Justin Datloff Scores His First Trophy and His Biggest Cash ($232,848) by Overcoming a Field of 3,586 to Win Event #2

2026 Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 2
$600 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em
$2,000,000 Guaranteed
Entries:  3,586
Prize Pool:  $2,000,000
January 7-12, 2026

Event 2 Champion Justin Datloff
Event 2 Champion Justin Datloff

There were 3,586 entries in Event #2, the multi-flight $600 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em, and after 11:00 pm on Monday night, it came to an end in a heads-up deal between Justin Datloff and Maxwell Young. As chipleader, Datloff was awarded the title, the trophy, and $232,848.

“It feels great,” said Datloff after his victory. “Large field, great structured tournament. It hasn’t really hit me yet, but it feels awesome.”

Datloff finished Day 2 with a below-average chip stack, but Day 3 went well for him.

“It was pretty smooth sailing for the most part,” said Datloff. “I tried to just grind it out, keep the pots small, and play a lot of post-flop. It got the job done.”

When the final table began, Datloff was second in chips behind James Carroll. But they had only played about 15 minutes before he won a big pot against Carroll — Datloff had flopped a set and turned a full house — to take the lead. And he held onto the lead for most of the final table while only knocking out one of the final nine players (Mitesh Shere in eighth place).

The biggest threat at the final table was arguably James Carroll, with more than $7.3 million in career tournament earnings and two WPT titles, including the 2019 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown. So when Carroll was knocked out in fourth place, the path got a little easier. But only a little.

The final three players — Datloff, Maxwell Young, and Roy Young — battled for more than two hours. Eventually, Maxwell and Roy (no relation) got it all in on a queen-high board when both of them had top pair. But Maxwell had the higher kicker, and paired his kicker on the river to clinch the pot. Roy Young was out in third place, and that pot narrowed the gap between Maxwell and Datloff.

Datloff and Maxwell Young were close in chips at that point, and before playing any further they agreed to chop the remaining prizepool and end the tournament. As chipleader, Datloff was awarded the title, the trophy, and $232,848 — the biggest cash of his career, narrowly beating his fourth-place finish in last year’s Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship, where he earned $229,900.

“It feels nice to get my first trophy,” said Datloff. “The hardware is awesome, but it’s definitely a little more about the money.”

“I’m just thankful for the opportunity to be a part of this,” said Datloff. “And thanks to my friends and family for the support. On to the next one.”

Speaking of the next one, the $3,500 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship starts on Friday, and Datloff says he is “about 95%” likely to enter.

When asked about Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood, Datloff said, “The staff here is great, the dealers are great. Everyone here runs an awesome venue. I have a great experience every time I come here.”


RESULTS:

Place First Name Last Name Prize Amount
1 Justin Datloff $232,848*
2 Maxwell Young $231,552*
3 Roy Young $137,000
4 James Carroll $103,000
5 Stephen Gerber $78,000
6 Arun Balasubramanian $59,000
7 Cory Rock $45,500
8 Mitesh Shere $35,500
9 Christie Yau $27,500
10 Daniel Garcia $27,500
11 Alexander Ziskin $21,600
12 Logan Eisner $21,600
13 Adam Yellin $17,000
14 Daniel Wirgau $17,000
15 Jason Campbell $17,000
16 Reynel Hernandez $13,400
17 John Dobson $13,400
18 Michael Rein $13,400
19 Shoval Malin $13,400
20 Tj Shulman $10,700
21 Luis Tobo Patino $10,700
22 Jason Kwartler $10,700
23 Alexandre Caperonis $10,700
24 Jesse Oler $8,600
25 Thien Nguyen $8,600
26 Manelic Minaya $8,600
27 Anthony Johnson $8,600
28 Lou Ojeda $8,600
29 Blake Stein $8,600
30 Joseph Skinner $8,600
31 Ronald Fischer $8,600
32 Ted Zaborowski $6,900
33 Haim Pham $6,900
34 Hunter Ritchie $6,900
35 Terrence Jacobs $6,900
36 Jeffrey Kessler $6,900
37 Hung Quach $6,900
38 Michael Newman $6,900
39 Paul Mendes $6,900
40 Salvatore Devito $5,600
41 Julian Milliard $5,600
42 George Alberto $5,600
43 Kyle Sullivan $5,600
44 Caleb Piderit $5,600
45 Tyler Kuhlman $5,600
46 Darin Utley $5,600
47 Colby Covington $5,600
48 Brian Haveson $4,620
49 Samuel O’Bryant $4,620
50 Johnny Bromberg $4,620
51 Benjamin Zamani $4,620
52 Benjamin Moschel $4,620
53 Michael Mazzei $4,620
54 Robert Kessler Iii $4,620
55 Amed Amor $4,620
56 Jordan Kasimow $3,820
57 Sun Choi $3,820
58 Jason Mcqueer $3,820
59 Raminder Singh $3,820
60 Aaron Gao $3,820
61 Steven Lang $3,820
62 George Hortelano $3,820
63 David Gries $3,820
64 Jack Kizilarslan $3,160
65 Philip Consolo $3,160
66 Marcos Saravia Escalante $3,160
67 Ariel Rosello $3,160
68 Andrew Arbogast $3,160
69 Patrick Harmon $3,160
70 Gil Aboodi $3,160
71 Bradley Coultas $3,160
72 Uri Tenenboim $3,160
73 Walter Hart Iii $3,160
74 Florian Pesce $3,160
75 Bardia Jahann $3,160
76 Ayed Shweihat $3,160
77 Timothy Mulroy $3,160
78 Eric Firestone $3,160
79 Niall Costigan $3,160
80 Matthew Yorra $2,660
81 Venkata Gongala $2,660
82 Feiwen Wu $2,660
83 Gary Fitzgerald $2,660
84 Narimaan Ahmadi $2,660
85 Naing Thu $2,660
86 Igor Tretyakov $2,660
87 Michael Scheinberg $2,660
88 Justin Trant $2,660
89 Gabriel De Oliveira $2,660
90 Zyad Qasem $2,660
91 Vincenzo Pagliarulo $2,660
92 Richard Yau $2,660
93 Adam Zwick $2,660
94 Baris Gungor $2,660
95 Timothy Miles $2,660
96 Aleksei Donets $2,660
97 Femi Fashakin $2,660
98 Jonathan Gold $2,660
99 Tammy Barner $2,660
100 Gregory Baird $2,240
101 Melissa Doucette Trader $2,240
102 Rafael Abrahamyan $2,240
103 Joshua Kopp $2,240
104 Marisa Barbara Steller $2,240
105 Lautaro Curi $2,240
106 Blake Robinson $2,240
107 George Hemphill $2,240
108 David Ehresman $2,240
109 Gilberto Maakaroun $2,240
110 Matthew Blantz $2,240
111 Perla Ojeda $2,240
112 Cameron Storto $2,240
113 Paul Lacroix $2,240
114 Gary Gelman $2,240
115 Roiler Gomez $2,240
116 Tal Rothman $2,240
117 Narcis Vanatoru $2,240
118 Ngoc Tran $2,240
119 Damaso Benalcazar $2,240
120 Zinoviy Pelekh $2,240
121 Moises Benchlouch $2,240
122 Alberto Sabogali $2,240
123 Lawrence Whyte $2,240
124 Imre Papp $2,240
125 Hunter Rosling $2,240
126 Srikanth Alajangi $2,240
127 Ashok Panchumarthi $2,240
128 Peter Shapiro $2,240
129 Paul Balzano $2,240
130 Dejan Petkovic $2,240
131 Andrea Orphanos $2,240
132 John Stevenson $2,240
133 Imran Mukati $2,240
134 Vittorio Faricelli $2,240
135 Scott Zakheim $2,240
136 Tuan Nguyen $1,880
137 Andrew Weisner $1,880
138 Michael Weinberg $1,880
139 Lawrence Klur $1,880
140 Matthew Baker $1,880
141 Carlo Rodriguez $1,880
142 Thao Le $1,880
143 Rikki Tyau $1,880
144 Justin Guzman $1,880
145 Jeffrey Kenny $1,880
146 Dylan Poler $1,880
147 Bernhard Schmidt $1,880
148 Frederico Dabus $1,880
149 Dominick Minya $1,880
150 Aleksandr Tishchenko $1,880
151 Noam Rothman $1,880
152 Alon Yehudai $1,880
153 Jonathan Shapiro $1,880
154 Howard Mash $1,880
155 David Collins $1,880
156 Steven Karp $1,880
157 Eldo Rodriguez $1,880
158 Lucas Mendes $1,880
159 Christopher Licht $1,880
160 Dani Genov $1,880
161 Christopher Arcidiacono $1,880
162 Jennifer Frankenstein $1,880
163 Zachary Eichenbaum $1,880
164 Vitalijs Zavorotnijs $1,880
165 Michael Lamontagne $1,880
166 Phuoc Vo $1,880
167 Kendra Trammel $1,880
168 Marc Woolf $1,880
169 Ernest Bush $1,880
170 Cory Biddle $1,880
171 Maksim Pisarenko $1,880
172 Kenneth Barkoff $1,880
173 Jorge Gomez $1,880
174 Kimberly Henlin $1,880
175 Unclaimed $1,880
176 Asham Amir $1,880
177 Mark Cahill $1,880
178 Juan Rodriguez Torres $1,880
179 Edwin Lomans $1,880
180 Neal Diaz $1,880
181 Patrick Quinn $1,560
182 Howard Weston $1,560
183 Jack Nathan $1,560
184 Athir Saco $1,560
185 Emmanuel Badmus Fakiyesi $1,560
186 Kevin Morrison $1,560
187 Michael Vinokur $1,560
188 Tony Ho $1,560
189 Lawrence Rabie $1,560
190 John Shuler $1,560
191 Benjamin Jerome $1,560
192 Charles Bragg $1,560
193 Satya Vegi $1,560
194 Jeffrey Schneider $1,560
195 David Bertrand $1,560
196 Thomas Geschrey $1,560
197 Matthew Lambrecht $1,560
198 Joseph Olivieri $1,560
199 Neal Corcoran $1,560
200 Brian Smith $1,560
201 Eric Kitain $1,560
202 James Orleans $1,560
203 Jason Ryman $1,560
204 Nicholas Nieto $1,560
205 Emilie Stallings $1,560
206 Cornelius Walker $1,560
207 Michel Dubreuil $1,560
208 Jesse Goulding $1,560
209 Daisy Kang $1,560
210 Akeelo Rhoden $1,560
211 Guy Rodas $1,560
212 Scott Epstein $1,560
213 Michael Babani $1,560
214 Okelsii Kolupaiev $1,560
215 Beny Elmekies $1,560
216 Andrew Kelsall $1,560
217 Maurice Russo $1,560
218 Maribeth Hilliard $1,560
219 Ioannis Patsourakis $1,560
220 Barry Borgmeyer $1,560
221 Unclaimed $1,560
222 Anibal Pabon $1,560
223 Krista Farrell $1,560
224 Bradley Moore $1,560
225 Riley Fuller $1,560
226 Romel Huelga Mendoza $1,320
227 Jose Ardila $1,320
228 Luis Cok $1,320
229 Brian Harris $1,320
230 Dallas Whitaker $1,320
231 Kenny Nguyen $1,320
232 Jeffrey Dana $1,320
233 Michael Barr $1,320
234 Haim Toorgeman $1,320
235 Shravan Kulshrestha $1,320
236 Ranei Aviv $1,320
237 Jean-Louis Santoni $1,320
238 Johnnathan Saint Jacoues $1,320
239 Michael Spagnolo $1,320
240 Ahsan Rehman $1,320
241 John Rummans $1,320
242 Luke Graham $1,320
243 Michael Moskowitz $1,320
244 Jason Prest $1,320
245 Seth Weimer $1,320
246 Gary Breslauer $1,320
247 Mark Sailliez $1,320
248 William Soscia $1,320
249 Brian Denight $1,320
250 Angelo Miele $1,320
251 Kenneth Begnoche $1,320
252 Kevin Roche $1,320
253 Dung Nguyen $1,320
254 Moshe Refaelovitz $1,320
255 Elliott Kampen $1,320
256 Yoel Lajonchere Espinosa $1,320
257 Michael Fogelson $1,320
258 Youssef Bargach $1,320
259 Conrado Francisco $1,320
260 Thai Vu $1,320
261 Wagner Wysotchanski $1,320
262 Michael Amato $1,320
263 Frank Menendez $1,320
264 Alexandre Henry $1,320
265 Raffaelle Sorrentino $1,320
266 Nehme Gedeon $1,320
267 Daniel Vranich $1,320
268 Richard Bilodeau $1,320
269 Yaroslav Nakonechnyy $1,320
270 Richard Leger $1,320
271 Bret Winograd $1,320
272 Shaun Davis $1,320
273 Ramon Martinez $1,320
274 Brandon Miller $1,320
275 Brian Tyler $1,320
276 Shawn Lucas $1,320
277 Eric Cotton $1,320
278 Richard Dewayne $1,320
279 Joseph Montervino $1,320
280 Dominic Telymonde $1,320
281 Barbara Cardin $1,320
282 Clinton Dunn $1,320
283 Adi Ben Ami $1,320
284 Anton Perkovic $1,320
285 Miguel Fernandez $1,320
286 Arlene Weinsier $1,320
287 Alexandros Kolonias $1,320
288 Max Kingstone $1,140
289 Richard De Vivo $1,140
290 Rusty Moorer $1,140
291 Glenn Fishbein $1,140
292 Sean Oonnelly $1,140
293 Julian Teoman Petrowski $1,140
294 Charles Burns Jr $1,140
295 Ben Alush $1,140
296 Joseph Esbenshade $1,140
297 Steven Dobry $1,140
298 Rami Ilyasov $1,140
299 Steve  Yagudaev $1,140
300 Kenneth Bruno $1,140
301 Sadek El Hakim $1,140
302 Lowell Kim $1,140
303 Mark Perry $1,140
304 Daniel Rejc $1,140
305 Yutaka Kawai $1,140
306 Orlando Fanjul Gonzalez $1,140
307 Peter Dragar $1,140
308 Michael Ellis $1,140
309 Jason Magnicari $1,140
310 Matthew Zarcadoolas $1,140
311 Ardijan Hasandzekaj $1,140
312 Russell Fox $1,140
313 Robert Aleksivich $1,140
314 Rosario Gerardi $1,140
315 Unclaimed $1,140
316 Schneur Ciment $1,140
317 Craig Allen $1,140
318 Steven Mckoy $1,140
319 Danilo Alvarenga $1,140
320 Dan Kashvin $1,140
321 Carl Batista $1,140
322 James Guidi $1,140
323 Lance Moody $1,140
324 Marcel Sabag $1,140
325 Christian Miniter $1,140
326 Paul Domb $1,140
327 Todd Shreve $1,140
328 Van Nguyen $1,140
329 Joseph Matyuf $1,140
330 Christopher Brown $1,140
331 Gerald Dunn $1,140
332 Joel Gola $1,140
333 Ilkin Dostiyev $1,140
334 Christopher Zollo $1,140
335 William Underdown $1,140
336 Jose Pacheco Chaves $1,140
337 David Shmuel $1,140
338 Yossi Ben Kessous $1,140
339 Noah Schwartz $1,140
340 Jason Rocha $1,140
341 John Pointer $1,140
342 Jose Navarrete $1,140
343 Walter Taylor $1,140
344 Kevin Gomez $1,140
345 Jason Blodgett $1,140
346 Jeremy Shaw $1,140
347 Caio De Lucca $1,140
348 Baran Kalayci $1,140
349 Christopher Walters $1,140
350 Jorman Cano $1,140
351 Jerome Leonardo $1,140
352 Qasem Jamhour $1,140
353 Robert Laseter $1,140
354 Joseph Incatasciato $1,140
355 Luis Suarez $1,140
356 Jeremy Halaska $1,140
357 Yaron Hazan $1,140
358 Pasquale Caiazza $1,140
359 Christopher Corneroli $1,140
360 Maurice Costigan $1,040
361 Linh Quach $1,040
362 Thomas Peet $1,040
363 Joshua Poe $1,040
364 Alejandro Funes $1,040
365 Jordan Hopper $1,040
366 Andrew Mcilvain $1,040
367 Robert Rogers $1,040
368 Broc Kuerzi $1,040
369 David Enda $1,040
370 Scott Faden $1,040
371 Denys Bazeliuk $1,040
372 Tyler Bentz $1,040
373 Carlo Amenta $1,040
374 Peter Bennett $1,040
375 Paul Trianosky $1,040
376 Jose Guillermo $1,040
377 Surminder Singh $1,040
378 Dmytro Hryshanov $1,040
379 Ryan Jaworski $1,040
380 Joseph Villacci $1,040
381 William Parker $1,040
382 Guy Hayun $1,040
383 Vladislav Mezheritsky $1,040
384 Qing Lu $1,040
385 Charles Mitchell Iii $1,040
386 Jason Burke $1,040
387 Mark Winchell $1,040
388 Adrian Winebarger $1,040
389 Henri Azoulay $1,040
390 Milan Patel $1,040
391 Jesse Klinger $1,040
392 Rodney Heath $1,040
393 Kurt Lichtman $1,040
394 Nathan Thrush $1,040
395 Angel Matson $1,040
396 Edward Mc Pike $1,040
397 Joseph Hernon $1,040
398 Justin Shapiro $1,040
399 Felipe Cesareo $1,040
400 Cobi Cobian $1,040
401 Christopher Curatolo $1,040
402 Austin Goodman $1,040
403 James Quiles $1,040
404 Scott Weissman $1,040
405 Brandon Navarrete $1,040
406 Garry Gurevich $1,040
407 David Nathaniel Jr $1,040
408 Marc Sacheli $1,040
409 Joao Figueiredo $1,040
410 Carl Mckay $1,040
411 Sandy Sanchez $1,040
412 Rafael Rodriguez Arango $1,040
413 David Gelfman $1,040
414 Peter Austin Vickers $1,040
415 Carlos Bermudez $1,040
416 Unclaimed $1,040
417 Francisco Gomez $1,040
418 Aaron Thivyanathan $1,040
419 Jairo Velasquez $1,040
420 Kevin Morris $1,040
421 Gabriel Fuller $1,040
422 William Kopp Iii $1,040
423 Christopher Pastorello $1,040
424 Tom Gottlieb $1,040
425 Steven Richardson $1,040
426 Aidar Sharifullin $1,040
427 Rafael Lima $1,040
428 John Hunschofsky $1,040
429 Konstantin Volkov $1,040
430 Stephen Vecchio $1,040
431 Juan Pineda Florez $1,040
432 Sheldon Libfeld $1,040
433 Sollie Basher $1,040
434 Stuart Phillips $1,040
435 Craig Bagon $1,040
436 Ut Nguyen $1,040
437 Khiel Marx $1,040
438 Dmitri Zaitsev $1,040
439 Baseem Nsier $1,040
440 Nathan Frey $1,040
441 Zachary Weissman $1,040
442 Joseph Block $1,040
443 Jimmy Nunez $1,040
444 Alexander Yen $1,040
445 Irfan Mukati $1,040
446 Russell Williams $1,040
447 Christopher Zito $1,040
448 Sergio Giha $1,040

* Indicates the results of a heads-up deal.

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