T.K. Miles Wins Event 7 of the 2021 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Outright for $51,560 6x172p

2021 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Event 7 Champion T.K. Miles

Event 7 of the 2021 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open was a $200 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em. There were six starting flights across two days, drawing 2,056 entries and generating a prize pool of $328,960, more than doubling the $150,000 guarantee. Emerging victorious was T.K. Miles, winning outright for $51,560.

“Not bad for $200,” said Miles after the win.

Miles bagged a hefty stack in his starting flight and was 2nd overall of 260 returning players on Day 2. He maintained his standing near or at the top of the chip counts throughout the day, seizing the chip lead with three tables remaining and only giving it up briefly while at the final table.

The Tallahassee native is one of the most accomplished professional poker players in Florida. He ranks 20th on the Hendon Mob poker database for most tournament winnings for players born in Florida, and with his victory tonight he eclipsed the $4 million mark in live career tournament winnings.

Place First Name Last Name Prize Amount
1 T.K. Miles $51,560
2 Lucas Tae $37,055
3 Alex Morgovsky $24,645
4 John Nguyen $18,335
5 David Shmuel $13,910
6 Jose Silva $11,215
7 Steve Raeman $8,700
8 Jose Nigaglioni $6,285
9 Guillermo Reyes $4,640
10 Sergio Perez $4,640
11 James Nadolski Jr. $3,805
12 Andre Bryan $3,805
13 Aaron Pinson $3,040
14 Cornelius Rogers $3,040
15 George Evgenis $3,040
16 Chris Perry $2,410
17 Harjinder Chawla $2,410
18 Victor Carrera $2,410
19 Nicholas Rascona $1,900
20 Tamara Goldshteyn $1,900
21 Isiah James $1,900
22 Sean Shah $1,550
23 Benjamin Boston $1,550
24 Petersen Allen $1,550
25 Dalis Gomez $1,300
26 Chaim Appel $1,300
27 Joseph York $1,300
28 Bassel Harmouche $1,090
29 Lawrence Whyte $1,090
30 Rafael Lima $1,090
31 Jeffrey Bohanek $1,090
32 Piyush Mittal $1,090
33 Patrick Michaud $1,090
34 Ilias Barkoutsis $1,090
35 Thomas Curtis $1,090
36 David Albertson $1,090
37 David Halimi $920
38 Martin Belous $920
39 Anton Kutsenko $920
40 Devond Marshall $920
41 Fabian Henao Ariasm $920
42 George Hortelano $920
43 Brandon Miller $920
44 Kenny Han $920
45 Donald Williams $920
46 Vu Thach $785
47 Manuel Jo $785
48 Ricardo Eyzaguirre $785
49 Daryl Boatwright $785
50 Robert Souaid Jr. $785
51 Scott Zakheim $785
52 Jorge Soto $785
53 Arturo Rodriguez $785
54 Daniel Saffer $785
55 Veselin Katrandzhiev $685
56 Juan Gomez $685
57 Juan Marin Jaramillo $685
58 Robert Cicchelli $685
59 Robert Brandl $685
60 Simon Hamer $685
61 Al Gomez $685
62 Jesse Gujarczyk $685
63 Laurence Goldstein $685
64 Javier Rios Gomez $615
65 Justin Gentile $615
66 Zachary Harrell $615
67 Raffaello Locatelli $615
68 Roberto Bendeck $615
69 Timothy Gilliam $615
70 Sergio Alvez Sandoval $615
71 Courtney Rowe $615
72 James Rovezzi $615
73 Casey Campbell $565
74 Daniel Rose $565
75 Antonio Colon $565
76 Julian Kasky $565
77 Joel Piekarski $565
78 Eric Siegel $565
79 Craig Bateman $565
80 Sean Swedman $565
81 Jill Rukeyser $565
82 Andrew Cooper $535
83 Nicholas Visconti $535
84 Chris Tryba $535
85 Charlemagne Benjamin $535
86 Michael Scheinberg $535
87 Sedarrien Coley $535
88 Joseph Sylvester $535
89 Anatoly Zharnitsky $535
90 Troy Singh $535
91 Cesar Mendoza Gomez $510
92 Rebekah Emmons $510
93 James Tomblin II $510
94 Lex Ozias $510
95 Pedro Palacio $510
96 Jacque Doucette $510
97 Bernhard Schmidt $510
98 Lawrence Broome $510
99 Fred Wilkes $510
100 Raminder Singh $485
101 Elisha Greenwood $485
102 Ronel Juan $485
103 Jamar Brown $485
104 Alfredo Guevara $485
105 Nan Min $485
106 Philip Toister $485
107 Perry Shiao $485
108 Tommy Nguyen $485
109 Aaron Massey $460
110 Alex Ortiz Vazquez $460
111 Shawn Mohamed $460
112 Hany Ayoub $460
113 Evan Beard $460
114 Stuart Newmark $460
115 Noam Ben-Arie $460
116 Eduardo Moucherek Cecchinato $460
117 James Quiles $460
118 Thomas Carnes $440
119 Mark Henry $440
120 Robert Miller $440
121 Trevan Hansen $440
122 James Jones $440
123 Jose Parra $440
124 Soukha Kachittavong $440
125 She Lok Wong $440
126 Rick Kalgstein $440
127 Kenneth Bruno $420
128 Jeremy Becker $420
129 Harvey Freedman $420
130 Raymond Millard $420
131 Peter DeGirolarmo Jr. $420
132 Michael Forca $420
133 Antonio Germani $420
134 Christopher Miranda $420
135 Carlos Vazquez $420
136 Federico Herrera $400
137 Matthew Licht $400
138 Curtis King $400
139 Samy Azzam $400
140 Michael Carbello $400
141 Jorge Torres $400
142 Jonathan Dobson $400
143 Jorge Bermudez $400
144 Alberto Niebla $400
145 Wongduan Nannong $385
146 Taylor Chaffin $385
147 Georoh Netanelof $385
148 Manthan Desai $385
149 Michael Guilliford $385
150 Calixto Rodriguez $385
151 Barry Roth $385
152 Howard Mash $385
153 James Krangle $385
154 Lee Stransky $370
155 Michael Krumenacker $370
156 Michael Dreese $370
157 Michael Perez $370
158 Michael Moskowitz $370
159 Nicola De Lazzari-Stacey $370
160 Artur Tishchenko $370
161 John Tice $370
162 Clifford Conners $370
163 Cheri Ryan $355
164 Ginold Rendel $355
165 Paula Alibrandi $355
166 Francisco Milanes $355
167 Duane Salter $355
168 Tatiana Frazzica $355
169 Dylan Malcomson $355
170 James Brundige $355
171 Daniyal Gheba $355
172 Trung Pham $345
173 Luca Lo Valvo $345
174 Shelton Johnson $345
175 German Garcia $345
176 Daniel Rodriguez $345
177 Robert Petronio $345
178 Wilmer Chavira $345
179 Kyle Grosshaten $345
180 Stella Davila $345
181 Melissa Hunt $335
182 Thomas Gari $335
183 Jacquelyn Scott $335
184 Jordan Shamah $335
185 Pablo Hernandez $335
186 Felipe Martinez $335
187 Ronald Prochak $335
188 Antonio Campbell $335
189 Jerry Schrader $335
190 David Ehresman $335
191 Steven Bonilla $335
192 Abin Bannister $335
193 Bradley Grossman $335
194 Richard Whitebrook $335
195 Alfredo Mansur $335
196 Carlos Rodriguez Rojas $335
197 Quiroz Castillo $335
198 James Sutherland $335
199 Antonio De Araujo $325
200 Alan Resh $325
201 Aaron Valencia $325
202 Igor Evseev $325
203 Ilan Bakhar $325
204 Rene Noriega $325
205 Michael Decesare $325
206 George Miro $325
207 Marcela Newmark $325
208 Philip Sokolov $325
209 Miguel Solano Rodriguez $325
210 John Aycock $325
211 Yoav Yuhjtman $325
212 Michael Capo $325
213 Claire Chiang $325
214 Scott Robb $325
216 Carl Pruitt $325
217 Steven McKoy $315
218 Joseph Diaz Jr $315
219 John Maddox $315
220 Roger McKinney $315
221 Peter Horenstein $315
222 Carlos Apinaye $315
223 Andrew Daire $315
224 Eric Treadwell $315
225 Michael Watkins $315
226 Alain Boucher $315
227 Vincent Simonelli $315
228 Alejandro Funes $315
229 Javier Sarache $315
230 Jose Ardila $315
231 Eric Prandl $315
232 Mark Warren $315
233 Henry Fermin $315
234 Svi Soudai $315
235 Ernest Perry $305
236 Lesly Herard $305
237 Tyler Montoya $305
238 Luidmila Krylova $305
239 Osmany Saldanas $305
240 Oleg Gaidouk $305
241 Edgar Varas $305
242 Jonathan Lukshns $305
243 Yuri Chiozzo $305
244 Darrell Carril $305
245 Maneshwar Manthani $305
246 Kim Scoratow $305
247 Christopher Allison $305
248 Jon Stonger $305
249 Bobby Crain $305
250 Tuan Phan $305
251 Tim Shane $305
252 David Vurgait $305
253 Ronald Johnston $305
254 Marcia Costa-Savidge $305
255 Justin Lerner $305
256 Sagi Zommer $305
257 Vinicius Monteiro $305
258 Carlos Ruiz $305
259 Eric Chhor $305
260 Randal Fernandez $305

Event 7: T.K. Miles Wins! ($51,560); Lucas Tae Eliminated in 2nd Place ($37,055) 4i1e5

$200 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em
$150,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
Level 36:  250,000/500,000 with a 500,000 ante
Players Remaining:  1 of 2,056

T.K. Miles raised to 1,000,000 from the button, Lucas Tae three-bet all in for about 11,000,000 from the big blind and Miles called.

Miles: AdJc
Tae: Qh10d

The board ran out AsJh2h4c9s, giving Miles aces and jacks to eliminate Tae and win Event 7 outright for $51,560.

Tae finished runner-up for $37,055.

Lucas Tae – 2nd Place

A recap of the event will be posted later this morning.

Event 7: Official Chip Counts at the Start of Heads-Up Play v6y3u

$200 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em
$150,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
Level 36:  250,000/500,000 with a 500,000 ante
Players Remaining:  2 of 2,056

Lucas Tae (left) vs. T.K. Miles (right)

T.K. Miles – 19,050,000 (38 bb)
Lucas Tae – 10,800,000 (22 bb)

1st: $51,560 + SHRPO Trophy
2nd: $37,055

With two players remaining, the average chip stack is 15,425,000 (31 big blinds).

Event 7: Alex Morgovsky – 3rd Place ($24,645) 20233f

$200 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em
$150,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
Level 36:  250,000/500,000 with a 500,000 ante
Players Remaining:  2 of 2,056

Alex Morgovsky – 3rd Place

Alex Morgovsky raised all in from the button for 2,100,000 and T.K. Miles called from the big blind.

Morgovsky: Qd5d
Miles: Ah4c

The board ran out Kd7s6c7dAs, no help to Morgovsky after turning a flush draw, ending his run in third place.

T.K. Miles – 19,050,000 (38 bb)
Alex Morgovsky – Eliminated in 3rd Place ($24,645)

Event 7: Official Chip Counts 164f45

$200 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em
$150,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
Level 36:  250,000/500,000 with a 500,000 ante
Players Remaining:  3 of 2,056

T.K. Miles  –  16,850,000 (34 bb)
Lucas Tae  –  11,900,000 (24 bb)
Alex Morgovsky – 2,100,000 (4 bb)

1st: $51,560 + SHRPO Trophy
2nd: $37,055
3rd: $24,645

With three players remaining, the average chip stack is about 10,275,000 (21 big blinds).

Event 7: John Nguyen – 4th Place ($18,335) 3i616n

$200 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em
$150,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
Level 35:  200,000/400,000 with a 400,000 ante
Players Remaining:  3 of 2,056

John Nguyen – 4th Place

Lucas Tae raised to 800,000 from UTG/cutoff, John Nguyen three-bet all in for 2,600,000 from the big blind and Tae thought for a bit before he called.

Tae: Ks3s
Nguyen: Ad2d

The board came down 5s3h7d9hQh, giving Tae a pair of threes to eliminate Nguyen in fourth place.

Lucas Tae – 13,000,000 (33 bb)
John Nguyen – Eliminated in 4th Place ($18,335)

Event 7: Approximate Chip Counts 3l731q

$200 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em
$150,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
Level 34:  150,000/300,000 with a 300,000 ante
Players Remaining:  4 of 2,056

T.K. Miles  –  10,300,000 (34 bb)
Lucas Tae  –  8,850,000 (30 bb)
Alex Morgovsky  –  6,200,000 (21 bb)
John Nguyen  –  5,500,000 (18 bb)

1st: $51,560 + SHRPO Trophy
2nd: $37,055
3rd: $24,645
4th: $18,335

With four players remaining, the average chip stack is about 7,700,000 (26 big blinds).

Event 7: David Shmuel – 5th Place ($13,910) 57686x

$200 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em
$150,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
Level 33:  125,000/250,000 with a 250,000 ante
Players Remaining:  4 of 2,056

David Shmuel

John Nguyen raised to 500,000 from the cutoff, David Shmuel three-bet all in from the small blind for about 2,300,000 and Nguyen called.

Nguyen: QsJs
Shmuel: Qd10d

The board ran out 3dJh9d2sQh, not enough help to Shmuel after a good flop, ending his run in fifth place.

John Nguyen – 9,600,000 (38 bb)
David Shmuel – Eliminated in 5th Place ($13,910)

Event 7: Lucas Tae Doubles Thru T.K. Miles 5c13a

$200 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em
$150,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
Level 32:  100,000/200,000 with a 200,000 ante
Players Remaining:  5 of 2,056

Lucas Tae

Lucas Tae moved all in from the button for 2,725,000, and T.K. Miles called from the big blind with KcQh.

Tae turned over Ad9s, and needed his hand to hold to stay alive.

The board came 8d5s4cAc8s, and Tae won the pot with two pair, aces and eights, to double up in chips.

Lucas Tae  –  5,750,000  (29 bb)
T.K. Miles  –  5,800,000  (29 bb)

With five players remaining, the average chip stack is about 6,175,000 (31 big blinds), and the remaining players are all guaranteed at least $13,910 each.

Event 7: John Nguyen Doubles Thru T.K. Miles 3p5a3z

$200 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em
$150,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
Level 32:  100,000/200,000 with a 200,000 ante
Players Remaining:  5 of 2,056

John Nguyen

T.K. Miles raised from the button to 400,000, John Nguyen moved all in from the big blind for 2,675,000, and Miles called with Ks10c.

Nguyen turned over JhJd, and needed his hand to hold to stay alive.

The board came Qc6h5c7d6d, and the pocket jacks held up for Nguyen to win the pot and double up in chips.

John Nguyen  –  5,650,000  (28 bb)
T.K. Miles  –  8,800,000  (44 bb)

With five players remaining, the average chip stack is about 6,175,000 (31 big blinds), and the remaining players are all guaranteed at least $13,910 each.