing up and we keep trying to put on the best events possible.
We appreciate you and thank you once again.
Next up, we look forward to seeing everyone for the 2024 Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open, which will be held from November 20 through December 3.
Cheers!
Complete list of updates and results below for all 61 trophy events on the 2024 SHRPO schedule
SHRPO Championship: Paul Snead – $529,428
Big 4 $25K High Roller: Bryn Kenney – $487,990
Big 4 $3,000 Deep Stack: Kevin Ordet – $190,800
Big 4 $1,100 Deep Stack: Ben Moschel – $89,800
Event 1 ($400 Deep Stack): Karl Creazzo – $146,829
Event 2 ($400 Seniors): Patrick Capozziello – $14,632
Event 3 ($600 Big O): Darryll Fish – $16,830
Event 4 ($200 Bounty): Emiliano Guido – $5,090
Event 5 ($600 O8): Brian Smith – $14,700
Event 6 ($600 6-Max PLO): Kamel Mokhammad – $14,603
Event 7 ($200 NLH): Brunno Aquarone – $7,310
Event 8 ($600 8-Game): Ari Engel – $12,875
Event 9 ($600 Bounty): Greg Buonocore – $8,420
Event 10 ($600 Bounty PLO): Daniel Kroh – $15,575
Event 11 ($600 Turbo): Lenard Adams – $9,610
Event 12 ($600 Mixed PLO): Phil Hui – $18,495
Event 13 ($400 NLH): Justin Molis – $15,664
Event 14 ($600 Dealer’s Choice): Matthew Mullins – $13,240
Event 15 ($1K NLH): Peter Hsu – $36,970
Event 16 ($600 PLO): Juan Maceiras – $37,080
Event 17 ($300 Bounty): Alena Karunets – $8,880
Event 18 ($400 Turbo): Manuel Amaro Alvarez – $6,290
Event 19 ($1K Seniors): Peter Fellows – $23,545
Event 20 ($200 Big Stack): Jose Ruiz – $31,829
Event 21 ($400 Savage Average): Sean Astwood – $8,870
Event 22 ($600 2-7 TD): Scott Blackman – $10,700
Event 23 ($300 NLH/PLO): Timothy Butler – $6,440
Event 24 ($600 HORSE): Christopher Hice – $12,970
Event 25 ($600 6-Max): Javier Zarco – $19,740
Event 26 ($10K NLH): Erik Seidel – $179,953
Event 27 ($600 Bounty PLO): Michael Rudolf – $9,805
Event 28 ($300 Bounty): Riley Price – $6,900
Event 29 ($1K Turbo): Nick Yunis – $15,580
Event 30 ($600 PLO8): Vu Dang – $15,235
Event 31 ($1K NLH): Nicholas Seward – $39,000
Event 32 ($10K PLO): Sam Sternfield – $157,046
Event 33 ($300 Bounty): James Bernard – $6,014
Event 34 ($200 Bounty): Jesse Oler – $4,897
Event 35 ($1K Bounty): Joseph Rossi – $10,938
Event 36 ($1K O8): Neal Corcoran – $43,425
Event 37 ($2K NLH): Nicholas Seward – $91,500
Super High Roller: Brandon Wilson – $346,775
Event 39 ($600 Bounty): Rick Kalgstein – $9,704
Event 40 ($200 Big Stack): Scott Sommer – $7,208
Event 41 ($1K Turbo): Lenard Adams – $16,770
Event 43 ($1K HORSE): Christopher Hice – $9,898
Event 44 ($1K Mixed PLO): Matthew Wolfson – $11,721
Event 45 ($400 Bounty): Austin Morin – $7,000
Event 46 ($400 NLH): Ian Cohen – $14,470
Event 47 ($600 8-Game): David Shmuel – $9,490
Event 48 ($300 NLH): Shahar Biniaminov – $5,666
Event 49 ($400 OE): Scott Wyler – $6,885
Event 51 ($200 NLH): Butch Jumalon – $8,774
Event 52 ($400 Bounty PLO): Matthew Wolfson – $5,000
Event 55 ($1K Big O): Lee Horton – $13,535
Event 56 ($600 Turbo NLH/PLO): Shahar Biniaminov – $12,420
Event 57 ($400 PLO8): Jay Kerbel – $4,536
Event 58 ($10K NLH): Landon Tice – $246,300
Event 59 ($400 NLH): Steve Karp – $10,770
Event 60 ($1K 6-Max PLO): Renan Maciel – $24,675
Event 61 ($300 Bounty NLH): Raminder Singh – $6,730
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