2024 Tampa Signature Poker Series Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa, Florida Event 18 $400 Pot-Limit Omaha (Re-Entry) $50,000 Guaranteed Entries: 90 Prize Pool: $50,000 September 26 – October 1, 2023
2024 Tampa Signature Poker Series Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa, Florida Event 18 $400 Pot-Limit Omaha (Re-Entry) $50,000 Guaranteed Entries: 90 Prize Pool: $50,000 September 26 – October 1, 2023
Registration closed for the $400 PLO multi-flight tournament with 90 entries and we will pay out the $50,000 guaranteed prize pool. The last 13 players will be paid with $1,230 for a min-cash and $13,990 for the Event 18 champ.
2023 Tampa Signature Poker Series Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa, Florida Event 18 $600 One-Day $100K NLH (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed Entries: 216 Prize Pool: $113,400 September 17, 2023
Tung Nguyen
Tung Nguyen took home the title tonight in Event 18 after a chop was decided to before the start of heads-up play. That gave Nguyen the top prize worth $23,710 along with his first SPS guitar pick trophy.
Here is what he had to say after the win. “Great man, first time winning the trophy so I’m really happy. I’ll find a place for it when I get back home.”
“Maybe not right now, back I’ve got some friends in the neighborhood when I go back home and have a celebration with them,” said Nguyen when he was asked about his plans to celebrate the victory.
Poker is a hobby for Nguyen, and he wasn’t sure if his coworkers would believe his stories about tonight around the water cooler conversations when he gets back home. “I have to go back to work on Monday. I have a business to run, so maybe next time. They would never believe me if I told them I won a trophy because I’ve been playing pretty bad [laughs]. I have a nail place, I own a nail spa so I work with a lot of ladies in there. I just play here and there from time-to-time,” said Nguyen.
Nguyen continued, “I live down near Hollywood so I play more there. I love it at the Seminole events, it gives you a chance to play a lot of tournaments and get more experience. It feels great to finally win something.”
“I was short stacked, I had eight bigs left. I had A-5, and I jammed all in to triple, and that’s what put me in this position. We were seven-handed, but at two tables left I just had eight bigs left and that was the moment that got me to this position,” said Nguyen when he was asked about his most pivotal hand in the tournament.
Once he had the big stack at the final table, his endgame strategy was set in his mind. “I just played big hands after that. I don’t get involved with a lot of hands, I just waited until I had some decent hands. Because mostly you want to raise, because you don’t play with bad hands If you’re in a hand, and you’re scared to raise and people limp in, you have to raise,” said Nguyen to finish off the interview.
Fin al Results:
1st: Tung Nguyen – $23,710 + SPS Trophy 2nd: Rajasekar Govindan – $22,990 3rd: Kyle Brock – $11,620 4th: Alejandro Funes – $7,070 5th: Wasim Assaf – $5,460 6th: rant Missonis – $4,520 7th: Prasad Vemulpalli – $3,860 8th: Charles Lutz – $3,300 9th: Chase Kalivas – $2,760 10th: Gerald Silva – $2,380 11th: OK Haselton – $2,380 12th: Jamison Alford – $2,380 13th: Johnny Bromberg – $2,040 14th: John Kennedy – $2,040 15th: Matthew White – $2,040 16th: Jonathan Schreier – $1,700 17th: David Nadeau – $1,700 18th: Dan Larsson – $1,700 19th: Nicholas Egarhos – $1,360 20th: Gabriel Fuller – $1,360 21st: Christopher Johnson – $1,360 22nd: Derrick Smith – $1,050 23rd: Likang Berninger – $1,050 24th: Aldring Gomez Torres – $1,050 25th: Patrick Schortemeyer – $840 26th: Mike Dentale – $840 27th: Lawrence Dowling – $840
$600 One-Day $100K NLH (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 24: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Tung Nguyen
A chop decided the end of play at the final table after Alejandro Funes fell in fourth place ($7,070), and Kyle Brock went out in third for $11,620.
The chips were pretty close before the start of the heads-up final, and that’s when Tung Nguyen (3,515,000) and Rajasekar Govindan (2,965,000) decided on the chop.
Nguyen was awarded $23,710 along with the SPS guitar pick trophy, and Govindan took home $22,990 as the runner-up. Stay tuned for a winner’s photo and interview with Nguyen later tonight.
$600 One-Day $100K NLH (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 24: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Recent eliminations at the final table in Event 18 include Wasim Assaf who went out in fifth place for $5,460, and Grant Missonis in sixth place to score $4,520 in prize money.
