The final table of the 2017 Rock 'n' Roll Poker Open $3,500 Main Event at Seminole Hard Rock featured the likes of high roller Tom Marchese and seasoned pros like Shaun Deeb and Ari Engel. However, none of those players was able to stop 48-year-old recreational player Michael Newman, who defeated a murderer's row to earn a huge $374,240 payday after getting through a field of 585 entries.
The monster cash doubled his career live cashes, which had previous to this been headed by a score of $30,640 in this very same event for 12th place in 2015.