$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 19: 8,000/16,000 with a 16,000 ante
Players Remaining: 74 of 1,334
Julio Delgado returned for Day 2 with 336,000 but is running hot this afternoon and added more than one million to his stack. He was up to 1,430,000 as the field moved into Level 19.
Blinds increased to 8,000/16,000 with a 16,000 ante and the average stack is about 541,000 (34 bb). There will be a 15-minute color-up break when Level 19 ends.
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 18: 6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante
Players Remaining: 80 of 1,334
Event 1 is down to the last ten tables of the tournament with 80 players guaranteed at least $1,040.
After a big bounce-back, Zachary Eichenbaum was among those cashing out of the tournament. He was down to two actual chips early in his starting flight and ran his 2K into a Day 2 stack and cash.
81st: Jason Aldridge – $950
82nd: Michael Sullivan – $950
83rd: David Kozma – $950
84th: Michael Bennett – $950
85th: Zachary Eichenbaum – $950
86th: Luis Medina – $950
87th: Leonard Demchak – $950
88th: Georgios Babalis – $950
89th: Tom Nguyen – $870
90th: Robert Wuestner – $870
91st: Jerry Silva – $870
92nd: Andrew Hoffman – $870
93rd: Carl Zalak – $870
94th: Mostafa Aboalmajed – $870
95th: Tirth Patel – $870
96th: Tarun Singh – $870
97th: Alan Phillips – $870
98th: William Davis – $870
99th: Christopher Binion – $870
100th: Thomas McDonald – $870
101st: Angel Ortiz – $870
102nd: Tori Todd – $870
103rd: Mario Vaccaro – $870
104th: Jonathan Betancur – $870
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 18: 6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante
Players Remaining: 87 of 1,334
It’s not too often we get two WSOP bracelet winners at one table in our $400 Deep Stacks but it happened today. Thanks to the RNG table draw, both Al Krux and Chris Tryba began their day seated across from each other.
Krux won the $1,500 Pot Limit Hold’em bracelet in 1996 (when that game was a thing) and Tryba won the Mixed Limit/No Limit Hold’em title in 2012. In addition to those accomplishments, Tryba also owns two WSOP Circuit rings and Krux made the WSOP Main Event final table in 2004 (the Greg Raymer year).
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 18: 6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante
Players Remaining: 91 of 1,334
The field continues to drop at a pretty quick pace with only 91 players remaining after two levels of play.
Blinds are up to 6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante and the average stack is about 440,000 (37 bb).
105th: David Arrowoo – $810
106th: Justin Baeten – $810
107th: Michael Willey – $810
108th: David Papke – $810
109th: Joseph DiNardo – $810
110th: Cory Veness – $810
111th: David Nadeau – $810
112th: Jovan Jojic – $810
113th: Xiang Huang – $810
114th: Jeremy Becker – $810
115th: Jugal Daterao – $810
116th: Shadrach Samuel Tarcy – $810
117th: Joseph Salvaggi – $810
118th: Jing Lin – $810
119th: Emmanual DiMaano Jr – $810
120th: Deborah Greenway – $810
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17: 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 105 of 1,334
Matt Lea opened the action from under the gun and it folded to Sam Disha in the big blind. He flashed the mighty hammer (seven-deuce offsuit), moved all in for 55,000 and Lea snapped a call.
Lea: 
Disha: 
An easy call for Lea, he improved to a set of kings on the 
flop, but Disha picked up a club draw. The 
turn finished the flush, the table went a little crazy, and Disha had a double up after the 
.
They had a laugh, Disha stayed out of the payout line, and Lea was still doing just fun with 35 bigs.
Sam Disha – 125,000 (12.5 bb)
Matt Lea – 350,000 (35 bb)
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17: 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 111 of 1,334
Catching up on some of the paperwork during the break, here are the results from 121st through 136th. Some tough players were sent out, including Ryan Hogan, who won this tournament to kick off the Pinktober Poker Open.
121st: Christian Tejada – $770
122nd: David Tuthill – $770
123rd: Brian Kinser – $770
124th: Michael Feurer – $770
125th: Joseph Gadah – $770
126th: Aaron Thiyvnathan – $770
127th: Paul Bright – $770
128th: Casey Crews – $770
129th: Anthony Gruce – $770
130th: Joseph Parrish – $770
131st: Ryamond Ayala – $770
132nd: Christopher Barthel – $770
133rd: Norman Simmons – $770
134th: Soe Lee – $770
135th: Wesley Scarbrough – $770
136th: Ryan Hogan – $770
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17: 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 111 of 1,334
Cards went back in the air after the early break. They return with 111 players still in the game and Joey Zahn expanded his lead with 1,250,000 in his stack.
Blinds are up to 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante and the average stack is about 361,000 (36 bb).
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17: 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 111 of 1,334
Event 1 made it through the 27 minutes remaining in Level 16 and tournament staff sent them on an early break to stay on the structure. They’ll return to play three 40-minute levels before the 1K color-up break.
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 16: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 136 of 1,334
Everyone grabbed their seats and cards are back in the air for Day 2 of WPO Event 1. They will play out the last 27 minutes of Level 16, take a quick break, and return to levels running 40 minutes until the tournament is heads up.
Joey Zahn leads the return with more than one million out front, a small correction to a misunderstood typo. He has a ton of chips to start the day.
$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 16: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 136 of 1,334
The opening event on the 2022 Tampa Poker Open schedule drew 1,334 entries for the $400 buy-in tournament, torching the $250K guarantee and putting up $446,890 in prize money.
The 136 returning players for Day 2 are in the money and action will zoom from the start of the day at 11 am.
Joey Zahn bagged the biggest stack in Flight E, the only player over one million, and he’s followed by Nathan Lee, Josh Babcock, Martin Rodriguez, and Richard Pressler rounding out the top five.
They are each guaranteed at least $770, but someone will walk away with $74,650 later this evening. It will be a fun, profitable day in the Poker Room and we will have all the results and action along the way.
Top ten returning stacks: