$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $50,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 9: 600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante Entries: 94
Deborah Farmer
The second break wrapped up and players returned to their seats with an unofficial 94 entries showing on the clock. We will post the prize pool and payout information as soon as it is available.
Deborah Farmer has a nice lead at the top of the counts as the only player over 200K. Here’s a look at a few random counts from around the field:
Deborah Farmer – 213,600 (178 bb) Ken Fishman – 142,000 (118 bb) Tony March – 103,000 (86 bb) Clyde Maliauka – 99,100 (83 bb) Filipp Khavin – 87,100 (73 bb) David DiBernardi – 81,800 (68 bb) Bryce McVay – 78,700 (66 bb) Marsha Wolak – 74,800 (62 bb) Ken O’Donnell – 67,000 (56 bb) Jason Block – 65,800 (55 bb) Jerry Silva – 64,000 (53 bb) Jeremy Becker – 62,900 (52 bb) Anthony Askey – 56,400 (47 bb) Justin Zaki – 46,500 (39 bb) Fallon Weidner – 28,300 (24 bb) Tarun Gulati – 28,100 (23 bb) Matthew Leecy – 26,700 (22 bb) Jacob Naumann – 25,500 (21 bb) Ryan Hogan – 20,600 (17 bb) Aime Martini – 19,700 (16 bb) Aaron Thivyanathan – 17,700 (15 bb)
$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $50,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 8: 500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante Entries: 91
Level 8 has ended, which means the clock is ticking down to closing registration for the big $1,100 tournament. We have 91 entries showing on the clock during the break and might pick up a few more before Level 9 gets underway.
$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $50,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 7: 400/800 with a 800 ante Entries: 82
David DiBernardi
The clock is ticking down for anyone who wants to play in the one-day $1K this afternoon. They have a little under an hour to register for a prize pool nearing $80,000 on a Wednesday afternoon.
Tampa champ David DiBernardi and Filipp Khavini were two of the recent arrivals and we expect a few more when the max late reg players make it down to the poker room.
$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $50,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 6: 300/600 with a 600 ante Entries: 71
Ryan Hogan
The entry count quickly jumped up after the first break and we have 71 now in the game with 90 minutes to spin it up.
A few familiar faces include Event 1 champ Ryan Hogan, Jeremy Becker, Clyde Maliauka, Karl Manouchakian, Justin Zaki, Bryce McVay, Doug Marro, and Aaron Thivyanathhan.
$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $50,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 4: 200/400 with a 400 ante Entries: 57
Igor Tretyakov
Event 8 cruised through the first four levels of the day and players are taking a little break from the action. There were no huge stacks found on break, but David Meagher looks like the biggest with just over 70,000.
$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $50,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 1: 100/100 with a 100 ante
The Pinktober Poker Open Championship is right around the corner and we have two big warmup events before it gets underway. The first one goes at noon with a $1,100 buy-in tournament that features a $50,000 guaranteed prize pool and a one-day structure. Tomorrow we ramp it up to $2,200 with a $100,000 guarantee.
Players start with 30K stacks and all levels last 30 minutes. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 4:30 pm with a dinner break at 8:45 pm.
We will pick up the action at the first break and carry it through to the end.
$50,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
$1,700 PPO Championship seat added to 1st place
Players begin with 30,000 in chips
Levels last 30 minutes each
Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9 (4:30pm)
This is a one-day tournament and plays to completion
2022 WPT Tampa Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa, Florida Event 8 $400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $20,000 Guaranteed Entries: 296 Prize Pool: $99,160 August 28, 2022
Michael Hermoza
Michael Hermoza topped the field in Event 8 to take home the WPT Trophy and first-place prize worth $21,890. Here is what he had to say right after the victory: “I’m from Colombia, so I just traveled here to start living in New York so this is a very high experience. I played down in Miami, in the opening event I came 27th, so I see that it’s a very good tournament to play so I decided to come here to Tampa.”
“I actually knocked out seven players at the final table, and when it got down to three-handed play I had some really easy decisions most of the time. I did good things at the final table, I never felt too much pressure, I just won my hands and the ICM is very important in these situations,” said Hermoza when he was asked about his journey through the final table.
Hermoza also mentioned that he was inspired by his recent success at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open to make the trip down here to Tampa. “This whole chain of casinos are really, really good. Miami was amazing, and here the structure of the tournaments was really, really nice. I never felt the pressure of the blinds. It doesn’t matter what the price of the buy-in is, they do really good things. And know I’m going to play some more events,” said Hermoza.
Here is a look at the final table results for the event:
Place
First Name
Last Name
Prize Payout
1
Michael
Hermoza
$21,890 +WPT Trophy
2
Daniel
Couzens
$15,370
3
Nick
Ahmadi
$9,890
4
Alex
Vazquez
$6,170
5
Raymond
Parks
$4,760
6
Chun
Wang
$3,950
7
Richard
Lyon
$3,320
8
Harvey
Shifrin
$2,730
9
Brad
Jarrett
$2,190
And here are the results from earlier tonight:
10th: Timothy Diederich – $1,850 11th: Brian Britton – $1,850 12th: Julio Novo – $1,850 13th: Brent Ballentine – $1,570 14th: Ali Farik – $1,570 15th: Spencer Sanchez – $1,570 16th: Philip Starner – $1,310 17th: Michael Mestey – $1,310 18th: Cathy Schenone – $1,310 19th: Patrick McConnell – $1,070 20th: Michael Jimenez – $1,070 21st: Shawn Pecora – $1,070 22nd: Timothy Turner – $860 23rd: Steven Queen – $860 24th: Barbara Cardin – $860 25th: Jakob Parks – $760 26th: Robert Brandl – $760 27th: Jerome Bocquet – $760 28th: Nicholas Visconti – $670 29th: Jason Kaplan – $670 30th: Eric Valerio – $670 31st: Lisa Karl – $670 32nd: Samm Wiggins – $670 33rd: Vincent Censabella – $670 34th: John Disantis – $670 35th: Phillip Krnyaichi – $670 36th: Michael Guzzardi – $670 37th: Phillip Theard – $600
2022 WPT Tampa Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa, Florida Event 8 $400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $20,000 Guaranteed Entries: 296 Prize Pool: $99,160 August 28, 2022
We had a huge turnout of the Sunday one-day event with 296 entries in the $400 No Limit Hold’em tournament. It began with a $20,000 guarantee but they nearly quintupled that when they settled on a prize pool worth $99,160.
The last 37 players will make some money later this evening with $600 for a min-cash and $21,890 for the Event 8 champ.
