$400 Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 3:  4,000/8,000 Limits

Wally Maddah and Amie Martini are two local notables making a deep run in Event 13 tonight. Maddah holds more than $700,000 in career earnings, with over 350 cashes on his poker resume. He has won 16 poker tournaments, and the majority of those victories have come here in Tampa (he has tournament 100 cashes overall at this property). The largest cash for the tournament grinder was for $37,361 at the Rock-N-Roll Poker Open at Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood back in 2016.

Martini was the runner-up in a few nights ago in the Big O tournament, which was good for a $6,500 score. Martini is a cash-games mixed-games specialist, and her career tournament earnings stand above $143,000. Martini has one tournament win to her credit here at Seminole Hard Rock Tampa.

$2,200 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$75,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Entries: 12 of 46

The field is on dinner break in Event 12, and two notables making a deep run in the tournament include AJ Kelsall and Joe Serock. Kelsall won Event 11 last night for a payday of $28,420 and the SPS guitar pick trophy. You can read the winner’s interview from last night right here. The local pro increased his career earnings to well over $2.8 million with the victory.

Serock holds more than $4.3 million in career earnings, and original resident of Albuquerque, New Mexico now lives in San Diego. Serock has three tournament victories to his credit, and he is a former World Poker Tour Player of the Year. He has 15, six-figure scores, with the largest weighing in at $804,191 for a fifth-place finish at the World Series of Poker Online Main Event in 2021.

$200 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining: 30 of 973

Marsha Wolak is among the final 30 players making a deep run on Day 2, and she can be found playing in tournaments throughout the year all over her home state of Florida.

Wolak holds close to $900,000 in career tournament earnings, and she has ten tournament victories on her poker resume. Two of those wins were good for a World Series of Poker gold bracelet, and a WSOP gold ring. Wolak is currently holding 130,000 as the field approaches the final three tables.

2023 Tampa Poker Classic
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 13
$400 Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)
Entries: 93
Prize Pool: $31,155
September 13, 2023

Registration closed for the $400 Limit Omaha 8 tournament with 93 entries to create one of our biggest fields for this tournament. They created a prize pool worth $31,155 and the last 12 players will earn some money.

A min-cash is worth $780 while the Event 13 champ will earn $9,885 and the SPS trophy.

1st: $9,885 + SPS Trophy
2nd: $5,920
3rd: $3,740
4th: $2,410
5th: $1,870
6th: $1,480
7th: $1,250
8th: $1,090
9th: $990
10th: $900
11th: $840
12th: $780

$200 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 18:  6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante
Players Remaining: 48 of 973

Catching up on the results in the quick-moving return of Event 9, they are down to six tables and flying right along. Here’s a list of everyone who cashed from 55th through 99th.

55th: Griffin Baugh – $490
56th: Hyndi Khomutetsky – $490
57th: Darren Rose – $490
58th: Andrew Hoffman – $490
59th: Patrick McConnell – $490
60th: Jose Hernandez – $490
61st: Zachary Johns – $490
62nd: Steffan Siebel-Cortopassi – $490
63rd: Anthony De Cresci – $490

64th: John Anderson – $460
65th: Isiah James – $460
66th: Yan Jiang – $460
67th: Jayden Krnyaich – $460
68th: Michael Silva – $460
69th: Patrick Ibrahim – $460
70th: Daniel Zucker – $460
71st: Renato Moraes – $460
72nd: Christopher Thompson – $460

73rd: Trever Phelps – $440
74th: Chase Kalivas – $440
75th: Attye Vasquez – $440
76th: Christopher O’Rourke – $440
77th: James Crook – $440
78th: Joseph Porto – $440
79th: Randolph Grayson – $440
80th: Daniel Vitek – $440
81st: Zachary Fischer – $440
82nd: Stephen Devault – $440
83rd: Mostafa Aboalmajed – $440
84th: Cale Wynegar – $440
85th: Moises Jattin – $440
86th: Rodrigo Gothe – $440
87th: Collin Calloway – $440
88th: Amie Martini – $440
89th: Cesar Trinidad – $440
90th: Jovan Jojic – $440

91st: Rodrigo Cherubin – $430
92nd: Denim Spano – $430
93rd: Adam Isaacson – $430
94th: Joseph Craig – $430
95th: Joseph Chalbaud – $430
96th: James Stephens – $430
97th: Andrew Marks – $430
98th: Vicki Renfrow – $430
99th: Woodrow Pass – $430

2023 Tampa Poker Classic
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 12
$2,200 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$75,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 46
Prize Pool: $92,000
September 13, 2023

Registration closed for the $2,200 Deep Stack tournament with 46 entries. The $75,000 guarantee was surpassed, creating a prize pool worth $92,000. The last six players will make the money with $5,540 for a min-cash and $32,710 to the Event 12 champ.

1st: $32,710 + SPS Trophy
2nd: $21,810
3rd: $14,540
4th: $10,090
5th: $7,310
6th: $5,540

$200 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 18:  6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante
Players Remaining: 50 of 973

Raminder Singh is having a rollercoaster of a time on Day 2. He came into the day with 347,000 and above average stack but dropped down to 19,000 no long after the restart.

Then up to 400K and now sitting with a little more than 200,000.

If anyone can make it work, it would be Singh. He is primarily known in the Seminole Poker circles as the player with the most all-time major wins at our sister property in Hollywood with ten (plus another handful of titles in the poker room).

But Singh also owns three major Tampa titles, including two wins during the WPT Tampa series last year. There’s also the matter of a very unique accomplishment; Singh is one of three players who have won a major tournament at three of the Seminole Poker properties when you add his Coconut Creek RunGood Poker Series Main Event win in 2021.

$2,200 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$75,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Entries:  38

The $2,200 Deep Stack has an excellent turnout this afternoon, and the $75,000 guarantee was reached with plenty of time to increase the prize pool.

We caught two former Tampa Main Event/Championship winners in the field, warming up for tomorrow’s big game. Matthew Leecy won the 2019 Tampa Poker Classic headliner and Paul Snead took the same title in 2022. Leecy has an additional big Tampa win; he also captured the Pinktober Poker Open Championship in 2022.

$200 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 16:  4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 85 of 973

As expected, action is moving right along and we lost a bunch of players to the payout desk after cards went back in the air. They are making their way through Level 16 and will take the first break when it’s done.

After that, levels lasts 40 minutes and they will settle into the long grind to a winner.

86th: Rodrigo Gothe – $440
87th: Collin Calloway – $440
88th: Amie Martini – $440
89th: Cesar Trinidad – $440
90th: Jovan Jojic – $440
91st: Rodrigo Cherubin – $430
92nd: Denim Spano – $430
93rd: Adam Isaacson – $430
94th: Joseph Craig – $430
95th: Joseph Chalbaud – $430
96th: James Stephens – $430
97th: Andrew Marks – $430
98th: Vicki Renfrow – $430
99th: Woodrow Pass – $430

$200 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 14:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 87 of 973

Woodrow Pass is the only player in today’s field with chips and a payout ticket at the same time. The Tampa regular bagged up 110,000 in Flight B and said “I can do better.” And Pass did that by finishing Flight E with 137,000 and taking advantage of the best-stack-forward format.

Pass has a $430 payout ticket waiting for his official 99th-place finish and still working to earn another Tampa trophy with his bigger stack. He already owns a half dozen titles, including a few of those sweet guitars, and won events during the Summer Poker Open, Pinktober Poker Open, and Tampa Poker Classic.