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Jason Block Wins Sunday SPS Event 11 Outright for $8,600!

2024 Tampa Signature Poker Series
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 11

$200 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$20,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 243

Prize Pool: $38,880
September 22, 2023

Jason Block, 2024 SPS Event 11 champ
PlaceFirst NameLast NameCityState Prize Amount
1JasonBlockTampaFL$8,600
2BenPaul ChelladuraiYonkersNY$5,720
3RobertCornetteRiverviewFL$4,160
4CarlosMartirBrandonFL$3,070
5MarkWiserLand O LakesFL$2,290
6MichaelMathersCranstonRI$1,740
7ImrePappClermontFL$1,340
8EdwardStephensonTampaFL$1,040
9YeYaoTampaFL$820
10WilliamDallaireHudsonFL$820
11WinstonOwenOspreyFL$680
12JeffreyGarbusApollo BeachFL$680
13ManelicMinayaNorthdaleFL$570
14KarlManouchakianTampaFL$570
15BrendaLane-WorleyRiverviewFL$490
16ZacharyBoothWesley ChapelFL$490
17SteveAnkneyOcalaFL$430
18AnthonyPellegriniLargoFL$430
19OranHaynesSaint PetersburgFL$430
20HarryBindaTampaFL$430
21WayneMarkhamLargoFL$390
22AnthonyGuagliardoTampaFL$390
23TammyLeonardNew Port RicheyFL$390
24BryanCuzinoNew Port RicheyFL$390
25WilliamPapadopoulosCantonMA$360
26ChristopherEvansPalmettoFL$360
27JosiasCardoso Dos SantosTampaFL$360
28DerekWuebbelsNewarkDE$360
29JordanLowerySarasotaFL$360
30LisaChiodiniOviedoFL$360
31MansoorKaderSt PetersburgFL$180
31NicholasRaioSaint JohnsFL$180

Event 11: Prize Pool and Payouts with $8,600 to the Winner

2024 Tampa Signature Poker Series
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 11

$200 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$20,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 243

Prize Pool: $38,880
September 22, 2023

Registration closed for the one-day $200 No-Limit Hold’em tournament with 243 entries nearly doubling the $20,000 guarantee. The created a prize pool worth $38,880 with $360 for a min-cash and $8,600 to the Event 11 champ.

1st: $8,600 + SPS trophy
2nd: $5,720
3rd: $4,160
4th: $3,070
5th: $2,290
6th: $1,740
7th: $1,340
8th: $1,040
9th-10th: $820
11th-12th: $680
13th-14th: $570
15th-16th: $490
17th-20th: $430
21st-24th: $390
25th-31st: $360

Event 11: Sunday One-Day

$200 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$20,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1:  100/200 with a 200 ante

It will be a fun day in the Poker Room with three trophies going home with someone, including Event 11, which kicks off at 1 pm. It is a $200 buy-in tournament with a $20,000 guarantee and a perfect game for a day at the tables watching football on one of the many screens.

Players start with 25K in chips and all levels last 25 minutes for the one-day trophy event. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 4:50 pm.

  • $20,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
  • Players begin with 25,000 in chips
  • Levels last 25 minutes
  • Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9 (4:50pm)
  • This is a one-day tournament and plays to completion
  • Event 11 Structure Sheet

SPS Day 12 Schedule

Primary Event Schedule

11AM: Event 7 Day 2 – $1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

1PM: Event 11 – $200 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

  • $20,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
  • Players begin with 25,000 in chips
  • Levels last 25 minutes
  • Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9 (4:50pm)
  • This is a one-day tournament and plays to completion
  • Event 11 Structure Sheet

5PM: Event 12 – $400 Big O (Re-Entry)

  • Players begin with 25,000 in chips
  • Levels 1-18 last 20 minutes; Levels 19+ last 30 minutes
  • Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9 (7:15pm)
  • This is a one-day tournament and plays to completion
  • Event 12 Structure Sheet

2024 Tampa Signature Poker Series Schedule

“Fly Eagles Fly” – AJ Kelsall Wins Another Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Trophy to Add to his Collection

2023 Tampa Poker Classic
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 11

$1,100 Deep Stack Six-Handed NLH (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 108
Prize Pool: $104,760
September 12, 2023

AJ Kelsall

AJ Kelsall added $28,420 to his career earnings of more than $2.8 million when took home the title in Event 11 at the SPS tournament series at Seminole Hard Rock Tampa. The local resident was born in Pennsylvania, and you need to look no further than his fandom for Philadelphia sports teams to see that first hand.

Kelsall holds a World Series of Poker gold bracelet, and he has three WSOP Circuit gold rings as well. Kelsall has nine tournament victories in his career (including numerous wins here at SHR Tampa), and the largest tournament score he has claimed was worth $443,259 for a third-place finish in a six-max no-limit hold’em event earlier this year at the WSOP.

We caught up with Kelsall shortly after the victory, and here is what he had to say after the win: “It definitely feels good, I have a few seconds and thirds lately, so it feels good to win one. I had some trophy bets so winning is good. I got 325 Allen Kessler dollars coming, that’s like 40 lunches at McDonald’s for him right there [laughs].”

There was a stretch of the final playdown where Kelsall went into “Fly Eagles Fly” mode and took four players in a row tonight. “I knocked out eighth through fourth, someone else knocked out third, and I obviously knocked out second, so I knocked out everyone else in the last eight. With maybe like nine or ten people left I had 100k, I was in the last two or three [stacks]. I knocked someone out over there to get it down to seven, and then knocked out two more people right away. So in probably ten minutes I knocked three people out, and then I was the chip leader,” said Kelsall about the hot run that took him to the top of the chip counts.

“Maybe I’m a six-max specialist [laughs], I don’t I know, I guess that’s a good thing to be. I really enjoy six-max because typically people play looser, there’s more good hands. Like ace-jack for instance is a much better hand in six-max than full rings. The guy I played heads-up was a decent player, but he was playing very tight the whole time. So six-max typically makes you play looser, but he wasn’t. It makes it a little bit more fun, and you get to play more,” said Kelsall when he was asked about his success in six-max events.

“I never chop, and part of the reason is because you don’t get heads-up and get that experience very often. So when I play in bigger things like the World Series like you were mentioning when I came third in that six-max, it’s good to have short-handed experience whether it’s four-handed, three-handed or heads-up for those bigger times. So for me when I play bigger things these experiences in some smaller tournaments I think really helps a lot,” Kelsall said when he was asked about heads-up battle that defined the tournament.

Kelsall made a good metaphor for the final stages of a poker tournament the other night when he stated that you wouldn’t stop playing on the 16th hole of a round of golf if everyone was tied when it comes to chops in poker. When he was asked about that after the hard-fought heads-up final tonight, Kelsall offered a few other sports analogies that were on point. “I’m a competitive guy so poker cures that competitive instinct for me. When it’s 4-4 in the ninth inning, or 28-28 in the fourth quarter in football, that’s the most exciting part of the game. That’s the exciting part, playing three-handed or heads-up. That’s why Steph Curry is so good, because when there’s a minute left he wants to have the ball. He doesn’t just say, ‘let’s just call it boys,’ right,” said Kelsall.

Kelsall will be playing every day the rest of the series, focusing primarily on mixed games while mixing in the big money no-limit hold’em events as well depending on the schedule of the day.

Final Results:

1st: AJ Kelsall – $28,420 + SPS Trophy
2nd: Blaise Ingoglia – $18,470
3rd: Sean Boland – $12,360
4th: Ryan Luker – $8,530
5th: Daniel Zucker – $6,070
6th: Ricardo Eyzaguirre – $4,470
7th: Mark Koeln – $3,400
8th: Johnny Bromberg – $3,400
9th: Oscar Lindo Zeledon – $2,670
10th: Tarun Gulati – $2,670
11th: Frank Bramman – $2,180
12th: Josh Snow – $2,180
13th: Ryan Mazurkiewicz – $1,850
14th: Felipe Koury – $1,850
15th Jeremy Joseph – $1,630
16th: James Tomblin – $1,630
17th: Amie Martini – $1,490
18th: Dana Caruso – $1,490

Event 9 Flight F: Jose Hernandez Leads 26 Survivors with 480,000

$200 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 15: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Flight Remaining Players: 26 of 260

Flight F has come to a close with Jose Hernandez leading the final 26. He stacked up 480,000 at the end of play.

The 99 players that advanced to Day 2 from the 973 entries will return at 2 pm on Wednesday to play down to a champion. Here are the official chip counts for the flight:

JOSE ALMEAHERNANDEZORLANDOFL480,000
YEFIMVAKSERSILVER SPRINGMD374,000
JOSIASCARDOSO DOS SANTOSKENTWA371,000
JASONGILESHAINES CITYFL364,000
DAVIDSIDERISAINT PETERSBURGFL364,000
PATRICKMCCONNELLMERIDENCT303,000
CHRISTOPHERJOHNSONTAMPAFL285,000
RINACOSSWESLEY CHAPELFL281,000
CHRISTOPHEROROURKERIVERVIEWFL262,000
CHARLESWRIGHTNEW PORT RICHEYFL254,000
LUCACAMPAGNOLI DELGADOWINDERMEREFL211,000
DYLANCANNSAUGUSMA190,000
TreverPhelpsTAVARESFL187,000
SMITHCOLLINSHENDERSONNV175,000
JOSHUASNODGRASSSAINT CLAIRSVILLEOH173,000
RENATOMORAESGARCA153,000
ADALBERTMUSTATEALYNN HAVENFL141,000
JOSEPASSANTINOBOLOGNA105,000
MATTHEWDAMOREORLANDOFL96,000
STEPHENDEVAULTTHONOTOSASSAFL95,000
RODRIGOCHERUBINKISSIMMEEFL92,000
RANDOLPHGRAYSONMIAMIFL72,000
SHANEREIDKISSIMMEEFL69,000
SANDEEPKUMARTAMPAFL41,000
RODRIGOGOTHEkissimmeeFL31,000
ERICBUELTAMPAFL22,000

 

Event 11: AJ Kelsall – 1st Place ($28,420); Blaise Ingoglia ($18,470)

$1,100 Deep Stack Six-Handed NLH (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 25:  30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Remaining Players: 1 of 108 Entries

AJ Kelsall

Blaise Ingoglia got all in with 5h5d preflop, and AJ Kelsall had him covered holding AcQc on the button.

The final board ran out Ad6s4d10s7d, and Ingoglia was eliminated in second place, good for $18,740. That made Kelsall the champion of the tournament, and he took home $28,420 up top along with the SPS guitar pick trophy.

Stay tuned for the winner photo and interview with the local champion.

Event 11: Blaise Blazes to the Chip Lead

$1,100 Deep Stack Six-Handed NLH (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Remaining Players: 2 of 108 Entries

Blaise Ingoglia

Blaise Ingoglia has gained the chip advantage in the heads-up final against AJ Kelsall with close to a 2:1 chip advantage.

There was one all-in hand between the final two, but both players held an ace on a final board dealt 8-7-4-8-4 where the kickers didn’t matter.

Seat 1: Blaise Ingoglia – 2,070,000
Seat 6: AJ Kelsall – 1,170,000

Event 11: Just About Even Stevens in the Final Match

$1,100 Deep Stack Six-Handed NLH (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Remaining Players: 2 of 108 Entries

Heads-up play has been going for a hot minute between AJ Kelsall and Blaise Ingoglia. Neither player has been all-in yet as they test each other out during the final battle, and now they’re separated by just two big blinds.

Seat 1: Blaise Ingoglia – 1,580,000
Seat 6: AJ Kelsall – 1,660,000

Event 11: Chip Stacks Scaling Towards AJ Kelsall

$1,100 Deep Stack Six-Handed NLH (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 22:  15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Remaining Players: 2 of 108 Entries

After a prolonged period of pretty even stacks between the final two players, things are now tilting in the direction of AJ Kelsall. Here is a look at the chips among the final two players.

Seat 1: Blaise Ingoglia – 900,000
Seat 6: AJ Kelsall – 2,340,000