$400 H.E.R.O.S. (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 21: 30,000/60,000 Limits
Players Remaining: 6 of 73
Michael Zacco was all in with 
preflop, and Greg Osborne had him covered holding 
. The final board reads 
7c]5h], and Zacco was eliminated in seventh place, good for $1,020. Osborne stacked up 327,000 after collecting the pot.
Greg Osborne – 327,000 (10 bb)
Michael Zacco – Eliminated in Seventh Place ($1,020)
$400 H.E.R.O.S. (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 18: 15,000/30,000 Limits
Players Remaining: 7 of 73
Here is a look at the recent results from the H.E.R.O.S. event.
8th: Amie Martini – $850
9th: Anthony Angerami – $750
10th: Ken Po – $750
$400 H.E.R.O.S. (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 18: 15,000/30,000 Limits
Players Remaining: 9 of 73
Seat 1: Frank Muir – 530,000
Seat 2: Anthony Angerami – 150,000
Seat 3: Alexander Orlov – 201,000
Seat 4: Filippos Stavrakis – 213,000
Seat 5: Greg Osborne – 132,000
Seat 6: Michael Zacco – 259,000
Seat 7: Amie Martini – 44,000
Seat 8: Larry Miles – 390,000
Seat 9: Ken Donoghue – 118,000
$400 H.E.R.O.S. (Re-Entry)
Structure
Level 11: 1,500/3,000 Limits
Players Remaining: 40 of 73
Allen Kessler and Amie Martini are two notable players making a run in the HEROS event among the 40 players remaining from 73 entries today.
Kessler holds more than $4.3 million in tournament earnings, and you would be hard-pressed to find a tournament poker player who plays more events in a year than Kessler. He holds four World Series of Poker gold rings, and he has won close to 20 poker tournaments in his career.
Martini was the runner-up in a few nights ago in the Big O tournament, which was good for a $6,500 score. Martini is a cash-games mixed-games specialist, and her career tournament earnings stand above $143,000. Martini has one tournament win to her credit here at Seminole Hard Rock Tampa.
2023 Tampa Poker Classic
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 16
$400 H.E.R.O.S. (Re-Entry)
Entries: 73
Prize Pool: $24,455
September 15, 2023
Registration closed for the $400 H.E.R.O.S. event with a great turnout of 73 entries. An excellent statement on how much Tampa loves their mixed game. The created a prize pool worth $24,455 and the last ten players will make the money; a min-cash worth $750 and the Event 16 champ will earn $7,485.
1st: $7,485 + SPS Trophy
2nd: $5,000
3rd: $3,330
4th: $2,310
5th: $1,680
6th: $1,280
7th: $1,020
8th: $850
9th-10th: $750
$400 H.E.R.O.S. (Re-Entry)
Structure
Level 1: 300/600 Limits
Another mix game will run this afternoon with SPS Event 16 at noon. And putting a twist in there. Instead of running some H.O.R.S.E. action, the rotation order has been adjusted for H.E.R.O.S.
The order will be Limit Hold’em, Stud 8, Razz, Limit Omaha 8, and Stud. H.E.R.O.S.
Players start with 30K deep stacks and all levels last 30 minutes for the one-day trophy event. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 4:30 pm. The dinner break will last 30 minutes and start at 6:30 pm.
Since this is a one-day trophy, someone will take home a new trophy for the win.
Primary Event Schedule
11AM: Day 1B – $1,700 SPS Championship (Re-Entry)
12PM: Event 16 – $400 H.E.R.O.S. (Re-Entry)
Secondary and Satellite Schedule
3PM: $250 SPS Championship Satellite (1-in-8)
6PM: $250 SPS Championship Satellite (1-in-8)
8PM: $200 SPS Championship Turbo Satellite (1-in-10)
2022 WPT Tampa
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 16
$400 Seniors 50+ (Re-Entry)
$30,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 317
Prize Pool: $106,195
August 31, 2022
Jeffrey Nemes topped the field in the Senior Event tonight to take home the WPT Trophy along with the top prize worth $20,383 after a three-way chop to end play. Here is what he had to say after the victory tonight.
“This was a grind, but because I’m in my late 50s I guess I can only play in Seniors events (laughs), that’s what I’ve been telling everybody. It was great players tonight, card dead all day, but I held out. But when I got to the final table I couldn’t miss, and it worked out in my favor. That’s exactly how it went,” said Nemes.
“My wife is my poker coach, we live, eat, and breath poker, we play all the time, and we love the game. We will back in a couple days,” said Nemes about his supportive rail bird during the late stages of the tournament.
“We play at all the Hard Rock properties, we mostly go to Fort Lauderdale because it’s closer, but they treat us very well here, we had a great room, and the improvements that they’ve made at the property are great. But I have to say that the tournament staff and floor staff here are outstanding. The dealers are great, not one problem, they know the rules, they keep a tight ship, and that’s what makes the game a pleasure, the staff handles it,” said the Naples, FL resident Nemes about his tournament experience a little north of home up here in Tampa.
| Place | First Name | Last Name | Prize Payout |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeffrey | Nemes | $20,383* +WPT Trophy |
| 2 | Stevie | Tziris | $15,872* |
| 3 | Anthony | De Cresci | $13,450* |
| 4 | Joan | Delker | $6,600 |
| 5 | Ben | Smith | $5,090 |
| 6 | Paul | Bright | $4,220 |
| 7 | John | Burdin | $3,540 |
| 8 | Jennifer | Longwood | $2,910 |
| 9 | Alan | Abramson | $2,310 |
*: Denotes the payouts decided upon in a three-way chop.
And here are the rest of the final results:
10th: Michael Slate – $1,940
11th: Herbert Turner – $1,940
12th: Ebrahim Figueroa Noboa – $1,940
13th: Michael Brown – $1,650
14th: Charles Eison – $1,650
15th: Victoria Ondis – $1,650
16th: Tom Nguyen – $1,380
17th: William Linderman – $1,380
18th: Trevilynn Blakeslee – $1,380
19th: Christian Bayer – $1,130
20th: Dennis Asbel – $1,130
21st: Kristine Glassman – $1,130
22nd: Michael Halprin – $920
23rd: Lisa Karl – $920
24th: Stacy Matin – $920
25th: Christopher Stoltzfus – $800
26th: Andrew Marks – $800
27th: Gary Brudner – $800
28th: Marsha Wolak – $680
29th: Michael King – $680
30th: Sylvia Bernstein – $680
31st: Anthony Palumbo – $680
32nd: Michael Cohen – $680
33rd: Julio Delgado Reyes – $680
34th: Pasquale Hudson – $680
35th: James Schwamman – $680
36th: Andrew Palace – $680
37th: Robert Tannenbaum – $560
38th: David Thomas – $560
39th: Vladimir Gekhter – $560
40th: Paul Morin – $560
$400 Seniors 50+ (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 24: 15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining: 6 of 317 entries
The final players have taken their seat the final table of Event 16, and here is a look at the seat draw with chip counts.
Seat 1: Joan Delker – 380,000
Seat 2: Paul Bright – 470,000
Seat 4: Jeffrey Nemes – 345,000
Seat 6: Ben Smith – 345,000
Seat 7: Steve Tziris – 1,25,000
Seat 8: Anthony Decreresci – 565,000
Here is a look at the remaining prize pool up for grabs:
1st: $23,115 + WPT trophy
2nd: $16,180
3rd: $10,410
4th: $6,600
5th: $5,090
6th: $4,220
7th: John Burdin – $3,540
8th: Jennifer Frankenstein – $2,910
9th: Alan Abramson – $2,310
$400 Seniors 50+ (Re-Entry)
$30,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 22: 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining: 30 of 317 entries
A player in early position was all in with 
in the hole, and Michael G. Brown had him covered holding 
on the button.
The board was dealt 
, and Brown stacked up 483,000 after collecting the pot.
Michael G. Brown – 483,000 (24 bb)