The Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open is winding down in South Florida, but not before the last seven players sit down for the final table of the $5,300 Championship event.
Jake Cody is at the head of the pack after 46 players returned on Monday to play down to the final table. His 122 big blinds are nearly double that of second place Stephen Song, who finished with 68. They're all playing for the top prize of $648,850 and the famed SHRPO Guitar Tower trophy.
A host of familiar faces fell before the final table after deep runs of their own, including Nick Palma, AJ Kelsall, Justin Zaki, Jeremy Becker, and Chris Hunichen.
The final seven will return tomorrow at noon local time to play down to a winner, and you can watch it play out on the Hard Rock Poker YouTube channel with a 30-minute delay. Let's meet the final seven...
Cody the man to beat
Seat 1: Andjelko Andrejevic – 7,000,000 (56BB)
- Career earnings: $6,907,023
The Serbian-born Andjelko Andrejevic returns in the middle of the pack and he has already locked up his third six-figure score of 2025. His first, a bracelet win in the $5K Six-Max at WSOP, was good for $855K. He followed that up with a 17th-place finish in the $100K PLO for a cool $200K.
Andrejevic also has a WPT win on his resume from the Amsterdam Main Event in 2016. His best Seminole finish was a third-place run in the 2014 RnR Poker Open Main Event.
Seat 2: Xiaoyao Ma – 3,275,000 (26 BB)
- Career earnings: $487,145
Xiaoyao Ma has some work to do to catch the head of the pack, but he's sitting firmly among several mid-stacks going into Tuesday's finale. He's coming off a hot summer with a WSOP final table and a run to 31st place in the $50K NLH 8-Max.
A finish of third or better would beat his career-high score of $240,000.
Seat 3: Jake Cody – 15,275,000 (122 BB)
- Career earnings: $4,662,297
Jake Cody is in the catbird seat for Tuesday’s finale, bagging up nearly double the chips of his nearest opponent. The Englishman and former PokerStars pro already notched a recent win at Seminole, taking home $93K in a $2,200 Deepstack, and has multiple other Seminole finishes on a résumé that dates back to 2009. He’s already guaranteed his first six-figure score since 2014, in a career that’s seen him earn $4.6 million and join the elite ranks of poker’s ‘Triple Crown’ winners — holding EPT, WSOP, and WPT titles.
Seat 4: Arlinda 'Tray' Johns – 3,050,000 (24 BB)
- Career earnings: $117,554
Arlinda Johns has $117,554 in career earnings and needs to outlast just one person on Tuesday to better that. She's already got a third-place finish here in the $400 Deep Stack Bounty event and has 20 cashes already in 2025. She will return among the pack of mid-stacks with plenty of ICM implications to think about on her way to Seminole tomorrow morning.
Seat 5: Shaun Davis – 2,600,000 (20 BB)
- Career earnings: $398,695
Shaun Davis is another South Florida native who has sprinkled cashes all around the country to the tune of $398K. He picked up a couple of small cashes this summer and three others at Seminole throughout the rest of 2025. Davis has already locked up a career high to beat his previous top mark of $35K.
Seat 6: Stephen Song – 8,600,000 (68 BB)
- Career earnings: $10,450,738
The richest and most decorated player at the table clocks in at $10M and Stephen Song already has a six-figure cash at Seminole in Tampa from their Signature Poker Series in late July. The native New Yorker was everywhere this year — like South Korea, where he won twice at The Lord Poker Tournament in Jeju, and the PokerGO Studio, where he cashed five times in the season opener PGT Kickoff series.
Seat 7: Jeremy Wien – 5,050,000 (40 BB)
- Career earnings: $1,236,313
Jeremy Wien cashed seven times at this summer's WSOP, including a min-cash in the Main Event. He's one of four players at the final table with over $1M in earnings, and he returns on Tuesday a slight cut above the cluster of mid-stacks with 40 big blinds. Despite his long resume with cashes all over the country, this will be his best finish at Seminole. If he can win it all, he has a new high score.
SHRPO Championship remaining payouts
| Place | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1 | $648,850 |
| 2 | $430,000 |
| 3 | $320,000 |
| 4 | $240,000 |
| 5 | $181,000 |
| 6 | $138,000 |
| 7 | $106,000 |
Images courtesy of Seminole Hard Rock/Allen Rash. Additional image courtesy of WPT. Data courtesy of The Hendon Mob.
