$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12:  1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players Remaining:  55 of 192

The finished up Level 12 and tournament staff sent Flight A players on their final break of the day while they pulled the purple chips out of play. They will return to play two more levels before bagging up.

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12:  1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players Remaining:  62 of 192

Action folded to Toby Boas and he shipped all in for 33,500 while having a laugh with David Tuthill. Kyle Dilschneider laughed along and then called to put Boas at risk.

Boas:
Dilschneider:

“Classic flip,” they joked.

Boas needed a lot of help but only found a small sweat as the board ran .

Kyle Dilschneider – 217,000 (72 bb)

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining:  81 of 192

Registration closed for Flight A of the TPC Championship with an official 192 entries in the game. That puts $432,000 in the prize pool towards the $500,000 guarantee and only 31 entries needed for Flight B tomorrow to get it there.

Lock it up.

Flight A will continue into the evening and survivors at the end of Level 14 will bag their chips for a Day 2 return on Sunday at noon.

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Flight A Entries:  192

Players returned to Championship action after the dinner break with a new chip lead. Cody Hernandez sits with 254,000 followed by David Tuthill with 232,000 and Romeo Mendoza with 212,500.

The clock shows 192 entries for Flight A but we are waiting on tournament staff to lock in the official numbers.

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  800/1,600 with a 1,600 ante
Flight A Entries:  182

Level 9 came to an end and tournament staff sent Flight A players on a 60-minute dinner break while they take the black chips out of play.

They will return at 6:30 pm and registration will close for the day. Flight B runs tomorrow at 11 am with the same schedule of play.

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  800/1,600 with a 1,600 ante
Flight A Entries:  180

Table 11 has been having fun most of the day and a lot of it comes at the expense of Jeremy Becker. Everyone keeps wishing him a happy birthday and he keeps shaking his head with the attention.

The latest bit came when he found a cooler against Doug Marro.

“I doubled up the birthday boy!” Marro laughed after his kings ran into Becker’s aces to move Becker up to 110,800.

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8:  600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Flight A Entries:  178

Rodney Turvin is having himself a nice run during the Tampa Poker Classic and it looks like he might do it again in the Championship. He finished 13th out of 1,463 in TPC Event 2 and followed that up with a $20K score in the $1,100 Event 10 tournament.

Now Turvin is spinning up a stack in the Championship and sits with 155,900 at the midpoint of the day.

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight A Entries:  171

Flight A players returned from their second break with 171 entries showing on the clock and nearly three hours remaining to register. More players are jumping in and they are building a great field.

Fernando Rodriguez had the second biggest stack on the first break and now the top stack after the second with exactly 200,000 sitting in front. David Tuthill sits in second with 196,900 and Igor Tretyakov is third with 163,600.

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Flight A Entries:  165

Six levels are down and players were sent on another break from the action with 165 entries showing on the clock. That’s a great number with a big Saturday crowd expected.

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Flight A Entries:  159

We have some more big-skill players sliding in the door as the afternoon moves on. Recent arrivals include three-time WPT champ (and 2021 WPT Tampa winner) Brian Altman, double 2022 LHPO winner Farid Jattin, and WSOP PLO High Roller bracelet winner James Calderaro.