Kevin Nee Wins the 2025 Seminole Hard Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open Championship for $605,100!| P4Poker

Poker News December 3, 2025

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2025 Seminole Hard Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 32
$3,500 WPT RRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 1,224
Prize Pool: $3,916,800
November 28 – December 3, 2025

2025 WPT RRPO Champion Kevin Nee (Photo Credit: Luther Redd/WPT)

The 2025 WPT Seminole Hard Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open Championship was the big ticket item on the series schedule, and it did not disappoint. The $3,500 buy-in tournament drew 1,224 entries, turning the $3,000,000 guarantee into a prize pool worth $3,916,800, and Kevin Nee took the top spot for $605,100 after a fun few days of action.

Of those 1,224 starters, 437 players made it through to Day 2, with Natasha Mercier leading the pack, along with Debbie Lee and Cherish Andrews in the top five. They burst the money bubble after the dinner break, with 63 players advancing to Day 3, and it was Hyndi Khomutetsky’s turn to lead the start of a new day.

Khomutetsky stayed strong, played well, and was among the leaders all the way to the six-handed final table. She was second in chips and took a bad beat from Joel Gola, the only player at the table with more chips, to exit in sixth place.

In a historically fast final table, it took only 60 hands to find our winner and only one hand when the tournament was heads-up.

Gola had a big lead most of the last day, but Nee chipped away at the popular amateur. After Aram Zobian was sent out in third place, they set up the table for heads-up play, and that took longer than the match.

On the first hand, they put all their chips in the middle ,and Nee flopped a nut flush to leave Gola drawing dead to second place.

It was a fun, action-packed few days during the Championship. Congratulations to Kevin on the win, and thanks to everyone for coming out.

Place	First Name	Last Name	Prize Amount
1	Kevin	Nee	$605,100
2	Joel	Gola	$395,000
3	Aram	Zobian	$295,000
4	Chad	Eveslage	$220,000
5	Anthony	Merlo	$166,000
6	Hyndi	Khomutetsky	$127,000
7	Nenad	Medic	$98,000
8	Rob	Wazwaz	$76,000
9	Shane	Santacroce	$59,000
10	Jason	Hickey	$59,000
11	Frank	Lagodich	$49,000
12	William	Slepcevich	$49,000
13	Matthew	Peng	$40,500
14	Stoyan	Madanzhiev	$40,500
15	Jackob	Datashvili	$40,500
16	Thien	Nguyen	$33,500
17	Toby	Boas	$33,500
18	Raymond	Rousseau	$33,500
19	Shannon	Shorr	$33,500
20	Natasha	Mercier	$28,000
21	Loni	Harwood Hui	$28,000
22	Bobby	Kennedy	$28,000
23	Rainer	Kempe	$28,000
24	Chance	Kornuth	$23,200
25	Agharazi	Babayev	$23,200
26	Trung	Pham	$23,200
27	Olvenso	Savoie	$23,200
28	Mo	Alhalwani	$23,200
29	Renji	Mao	$23,200
30	Michael	Belov	$23,200
31	Gary	Herstein	$23,200
32	Manny	Minaya	$19,400
33	Jonathan	Pastore	$19,400
34	Manny	Amaro	$19,400
35	Vadzim	Lipauka	$19,400
36	Logan	Eisner	$19,400
37	Raj	Vohra	$19,400
38	Alex	Yen	$19,400
39	Josh	Kay	$19,400
40	Thomas	Mühlöcker	$16,300
41	Elliott	Kampen	$16,300
42	Otto	Palacios	$16,300
43	Seth	Katich	$16,300
44	Nitis	Udornpim	$16,300
45	Jimmy	Lucifero	$16,300
46	Dimtri	Fares	$16,300
47	Florian	Gaugusch	$16,300
48	Jared	Hemingway	$13,800
49	Joshua	Hopkins	$13,800
50	Cuba	Levenberry	$13,800
51	Ioan	Taizs	$13,800
52	Sungwoon	Yoo	$13,800
53	Ilkin	Dostiyev	$13,800
54	Juan	Montoya	$13,800
55	Juan	Sanchez	$13,800
56	Tom	Fuchs	$11,500
57	Brian	Murphy	$11,500
58	Scott	Baumstein	$11,500
59	Robert-Andrei	Burlacu	$11,500
60	Frank	Funaro	$11,500
61	Shahin	Norouzian	$11,500
62	Anatoly	Nikitin	$11,500
63	Michah	Raskin	$11,500
64	Ian	Armstrong	$9,600
65	Szymon	Pawlak	$9,600
66	Benjamin	Zamani	$9,600
67	Pavlin	Karakikov	$9,600
68	Francis	Anderson	$9,600
69	Glenn	Slater	$9,600
70	Gaspare	Sposato	$9,600
71	Richard	Davis	$9,600
72	Nick	Yunis	$9,600
73	Justin	Vaysman	$9,600
74	Edward	Pak	$9,600
75	Vera	Dong	$9,600
76	David	Jackson	$9,600
77	John	Littleton	$9,600
78	Vlad	Darie	$9,600
79	Adrian	Lipe Jerez	$9,600
80	Jerry	Wong	$8,200
81	Danny	Qutami	$8,200
82	Diego	Fernandez Mendez	$8,200
83	Giuseppe	Iadisernia	$8,200
84	Caio	Sobral	$8,200
85	Robert	LeBeau	$8,200
86	Joey	Weissman	$8,200
87	Arsenii	Karmatckii	$8,200
88	Long	Nguyen	$8,200
89	Tal	Rothman	$8,200
90	Darryll	Fish	$8,200
91	Mike	Meskin	$8,200
92	Konstantin	Volkov	$8,200
93	Andrea	Orphanos	$8,200
94	Igor	De Oliveira Pinheiro	$8,200
95	Ilan	Verdnickov	$8,200
96	Hoby	Shapiro	$8,200
97	Misael	Iadisernia	$8,200
98	Jose	Severino	$8,200
99	Andrew	Ostapchenko	$8,200
100	Taylor	Wilson	$7,000
101	Maryon	Harper	$7,000
102	Mazen	Karnaby	$7,000
103	Robert	Hover	$7,000
104	Matthew	Sesso	$7,000
105	Marcelo	Aagesen	$7,000
106	Kurt	Krainski	$7,000
107	Mhd	Amer Al Kmeh	$7,000
108	Matthew	Lambrecht	$7,000
109	Jack	Shea	$7,000
110	Damien	Steel	$7,000
111	Kevin	Schulz	$7,000
112	Sridhar	Sangannagari	$7,000
113	Naromi	Todd	$7,000
114	Daniel	Kusnerak	$7,000
115	Debbie	Lee	$7,000
116	Mike	Vanier	$7,000
117	Ernest	Bush	$7,000
118	Alfonso	Lozano Arnau	$7,000
119	Tony	Sinishtaj	$7,000
120	Eliot	Hudon	$7,000
121	Travell	Thomas	$7,000
122	Igor	Tretyakov	$7,000
123	Gabriel	Andrade	$7,000
124	Connor	Rash	$6,400
125			$6,400
126	Chad	Davis	$6,400
127	Joseph	Drory	$6,400
128	Marc	Sacheli	$6,400
129	Andreu	Ferragut-Lluch	$6,400
130	Ronnie	Day	$6,400
131	Paula	Alibrandi	$6,400
132	Jack	Nathan	$6,400
133	Eric	Afrat	$6,400
134	Steven	Piper	$6,400
135	Zachary	Fischer	$6,400
136	Alexis	Kivu	$6,400
137	Itzhako	Dickstein	$6,400
138	Alon	Shahar	$6,400
139	Martin	Zamani	$6,400
140	Darren	Rabinoiwtz	$6,400
141	Walter	Taylor	$6,400
142	Aaron	Thivyanathan	$6,400
143	Jose	Lopez Fibla	$6,400
144	Mike	Liang	$6,400
145	Kaleb	Harwell	$6,400
146	Hitesh	Patel	$6,400
147	Stephanie	Morris	$6,400
148	Joe	McKeehen	$6,400
149	Boris	Vaynberg	$6,400
150	Paul	Snead	$6,400
151	Naveen	Sama	$6,400
152	Kenneth	Bruno	$6,400
153	Jonathan	Dokler	$6,400