Adam Hendrix Wins U.S. Poker Open Event No. 3 For $211,200

The 2022 U.S. Poker Open features 12 high-stakes tournaments over the course of 13 consecutive days. Seven of the scheduled events are no-limit hold’em tournaments, with price points ranging from $10,000 all the way up to $50,000 for grand finale. Event no. 3 was the second of three $10,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em events on offer. It attracted a total of 88 entries to build a $880,000 prize pool. After two days of action, Alaskan poker pro Adam Hendrix emerged victorious with the title and the top prize of $211,200. This was the second-largest live score of Hendrix’s career, and it increased his lifetime earnings to more than $2.8 million.

This was Hendrix’s third final-table finish of the year. He earned 480 Card Player Player of the Year points for this latest deep run, which was enough to see him climb into a three-way tie for 38th place in the 2022 POY race, which is sponsored by Global Poker. Hendrix’s two previous final-table showings came in events with buy-ins below $10,000, and did not qualify for PokerGO Tour rankings points. This was his second score to count towards the high-stakes focused points race, having also secured a cash in event no. 2 of this same series. He now sits in 34th place in the PGT standings.

The final day of this event began with six players remaining, with two-time World Poker Tour main event winner and Card Player contributor Jonathan Little in the chip lead and Hendrix on the shortest stack. Hendrix found an early double up with A-J suited besting the A-10 of WPT main event champion Nitis Udornpim. Udornpim managed one double up, but his A-K suited was unable to hold against the A-10 of Little in his next preflop all-in confrontation, and he was eliminated in sixth place ($52,800).

Nine-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Erik Seidel was the next to fall. He shoved his last six or so big blinds from th4e button with 10-9 and received a call from Hendrix, who held a dominating J-10 in the big blind. Hendrix made a queen-high straight on the river to take down the pot and narrow the field to four. Seidel took home $70,400 as the fourth-place finisher, increasing his lifetime earnings to more than $39.8 million. He remains in fifth place on poker’s all-time money list.

Shannon Shorr backed up his win in event no. 1 of this series with a fourth-place showing in this tournament. With a stack of 690,000 and blinds of 40,000-80,0000 and a big blind ante of 80,000, Shorr opened to 475,000 on the button with Q-10. Jeremy Ausmus shoved for 1,510,000 from the small blind and Little folded from the big blind. Shorr called his remaining 215,000. The board kept Ausmus ahead and Shorr was sent to the rail with $88,000.

Three-handed action lasted for more than 90 minutes, with plenty of swings along the way. Ausmus fell to the bottom of the chip counts as play went on. In his final hand, he called an all-in from a chip=leading Hendrix out of the big blind with KQ for roughly ten big blinds. Hendrix had shoved 103 from the small blind. The board ran out A3354 and Hendrix’s trips earned him the pot and the knockout. Ausmus secured $105,600 and 320 POY points for his ninth final-table finish of the year. With 2,492 total points and more than $1.2 million in year-to-date POY earnings, Ausmus has regained the outright lead in the 2022 POY race. He also climbed into sixth place in the PGT standings.

Heads-up play began with Hendrix holding 7,175,000 to Little’s 3,825,000. The final showdown for the title lasted just a handful of minutes. In the final hand, Hendrix raised to 300,000 from the button with 88 and Little three-bet all-in for 3,375,000 with A2. Hendrix quickly called with his pocket pair and the board ran out Q635J to secure the pot and the title for Hendrix. Little earned $149,600 as the runner-up finisher, increasing his career live earnings to more than $7.4 million in the process.

Here is a look at the payouts and rankings points awarded at the final table:

Photo credits: PokerGO / Enrique Malfavon.

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