$200 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 24: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 12 of 973
Grant Missonis was all in with 
in the hole from the small blind, and Jimmy Tomblin had him covered holding 
under the gun.
The final board read 
, and Missonis was eliminated in 13th place, good for $1,790. Tomblin stacked up 2,040,000 after the hand.
Jimmy Tomblin – 2,040,000 (40 bb)
Grant Missonis – Eliminated in 13th Place ($1,790)
$2,200 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$75,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6: 400/800 with a 800 ante
Entries: 8 of 46
Here is a look at the final table seating chart with chip counts for Event 12 with some heavy hitters still in the mix:
Seat 1: Elliot Smith – 360,000
Seat 2: Paul Snead – 150,000
Seat 3: AJ Kelsall – 170,000
Seat 4: Tim Mina – 105,000
Seat 5: Sam Magd – 225,000
Seat 6: Joe Serock – 62,000
Seat 7: Frank Brannan – 170,000
Seat 8: Mike Phillips – 80,000
$200 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 22: 15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining: 15 of 973
Here is a look at the recent results in Event 9:
16th: Yefim Vakser – $1,480
17th: Ryan Hogan – $1,480
18th: Joseph Parrish – $1,480
19th: John Kennedy – $1,240
20th: Christopher Johnson – $1,240
21st: Marsha Wolak – $1,240
22nd: Jason Giles – $1,050
23rd: Khanh Truong – $1,050
24th: Luca Delgado – $1,050
25th: Megan Chapman – $900
26th: James Polanski – $900
27th: Jie Liu – $900
28th: Woodrow Pass – $780
29th: Jonathan Shiner – $780
30th: Rina Coss – $780
31st: Ashton Nowak – $690
32nd: Michael Mattivi – $690
33rd: William Brown – $690
34th: Bradley Miller – $620
35th: Josias Santos – $620
36th: Charles Wright – $620
37th: Matthew Edens – $560
38th: Raminder Singh – $560
39th: John Littleton – $560
40th: Cuinn Griffin – $560
41st: Julio Novo – $560
42nd: Garrison Brown – $560
43rd: Matthew Damore – $560
44th: Smith Collins – $560
45th: Shane Reid – $560
46th: David Sideri – $520
47th: Brent Hoover – $520
48th: Dylan Cann – $520
49th: Adalbert Mustatea – $520
50th: Tam Nguyen – $520
51st: Cary Alter – $520
52nd: Daniel Sudhop – $520
53rd: Zachary Vankueren – $520
54th: Stephanie Miller – $520
The inaugural Tampa Signature Poker Series Championship gets underway tomorrow, headlining an already successful series. The $1,700 buy-in tournament features a $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool and three starting flights.
Players will start with plenty of chips and long, slow levels to give them as much play as reasonable, plus a lot of money on the line.
The first flight starts on Thursday at 11 am, with late registration and re-entries available until 5:45 pm. Flight B has the same schedule on Friday and Saturday will be the biggest session of the tournament.
We look forward to seeing everyone back in the Event Center for a fantastic new Championship on our schedule.
$400 Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 3: 4,000/8,000 Limits
Wally Maddah and Amie Martini are two local notables making a deep run in Event 13 tonight. Maddah holds more than $700,000 in career earnings, with over 350 cashes on his poker resume. He has won 16 poker tournaments, and the majority of those victories have come here in Tampa (he has tournament 100 cashes overall at this property). The largest cash for the tournament grinder was for $37,361 at the Rock-N-Roll Poker Open at Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood back in 2016.
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.
$2,200 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$75,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6: 400/800 with a 800 ante
Entries: 12 of 46
The field is on dinner break in Event 12, and two notables making a deep run in the tournament include AJ Kelsall and Joe Serock. Kelsall won Event 11 last night for a payday of $28,420 and the SPS guitar pick trophy. You can read the winner’s interview from last night right here. The local pro increased his career earnings to well over $2.8 million with the victory.
Serock holds more than $4.3 million in career earnings, and original resident of Albuquerque, New Mexico now lives in San Diego. Serock has three tournament victories to his credit, and he is a former World Poker Tour Player of the Year. He has 15, six-figure scores, with the largest weighing in at $804,191 for a fifth-place finish at the World Series of Poker Online Main Event in 2021.
$200 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20: 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining: 30 of 973
Marsha Wolak is among the final 30 players making a deep run on Day 2, and she can be found playing in tournaments throughout the year all over her home state of Florida.
Wolak holds close to $900,000 in career tournament earnings, and she has ten tournament victories on her poker resume. Two of those wins were good for a World Series of Poker gold bracelet, and a WSOP gold ring. Wolak is currently holding 130,000 as the field approaches the final three tables.
2023 Tampa Poker Classic
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 13
$400 Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)
Entries: 93
Prize Pool: $31,155
September 13, 2023
Registration closed for the $400 Limit Omaha 8 tournament with 93 entries to create one of our biggest fields for this tournament. They created a prize pool worth $31,155 and the last 12 players will earn some money.
A min-cash is worth $780 while the Event 13 champ will earn $9,885 and the SPS trophy.
1st: $9,885 + SPS Trophy
2nd: $5,920
3rd: $3,740
4th: $2,410
5th: $1,870
6th: $1,480
7th: $1,250
8th: $1,090
9th: $990
10th: $900
11th: $840
12th: $780
$200 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 18: 6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante
Players Remaining: 48 of 973
Catching up on the results in the quick-moving return of Event 9, they are down to six tables and flying right along. Here’s a list of everyone who cashed from 55th through 99th.
55th: Griffin Baugh – $490
56th: Hyndi Khomutetsky – $490
57th: Darren Rose – $490
58th: Andrew Hoffman – $490
59th: Patrick McConnell – $490
60th: Jose Hernandez – $490
61st: Zachary Johns – $490
62nd: Steffan Siebel-Cortopassi – $490
63rd: Anthony De Cresci – $490
64th: John Anderson – $460
65th: Isiah James – $460
66th: Yan Jiang – $460
67th: Jayden Krnyaich – $460
68th: Michael Silva – $460
69th: Patrick Ibrahim – $460
70th: Daniel Zucker – $460
71st: Renato Moraes – $460
72nd: Christopher Thompson – $460
73rd: Trever Phelps – $440
74th: Chase Kalivas – $440
75th: Attye Vasquez – $440
76th: Christopher O’Rourke – $440
77th: James Crook – $440
78th: Joseph Porto – $440
79th: Randolph Grayson – $440
80th: Daniel Vitek – $440
81st: Zachary Fischer – $440
82nd: Stephen Devault – $440
83rd: Mostafa Aboalmajed – $440
84th: Cale Wynegar – $440
85th: Moises Jattin – $440
86th: Rodrigo Gothe – $440
87th: Collin Calloway – $440
88th: Amie Martini – $440
89th: Cesar Trinidad – $440
90th: Jovan Jojic – $440
91st: Rodrigo Cherubin – $430
92nd: Denim Spano – $430
93rd: Adam Isaacson – $430
94th: Joseph Craig – $430
95th: Joseph Chalbaud – $430
96th: James Stephens – $430
97th: Andrew Marks – $430
98th: Vicki Renfrow – $430
99th: Woodrow Pass – $430
2023 Tampa Poker Classic
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 12
$2,200 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$75,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 46
Prize Pool: $92,000
September 13, 2023
Registration closed for the $2,200 Deep Stack tournament with 46 entries. The $75,000 guarantee was surpassed, creating a prize pool worth $92,000. The last six players will make the money with $5,540 for a min-cash and $32,710 to the Event 12 champ.
1st: $32,710 + SPS Trophy
2nd: $21,810
3rd: $14,540
4th: $10,090
5th: $7,310
6th: $5,540