$1,500 + $100 + $50 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event (Re-Entry)
Level 7: Blinds 250/500/75 ante
Zaki & Kessler
The first flight is up to 100 players with registration now closed. The field putting up half the entries needed to reach the $300,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool.
Players have two more chances to get a piece of the WPT Hard Rock Tampa Winter Poker Open Championship action with tonight’s second flight (7 pm) and Saturday’s third flight (11 am).
We mentioned Allen Kessler’s (Las Vegas) tough table draw earlier in the day, and it’s gotten tougher with the addition of local baller Just Zaki (Tampa) who tweeted:
Nice to finally play a decent tourney in my backyard. $1650 300k gtd at Tampa Hard Rock. @AllenKessler at my table lol
— Justin Zaki (@Justin_Zaki) December 13, 2013
Kessler and Zaki combined have just under 4 million in combined career live tournament earnings. Here’s a tale of the tape:
| Player | Career Earnings | Cashes | Best Result | ||||||
| Kessler | $2.7 million | 189 | 1st Place – 12 Times | ||||||
| Zaki | $1 million | 38 | 3rd Place 2011 Seminole Hard Rock Showdown ($416,00) | ||||||
Stats from PokerPages.com