Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood Announces Winner of Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open
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Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood Announces Winner of Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open – Czech Republic’s Pavel Plesuv Wins Championship for $504,820
Boca Raton, FL – At the conclusion of the Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open (RRPO), it’s Pavel Plesuv of Prague, Czech Republic who walks away with $504,820 after winning first place in the $3,500 World Poker Tour (WPT) Championship. Plesuv bested 898 total entries in the series finale, taking home the trophy and a $15,000 WPT Tournament of Champions entry in what marked the largest Championship tournament in RRPO history.
“The tournament was great,” Plesuv said. “I really liked the structure. The field was big and it had great organization. The property is great, too.”
Plesuv hails from Maldova but now resides in Prague. He has been a professional poker player for 10 years and this score marks his third-largest career cash. Previously, he claimed three other tournament titles and finished runner-up at WPT Prague in 2015.
“I was heads-up in WPT Prague three years ago with a big chip lead,” Plesuv said. “I lost. So I’m really excited to come back and win.”
Championship Final Table Results:
1st: Pavel Plesuv (Prague, Czech Republic) $504,820
2nd: James Gilbert (Philadelphia, Pa.) $326,565
3rd: Jeremy Joseph (Buffalo, N.Y.) $240,945
4th: Marius Gierse (Vienna, Austria) $179,710
5th: Christopher Kennedy (Harrisburg, Pa.) $135,505
6th: Ravi Raghavan (Northbrook, Ill.) $103,310
The 19-tournament RRPO kicked off on Wednesday, Nov. 14 with a $360 buy-in Ultimate Re-Entry. The series opener drew 4,558 entries easily surpassing the $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool.
In addition to Plesuv, other signature event winners include:
- Trung Pham (Temple, Texas.), winning the $360 Deep Stack NLH Series Opener for $123,364
- Dragos Iosub (Dublin, Ireland), winning the $570 Deep Stack NLH for $82,000
- David Peters (Las Vegas, Nev.), winning the $5,000 Eight-Handed NLH for $143,159
- Peter Mancini (London, Ontario), winning the $1,650 Deep Stack Purple Chip Bounty NLH for $31,093
Poker action will return to Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Fla. in the new year with the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Lucky Hearts Poker Open (LHPO) on Jan. 10 – Jan. 22, 2019, headlined by the Ultimate Re-Entry series opener with a $500,000 Guarantee and the WPTDeepStacks Championship boasting a $1 Million Guarantee.
