$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4:  300/500 with a 500 ante
Flight C Entries:  185

Four levels are in the books and tournament staff sent Flight C players on the first break. They’ll return and play four more levels before we close registration after the second break.

$400 Pot Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)
Structure
Level 1:  100/200 with a 200 ante

More Omaha on the schedule today with Event 3 getting underway at noon in the Event Center. It is a Pot-Limit Omaha 8 tournament with a $400 buy-in and plenty of action on deck.

Players start with 25,000 in their stacks and all levels last 30 minutes for the one-day trophy event. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 4:30 pm. The 30-minute dinner break is scheduled at 6:30 pm and they’ll return to find our next SPS champ.

• Players begin with 25,000 in chips
• Levels last 30 minutes
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9 (4:30pm)
• This is a one-day tournament and plays to completion
• Event 3 Structure Sheet

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2:  200/300 with a 300 ante
Flight C Entries:  135

We’re getting closer to the afternoon hours and more players are making their way to the Event Center. They doubled the starting number and moving right along with some regulars getting in the game.

Among them we found Terri-Anne Crawford and Marsha Wolak, the latter skipping yesterday’s action to celebrate her birthday. Happy Birthday Marsha!

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1:  100/200 with a 200 ante
Flight C Entries:  63

Action is underway for Flight C of Tampa Signature Poker Series Event 1 with 63 players in before lunchtime.

They will play four levels before taking a break from the action and registration closes at 2:30 pm.

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1:  100/200 with a 200 ante

The second day of the Tampa Signature Poker Series is here, which means two more flights of the $1,000,000 guarantee opening event. The $400 Deep Stack drew 544 entries over the first two flights and we expect many more as we head into the busy weekend.

Event 1 players start with 30K deep stacks and all Day 1 levels last 30 minutes, increasing to 40 minutes when they return for Day 2. Late registration is available until the start of Level 9 at 2:30 pm and players may re-enter as often as needed.

Flight C will continue until 10% of the field remains and survivors will return on Sunday at 1 pm in the money.

• $1,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 30,000 in chips
• Day 1 levels last 30 minutes; Day 2 levels last 40 minutes
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9 (2:30pm)
• Day 1 will end when 10% of field remains
• Event 1 Structure Sheet

Chip counts through Flight B

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 17:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  53 of 544

Flight A: 248 Entries; 23 Advanced
Flight B: 296 Entries; 30 Advanced
Flight C: Thursday at 10 am
Flight D: Thursday at 5 pm
Flight E: Friday at 10 am
Flight F: Friday at 5 pm
Flight G: Saturday at 10 am
Flight H: Saturday at 5 pm
Day 2: Sunday at 1 pm

Primary Event Schedule

10AM: Event 1 Flight C – $400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)

• $1,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 30,000 in chips
• Day 1 levels last 30 minutes; Day 2 levels last 40 minutes
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9 (2:30pm)
• Day 1 will end when 10% of field remains
• Event 1 Structure Sheet

12PM: Event 3 – $400 Pot Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)

• Players begin with 25,000 in chips
• Levels last 30 minutes
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9 (4:30pm)
• This is a one-day tournament and plays to completion
• Event 3 Structure Sheet

5PM: Event 1 Flight D – $400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)

• $1,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 30,000 in chips
• Day 1 levels last 30 minutes; Day 2 levels last 40 minutes
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9 (9:30pm)
• Day 1 will end when 10% of field remains
• Event 1 Structure Sheet

Secondary and Satellite Schedule

2PM: $100 Event 1 Satellite (1-in-5)

• 1-in-5 win seats into $1,000,000 GTD Event 1
• Players begin with 10,000 in chips
• Levels last 15 minutes
• Late registration until start of Level 7 (3:45pm)
• Structure Sheet

7PM: $240 Multi-Event Satellite (1-in-10)

• 1-in-10 win seats into $1,000,000 GTD Event 1 and Championship
• Players begin with 15,000 in chips
• Levels last 20 minutes
• Late registration until start of Level 7 (9:15pm)
• Winners will be entered into Day 1A of the Championship
• Structure Sheet

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 16:  4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining:  30 of 296

The final hand of the night saw the bubble girl get all in with pocket sevens, and Roddys Torres (pictured) had her covered holding 9-8 offsuit on a final board that brought two aces on the flop with a brick. The turn and river followed with 8-9 to give Torres the better two-pair, and he sent his opponent to the rail to bring Flight B to a close. Torres bagged up 478,000 to round out the top five in chips. Florida poker professional TK Miles bagged up the most chips with 687,000 to end the night. Take a look at everyone’s chip counts from the flight below:

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 16:  4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining:  31 of 296

The field is down to the final 31 players so hand-for-hand play has begun on the end of day bubble. When one more players busts the remaining field of 30 will advance to Day 2 on Sunday that will start at 1 pm.

2023 Tampa Signature Poker Series
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 2
$400 Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)
Entries: 135
Prize Pool: $45,225
September 6, 2023

A field of 135 entries entered the $400 buy-in pot-limit Omaha event on opening night at the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Signature Poker Series, creating a prizepool worth more than $45,000. The final battle between local players Doug Marro and Hoang Tran proved to be the toughest match of the night, with Marro doubling up four times to claim his spot at the top of the tournament.

“It’s definitely ironic, because the guys here know that I give a lot of action in PLO normally, so it’s going to be funny that I won,” said Marro after the victory.

There was a fun community feeling at the final table, especially when things got down to three-handed action; and even more so when it was heads-up for the title. There were even players from Flight B in Event 1 shouting across the room for chip count updates at different times.  Various local players kept stopping by to peek in on the action as well.

“Yeah, yeah, I don’t like too much of that, but it was fun. I’m a big fan of the guy that I was playing with, he just moved here recently and we had joked around the last couple months so it was cool that we were heads-up like that. I’m glad it was him because I was actually able to have fun, and not be too serious” said Marro when he was asked about the heads-up final against Tran. He continued, “As the guys know, I like to say ‘trust the process’ and they’ll know what that means [laughs].”

“I think we have a really good poker director Pablo. I have a good relationship with him, and he definitely understands poker, which is very important. He made our cash room a lot better. I normally play cash, and he did a really good job with that so shout out to him,” said Marro when he was asked what he enjoys about consistently returning to the SHR Tampa poker scene.

Even though he primarily plays cash, Marro also said that he will definitely be back for the Championship event and a few other tournaments during the SPS series. He also wanted to say one last thing at the end of his winner’s interview, “Everything that I learned in PLO I learned from Charlie K [laughs].”

Final Results:

1st: Doug Marro – $11,565 + SPS trophy
2nd: Hoang Tran – $7,710
3rd: Zee Kurdi – $5,390
4th: Marshall Morris – $3,870
5th: Michael Laake – $2,860
6th: Daquon Wilson – $2,180
7th: John Casaubon – $1,710
8th: Alexandru Ivan – $1,380
9th: Jonathan Gold – $1,150
10th: Dustin Peglow – $1,150
11th: Barry Blakely – $1,000
12th: Matthew Tedesco – $1,000
13th: Wally Maddah – $900
14th: Alexander Orlov – $900
15th: William Wallace – $820
16th: Joseph Battaglia – $820
17th: Braedon Brown – $820