$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2:  200/300 with a 300 ante
Flight B Entries:  120

The Poker Room is filling and we are closing on a $750,000 prize pool before the first hour is in the books. If they double this number, we are looking at a $1,000,000 prize pool before registration closes.

More familiar faces in the crowd include WSOP Circuit Tampa ring winner David DiBernardi, Courtney Webb, Wally Maddah, Thomas Elder, and Event 3 champ Jacob Naumann.

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1:  100/200 with a 200 ante
Flight B Entries:  96

We have a nice crowd early on a Saturday with nearly 100 entries in the game already. Players are getting here early and often and the prize pool is growing.

Some notables here at the start including former WSOP Ladies Champ Marsha Wolak, Nshaat Antonious, Marcus Gurley, Jesse Cohen, Anthony Askey, and Toby Boas.

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1:  100/200 with a 200 ante
Flight B Entries:  64

Cards are in the air for Flight B of the TPC Championship with 64 entries putting the game already over the $500,000 guarantee. They’ll keep building the prize pool now until registration closes at 6:30 pm.

The next milestone will hit when we have 142 entries to get the prize pool to $750,000 and a seven-digit number is in play.

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1:  100/200 with a 200 ante

The second and last flight of the 2022 Tampa Poker Classic Championship gets underway at 11 am and it will be on an already big number set in Flight A. The 192 entries left us only 31 new ones away from hitting the $500,000 guarantee and it will be there when we start.

Players sit down to 40,000 starting stacks and all Day 1 levels last 40 minutes then 60 minutes on Days 2 and 3. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 10 at 6:30 pm following the one-hour dinner break. Flight B will cruise into the evening and come to an end after Level 14.

Those with chips will move on to Day 2 tomorrow at noon and begin playing down towards our Champion.

• $500,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 40,000 in chips
• Day 1 levels last 40 minutes; Day 2 & 3 levels last 60 minutes
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 10 (6:30pm)
• Day 1 will come to an end after Level 14
• Championship Structure Sheet

Primary Event Schedule

11AM: Day 1B – $2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)

• $500,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 40,000 in chips
• Day 1 levels last 40 minutes; Day 2 & 3 levels last 60 minutes
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 10 (6:30pm)
• Day 1 will come to an end after Level 14
• Championship Structure Sheet

Secondary Event Schedule

9AM: $280 TPC Championship Turbo Satellite (Re-Entry)

• 2 seats guaranteed into TPC Championship
• Players begin with 10,000 in chips
• Levels last 15 minutes each
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 7 (10:40am)
• Winners will be entered into Flight B of the Championship
• Structure Sheet

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Return to Level 15:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining:  35 of 192

Flight A: 192 Entries: 35 Advanced
Flight B: Saturday at 11 am
Day 2: Sunday at noon
Day 3: Monday at 2 pm

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining:  35 of 192

Justin Zaki went on a late day heater, built a castle, and he finished Flight A of the TPC Championship with the lead. He put together a huge bag with 630,000 and the clear leader by the time they wrapped up action this evening.

Romeo Mendoza bagged second with 572,000 followed by Cody Hernandez, Jason Block, Oleg Rutskin, Fernando Rodriguez, Ken Fishman, and Chris Meyers rounding out those who bagged at least 300K.

We will post the full list of chip counts as soon as they are available.

Top Flight A stacks:

Justin Zaki – 630,000
Romeo Mendoza – 572,000
Cody Hernandez – 429,000
Jason Block – 383,000
Oleg Rutskin – 345,000
Fernando Rodriguez – 327,000
Ken Fishman – 327,000
Chris Meyers – 302,000

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining:  45 of 192

Level 14 is underway, the last chance for players to spin up a stack for Day 2 on Sunday. We have 45 players left and should break another table before bagging up.

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 13:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining:  48 of 192

After a middle position open, Marie Harrell moved all in for 51,000 from the cutoff and Jesse Cohen reshipped from the small blind to get folds from the big blind and original raiser.

Cohen:
Harrell:

Harrell was dominated by the bigger pair and could not find a save on the board to exit Flight A late in the day.

Jesse Cohen – 192,000 (48 bb)

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 13:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining:  54 of 192

Cards are back in the air for the last two levels of the day with Nick Scholz the new leader in the room.

He is up to 303,000 with other big stacks including Cody Hernandez (295,000), Romeo Mendoza (256,000), Oleg Rutskin (252,000), and Kyle Dilschneider (228,000).