$1,700 TPC Main Event (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 15: 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante Players Remaining: 148 of 959
Paul Balzano
It didn’t take long for ten players to hit the rail after the restart and we expect some speedy action until we near the money bubble. That should get here near the first break and we’ll see the normal slowdown with players eyeing some cash.
While others were leaving, Paul Balzano was moving in the other direction. He began the day with 508,000 but moved up to 667,000 in less than an orbit.
$1,700 TPC Main Event (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 15: 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante Players Remaining: 158 of 959
Kyrylo Kobzyev
Three starting flights of the TPC Main Event combined to put 959 entries into the field and 158 of them survived to make Day 2. They all return to the Poker Room at noon to begin playing down towards the final table.
Kyrylo Kobzyev bagged a huge 527,000 stack in Flight B and Paul Balzano came closest to catching him in Flight C, putting 508,000 away for today. Other notables returning today include Justin Zaki, Michael Cohen, Anthony Askey, Tony March, David Dibernardi, reigning WPO Main Event champ Max Young, and high-roller specialist Byron Kaverman.
They come back to blinds at 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante and the average stack is 182,000 (46 bb). Levels will remain 40 minutes long until increasing to 60 minutes at the final table. The schedule today has the field playing down from 158 to the final table seven, those players will return on Monday to play it out.
$1,700 TPC Main Event (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Return to Level 15: 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante Players Remaining: 158 of 959
$1,700 TPC Main Event (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Return to Level 15: 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante Players Remaining: 158 of 959
$1,700 TPC Main Event (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 14: 2,000/3,000 with a 3,000 ante Players Remaining: 73 of 451
Paul Balzano
Flight C came to an with 73 players advancing to Day 2 tomorrow at noon and SHRP regular Paul Balzano built the biggest stack over 14 levels and will return with a second-place stack for Day 2.
Full Day 2 chip counts and seat assignments will posted as soon as available.
Paul Balzano – 508,000 Ashraf Chehata – 461,000 Neal Corcoran – 432,000 Rohan Long – 424,000 Steven Snyder – 419,000 Wagner Wysotchanski – 412,000 Brent Ballentine – 409,000 Gary Bowker – 395,000 Andrew Pecina – 367,000 Michael Kassem – 322,000
$1,700 TPC Main Event (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 14: 2,000/3,000 with a 3,000 ante Players Remaining: 112 of 451
Players are holding on to their chips with an eye towards Day 2 tomorrow and there are a lot more around than expected heading into the last level. The math said there should be around 75 advancing from Flight C but they’re still in triple digits.
We are keeping an eye out for our Flight C leaders and will update with big baggers.
Thanks again to everyone coming out for the Tampa Poker Classic Main Event. We appreciate you spending your time with us. Your entire poker room and casino team are working to provide a safe and fun environment.
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa reopened under new and stringent “Safe+Sound” program guidelines. The guidelines include multiple new initiatives designed to create a Hard Rock entertainment experience in an environment that helps to keep guests and team members safe. Safe+Sound Program guidelines include:
Temperature checks for all guests and team members prior to entry. Any guest or team member with a temperature above CDC guidelines will not be allowed entry.
A requirement that all guests wear masks or cloth face coverings that meet CDC guidelines, without exception. Masks are provided to guests, as needed.
A face covering over your nose and mouth must be worn at all times except when actively eating, drinking or smoking while seated and physically distanced.
Thousands of alternating slot machines are turned off, to help ensure social distancing on the casino floor.
New Plexiglas barriers divide players at table games, poker games and customer service areas.
Signs are posted throughout the complex to encourage social distancing and help ensure adherence to Safe+Sound Program guidelines.
More than 100 team members are part of a new “Safe+Sound Clean Team” to focus on cleaning and disinfecting surfaces throughout the complex, with special emphasis on high-touch surfaces and common areas.
Hand-sanitizing stations are available on the casino floor, at the entrances and throughout the resort.
Constant purification and disinfecting of the air flowing into the complex through the AtmosAir™ bipolar ionization system designed to destroy virus particles in the air and on surfaces.
An overall 50 percent reduction in guest capacity throughout the resort.
“Hard Rock and Seminole Gaming have made a tremendous commitment to sanitary protocols and a safety-first mentality for both guests and team members,” said Jim Allen, CEO of Seminole Gaming and Chairman of Hard Rock International. “We are making sure our resorts are safe and sound so our guests and team members have peace of mind when they return.”
$1,700 TPC Main Event (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 12: 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante Players Remaining: 152 of 451
Steven Snyder
Now that the accounting is complete we had time to jump back into the field to see where it stands. We have 152 players remaining of the starting 451 entries and we should lose half of them before Flight C comes to an end after Level 14.
Steven Snyder looks like the current big stack in the room as the three-time WSOP Circuit ring winner sits with 281,000 late in the day.
