$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 26:  50,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante
Players Remaining:  17 of 1,705

With the flop reading , Peter D’Abrosca moved all in for 1,050,000 from the big blind and Khanh Truong quickly called on the button.

Truong:
D’Abrosca:

D’Abrosca paired his ace on the flop but he was crushed by Truong’s top two pair aces and tens. The board finished with turn and river and D’Abrosca was eliminated shortly after the dinner break.

Khanh Truong – 4,400,000 (59 bb)
Peter D’Abrosca – Eliminated in 18th Place ($3,910)

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 25:  30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining:  19 of 1,705

The 19 players finished up Level 25 and were sent on a 30-minute dinner break while tournament staff pull the 5K chips out of play.

They will return and continue their path towards the final table and Event 1 title.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 25:  30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining:  19 of 1,705

Christopher Van Durmen open-shoved for 495,000 from middle position and it folded to James Kerr in the big blind. He thought for a moment and called with the bigger stack.

Kerr:
Van Durmen:

It was a race and Van Durmen needed his sixes to hold to double up. Kerr paired his ten on the flop and Van Durmen could not come back on the turn or river.

James Kerr – 2,450,000 (41 bb)
Christopher Van Durmen – Eliminated in 20th Place ($3,910)

21st: Stephen Brite – $3,250
22nd: Farzad Raji – $3,250
23rd: Gabriel Fuller – $3,250
24th: Chad Kitchen – $3,250

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 25:  30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining:  24 of 1,705

Another level down and another table broken. TPC Event 1 is down to 24 players and triggered a three-table draw, every player is now guaranteed at least $3,250 and the prizes are climbing.

Blinds are up to 30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante and the average stack is about 2,130,000 (36 bb). There will be a 30-minute dinner break following Level 25.

25th: Jordan Lowery – $2,720
26th: Randy Levin – $2,720
27th: Luke Gramentz – $2,720
28th: Soe Lee – $2,720
29th: Timothy Pettus – $2,720
30th: Joshua Johnson – $2,720
31st: Andrew Brannon – $2,720
32nd: Graham Miller – $2,720

2023 Tampa Poker Classic
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 4
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$20,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 194
Prize Pool: $64,990
March 12, 2023

Registration closed for the Sunday $400 Deep Stack tournament and Event 4 drew 194 entries to more than double the $20,000 guarantee. They created a prize pool worth $64,990 with the last 25 spots getting paid. A min-cash is worth $750 and the champ will earn $15,080 plus the TPC trophy.

1st: $15,080 + TPC trophy
2nd: $10,020
3rd: $7,250
4th: $5,330
5th: $3,980
6th: $3,020
7th: $2,320
8th: $1,820
9th-10th: $1,440
11th-12th: $1,200
13th-14th: $1,030
15th-16th: $900
17th-20th: $820
21st-25th: $750

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 24:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  32 of 1,705

Shortly after they rolled into Level 24, Jacob Naumann was eliminated in 33rd place and the tournament dropped down to the last four tables of the tournament.

Blinds are up to 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante and the average stack is about 1,600,000 (32 bb).

33rd: Jacob Naumann: $2,310
34th: Christopher Cochran: $2,310
35th: Elias Kiwan: $2,310
36th: Jason Block: $2,310
37th: Ramon Gonzalez: $2,310
38th: Alexander Grassia: $2,310
39th: Tarun Gulati: $2,310
40th: Jahann Bardia: $2,310

41st: Isaac Ali: $1,980
42nd: Sandip Guha: $1,980
43rd: Donald Kelly: $1,980
44th: Frederick Williams: $1,980
45th: David Ambrose: $1,980
46th: Mohammed Hossain: $1,980
47th: Michael Dalberth: $1,980
48th: Harry Binda: $1,980

50th: Ahmed El Said: $1,720
51st: Andrew Heister: $1,720
52nd: Joseph Linville: $1,720
53rd: Tam Nguyen: $1,720
54th: Ronald Groeller: $1,720
55th: Jamison Alford: $1,720
56th: Kyle Dilschneider: $1,720

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  36 of 1,705

We keep finding new chip leaders at each break and this time was no different. Daniel Couzens is the new leader in Event 1 with 3,525,000 going into the stages of the day.

Brendan Pfent sits in second with 3,300,000 followed by 2021 Tampa Poker Classic Championship James Kerr’s 3,150,000.

Blinds are up to 20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante and the average stack is about 1,420,000 (36 bb).

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 22:  15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining:  43 of 1,705

Still keeping up with the numbers while we have a steady group of players collecting cashout tickets at the cage, including more tough players falling short.

Blinds moved up to 15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante and the average stack about 1,190,000 (40 bb).

57th: Luanna Vu: $1,510
58th: John Burdin: $1,510
59th: Marcus Gurley: $1,510
60th: Jay Giles: $1,510
61st: Juan Ramirez Parodi: $1,510
62nd: Hyndi Khomutetsky: $1,510
63rd: William Burdick: $1,510
64th: Conner Reynolds: $1,510

65th: Michael Tuttle: $1,340
66th: Marcelo Lanas: $1,340
67th: Chris Perry: $1,340
68th: Bradley Kane: $1,340
69th: Brian Johnson: $1,340
70th: Alain Medesan: $1,340
71st: Tom Lawford: $1,340
72nd: Brian Weber: $1,340

73rd: David Meagher: $1,200
74th: Carlos Loving: $1,200
75th: Phi Nguyen: $1,200
76th: Nathan Lee: $1,200
77th: Ashley Spring: $1,200
78th: Glyn Griffis: $1,200
79th: Riley O’Brien: $1,200
80th: Harry Mozian Jr: $1,200

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 21:  15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  56 of 1,705

They are not slowing down their trek to the payout desk and they are down to seven tables. Fred Paradis is one of those going in the correct direction and our 2022 WPT Tampa Championship runner-up sits with 1,475,000 in a quickly shrinking field.

Blinds are sitting at 15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante and the average stack is about 915,000 (37 bb).

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  80 of 1,705

More results with some tough players going out including last break’s chip leader Alec Magdan and Billy McPhillips with his second cash of the tournament thanks to his best-stack-foward double bag.

81st: Paul Lambrakis – $1,090
82nd: Jamie Teel – $1,090
83rd: MT Tawfik – $1,090
84th: Emmanuel DiMaano Jr – $1,090
85th: Douglas Wright – $1,090
86th: James Seidenfaden – $1,090
87th: Brandon Glaze – $1,090
88th: Herbert Woodbery – $1,090

89th: Justin Snavley – $990
90th: Aaron Thivynathan – $990
91st: Andrew Butte – $990
92nd: Tuck Foong – $990
93rd: Alec Magdan – $990
94th: Robert Nolen – $990
95th: Victor Haynes – $990
96th: Jeremy Michael Zides – $990
97th: Roque Veviurka – $990
98th: William Hill – $990
99th: Julio Delgado Reyes – $990
100th: Andrew Conway – $990
101st: Jimmy Park – $990
102nd: Billy McPhillips – $990
103rd: Byron Schenk – $990
104th: Wyatt Williams – $990