$2,500 SPS Championship (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool: $792,000 | Structure | Payouts
Level 24: 30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining: 4 of 352
Ash Chehata leads the four-handed final table with 70% of the chips in play but still a lot of work to do.
Seat 1: Nakim Adesio – 1,100,000 (18 bb)
Seat 3: Stephen Song – 2,210,000 (37 bb)
Seat 5: Mark Zhang – 985,000 (16 bb)
Seat 6: Ash Chehata – 9,780,000 (163 bb)
1st: $164,430 + SPS Trophy
2nd: $109,340
3rd: $80,260
4th: $59,550
$2,500 SPS Championship (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool: $792,000 | Structure | Payouts
Level 23: 20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining: 4 of 352
With the board reading 
, Rusty Wadsworth moved all in with 
for top pair heart draw but was behind Ash Cheahata’s 
made heart draw.
The 
river finished the board and Wadsworth was eliminated in fifth place.
Ash Chehata – 5,300,000 (106 bb)
Rusty Wadsworth – Eliminated in 5th Place ($44,650)
$150+$50 Quad Stack Bounty NLH (Re-Entry)
$20,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 100/200 with a 200 ante
The last new trophy event of the day gets underway at 6 pm and the format should juice up the action. It is a $150 + $50 Quad Stack Bounty, plenty of chips in play and 50 reasons to knock out your opponent.
Players sit with huge 40K stacks and the first eight levels last 15 minutes before going up to 20 for the rest of the tournament. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 8:15 pm.
$2,500 SPS Championship (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool: $792,000 | Structure | Payouts
Level 23: 20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining: 6 of 352
Peter Vitantonio open-shipped for 210,000 and Nakim Adesio reshipped with a much bigger stack to get folds all around.
Adesio: 
Vitantonio: 
Vitantonio needed a lot of help with his smaller ace but found no love on the 
board to exit (while short-stacked Zaki laddered up).
Nakim Adesio – 3,100,000 (78 bb)
Peter Vitantonio – Eliminated in 7th Place ($25,980)
$2,500 SPS Championship (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool: $792,000 | Structure | Payouts
Level 23: 20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining: 7 of 352
Nakim Adesio opened the action and Justin Zaki three-bet to 355,000. It folded back around, Adesio quickly called, and tabled his pocket kings, thinking Zaki was all in.
But Zaki had a 25K chip behind.
The flop was 
, giving Adesio a set of kings and Zaki showed the table his queens before folding.
Nakim Adesio – 2,975,000 (74 bb)
Justin Zaki – 25,000 (<1 bb)
But running hot, he quickly spun that up to 250,000 to give him a shot to get back in the game.
$2,500 SPS Championship (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool: $792,000 | Structure | Payouts
Level 23: 20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining: 7 of 352
John Pointer opened to 80,000 from middle position, Nakim Adesio called from the cutoff, and Mark Zhang called in the big blind. The flop was 
and both Zhang and Pointer checked.
Adesio bet 125,000 and Zhang folded. Pointer thought for a minute, told the dealer he was all in, and Adesio quickly called.
Adesio: 
Pointer: 
Pointer was ahead preflop but Adesio caught up when he paired his queen. The board finished with the 
turn and 
river and Pointer was eliminated in eighth place.
Nakim Adesio – 2,520,000 (63 bb)
John Pointer – Eliminated in 8th Place ($20,020)
$2,500 SPS Championship (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool: $792,000 | Structure | Payouts
Level 23: 20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining: 8 of 352
Seat 1: Nakim Adesio – 1,680,000 (42 bb)
Seat 2: Justin Zaki – 1,000,000 (25 bb)
Seat 3: Stephen Song – 2,385,000 (60 bb)
Seat 4: Rusty Wadsworth – 1,705,000 (43 bb)
Seat 5: Mark Zhang – 1,970,000 (49 bb)
Seat 6: Ash Chehata – 4,035,000 (101 bb)
Seat 7: Peter Vitantonio – 530,000 (13 bb)
Seat 8: John Pointer – 775,000 (19 bb)
1st: $164,430 + SPS Trophy
2nd: $109,340
3rd: $80,260
4th: $59,550
5th: $44,650
6th: $33,820
7th: $25,890
8th: $20,020
2025 Tampa Signature Poker Series
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 10
$400 Seniors 50+ NLH (Re-Entry)
$25,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 102
Prize Pool: $33,660
July 28, 2025
1st: $9,410 + SPS Trophy
2nd: $6,290
3rd: $4,270
4th: $3,010
5th: $2,200
6th: $1,670
7th: $1,320
8th: $1,100
9th-10th: $950
11th-13th: $830
$2,500 SPS Championship (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool: $792,000 | Structure | Payouts
Level 22: 15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining: 8 of 352
Ash Chehata opened to 60,000 from early position and Nakim Adesio called in middle position. Bobby Kennedy moved all in for 130,000 and Chehata reshipped over the top. Adesio flashed ace-queen as he mucked, and Chehata told him, “Nice fold”.
Chehata:
Kennedy: 
Kennedy was dominated and never found a sweat on the 
board to go out in ninth place.
Ash Chehata – 3,100,000 (103 bb)
Bobby Kennedy – Eliminated in 9th Place ($15,640)
