$200 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 24:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  24 of 1,305

Event 1 is flying right along and down to 24 players shortly after the dinner break. Tournament staff paused the clock as they redraw seats at the last three tables.

Tampa legend Tony March was eliminated in 25th place, short of what he wanted, but it’s another $1,060 will go to his Pay It Backward Foundation.

25th: Tony March – $1,060
26th: Milan Cyprich – $1,060
27th: Stephen South – $1,060
28th: Jeremiah Bobo – $1,060
29th: Daniel Lehmann – $1,060
30th: Michael Silva – $1,060
31st: Steven Lowrimore – $1,060
32nd: Thomas Schmitz – $1,060

2023 Pinktober Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 2
$600 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$30,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 106
Prize Pool: $55,650
October 22, 2023

Registration closed for PPO Event 2 with 106 entries pushing the $30,000 guarantee into a prize pool worth $55,650. The last 14 spots will be paid with a min-cash worth $1,250 and the winner will earn $15,240 plus the PPO trophy

1st: $15,240 + PPO Trophy
2nd: $10,160
3rd: $6,900
4th: $4,870
5th: $3,560
6th: $2,710
7th: $2,150
8th: $1,780
9th-10th: $1,530
11th-12th: $1,360
13th-14th: $1,250

$200 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  32 of 1,305

Right before players left for the dinner break, someone at Table 22 caught a big hand and left us wondering who was the owner of that massive 1,885,000 stack. Turns out Lamont Townsend was the recipient of the big pot and leads the field.

Glyn Griffis is second with 1,605,000 followed by Yan Jiang (1,495,000) and Daniel Zappulla (1,295,000).

$200 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 22:  15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining:  32 of 1,305

Level 22 ended right as tournament staff were breaking another table to get the field down to 32. Those players were sent on a 30-minute dinner break and will return to continue playing towards the title.

33rd: Maurice Haynes – $900
34th: Lana Nester – $900
35th: Christopher Jungbauer – $900
36th: Wesley Scarbrough – $900
37th: Laxman Khetwal – $900
38th: Shane Dellus – $900
39th: Phillip Krnyaich – $900
40th: Christy Pham – $900

41st: Kara Margraf – $780
42nd: Teddy Tavares Correa – $780
43rd: Denis Labbe – $780
44th: David Ross – $780
45th: Ray Lambert – $780
46th: Joshua Paige – $780
47th: Bradley Kane – $780
48th: William Greenfield – $780

$200 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 21:  15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  48 of 1,305

One level down, one table broken. Event 1 is down to six tables with 48 players still in contention for the title. Blinds are up to 15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante and the average stack is about 545,000.

Here’s an updated look at the recent results:

49th: Gabriel Fuller – $680
50th: Matthew White – $680
51st: Matthew Leecy – $680
52nd: Joshua Henson – $680
53rd: Franklin Brigham – $680
54th: Bryan Tang – $680
55th: Conner Reynolds – $680
56th: Jamie Acquafredda – $680

57th: Vamsi Dodda – $600
58th: Ed Johnston – $600
59th: Steven Kaplan – $600
60th: Britten Harden – $600
61st: Jovan Jovic – $600
62nd: Thomas McCann – $600
63rd: Steven Reilly – $600
64th: Tom Nguyen – $600

65th: Andre Dickerson – $540
66th: Asif Mohammed – $540
67th: Jonathan Albert – $540
68th: Attye Vasquez – $540
69th: Flavio Martinho – $540
70th: Sudhir Kantamaneni – $540
71st: Mark Winchell – $540
72nd: Greg Osborne – $540

73rd: Joseph Greene – $490
74th: Dianna Ross – $490
75th: Steven Wicker – $490
76th: Damien Cook – $490
77th: Brannen Ricker – $490
78th: Tammy Leonard – $490
79th: Alain Medesan – $490
80th: Charles Shoaf – $490

$200 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  56 of 1,305

The second break has come and gone and cards are back in the air with no slowing the pace. Seven tables are in action and they’ll get very close to the three-table redraw before the next break in 90 minutes.

Dylan Piano continues to lead the field with 1,550,000 and Glyn Griffis is the closest with 1,100,000 while Daniel Zappulla’s 985,000 has him one big blind away from seven digits.

$200 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 19:  8,000/16,000 with a 16,000 ante
Players Remaining:  64 of 1,305

Event 1 players are set for another break after Level 19 and we’ll go find some big stacks while they are gone. Until then, here’s a look at the results from 81st through 104th.

81st: James D’Arcangelis – $450
82nd: Woodrow Pass – $450
83rd: Gregory Courson – $450
84th: Mohamad Al Halwani – $450
85th: Marco Antonio Belusic – $450
86th: Michael Latuf – $450
87th: Richard Palase – $450
88th: Witold Wasik – $450

89th: Dustin Jones – $420
90th: Nicole Diaz – $420
91st: Remedios Patalinghug – $420
92nd: Bahram Amini Sarabi – $420
93rd: Jeffrey Kichman – $420
94th: Alexander Pachmayer II – $420
95th: Imre Papp – $420
96th: Eugene Durante – $420
97th: Javier Hernandez – $420
98th: Allauddin Khan – $420
99th: Long Chen – $420
100th: Jordan Joeckel – $420
101st: Brook Smith – $420
102nd: Michael Joseph – $420
103rd: Jeevan Nomula – $420
104th: Luis Bauza Matos – $420

$200 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 18:  8,000/16,000 with a 16,000 ante
Players Remaining:  64 of 1,305

Tom Nguyen had a top-five stack at the first break but was recently found standing at the payout desk. It was a surprising sight and we went to his table to see Dylan Piano sitting behind a lot of chips, 600K alone in racks waiting for some color change, and stacked with a huge lead of 1,400,000 on the nose.

He doubled Nguyen earlier in the day and got his chips back plus some. Piano started with 327,000 and put more than a million on top.

$200 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  84 of 1,305

Catching up on some results, here’s a look at who cashed out between 105th and 133rd place including WPT Tampa runner-up and two-time 2023 TPC champ Fred Paradis.

105th: Bogdan Toma – $390
106th: Farzad Raji – $390
107th: Jason Underhill – $390
108th: Dimitry Shamootin – $390
109th: Fred Paradis – $390
110th: Thomas Gustafson – $390
111th: Tyrone Wilson – $390
112th: Joseph Piambino – $390
113th: Tirth Patel – $390
114th: Jeffrey Russell – $390
115th: Nathan Compton – $390
116th: Amie Martini – $390
117th: Juan Rodriguez – $390
118th: Guy Wan – $390
119th: James Zannone – $390
120th: Sean Turow – $390

121st: Alan Thomas – $370
122nd: Wesley Skinner – $370
123rd: Harry Binda – $370
124th: Nashaat Antonious – $370
125th: Nathan Tanner – $370
126th: John Feeney – $370
127th: Branden Rosario – $370
128th: Eliezer Perez Parra – $370
129th: Erik Hart – $370
130th: Jacqueline Torro – $370
131st: Michael Spada – $370
132nd: Michael Mercer – $370
133rd: Jacob Koerber – $370

$200 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  88 of 1,305

Event 1 players were sent on a 15-minute break after Level 16 and returned with Ed Johnston back on top with 802,000. He bagged the lead in Flight A and now he’s leading again.

Glyn Griffis, Tom Nguyen, Matthew Leecy, and Matt Sundberg are also stacked big to make our top five.

Blinds are up to 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante and the average stack is about 297,000 (30 bb) with 88 players remaining.

Ed Johnston – 802,000 (80 bb)
Glyn Griffis – 795,000 (80 bb)
Tom Nguyen – 772,000 (77 bb)
Matthey Leecy – 700,000 (70 bb)
Matt Sundberg – 695,000 (70 bb)