$3,500 WPT Tampa Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8:  600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Day 1B Entries:  568  (Total:  1,116)

With the board showing on the turn and about 35K already in the pot, Jonathan Jaffe bet 10,000 from UTG+1, Shawn Cunix moved all in from the hijack, and Jaffe called all in for about 90,000 with for a pair of queens.

Cunix turned over for two pair, tens and eights. Jaffe needed to improve to stay alive.

The river card was the , and Cunix won the pot with his two pair to eliminate Jaffe.

Shawn Cunix  –  275,000  (63 bb)
Jonathan Jaffe  –  Eliminated

Registration remains open with unlimited re-entries until the start of Level 9, around 9:15 pm, and action is scheduled to continue tonight until the end of Level 11 (12:30 am). The total prizepool is already up over $3.5 million.

$3,500 WPT Tampa Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Day 1B Entries:  550  (Total:  1,098)

The player in the small blind was all in for about 18,000 with , and needed to improve to stay alive against Tim Mulroy’s under the gun.

The board came — the small blind paired his ten on the turn, but improved no further. Mulroy won the pot with his pocket jacks to eliminate his opponent.

Tim Mulroy  –  115,000  (115 bb)

Registration remains open with unlimited re-entries until the start of Level 9, around 9:15 pm, and action is scheduled to continue tonight until the end of Level 11 (12:30 am). The total prizepool is already up over $3.5 million.

$3,500 WPT Tampa Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Day 1B Entries:  530  (Total:  1,078)

A scan of the field during the dinner break turned up four players with at least 200K in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  Dave Berman  –  289,900  (290 bb)
2.  Chris Limo  –  222,700  (223 bb)
3.  Alex Farin  –  220,300  (220 bb)
4.  Jason Kapoor  –  201,300  (201 bb)

$3,500 WPT Tampa Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Day 1B Entries:  528  (Total:  1,076)

The players return from dinner to begin Level 7, with increased blinds of 500-1,000 with a 1,000 ante. With about 360 players remaining from a field of 528 and counting, the average chip stack is about 58,700 (59 big blinds).

Registration remains open with unlimited re-entries until the start of Level 9, around 9:15 pm. The total prizepool is already worth more $3.4 million.

$3,500 WPT Tampa Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Day 1B Entries:  512  (Total:  1,060)

Level 6 came to an end and Championship players were sent on their 90-minute dinner break. There are 512 entries in the game to push the prize pool near $3.4 million and $3.5 will get hit shortly after the dinner.

They return to action shortly after 7 pm and play five more levels before bagging.

$3,500 WPT Tampa Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Day 1B Entries:  502  (Total:  1,050)

Chris Limo’s first bullet did not go quite as planned. Shortly after we posted his initial table, he dusted off his stack and hit the registration desk.

This time around he’s one table away and doing much better. The new stack is up to 207,700 to put him at the top of the counts heading to dinner.

$3,500 WPT Tampa Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5:  300/600 with a 600 ante
Day 1B Entries:  452  (Total:  1,000)

The WPT Tampa Championship hit another milestone soon after the second break. Entry number 452 into Flight B put the combined total at an even 1,000 for the Championship. And there’s plenty of time to join the fun with late registration available until 9:15 pm.

Christian Harder looks like one of the leaders in the field after four levels as the former PCA Main Event champ stacked up more than 140,000.

$3,500 WPT Tampa Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4:  300/500 with a 500 ante
Day 1B Entries:  423  (Total:  971)

Flight B players are nearing their second break of the day with some new big stacks in the room.

One of them belongs to Cord Garcia. The 2015 WSOP Colossus champ is up to 107,000 and trending in the right direction in the middle of the day.

$3,500 WPT Tampa Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4:  300/500 with a 500 ante
Day 1B Entries:  408  (Total:  956)

Two of the nearly 1,000 entries into the Championship come courtesy of a freeroll. The last two Seminole Hard Rock Poker Players of the Year were given an entry into this tournament and our other major Championships as part of their winner’s package.

Jason Young is here as the 2019 SHRPO POY. He earned those titles after a 2019 WPTDeepStacks Hollywood win and WSOP Circuit Coconut Creek Main Event final table. Young’s package was set to put him into the big events for 2020 but the lockdown pushed it back.

David Nathaniel is the reigning POY and put his entry to use yesterday, advancing to Day 2 with 207,000.

$3,500 WPT Tampa Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3:  200/400 with a 400 ante
Day 1B Entries:  390  (Total:  938)

Flight B has 390 entries in the field which puts the combined total at 938 for the Championship. That is good enough to push the prize pool over $3,000,000 with late registration and re-entries available until 9:15 pm.

This is already the biggest prize pool in our history and it’s only going to grow.