$300 One-Day 50K (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 18: 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 43 of 415
It took a little bit to get there but Event 1 lost a player 16 minutes into the new level. Tournament staff paused the clock on the money bubble with two minutes coming off for each hand dealt until one player is eliminated to put them in the money.
$300 One-Day 50K (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 18: 5,000/10,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 44 of 415
Cards are back in the air for TPC Event 1 with 44 players remaining. One elimination from bubble play and two from the money.
Ryan Luker leads the field with 677,000 heading into the late stages of the tournament.
$300 One-Day 50K (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 44 of 415
With the clock ticking down towards the next break, Ryan Luker found a spot to get his big stack in the middle. He was at risk for 362,000 but his 
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board. He doubled up to the lead with 741,000 with only a few knockouts till the money.
Level 17 came to an end and tournament staff sent the remaining players on a 30-minute dinner break.
$300 One-Day 50K (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 16: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining: 64 of 415
Event 1 is quickly playing down towards the money bubble with 64 remaining and 42 getting paid. They won’t get there before the next break but it won’t be long after it.
Igor Tretyakov is the latest to build a stack among the leaders. The February Mega Stack champ is up to 245,000 and in great position for another deep run.
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 100/100 with a 100 ante
There will be plenty of action over the 12 days of the 2022 Tampa Poker Classic and this evening we kick off the first multi-flight tournament on the schedule. Event 2 is a $400 buy-in tournament featuring a $200,000 guarantee and five starting flights. The first one goes at 6 pm this evening with two on Thursday and one each on Friday and Saturday.
Players start with 20,000 in chips and the first 14 levels last 30 minutes, going up to 40 minutes from Level 15 until the final table. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 10:30 pm.
Flight A will continue to play down until only 10% of the field remains. Those players will bag up their chips for a Day 2 return on Sunday already in the money.
$300 One-Day 50K (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 13: 1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players Remaining: 128 of 415
Table 9 seems to be producing the chip leaders in the middle stages of the tournament. Alan Abramson held the lead at the last break and now Mohamad Alhalwani leads after the third break.
Abramson is still doing ok with right at 200,000 but Alhalwani leads the field now with 286,500.
$300 One-Day 50K (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 11: 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining: 154 of 415
The March Tournament leaderboard was a short one in duration but a lot of tournaments to earn points. We ran 16 daily tournaments over the first eight days of March and Jeremy Becker ran away as the points leader.
He earned a $2,500 seat in the TPC Championship next weekend and he’ll be ready to go. Gerry Silva, Mark Wiser, Donald Anderson, and Jason Block also earned seats in the big game with another 15 players getting seats in other TPC events.
Check the list on the link below, players must claim their entries by noon on Friday.
2022 Tampa Poker Classic
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 1
$300 One-Day 50K (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 415
Prize Pool: $103,750
March 9, 2022
Registration closed for the first tournament on the 2022 Tampa Poker Classic schedule with 415 entries smashing the $50,000 guarantee. They combined to create a prize pool worth $103,750 and the last 42 spots will be paid.
A min-cash is worth $680 while the Event 1 champ will earn $24,070 and the TPC trophy.
1st: $24,070 + TPC trophy
2nd: $14,860
3rd: $10,450
4th: $7,490
5th: $5,480
6th: $4,090
7th: $3,110
8th: $2,420
9th-10th: $1,920
11th-12th: $1,560
13th-14th: $1,290
15th-16th: $1,100
17th-20th: $950
21st-24th: $850
25th-28th: $770
29th-32nd: $720
33rd-40th: $690
41st-42nd: $680
$300 One-Day 50K (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Entries: 410
The second break came to an end and players returned to their seats with registration closed for TPC Event 1. The unofficial count shows 410 entries to more than double the $50,000 guarantee. We will post the numbers as soon as they are official.
A walk among the tables found one huge stack standing out and it belongs to Alan Abramson. He spun his 25,000 starting stack up to a very nice 185,700 over a few hours and holds a commanding lead as the field begins to play down.
$300 One-Day 50K (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 100/100 with a 100 ante
The day has come to spin up a big, new series and we kick off the 2022 Tampa Poker Classic this morning at 11 am with Event 1. It’s $400 buy-in tournament with a $50,000 guaranteed prize pool and one-day structure to keep things moving.
Players start with 25,000 chips out front and 25-minute levels from start to finish. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 2:50 pm. They will cruise through their day and end up crowning our first champion of the series.
Cards go in the air at the top of the hour and we will hit the updates as they near the end of registration.