2021 Tampa Poker Classic

Main Event: Blinds Up

$1,700 TPC Main Event (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 28:  50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 ante
Players Remaining:  10 of 959

James Kerr

There was little action over Level 27 except a short-stack Wagner Wysotchanski falling in 11th place and James Kerr building his stack over 6,000,000.

Blinds are now 50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 ante and the average stack is 2,875,000 (29 bb).

11th: Wagner Wysotchanski – $19,922

Main Event: Raminder Singh Doubles Through Kyrylo Kobzyev

$1,700 TPC Main Event (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 27:  50,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante
Players Remaining:  11 of 959

As the level was coming to an end, Raminder Singh and Kyrylo Kobzyev were heads up with the flop reading 6d5s4s. Kobzyev bet 550,000 and Singh moved all in for 1,150,000 to put kobzyev in the tank.

Two minutes later, Kobzyev called to put Singh at risk.

Singh: 9d9s
Kovzyev: AsJh

Singh was ahead with his pair of nines and needed to dodge the over cards. The Td turn changed nothing and the Qc river gave Singh the double.

Raminder Singh – 3,700,000 (49 bb)
Kyrylo Kobzyev – 1,550,000 (21 bb)

Chad Summers and Aaron Pinson were eliminated before that and the level moved up. Blinds are now 50,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante and the average stack is 2,625,000 (35bb).

12th: Chad Summers – $19,922
13th: Aaron Pinson – $16,136

Main Event: Back From Break

$1,700 TPC Main Event (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 26:  25,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante
Players Remaining:  13 of 959

James Kerr

Showing no slowing, three more players hit the payout desk before the next break. That leaves us with 13 players remaining and seven of them trying to make the final table that runs tomorrow.

Michael Cohen and James Kerr are in a dead heat for the top spot, both coming back from break with 3,650,000.

Blinds are now 25,000/75,000 with a 75,000 ante and the average stack is 2,225,000 (30 bb).

14th: Montana Heirman – $16,136
15th: Paul Crump Brooks – $13,260
16th: David “Stix” Uber – $13,260

Main Event: Nathan Cho Eliminated by Michael Cohen

$1,700 TPC Main Event (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 26:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  16 of 959

Michael Cohen

Michael Cohen is running out and Nathan Cho was on the wrong end of it. Cho opened the action, Cohen three-bet shipped, and Cho quickly called for ~1,000,000.

It looked great for Cho with aces versus the fives of Cohen until another five hit the board. Cohen made a set, Cho had his aces cracked, and the Main Event shrunk down to the last two tables.

Michael Cohen – 3,450,000 (69 bb)

17th: Nathan Cho – $11,058
18th: Rohan Long – $11,058

Main Event: More Results; Blinds Up Again

$1,700 TPC Main Event (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 26:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  18 of 959

Antonio Cristallini

As Level 25 was coming to an end, we had another spurt of knockouts to bring the field down to 18 with former leaders Neal Corcoran and Antonio Cristallini among the casualties.

Blinds are now 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante and the average stack is 1,600,000 (32 bb).

19th: Neal Corcoran – $11,058
20th: Maurice Paradis – $11,058
21st: Antonio Graham – $9,361
22nd: Michael Miller – $9,361
23rd: Antonio Cristallini – $9,361
24th: Joseph Salvaggi – $9,361

Main Event: Blinds Up and So Is Jeremy Becker

$1,700 TPC Main Event (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 25:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  24 of 959

Jeremy Becker

The second half of Level 24 was not nearly as hectic as the first. Three players were eliminated in those 20 minutes after the break but things settled after the redraw with 24 still in the mix.

Raminder Singh seemed to be in cruise control with 3,180,000 but he lost a huge pot to double Jeremy Becker up to 1,700,000. Singh is still doing well with 2,300,000 but he’s a little closer to average than before.

Blinds are now 20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante and the average stack is 1,200,000 (30 bb).

 

Main Event: Three-Table Redraw

$1,700 TPC Main Event (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 24:  15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining:  24 of 959

It took less than half of a level after dinner to get the Main Event down to its last three tables. Tournament staff paused the clock to perform a three-table redraw and play will get back underway once all stations are cleaned down to follow our Safe + Sound procedures.

25th: Chanthy Phoutsakanh – $8,045
26th: Richard Swain – $8,045
27th: Thomas McCormick – $8,045

Main Event: James Kerr Continues to Lead

$1,700 TPC Main Event (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 24:  15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining:  27 of 959

James Kerr

The dinner break is complete and cards are back in the air. James Kerr continues to lead the pack with 2,975,000 with Raminder Singh (2,395,000), Michael Cohen (2,250,000) and Gary Bowker (2,025,000) the closest to catching him.

Blinds are now 15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante and the average stack is 1,065,000 (36 bb).

We were able to catch up with the results and this is where we are heading into the last part of the night.

28th: Harvey Vandeven – $8,045
29th: Jason Kapoor – $7,022
30th: Al Khan – $7,022
31st: Justin Zaki – $7,022
32nd: Anthony Askey – $7,022
33rd: Ryan Snow – $6,225
34th: Scott Reginatto – $6,225
35th: Aaron Thivyanathan – $6,225
36th: Ashraf Chehata – $6,225
37th: Kareem Marshall – $6,225
38th: Ricardo Eyzaguirre – $6,225
39th: Brian Batt – $6,225
40th: Paul Balzano – $6,225
41st: William Brudenfll – $5,607
42nd: Jared Ingles – $5,607
43rd: Gary Herstein – $5,607
44th: Rafael Reis – $5,607
45th: Richard Kincaid – $5,607
46th: Maxwell Loveland – $5,607
47th: William Medina Diaz – $5,607

Main Event: Justin Zaki Eliminated by David Uber

$1,700 TPC Main Event (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 22:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  29 of 959

Justin Zaki

We didn’t see how they got there but found Justin Zaki and David “Stix” Uber playing a huge pot with the board out to the turn reading QhJsJd8h. Zaki checked, Uber announced “all in”, and Zaki called for what appeared to be about 350,000.

Uber: 8c8d
Zaki: KdKs

It was a tough two-out turn for Zaki and he could not return the favor on the 5s river to exit in 31st place.

Meanwhile, more craziness went down on Table 22 as one-time chip leader Al Khan’s seat was empty and James Kerr was sporting the biggest chip castle in the room (pictured below). Kerr said there was a huge three-way pot that saw his aces earn him a stack up to 2,975,000.