$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 3:  200/400 with a 400 ante
Flight B Entries:  50

Flight B of the Championship hit half a hundred going into Level 3 and we are drawing live for knocking out the guarantee before we even think about tomorrow’s flight.

Table 9 is stacked with friends all in one place, around the horn with Kevin Blewitt, Bret Painter, Ray Mancini, Manny Minaya, Tom Nguyen, Karl Manouchakian, Tam Nguyen, and William Burdick.

Others around the room include Eli Kiwan, Sam Cunix (son of DeepStack Challenge winner Shawn Cunix), and Walter Thornton.

$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 1:  100/200 with a 200 ante
Flight B Entries:  33

Cards are in the air for the second flight of the 2025 TPC Championship with 33 players in their seats and many more expected with late registration available until 5:45 pm.

The first order of business is trying to chase down the $300,000 and it will take 118 to get there. If not today, very early tomorrow.

$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 1:  100/200 with a 200 ante

The second flight of the 2025 TPC Championship gets underway at 11 am and the $1,700 buy-in tournament will be shooting for its $300,000 guarantee. We need 118 entries to get there; if it misses today, it will get there early on Saturday.

Either way, we are primed for a big prize pool.

Players start with 40K in their stacks and all levels last 40 minutes. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 10 at 5:45 pm.

Play will continue until 12.5% of the field remains and survivors will return on Sunday at noon for Day 2.

• $300,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 40,000 in chips
• Levels last 40 minutes
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 10 (5:45pm)
• Day 1 will end when 12.5% of field remains
• Championship Structure Sheet

Primary Event Schedule

11AM: Day 1B – $1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)

• $300,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 40,000 in chips
• Levels last 40 minutes
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 10 (5:45pm)
• Day 1 will end when 12.5% of field remains
• Championship Structure Sheet

Secondary and Satellite Schedule

4PM: $200 Championship Satellite (1-in-10)

• Five seats guaranteed into $1,700 TPC Championship
• Players begin with 20,000 in chips
• Levels last 20 minutes
• Late registration until start of Level 7 (6:15pm)
• Winners will be entered into Flight C of the Championship
• Structure Sheet

$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 15:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining:  11 of 82

Flight A:  82 Entries; 11 Advanced
Flight B:  Friday at 11 am
Flight C:  Saturday at 11 am
Day 2:  Sunday at noon

$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 15:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  11 of 82

After a long grind to get to two tables, it took another marathon to burst the bubble. They got there when Joseph Orsino’s could not beat the of Ken O’Donnell and the remaining 11 were in the money.

Aaron Speer bagged the chip lead with 726,000 followed by O’Donnell with 600,000 and Dion Jagroo with 581,000.

We will post the complete chip count list as soon as it is available.

$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 13:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  17 of 82

Players returned from the last break of the day (mostly likely) with 17 players remaining and 11 advancing to Day 2. It should go another two hours but stranger things have happened.

Ken O’Donnell has the biggest stack at the last three tables, playing exactly 600,000 after the purple chip color up. Aaron Speer is second with 531,000 followed by Casey Grifford’s 322,000.

$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 11:  1,500/2,500 with a 2,500 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  30 of 82

Registration closed for Flight A of the TPC Championship with 82 entries to put $123K toward the $300,000 guarantee with two more weekend flights to go.

Action will continue until 11 players remain and survivors will return on Sunday at noon for Day 2.

$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 10:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Flight A Entries:  82

Players returned to action after the third break with 82 entries showing on the clock and registration closed. We will report the final numbers once they are official.

Dion Jagroo had a nice run over the previous two hours, he leads the field with 306,000 as we head in the later parts of the day while Aaron Speer and Michael Silva are the only other two players over 200K.

Dion Jagroo – 306,000 (153 bb)
Aaron Speer – 226,500 (113 bb)
Michael Silva – 204,500 (102 bb)
Casey Gifford – 191,500 (96 bb)
Ken O’Donnell – 181,000 (91 bb)
Julio Delgado – 181,000 (91 bb)
Armando Figueroa – 145,000 (73 bb)
Woodrow Pass – 137,000 (69 bb)
Carlos Martir – 127,000 (64 bb)
William Medina Diaz – 117,000 (59 bb)
Sanjib Acharya – 100,000 (50 bb)
Jason Block – 99,500 (50 bb)
Fred Paradis – 94,000 (47 bb)
Drew Dodge – 89,500 (45 bb)
Joseph Orsino – 84,000 (42 bb)
Jerry Silva – 78,500 (39 bb)
John Matino – 75,000 (38 bb)
Paul Edwards – 56,500 (28 bb)
Jason Klapman – 53,000 (27 bb)
Tony March – 24,500 (12 bb)
Shane Dellus – 24,000 (12 bb)
Dan Clemente – 18,500 (9 bb)
Ryan Hogan – 13,000 (7 bb)

$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 9:  800/1,600 with a 1,600 ante
Flight A Entries:  77

The clock is ticking down toward the end of registration and we’ve increased our entry count to 77. Today’s players have contributed more than $115K toward the $300,000 guarantee and we might get there tomorrow.

If not then, very early on Saturday.

William Medina Diaz and Joseph Orsino are two of the latest entrants coming back to the Poker Room, and it’s great to see them.