Cuba Levenberry Wins His First Guitar Pick Trophy in Event 26

2024 Poker Showdown
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 26
$600 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$2,000,000 Guaranteed
Entries:  4,489
Prize Pool:  $2,334,280
April 10 – 15, 2024

Cuba Levenberry

Cuba Levenberry took home his first tournament win tonight in Event 26, which was the second big multi-day tournament of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown series. It almost doubled his career tournament earnings to $623,065. His best previous finish here at Seminole Hard Rock was a runner-up score in a PLO event at Lucky Hearts back in January. We caught up with him after the win as he was surrounded by his friends that were on the rail.

“I’m still processing all of this, you know what I mean. I’ve taken second in a tournament before here. So to win this outright after coming into Day 2 with 18 bigs under the gun and about to get hit with the big blind when I was real short and to win it, I haven’t even been able to process it yet,” said Levenberry shortly after the  victory.

The heads-up final was a battle between Levenberry and Ya Yun Liu, but he took the lead shortly after the start of the match and built his advantage from there. Here is what Levenbbery had to say about the final: “He actually didn’t want to make a deal when he had all the chips and I asked him if he wanted too. And then my buddy told me, ‘you know what, that’s fine because I had the edge.’ I’ve been fasting for 78 hours so my focus was crystal clear. He’s a great player, I respect him a lot, but he seemed a little off his game, and I was on my A+ game.” He continued, “I’m not a heads-up specialist by any means, I just kind of made some adjustments.

Levenberyy had more friends on the rail than the rest of the final table combined that were rooting him on through the endgame of the tournament, so we switched topics to see what that meant to him. “I love these guys, they’re not just my buddies, they’ve been playing poker longer than me so I see each of them as my mentor throughout my lifetime. It’s almost like they’re winning too because I’m a product of what they’ve been teaching me. They’re more than friends if you know what I mean. They’ve taught me so much in life,” responded Levenberry.

And as far as the celebration plans for the night: “My friend wants a steak, so we’re going to La Granja across the street. But I’m going to keep fasting,” said Levenberry as his friends excitedly exclaimed, “Let’s do it!” in the background.

Place First Name Last Name Prize Amount
1 Cuba Levenberry $301,920
2 Ya Yun Liu $200,000
3 Dale Roesel $149,000
4 Roberto Gonzalez $111,000
5 Carlos Correa $84,000
6 Sean Phillippi $64,000
7 Stuart Young $49,500
8 Greg Levine $38,500
9 Kyle Taddei $30,000
10 Javier Sarache $24,200
11 Caleb Powell $24,200
12 Scotter Clark $19,500
13 Brian Hall $19,500
14 Nicole Miller $15,800
15 T.K. Miles $15,800
16 Shlomo Gardi $15,800
17 Aaron Pinson $15,800
18 Tommy Tran $12,800
19 Thomas Gari $12,800
20 Jeffrey Mcintyre $12,800
21 She Lok Wong $12,800
22 Joshua McClain $12,800
23 Joseph Block $12,800
24 Jimenez Diaz $10,400
25 Alejandro Romero Bristol $10,400
26 Chandan Mathur $10,400
27 Marc Pelfort $10,400
28 Luiz Silva $10,400
29 Caleb Piderit $10,400
30 Timur Vardanian $10,400
31 Fabian Foster $10,400
32 James Rodriguez $8,400
33 Kevin Macdonald $8,400
34 Oleg Minavichev $8,400
35 Zhou Jiang $8,400
36 Brandon Ageloff $8,400
37 Shane Melert $8,400
38 Jorge Confesor $8,400
39 Calvin Anderson $8,400
40 Tyler Mitchell $6,900
41 Peter Watts $6,900
42 Filippos Stavrakis $6,900
43 Joseph Burns $6,900
44 Ronald Katz $6,900
45 Carter Hirschberg $6,900
46 Gregory Pohler $6,900
47 Erik Perez $6,900
48 Alan Hamza $5,600
49 Thien Le $5,600
50 Ivan Fazal Karim $5,600
51 Luis Ramos $5,600
52 Dani Genov $5,600
53 Howard Wilamowski $5,600
54 Jason Prest $5,600
55 Eviatar Becerra $5,600
56 Marcus Schilling $4,620
57 Guy Naimi $4,620
58 Israel De La Cerda $4,620
59 Frederick Roetker $4,620
60 Michael Garcia $4,620
61 Kiran Suresh $4,620
62 Andres Angulo $4,620
63 Nicholas Carballo $4,620
64 Philip Rigby $3,800
65 Shawn Thielemann $3,800
66 James Calderaro $3,800
67 Anthony Piacquadio $3,800
68 Frederick Attias $3,800
69 Dermot Lyne $3,800
70 Shane Klasnimi $3,800
71 Shanette Thomas $3,800
72 Radhi Elbusafi $3,800
73 Vital Benbenishty $3,800
74 Habibollah Jahangard $3,800
75 Mark Pukhov $3,800
76 Kimberly Acton $3,800
77 Gabriel Fuller $3,800
78 Nathaniel Moore $3,800
79 Scott Carragher $3,800
80 Donald Price $3,120
81 Adam Agaev $3,120
82 Lanny Vaysman $3,120
83 David Granik $3,120
84 Stern Shawn $3,120
85 Jeffrey Silverstein $3,120
86 Marco Rodriguez $3,120
87 Juan Mubarak $3,120
88 Bin Weng $3,120
89 Yaymel Bodes $3,120
90 Tyler Bentz $3,120
91 Christopher Mo $3,120
92 Gregory Abell $3,120
93 Brian Hawkins $3,120
94 Gorazd Janevsks $3,120
95 Marcelo Stolarczyk $3,120
96 Sagi Zommer $3,120
97 Jonathan Medrano $3,120
98 Carlos Loving $3,120
99 Alton Mendelson $3,120
100 Ronnie Abro $2,580
101 Steven Levy $2,580
102 Damon Wilson $2,580
103 Ridley Jecrois $2,580
104 Solange Lucas $2,580
105 Michael Jagroo $2,580
106 Nadezhda Magnus $2,580
107 Clyde Maliauka $2,580
108 Andrew Miller $2,580
109 Lawrence Churchman $2,580
110 Gabriel Andrade $2,580
111 Lucas Ramos Tocoronte $2,580
112 Zachary Fischer $2,580
113 Daniel Swartz Jr $2,580
114 Manuel Jimenez $2,580
115 Nashaat Antonious $2,580
116 Sergiu Cornea $2,580
117 Robert Grossman $2,580
118 Prasad Vemulapalli $2,580
119 John Paul Ode $2,580
120 Mitchell Garshofsky $2,580
121 Calvin Norowski $2,580
122 Moshe Refaelovitz $2,580
123 Marc Woolf $2,580
124 Dyanna Lopez $2,580
125 Jerick Rickert $2,580
126 Micha Bitton $2,580
127 Pierre-Xavier Laurent $2,580
128 Jose Ardila $2,580
129 Sergio Sanchez $2,580
130 Unclaimed $2,580
131 Anthony Lavalle $2,580
132 Paul Nguyen $2,580
133 Unclaimed $2,580
134 Gintautas Putinas $2,580
135 Yakir Peace $2,140
136 Shon Shlomo-Perez $2,140
137 Aaron Johnson $2,140
138 Omar Sader $2,140
139 Maurice Hawkins $2,140
140 Andres Rodriguez $2,140
141 David Attride $2,140
142 Carlos Pino $2,140
143 Rinat Dinmukhametov $2,140
144 David Goolgasian $2,140
145 Ji Cheng Ding $2,140
146 Joseph Hernon $2,140
147 Paulius Bikus $2,140
148 Aditya Prasetyo $2,140
149 James Scott $2,140
150 Jesse Freeman $2,140
151 Vincent Guerra $2,140
152 Vladyslav Shovkovyi $2,140
153 Ronnie Dowdy Ii $2,140
154 Rudy Mamo $2,140
155 Adam Rothschild $2,140
156 Peter Allard $2,140
157 Benjamin Christiansen $2,140
158 John  Tribble Jr $2,140
159 Scott Zakheim $2,140
160 Jospeh Shammas $2,140
161 Salvatore Mancuso $2,140
162 Maksim Pisarenko $2,140
163 Haung Roy Wong $2,140
164 Scott Mc Innis $2,140
165 Joseph Jean $2,140
166 Stanislav Ivanov $2,140
167 Hertsel Levy Sakhai $2,140
168 Alexandre Henry $2,140
169 Gentian Kadriu $2,140
170 Peter Kambolin $1,760
171 Darryll Fish $1,760
172 Max Shuster $1,760
173 Guillermo Socarras $1,760
174 Steven Miller $1,760
175 Juan Montoya Bernal $1,760
176 Alex Becker $1,760
177 Aaron Moorefield $1,760
178 Scott Blackman $1,760
179 Jason Janpanah $1,760
180 Jayant Chaudhary $1,760
181 Lily Kornik $1,760
182 Vivek Shin Gala $1,760
183 Veselin Katrandzhiev $1,760
184 Humberto Perez $1,760
185 Cody Ferguson $1,760
186 Andrew Macdonald $1,760
187 John Nugent Iii $1,760
188 Brian Combs Jr $1,760
189 Kenneth Bruno $1,760
190 Robert Mcmanus $1,760
191 Thang Dang $1,760
192 Nancy Birnbaum $1,760
193 Robert Goldberg $1,760
194 Melanie Pittard $1,760
195 James Perri $1,760
196 Matthew Zarcadoolas $1,760
197 Alan Engel $1,760
198 Gil Morgensztern $1,760
199 Rajasekar Govindan $1,760
200 Stephen Gerber $1,760
201 Adi Amit 802320635 $1,760
202 Phillip Krnyaich $1,760
203 Javier Zarco Sanchez $1,760
204 Jeffrey Savage $1,760
205 Ernest Bush $1,760
206 Zachary Desiderio $1,760
207 Ievgen Smyrnov $1,760
208 Anthony Bertuccio $1,760
209 Jorge Cuesta $1,760
210 Nghia Nguyen $1,760
211 Gerald Silva $1,760
212 Jose De Sousa Macedo $1,760
213 Michael Amato $1,760
214 Sootla Ranno $1,760
215 Eric Valerio $1,760
216 Unclaimed $1,760
217 Jacob Bazeley $1,760
218 Donald Maloney Jr $1,760
219 Sandy Sanchez $1,760
220 William Henderson $1,760
221 Zachary Gutierrez $1,760
222 Anibal Pabon $1,760
223 Paul Mendes $1,760
224 Iman Dan $1,760
225 Giyeon Han $1,760
226 Adam Reese $1,500
227 Daniel Lei $1,500
228 Spencer Champlin $1,500
229 Alicia Goldstein $1,500
230 Elroy Rios $1,500
231 Frederick Goldberg $1,500
232 Ariel Rosello $1,500
233 Barry Roth $1,500
234 Joshua Cranfill $1,500
235 Gaston Miculitzki $1,500
236 Robert Seaton $1,500
237 Tony Hoang $1,500
238 Kevin Blewitt $1,500
239 Ritesh Patel $1,500
240 Scott Einiger $1,500
241 David Laufer $1,500
242 David Kahan $1,500
243 Jonathan Park $1,500
244 Micheal Monaco $1,500
245 Unclaimed $1,500
246 Andrei Shirobokov $1,500
247 Amit Savani $1,500
248 Wesley Haymond $1,500
249 Andre Plaza $1,500
250 David Trager $1,500
251 Peter Ng $1,500
252 Michael Tufaro $1,500
253 Michael Mundy $1,500
254 Eric Polirer $1,500
255 Albert Gorelik $1,500
256 Robert Leboeuf $1,500
257 Joseph Serock $1,500
258 Megan Chapman $1,500
259 Arthur Peacock $1,500
260 Thomas Olivas $1,500
261 Nagui Yassa $1,500
262 Ryan Leto $1,500
263 Josias Cardoso Dos Santos $1,500
264 Michael Jacobson $1,500
265 Alejandro Gonzalez Olaechea $1,500
266 Marsha Wolak-Barnett $1,500
267 Mark Miller $1,500
268 Phong Nguyen $1,500
269 Stewart Yancik $1,500
270 Manelic Minaya $1,500
271 Isaac Malca Cohen $1,500
272 Tuan Nguyen $1,500
273 Ikechukwu Nlemchi $1,500
274 Steven Wolansky $1,500
275 Shawn Lucas $1,500
276 Michael Wetcher $1,500
277 Raminder Singh $1,500
278 Robert Mather $1,500
279 Joel Diaz $1,500
280 Gary Herstein $1,500
281 Alexander Abella $1,500
282 Michael Latuf $1,300
283 Zachary Castro $1,300
284 Keith Kyle $1,300
285 Lee Connell $1,300
286 Colby Covington $1,300
287 Robert Rogers $1,300
288 Aleksei Donets $1,300
289 Philip Munks $1,300
290 Germando Andoni $1,300
291 Troy Acton $1,300
292 Vincent Cafone $1,300
293 Nicholas Sena-Hopkins $1,300
294 Yaroslav Nakonechnyy $1,300
295 Jed Stewart $1,300
296 Valeriy Pak $1,300
297 Mindaugas Putinas $1,300
298 Raynold Culmer $1,300
299 Jason Min $1,300
300 Alessio Isaia $1,300
301 Brian Estrella $1,300
302 Walter Chambliss $1,300
303 John Connor $1,300
304 Jose Gonzalez Valenzuela $1,300
305 Ross Santos $1,300
306 Ryan Gittleson $1,300
307 Dave Alfa $1,300
308 Scott Baumstein $1,300
309 David Elisofon $1,300
310 William Schraft $1,300
311 Unclaimed $1,300
312 Christopher Moffitt-Gabis $1,300
313 George Dolofan $1,300
314 Miguel Martinez-Martinez $1,300
315 Margarette Gayao $1,300
316 David Shmuel $1,300
317 Ashraf Chehata $1,300
318 Juan Endara $1,300
319 Mihaly Lukacs $1,300
320 Cameron Storto $1,300
321 Jamil Abreu $1,300
322 Jeffrey Billups $1,300
323 Dmitri Zaitsev $1,300
324 Rodrigo Dos Santos Saprioli $1,300
325 Jeremy Hawks $1,300
326 Warren Russell $1,300
327 Alain Medesan $1,300
328 Eluterio Rodriguez $1,300
329 Joseph Metcalfe $1,300
330 Bogdan Chornyy $1,300
331 Istvan Szabo $1,300
332 Steven Flacco $1,300
333 Raymond Winters Iii $1,300
334 Yunkyu Song $1,300
335 Richard Ebaugh $1,300
336 William Steinmetz $1,300
337 Howard Becks $1,300
338 Jordan Flaschner $1,300
339 Nicholas Ceci $1,300
340 Timothy Wong $1,300
341 Julian Wohlgemuth $1,300
342 Clifford Mermell $1,300
343 Kevin Naim $1,300
344 David Somers $1,300
345 Thao Leblond $1,300
346 Daniel Umana $1,300
347 Aaron Kirshenberg $1,300
348 Terrence Sullivan $1,300
349 Nathaen Blankenship $1,300
350 Robert Jonsson $1,300
351 Karen Boyd $1,300
352 Rafael Osorio Sainz $1,300
353 Alexander Holmes $1,300
354 Dylan Poler $1,300
355 Baruch Forst $1,300
356 Faizian Imran $1,300
357 Christopher Principato $1,300
358 Mario Arribas $1,300
359 Pompy Luanglatbandith $1,300
360 Cangir Elcin $1,300
361 Perla Ojeda $1,140
362 Bryan Hurdle $1,140
363 Justin Hall $1,140
364 Dantonio Brown $1,140
365 Alejandro Arana Torres $1,140
366 Anthony Goodwyn $1,140
367 George Hortelano $1,140
368 Hengyuan Sheng $1,140
369 Carlos Bermudez $1,140
370 Son Vo $1,140
371 William Kopp Iii $1,140
372 Ryan Hogan $1,140
373 Bradley Gafford $1,140
374 Jehnon Pickering $1,140
375 Kurt Lichtman $1,140
376 Federico Tur $1,140
377 Jennifer David $1,140
378 Lowell Kim $1,140
379 Ephraim Uzan $1,140
380 Tanupat Punjarojanakul $1,140
381 Joseph Hood $1,140
382 Jonathan Gold $1,140
383 Radu Roscot $1,140
384 Antonio Galiana $1,140
385 Jacquelyn Scott $1,140
386 Ryan Wince $1,140
387 Eric Kolodny $1,140
388 Aldring Gomez Torres $1,140
389 Donald Gibbs $1,140
390 Yannick Bourque-Patry $1,140
391 Kevin Chan $1,140
392 Samuel O’Bryant $1,140
393 Martin Zamani $1,140
394 Patrick Reilly $1,140
395 Marc Duquette $1,140
396 Christopher Funari $1,140
397 Michael Chiappetta $1,140
398 Steven Carswell $1,140
399 Arlon Berdos $1,140
400 Mark Gaudino $1,140
401 Daniel Quesada $1,140
402 Kareem Alawi $1,140
403 Manuel Mustafa Maury $1,140
404 Efthimios Piperakis $1,140
405 Maurice Paradis $1,140
406 Luis Suarez $1,140
407 Noah Bitton $1,140
408 Bryce Mcvay $1,140
409 Roni Zelichonok $1,140
410 Michael Lotfy $1,140
411 Gregory Koenig $1,140
412 Kharlin Sued $1,140
413 Francisco Rangel Gomez $1,140
414 Adrian Konstantinov $1,140
415 Michael Newman $1,140
416 William Mc Phillips $1,140
417 Unclaimed $1,140
418 Jayden Krnyaich $1,140
419 Nathan Thrush $1,140
420 Rohit Palla $1,140
421 Baseem Nsier $1,140
422 Unclaimed $1,140
423 Phillip Hernz $1,140
424 Austin Marks $1,140
425 Sanat Mehrotra $1,140
426 Kristofor Karpuzi $1,140
427 Brandon Whidden $1,140
428 David Dibernardi $1,140
429 Anthony Berouty $1,140
430 Daniel Blum $1,140
431 Ronnie Lamb $1,140
432 John Utley $1,140
433 Leonid Zhivelev $1,140
434 Humberto Miranda De Andrade $1,140
435 Robert Lupo $1,140
436 Earl Gallegos $1,140
437 Juan Restrepo $1,140
438 David Jackson $1,140
439 Richard Nation $1,140
440 Gili Prizament $1,140
441 Jordan Kasimov $1,140
442 Christine Lim $1,140
443 Judith Bielan $1,140
444 Juan Gelez $1,140
445 Brendan Daly $1,140
446 Donald Williams $1,140
447 Ernesto Rasse Gonzalez $1,140
448 Kareem Marshall $1,140
449 Vincent Cummings $1,140
450 Syed Shah $1,040
451 Khari Hutchings $1,040
452 Larry Kusch $1,040
453 David Bradshaw Jr $1,040
454 Jacob Ferro $1,040
455 Jean Mimy $1,040
456 Mirco Scharen $1,040
457 Willy Stadele $1,040
458 Jose Rodriguez $1,040
459 Alan Nacinovic $1,040
460 Aaron Valencia $1,040
461 Steven Bennett $1,040
462 Nicolas Alberto Kohan $1,040
463 Derek Gregory $1,040
464 Charles Joseph Jr Johnson $1,040
465 Hal Rotholz $1,040
466 Jerry Wong $1,040
467 Ross Corless $1,040
468 Charles Smith $1,040
469 N Beasley $1,040
470 Jordan Sparagana $1,040
471 Richard Whitebrook $1,040
472 Jorge Aristizabal $1,040
473 Matthew Elsby $1,040
474 Jake Schwartz $1,040
475 Benjamin Keathley $1,040
476 Frederico Dabus $1,040
477 Rafael Marcondes Dos R $1,040
478 Luther Tran $1,040
479 Ronel Juan $1,040
480 Matthew Shanahan $1,040
481 Aaron Thivyanathan $1,040
482 Harry Hurst $1,040
483 Travis Young $1,040
484 Lachezar Petkov $1,040
485 Unclaimed $1,040
486 Jonathan Curtis $1,040
487 George Alberto $1,040
488 Charlemagne Benjamin Jr $1,040
489 Scott Weidema $1,040
490 Robert Panetta Jr $1,040
491 David Mac Donald Jr $1,040
492 Unclaimed $1,040
493 Bernard Harvey $1,040
494 Roberly Felicio $1,040
495 Ian Kramer $1,040
496 Dante Collier $1,040
497 Olvenso Savoie $1,040
498 Rubin Chappell $1,040
499 Garret Reisz $1,040
500 Yicheng Xu $1,040
501 Daniyal Gheba $1,040
502 Hyndi Khomutetsky $1,040
503 Steven Karp $1,040
504 Chi Nguyen $1,040
505 Eric Lida $1,040
506 Denis Vladimirov $1,040
507 Igor Hot $1,040
508 Mauricio Duarte $1,040
509 Lawrence Selig $1,040
510 Sanford Gelb $1,040
511 Daniel Orgil $1,040
512 Jason Hoffman $1,040
513 Shayne Mogilski $1,040
514 Anh Duong $1,040
515 Thomas Tackett $1,040
516 Walker Miskelly $1,040
517 Alexander Borukhovich $1,040
518 James Tomblin $1,040
519 Gil Aboodi $1,040
520 Elpidoforos Panteli $1,040
521 Christopher Cochran $1,040
522 Paul Vacchio $1,040
523 Brian Smith $1,040
524 Joshua Lch $1,040
525 Vadim Schlez $1,040
526 Ian Gillespie $1,040
527 William Oneal $1,040
528 Timothy Myers $1,040
529 Ricardo Alves $1,040
530 Feiwen Wu $1,040
531 Angelo Miele $1,040
532 Thai Vu $1,040
533 Brandon Miller $1,040
534 Felix Sierra Aponte $1,040
535 Robert Kessler $1,040
536 Vinicius Monteiro $1,040
537 Dushko Jovanov $1,040
538 Adam Bacome $1,040
539 Joseph Nieves $1,040
540 Christopher Bissinger $1,040
541 David Batrous $1,040
542 Joseph Brum Pacheco $1,040
543 Michael Wang $1,040
544 Jean Leblond $1,040
545 Chad Summers $1,040
546 Bienvenido Santiago $1,040
547 Humberto Salinas-Gonzalez $1,040
548 Ian Williams $1,040
549 Femi Fashakin $1,040
550 Wilford Lyons $1,040
551 Michael Ben-Shoaff $1,040
552 Mike Parekh $1,040
553 William Slepcevich $1,040
554 Tomer Mishali $1,040
555 Paul Prager $1,040
556 Mark Donly $1,040
557 Justin Gutierrez $1,040
558 Sterling Savill $1,040
559 Bryan Schultz $1,040
560 Johnlewis Cascone $1,040
561 Lorell Pascual $1,040

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