$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 1,655

We missed the action but saw the result when most of Table 11 stood up from their seats. It was a huge three-way pot with David Howard all in for 980,000 from the big blind, Caleb Powell at risk from early position for 615,000 and Steven Sinclair had them both covered.

Powell:
Sinclair:
Howard:

Sinclair could take both out with a miracle queen but Powell made a set on the flop then the turn left the queens and jacks drawing dead to the river. Powell tripled up, Howard was eliminated, and Sinclair picked up a small rebate with his queens.

Caleb Powell – 1,895,000 (38 bb)
Steven Sinclair – 1,295,000 (26 bb)
David Howard – Eliminated in 33rd Place ($2,110)

2024 Tampa Signature Poker Series
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 2
$400 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$25,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 141
Prize Pool: $47,235
September 15, 2023

Registration closed for SPS Event 2 with 141 entries turning the $25,000 guarantee into a prize pool worth $47,235. The last 18 spots will be paid with $800 for a min-cash and $11,885 to the winner.

1st: $11,885 + SPS trophy
2nd: $7,920
3rd: $5,530
4th: $3,980
5th: $2,940
6th: $2,240
7th: $1,760
8th: $1,420
9th-10th: $1,190
11th-12th: $1,030
13th-14th: $920
15th-16th: $840
17th-18th: $800

$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:  40 of 1,655

Event 1 is quickly down to the last five tables of the tournament from the 26 tables that started the day. Thomas Kornechuk, the returning Day 2 leader, was among the most recent results.

41st: Chongyou Chen – $1,800
42nd: William Lackey – $1,800
43rd: Tuan Nguyen – $1,800
44th: Pedro Stuart Lima – $1,800
45th: Thomas Kornechuk – $1,800
46th: Phillip Krnyaich – $1,800
47th: Antony Lavalle – $1,800
48th: William Flaherty – $1,800

49th: Arianna Lopez Perozo – $1,550
50th: Nicholas De Gren – $1,550
51st: Ok Haselton – $1,550
52nd: James McKinnon – $1,550
53rd: Michael Vincent – $1,550
54th: Frank Brigham – $1,550
55th: Efi Amoyal – $1,550
56th: James Browning Jr – $1,550

57th: Ben Paul Chelladurai – $1,350
58th: Arlina Johns – $1,350
59th: Ramses Rosa – $1,350
60th: Pablo Valdivieso – $1,350
61st: Eric Nadal – $1,350
62nd: Ananth Ganesan – $1,350
63rd: Dan Wilson – $1,350
64th: Aaron Augusten – $1,350

$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:  47 of 1,655

Gus Felicio is the latest to make a big move as Event 1 drops further down. He returned from break with 3,295,000 in his stack and no one else is over two million at this stage.

A good spot late in the day.

Blinds are up to 20.000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante and the average stack is about 1,060,000 (26 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:  48 of 1,655

The next break is coming up with six tables remaining and the payouts growing. They will return from break and play three more levels before the 30-minute dinner break.

$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:  64 of 1,655

Another round of results as the field hits the last eight tables and a pay jump to $1,350. Tampa favorite Tony March finished in 78th place which means more money for his Pay It Backward Foundation.

65th: Hai Ly – $1,190
66th: Ronald Miller – $1,190
67th: Drew Dodge – $1,190
68th: Eli Kiwan – $1,190
69th: Ye Yao – $1,190
70th: James Ciesluk – $1,190
71st: Chaim Einbinder – $1,190
72nd: Michael Murphy – $1,190

73rd: Brandon Wilkins – $1,060
74th: Felipe Koury – $1,060
75th: Stanford Gulley Jr – $1,060
76th: Michael Willey – $1,060
77th: Lucas Tae – $1,060
78th: Tony March – $1,060
79th: Clyde Maliauka – $1,060
80th: Mohamad Al Halwani – $1,060

81st: Joshua Maskell – $950
82nd: Sanjib Acharya – $950
83rd: Anthony Berouty – $950
84th: Christopher Coller – $950
85th: Blaize Mee – $950
86th: Brian Machalo – $950
87th: Cuinn Griffin – $950
88th: Ryan Hogan – $950

89th: Jakob Parks – $860
90th: Michael Hunsucker – $860
91st: Ryan Wyant – $860
92nd: Dorian Rios Pavon – $860
93rd: Jahann Bardia – $860
94th: David Mauradian – $860
95th: Julian Roldan – $860
96th: William Davis – $860
97th: Michael Halprin – $860
98th: Rohit Palla – $860
99th: Robert Panetta – $860
100th: Kim McCann – $860

$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:  72 of 1,655

We missed the preflop action but it ended up with Brandon Wilkins and Victor Nissim all in with similar stacks.

Nissim:
Wilkins:

It was a fair fight with Wilkins needing to improve to take the pot. The flop changed nothing but the turn made it more interesting. Wilkins had five river outs for the win and nine spades in the deck for a chop.

He missed the river and the dealer counted down the stacks. Both had exactly 735,000 and Wilkins was eliminated in 73rd place.

Victor Nissim – 1,520,000 (76 bb)
Brandon Wilkins – Eliminated in 73rd Place ($1,060)

$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:  75 of 1,655

Shortly after the first break, we noticed Lucas Tae standing up at his seat with no chips in front. It was a bit shocking since he was among the leaders but was now waiting for a payout ticket.

We didn’t see the hand but most of his chips seem to be now sitting in front of Sandeep Kumar, our new chip leader with a huge 2,730,000 in his stack.

$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 1,655

Steven Sinclair was been in the same seat all day and running well. He began Day 2 with 721,000 but now leads the field with 1,940,000. Randy Raji (1,425,000), Lucas Tae (1,420,000), Tahsin Kelekci (1,225,000) and Randy Wadsworth (1,100,000) are the closest to chasing him down.

Blinds are up to 10.000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante and the average stack is about 630,000 (31 bb). Levels now last 40 minutes each until we have a winner.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 19: 8,000/16,000 with a 16,000 ante
Players Remaining:  90 of 1,655

Players are on their second break of the day as tournament staff pull the 1K chips out of play and put some 100K chips are introduced. Blind levels will increase to 40 minutes for the remainder of the tournament.