Only one day to go until we kick off the WPT Tampa Championship and today we have our last chance to get prepared. Event 19 is a $2,200 No Limit Hold’em tournament with a $100,000 guarantee and one-day structure.
Players start with 20,000 stacks and all levels last 30 minutes. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 4:30 pm. They have a 40-minute dinner break at 6:30 pm and then find our Event 19 champ later this evening.
$100,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
Players begin with 20,000 in chips
Levels last 30 minutes
Late registration available until start of Level 9 (4:30pm)
This is a one-day tournament and plays to completion
2022 WPT Tampa Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa, Florida Event 17 $1,700 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $75,000 Guaranteed Entries: 145 Prize Pool: $217,500 August 31, 2022
Alex Foxen added another trophy to the collection tonight as the champion of Event 17. He also picked up the top prize worth $53,920 and the WPT Trophy. Here is what the seasoned poker professional had to say after the win.
“This is my first time in Tampa, first tournament I’ve played here, so a pretty good start so far. I like the room, I like the area, I always like being in Florida. I’ve been playing in Florida forever for all the stops down there (in Hollywood), I never miss a stop, but I’ve just never made it up here because of the schedule. This is my first time up here, but so far so good,” said Foxen.
“I’ll be playing everything here, I’ll be playing the $2k tomorrow, and I’ll be playing the Main Event after that, and then the $10k after that,” said Foxen about his plans for the rest of the tournament series.
“I love live poker, and I love being able to travel and go to all of these spots, and it feels like we’re back in a place of normalcy a little bit,” said Foxen when he was asked about the regular schedule of poker tournaments coming back.
2022 WPT Tampa Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa, Florida Event 12 $400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed Entries: 1,146 Prize Pool: $383,910 August 29-31, 2022
Carlos Rodriguez won the top prize worth $55,085 and the WPT Trophy as the champion of Event 12 here in Tampa tonight as the results of a two-way chop against another Carlos with the last name Loving. Here is what Rodriguez had to say after the win.
“This my first WPT trophy, this is really a big thing for me. This is my second trophy overall, and my first one was at the Hard Rock in Hollywood. The field was tough, and this is a pretty complicated tournament because you have to grind and grind and grind,” said Rodriguez.
“At the final table when I could just play my game I’m known for chipping up very, very fast. I was very happy that the other Carlos and I ended heads-up. He’s a nice guy, he knows me, and I have respect for him, he’s a good player,” said Rodriguez when he was asked about his journey at the final table.
“Oh yes, I’m here for the rest of the series, the whole way through, I’m free running it (laughs). It’s very, very nice here, the food is good, and I always have a good time when I come here to Tampa. The Hard Rock in Hollywood is my home, my poker room, but whenever you go out you like to find something new,” said Rodriguez when he was asked about his plans for the tournament series.
Place
First Name
Last Name
Prize Payout
1
Carlos
Rodriguez
$55,085* + WPT Trophy
2
Carlos
Loving
$55,085*
3
Michael
Jagroo
$31,310
4
Sean
Lockwood
$23,540
5
Walt
Rossi
$17,900
6
Nicholas
Visconti
$13,760
7
Gus
Kalathakis
$10,700
8
Stephen
Johnson
$8,410
9
Jack
Rush
$6,690
*: Denotes the payouts decided by the two-way chop to end play.
2022 WPT Tampa Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa, Florida Event 16 $400 Seniors 50+ (Re-Entry) $30,000 Guaranteed Entries: 317 Prize Pool: $106,195 August 31, 2022
Jeffrey Nemes topped the field in the Senior Event tonight to take home the WPT Trophy along with the top prize worth $20,383 after a three-way chop to end play. Here is what he had to say after the victory tonight.
“This was a grind, but because I’m in my late 50s I guess I can only play in Seniors events (laughs), that’s what I’ve been telling everybody. It was great players tonight, card dead all day, but I held out. But when I got to the final table I couldn’t miss, and it worked out in my favor. That’s exactly how it went,” said Nemes.
“My wife is my poker coach, we live, eat, and breath poker, we play all the time, and we love the game. We will back in a couple days,” said Nemes about his supportive rail bird during the late stages of the tournament.
“We play at all the Hard Rock properties, we mostly go to Fort Lauderdale because it’s closer, but they treat us very well here, we had a great room, and the improvements that they’ve made at the property are great. But I have to say that the tournament staff and floor staff here are outstanding. The dealers are great, not one problem, they know the rules, they keep a tight ship, and that’s what makes the game a pleasure, the staff handles it,” said the Naples, FL resident Nemes about his tournament experience a little north of home up here in Tampa.
Place
First Name
Last Name
Prize Payout
1
Jeffrey
Nemes
$20,383* +WPT Trophy
2
Stevie
Tziris
$15,872*
3
Anthony
De Cresci
$13,450*
4
Joan
Delker
$6,600
5
Ben
Smith
$5,090
6
Paul
Bright
$4,220
7
John
Burdin
$3,540
8
Jennifer
Longwood
$2,910
9
Alan
Abramson
$2,310
*: Denotes the payouts decided upon in a three-way chop.
And here are the rest of the final results:
10th: Michael Slate – $1,940 11th: Herbert Turner – $1,940 12th: Ebrahim Figueroa Noboa – $1,940 13th: Michael Brown – $1,650 14th: Charles Eison – $1,650 15th: Victoria Ondis – $1,650 16th: Tom Nguyen – $1,380 17th: William Linderman – $1,380 18th: Trevilynn Blakeslee – $1,380 19th: Christian Bayer – $1,130 20th: Dennis Asbel – $1,130 21st: Kristine Glassman – $1,130 22nd: Michael Halprin – $920 23rd: Lisa Karl – $920 24th: Stacy Matin – $920 25th: Christopher Stoltzfus – $800 26th: Andrew Marks – $800 27th: Gary Brudner – $800 28th: Marsha Wolak – $680 29th: Michael King – $680 30th: Sylvia Bernstein – $680 31st: Anthony Palumbo – $680 32nd: Michael Cohen – $680 33rd: Julio Delgado Reyes – $680 34th: Pasquale Hudson – $680 35th: James Schwamman – $680 36th: Andrew Palace – $680 37th: Robert Tannenbaum – $560 38th: David Thomas – $560 39th: Vladimir Gekhter – $560 40th: Paul Morin – $560
$25,500 High Roller (Re-Entry) Structure | Payouts Level 15: 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante Remaining Players: 5 of 25 entries
The first day of play in the High Roller event has come to a close with the final five players, and John Racener is the chip leader at the end of play with 1,085,000. Here is a look at where the players will be seated when they return to crown a champion at 1 pm on Thursday.
Seat 1: John Racener – 1,085,000 Seat 3: Brock Wilson – 255,000 Seat 4: Anthony Hu – 515,000 Seat 7: Darren Elias – 795,000 Seat 8: Joe McKeehen – 475,000