$1,650 Tampa Poker Classic Main Event $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 23: 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante Players Remaining: 9 of 332
Ken O’Donnell
The early action at the final table is pretty low key with the average stack sitting at 69 big blinds to start. The blinds went up but they’re still sitting 55 bigs deep so they are settled in for the grind.
The only big pot of notice went down between Ken O’Donnell and Jeff Trudeau Jr. O’Donnell opened to 45,000 from early position and Trudeau three-bet to 118,000 from the button. O’Donnell put in a fourth bet to 225,000 and Trudeau called to see the flop.
O’Donnell tossed out a handful of blue 25K chips and Trudeau quickly folded.
Ken O’Donnell – 1,900,000 (95 bb) Jeff Trudeau Jr – 510,000 (26 bb)
$1,650 Tampa Poker Classic Main Event $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 22: 8,000/16,000 with a 16,000 ante Players Remaining: 9 of 332
Matt Leecy leads coming back for the Main Event final table
Only nine players remain in the Tampa Poker Classic Main Event and they return this afternoon for the last day of the tournament to play out the final table. One player is set to walk away with the title along with more than $112,000 and Matt Leecy returns with the best shot.
He leads the returning players with nearly 1.8 million but he has some tough competition behind him with Justin Zaki, Andrew Boccia, Jeff Trudeau Jr, Filipp Khavin, Ken O’Donnell, Amelio Amato, Chad Kitchen and SHR Tampa regular Karl Manouchakian trying to chase him down.
The stacks are deep and the structure is slow. Our first ever Tampa Poker Classic Main Event champion will have to work for it today in what we expect to be a long battle for the title.
$1,650 Tampa Poker Classic Main Event $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 22: 8,000/16,000 with a 16,000 ante Players Remaining: 9 of 332
Matt Leecy
The Main Event final table is set with nine players remaining and they will return on Monday at noon to play it out for the title.
Matt Leecy leads the way with Ken O’Donnell not far behind. Amelio Amato has the shortest stack but his 24 big blinds will still give him room to make moves.
Overall, the average stack sits at 69 big blinds at the restart so they will be in no rush to mix it up.
Everyone is guaranteed at least $11,245 but they all want to the $112,245 top prize as the Tampa Poker Classic Main Event champion.
$1,650 Tampa Poker Classic Main Event $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 22: 8,000/16,000 with a 16,000 ante Players Remaining: 9 of 332
Vitor Coelho
Before much of ado and counts were completed, Ken O’Donnell opened to 40,000 from under the gun and Vitor Coelho called in the small blind to see the flop. Coelho checked, O’Donnell bet 30,000 and Coelho check-raised all in for ~320,000.
O’Donnell snapped a call as fast as possible.
O’Donnell: Coelho:
A final table cooler for Coelho and he could not find a lucky save on the turn or river to exit in tenth place. He took home $9,462 and the rest of the table prepared to bag up for a return tomorrow.
Ken O’Donnell – 1,690,000 (106 bb) Vitor Coelho – Eliminated in 10th place ($9,462)
$1,650 Tampa Poker Classic Main Event $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 22: 8,000/16,000 with a 16,000 ante Players Remaining: 10 of 332
The last ten players redrew seats at the last table of the Tampa Poker Classic Main Event. Cards are in the air, the lineup is listed below, and we will grab estimated counts as they go.
Seat 1: Vitor Coelho Seat 2: Chad Kitchen Seat 3: Ken O’Donnell Seat 4: Karl Manouchakian Seat 5: Andrew Boccia Seat 6: Justin Zaki Seat 7: Amelio Amato Seat 8: Jeff Trudeau Jr Seat 9: Matt Leecy Seat 10: Filipp Khavin
$1,650 Tampa Poker Classic Main Event $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 22: 8,000/16,000 with a 16,000 ante Players Remaining: 11 of 332
Andrew Boccia was down to 76,000 and open-shoved from the cutoff. Matt Leecy called on the button, Chad Kitchen folded his small blind, and Jeff Trudeau moved all in from the big blind to get a quick fold from Dandrea.
Trudeau: Boccia:
Boccia was racing to stay in the Main Event and caught the river on the to triple up. It was barely a blip on the other stacks.
$1,650 Tampa Poker Classic Main Event $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 22: 8,000/16,000 with a 16,000 ante Players Remaining: 11 of 332
Ioannis Patsourakis
We had two quick doubles after dinner with Amelio Amato and Vitor Coelho getting a reprieve. Soon after, Ioannis Patsourakis opened to 32,000 from under the gun and Karl Manouchakian defended his big blind to the flop.
Manouchakian checked, Patsourakis bet 40,000 and Manouchakian check-raised to 150,000. Patsourakis announced all in and Manouchakian quickly called the 320,000 shove.
Manouchakian: Patsourakis:
Patsourakis was on a flush drew against Manouchakian’s two pair but blanked the turn and river to exit in 12th place.
Karl Manouchakian – 1,350,000 (84 bb) Ioannis Patsourakis – Eliminated in 12th place ($9,462)
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river to exit in tenth place. He took home $9,462 and the rest of the table prepared to bag up for a return tomorrow.
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river to exit in 12th place.