Primary Event Schedule

11AM: Day 1B – $2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)

• $500,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 40,000 in chips
• Day 1 levels last 40 minutes; Day 2 & 3 levels last 60 minutes
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 10 (6:30pm)
• Day 1 will come to an end after Level 14
• Championship Structure Sheet

Secondary Event Schedule

9AM: $280 TPC Championship Turbo Satellite (Re-Entry)

• 2 seats guaranteed into TPC Championship
• Players begin with 10,000 in chips
• Levels last 15 minutes each
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 7 (10:40am)
• Winners will be entered into Flight B of the Championship
• Structure Sheet

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Return to Level 15:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining:  35 of 192

Flight A: 192 Entries: 35 Advanced
Flight B: Saturday at 11 am
Day 2: Sunday at noon
Day 3: Monday at 2 pm

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining:  35 of 192

Justin Zaki went on a late day heater, built a castle, and he finished Flight A of the TPC Championship with the lead. He put together a huge bag with 630,000 and the clear leader by the time they wrapped up action this evening.

Romeo Mendoza bagged second with 572,000 followed by Cody Hernandez, Jason Block, Oleg Rutskin, Fernando Rodriguez, Ken Fishman, and Chris Meyers rounding out those who bagged at least 300K.

We will post the full list of chip counts as soon as they are available.

Top Flight A stacks:

Justin Zaki – 630,000
Romeo Mendoza – 572,000
Cody Hernandez – 429,000
Jason Block – 383,000
Oleg Rutskin – 345,000
Fernando Rodriguez – 327,000
Ken Fishman – 327,000
Chris Meyers – 302,000

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining:  45 of 192

Level 14 is underway, the last chance for players to spin up a stack for Day 2 on Sunday. We have 45 players left and should break another table before bagging up.

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 13:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining:  48 of 192

After a middle position open, Marie Harrell moved all in for 51,000 from the cutoff and Jesse Cohen reshipped from the small blind to get folds from the big blind and original raiser.

Cohen:
Harrell:

Harrell was dominated by the bigger pair and could not find a save on the board to exit Flight A late in the day.

Jesse Cohen – 192,000 (48 bb)

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 13:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining:  54 of 192

Cards are back in the air for the last two levels of the day with Nick Scholz the new leader in the room.

He is up to 303,000 with other big stacks including Cody Hernandez (295,000), Romeo Mendoza (256,000), Oleg Rutskin (252,000), and Kyle Dilschneider (228,000).

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12:  1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players Remaining:  55 of 192

The finished up Level 12 and tournament staff sent Flight A players on their final break of the day while they pulled the purple chips out of play. They will return to play two more levels before bagging up.

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12:  1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players Remaining:  62 of 192

Action folded to Toby Boas and he shipped all in for 33,500 while having a laugh with David Tuthill. Kyle Dilschneider laughed along and then called to put Boas at risk.

Boas:
Dilschneider:

“Classic flip,” they joked.

Boas needed a lot of help but only found a small sweat as the board ran .

Kyle Dilschneider – 217,000 (72 bb)

2022 Tampa Poker Classic
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 12
$2,200 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 106
Prize Pool: $212,000
March 17-18, 2022

Event 12 was the last warmup before the Tampa Poker Classic Championship and it produced a fantastic field and final table. Brett Apter had a huge deficit heads-up but defeated Hunter Cichy to take the top prize of $67,330 for the title.

The tournament drew 106 entries to more than double the $100,000 into a prize pool worth $212,000. The last 11 players made the money and the final table nine advanced to Day 2.

The tournament came down to two top players in Apter and Cichy. The two pros battled for hours until Apter erased Cichy’s lead and won the tournament on a huge coin flip.

Cichy earned $41,610 for his runner-up finish while Apter cashed out for $67,330 and added the TPC trophy to his collection.

Results:

1st: Brett Apter – $67,330 + TPC trophy
2nd: Hunter Cichy – $41,610
3rd: Tyler Knittle – $27,570
4th: Mansoor Kader – $19,030
5th: Kyle Cartwright – $13,720
6th: Xavier Laurent – $10,350
7th: Herbert Woodbery – $8,180
8th: Anthony Askey – $6,800
9th: Ken O’Donnell – $5,950
10th: Ken Ware – $5,950
11th: David DiBernardi – $5,510