$1,700 WPO Championship (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool: $637,500 | Structure | Payouts
Level 21:  15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  16 of 425

Colby Convington opened the action from the cutoff, and Dan Clemente moved all in for 325,000 from the big blind, and Covington called.

Clemente:
Covington:

Clemente was dominating with the big ace and it held on the board.

Dan Clemente – 690,000 (28 bb)
Colby Covington – 200,000 (8 bb)

Covington was left with less than ten big blinds and eliminated two hands later.

$1,700 WPO Championship (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool: $637,500 | Structure | Payouts
Level 21:  15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  17 of 425

$1,700 WPO Championship (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool: $637,500 | Structure | Payouts
Level 21:  15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  18 of 425

Filipp Khavin open-shipped from under the gun for 255,000 and it folded around to Stephen Dees in the small blind. He confirmed the count and called to put Khavin at risk, but Dan Clemente folded his big.

Dees:
Khavin:

They were racing and Khavin needed his eights to hold to double up. Dees took the lead when he paired his ace on the flop and Khavin was eliminated after the turn and river.

Stephen Dees – 1,000,000 (40 bb)
Filipp Khavin – Eliminated in 19th Place ($5,460)

$1,700 WPO Championship (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool: $637,500 | Structure | Payouts
Level 20:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  20 of 425

$1,700 WPO Championship (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool: $637,500 | Structure | Payouts
Level 20:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  21 of 425

$1,700 WPO Championship (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool: $637,500 | Structure | Payouts
Level 20:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  22 of 425

$1,700 WPO Championship (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool: $637,500 | Structure | Payouts
Level 20:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  23 of 425

$1,700 WPO Championship (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool: $637,500 | Structure | Payouts
Level 20:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  24 of 425

Action is flying and tournament staff paused the clock with 24 players remaining to redraw seats. Here is the lineup and we will update with counts once they get settled.

Table 11
Seat 1: Dakota Diaz
Seat 2: Dion Jagroo
Seat 3: Fred Paradis
Seat 4: Stephen Dees
Seat 5: Dan Clemente
Seat 6: Aaron Mederos
Seat 7: Filipp Khavin
Seat 8: Wayne Leonard

Table 21
Seat 1: Phi Nguyen
Seat 2: Rusty Wadsworth Jr
Seat 3: Colby Covington
Seat 4: Sandro Vianna De Sa
Seat 5: Vincent Censabella
Seat 6: John Kamis
Seat 7: David Meagher
Seat 8: Gabe Fuller

Table 22
Seat 1: William Medina Diaz
Seat 2: Jeffrey Trudeau Jr
Seat 3: William Wolf
Seat 4: Ryan Hogan
Seat 5: Mark Glazewski
Seat 6: Robert Gill
Seat 7: Scott Heiligman
Seat 8: James Doepker

$1,700 WPO Championship (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool: $637,500 | Structure | Payouts
Level 20:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  24 of 425

Paul Snead opened to 40,000 from the cutoff and Dakota Diaz called in the big blind to see the flop. Diaz checked, Snead continued for another 50,000 and Diaz moved all in with the bigger stack. Snead called and the hands were tabled.

Snead:
Diaz:

Our two-time TPC Champion was 2-to-1 to win on the flop and 4-to-1 after the turn. But Diaz binked a river to make a queen-high straight and loudly celebrated.

“Suck out king!”

Snead fell short of his third Tampa Championship and they field was down to 24.

Dakota Diaz – 1,300,000 (65 bb)
Paul Snead – Eliminated in 25th Place ($4,050)

$1,700 WPO Championship (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool: $637,500 | Structure | Payouts
Level 19:  10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining:  26 of 425

Mike Ahmad was short and took a shot with a big blind shove for about 130,000 and William Wolf had him at risk.

Wolf:
Ahmad:

Ahmad was in good shape and Wolf was already counting out chips to send across the table. That changed on the flop when Wolf paired his king to take the lead. The board finished and and Ahmad was eliminated in 27th place.

William Wolf – 545,000 (36 bb)
Mike Ahmad – Eliminated in 27th Place ($4,050)