$250 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Flight B Entries: 130

Registration closed for Flight C of SPS Event 3 with 130 new entries putting the combined total at 401 for the tournament. Only 87 entries are needed to surpass the $100,000 guarantee and it will get there before the first break of Flight D.

Flight C will continue until 17 players remain and survivors will bag their chips for a Day 2 return on Wednesday at 1 pm in the money. Players must bag chips to cash in the tournament.

$250 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Returning to Level 14:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining:  35 of 271

Flight A: 131 Entries; 17 Advanced
Flight B: 140 Entries; 18 Advanced
Flight C: Reg open till 10:30 pm
Flight D: Tuesday at 1 pm
Flight E: Tuesday at 6 pm
Day 2: Wednesday at 1 pm

$250 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1:  100/200 with a 200 ante

SPS Event 3 is continuing the great early results for the series with the $250 buy-in tournament more than halfway to the $100,000 after two flights with three to go. The next starts at 6 pm with two more tomorrow.

Players sit down to 25K chips in their stacks and all levels last 30 minutes. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 10:30 pm. Flight C will continue until 12.5% of the field remains and anyone with chips will return on Wednesday at 1 pm for Day 2.

• $100,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 25,000 in chips
• Levels last 30 minutes
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9 (10:30pm)
• Day 1 will end when 12.5% of field remains
• Event 3 Structure Sheet

$250 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Flight B Entries: 139

Registration closed for Flight B of SPS Event 3 with 140 new entries putting the $250 buy-in tournament up to 271 for the tournament with three flights to go. They’ve already done better than halfway to the $100,000 guarantee so that’s a virtual lock.

Flight B will continue until 18 players remain and they will bag up for a Day 2 return on Wednesday at 1 pm. Players must bag chips to cash in the tournament.

$250 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight B Entries: 133

A unique situation on Table 21; the dealer ran out of all-in buttons.

Anthony Pellegrini open shoved for 8,500 from under the gun and Tony March followed suit, shoving for 34,500 from middle position. The hijack player came along for about 12,000 and so did the cutoff for about 35,000.

Andre Cochran was sitting on the button wondering what was going on. He shrug-called for his 18,000 before the blinds saw the light and got out of the way.

Pellegrini:
March:
Hijack:
Cutoff:
Cochran:

Cochran was ahead but still only ~38% to hold while a lot of others were just blocking all over the place. The fun didn’t stop preflop because the board came out for set-over-set between Cochran and Pellegrini.

The turn put some straight draws out there but the river finished the board and the dealer went about settling the pot.

Pellegrini and the hijack were eliminated, Cochran pulled a full double from both March and the cutoff, and March was given a rebate for his big slick.

“I didn’t lose anything,” March laughed with the table.

2024 Tampa Signature Poker Series
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 4
$400 Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)
Entries: 82
Prize Pool: $27,470
September 16, 2023

Registration closed for the $400 Limit Omaha 8 tournament with 82 entries, a great turnout for Omaha once again, and they created a prize pool worth $27,470. The last 11 spots will be paid with $770 for a min-cash and $8,100 plus the SPS trophy awaiting the Event 4 champ.

1st: $8,110 + SPS trophy
2nd: $5,400
3rd: $3,660
4th: $2,570
5th: $1,880
6th: $1,430
7th: $1,130
8th: $940
9th: $810
10th-11th: $770

$250 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4:  300/500 with a 500 ante
Flight B Entries: 111

Before the first break, Ashley Spring was heads up from the button with her opponent in the cutoff and the board reading . Her opponent checked, Spring bet 8,000 and he went all-in. Spring quickly called with the bigger stack and the better hand.

Spring:
Cutoff:

Both flopped a set but Spring was best with her set of kings and started stacking his chips after the river.

$400 Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)
Structure
Level 8: 1,200/2,400
Entries: 81

We have a fantastic group of 81 entries in the first Omaha game of the series but time is running out if you want to jump in. They will play out this level, take a 15-minute break, and registration will close when they return to action at 3:30 pm.

A few faces in the crowd include Allen “Chainsaw” Kessler, Chris Labrie, Cary Rosenthal, Marty Raschkovan, Ryan Hogan, Jay Kerbel, and Ross Lebo.

2024 Tampa Signature Poker Series
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 1
$400 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 1,655
Prize Pool: $546,150
September 10-15, 2023

The 2024 Signature Poker Series kicked off with a huge multi-flight event, a $400 buy-in tournament featuring a $250,000 guarantee. The tournament drew 1,655 entries, more than doubling the guarantee, and Kevin Carnevale took the top spot for $84,310 after a heads-up deal.

The turnout for this tournament created the second-biggest field we’ve ever hosted in the Poker Room, just 50 souls shy of the 1,705 entries in the opening event of the 2023 Tampa Poker Classic, and they turned the $250K guarantee into a prize pool worth $546,150.

206 players returned for Day 2 on Sunday in the money and quickly played down without worrying about bubble play. Carnevale and Mark Bibbie were two of the biggest stacks through the late stages of the day, and they were the two left standing at the end.

With Carnevale holding a big chip lead, they agreed to divide up the remaining prize pool, and Carnevale took the top spot along with $84,310.

Congrats to Kevin and thank you to everyone for the great turnout to start the series!

Final table results:

• Complete SPS Event 1 results (PDF)