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British Star Jake Cody Wins Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship
The British Triple Crown winner Jake Cody won one of the biggest prizes of his poker career to date after winning the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship for $510,850 in Florida. After his biggest title in 14 years, the Brit, who took a three-way deal to end the tournament when clear in chips, adds this latest title to WSOP, WPT and EPT wins in his glorious past.
A long-time tournament crusher, Jake Cody moved to America and converted into a cash game pro many years ago. But old habits die hard and the Triple Crown winner, the youngest player ever to win a WSOP, WPT and EPT title, was back to his old ways in Florida this week. Taking down the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship for over half a million dollars, the British player moved past $5 million in live poker winnings on The Hendon Mob and celebrated a famous victory in style.
2025 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $5,300 Championship Results:
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Jake Cody | United Kingdom | $510,850* |
| 2nd | Jeremy Wien | United States | $450,000* |
| 3rd | Stephen Song | United States | $438,000* |
| 4th | Andjelko Andrejevic | Serbia | $240,000 |
| 5th | Shaun Davis | United States | $181,000 |
| 6th | Arlinda Johns | United States | $138,000 |
| 7th | Jasper Ma | United States | $106,000 |
| 8th | Joseph Curcio | United States | $82,000 |
| 9th | Chris Hunichen | United States | $65,000 |
A Field of Legends
With 889 total entries, the $5,300-entry SHRPO Championship saw a massive prizepool of $4.3 million gathered in Florida. By the time the final nine players took to the felt, a massive three-way all-in saw two players hit the rail, with Jasper Ma’s pocket kings prevailing. Joseph Curcio’s ace-ten and Chris Hunichen’s suited jack-eight both lost as the board of A-K-9-9-6 sent ‘Big Huni’ home in ninth with $65,000 and Curcio in eighth for $82,000 by virtue of his bigger stack at the moment of elimination.
Ma had won the previous hand but despite that sat miles behind the runaway chip leader Jake Cody. Soon, Ma also crashed out. All-in with ace-queen, the American lost to Serbia’s Andjelko Andrejevic when his pocket fours held through the board of K-J-2-6-4 to eliminate Ma for a score of $106,000.
Cody’s dominance was only enhanced when he took out Arlinda Johns in sixth place for $138,000. All-in with ace-queen, Johns needed help against the pocket jacks of Cody and after a flop of K-9-7 offered none of it, a ten on the turn did at least add in two more outs to Johns’ hopes. None of them landed on the eight river, however, as the British player made a straight and reduced the field to five.
The Deal Decides It
Jeremy Wien had enjoyed an under-the-radar final table but surfaced to take out Shaun Davis in fifth place for $181,000. Calling all-in with five-four of spades on a flop of K-6-5- with two spades, Davis was shoved on by Wien with king-ten of clubs. A four on the turn gave Davis the best hand, elevating him to two pair, but a cruel six on the river improved Wien to a superior two pair and Davis hit the rail.
In fourth place, Serbia’s Andjelko Andrejevic made his exit for a score of $240,000. Three-bet shoving for around 22 big blinds with ace-ten, the Serb was crushed to be called by Cody’s ace-jack. Dominated to defeat, a board of 8-7-2-Q-K sent Andrejevic home as Cody improved his stack to over 100 big blinds.
It was at this point that the three remaining players agreed to a deal, and Cody’s stack meant he walked away with $510,850 and the SHRPO guitar-shaped trophy. Jeremy Wien took home $450,000 in second place, while Stephen Song won $438,000 in third place. For Cody, the win represented 10% of his lifetime winnings in poker tournaments and is only beaten by the $851,192 he claimed in his maiden WSOP victory in 2011 and the $1,213,193 he took home after winning the EPT Deauville Main Event in 2010.
The Champion in His Own Words
Once known as the leader of the ‘Brit Pack’ in the early 2010s, Cody has changed in the past few years, swapping jet black emo locks with his natural red hair. Gone is the long-time tournament pro, too, as Cody now plays cash above anything. After winning his first major tournament in many years, he was delighted to have returned to the winners’ circle.
“It feels unbelievable getting the trophy [and] winning the tournament. Even if you get a lot of money, actually winning just feels so good. There’s nothing that could have gone any different, I’m very happy with it.”
When he started the final table as a chip leader, Cody said he was focused on using his ‘great position’ to seal victory.
“I was just trying to play my cards well, and try to hopefully run good, and it worked out pretty well. Stephen [Song] was arguably one of the best players at the final table so I was not exactly looking to tangle with him, but you know if we got into certain situations that would have to happen. I wasn’t looking to play some big all-ins, I was looking to just win the blinds a lot and play post-flop.”
Admitting that ‘these days I just really play cash games’, Cody was happy to be able to return to his tournament winning roots.
“I still enjoy the rush of going deep,” he said. “There’s no better feeling than going deep in a tournament, but cash games are where it’s at right now. Cash games are very different because it’s always deep stacks, and in tournaments it’s always changing. I’m definitely not a fish, but I feel a bit less confident in some certain situations than I did previously. But I can still hold my own with these guys.”
After such a dominant victory, Jake Cody may well be keen to return to the tournament arena sooner than he might have done in the recent past.
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