$1,700 TPC Championship
Prize Pool: $450,000 | Structure | Payouts
Level 14: 3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 39 of 300
The 2026 Tampa Poker Classic drew exactly 300 entries to the $1,700 buy-in tournament, yielding a $450,000 prize pool. We have 39 players returning at 11 am, each trying to earn the title along with the $100,900 top prize.
Thien Nguyen went big at the end of Flight C and returns with a huge chip to start the day.
The blinds roll back to 9:43 remaining in Level 14 with blinds at 3,000/5,000/5,000 and the average stack is about 308,000 (62 bb) so there’s plenty of play on Day 2.
Top ten returning stacks:
- Thien Nguyen – 1,052,000 (210 bb)
- William Criego – 713,000 (143 bb)
- Heather Kimel – 711,000 (142 bb)
- Dan Murray – 610,000 (122 bb)
- Daniel Zucker – 595,000 (119 bb)
- Mike Hernandez – 532,000 (106 bb)
- Hassan El Hakim – 521,000 (104 bb)
- Nathaniel Palombo – 485,000 (97 bb)
- Lu Yu – 440,000 (88 bb)
- Rafael Reis – 435,000 (87 bb)