$500 Double Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Flight A Entries: 463
The official numbers are in, and with 463 entries in Flight A, the final 58 (12.5%) will finish in the money, guaranteed at least $800 each, and the final 33 players (7%) will advance to Day 2.
$250 Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 15: 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining: 18 of 76
A scan of the field during the break showed Ramses Rosa as the clear chipleader with 248,000 (62 big blinds), followed by Alex Vazquez, who had 196,000 (49 big blinds). Nobody else was close to Vazquez.
With 18 players remaining, they are now at the final two tables. Only the final eight players will finish in the money, so the Money Bubble will be at the final table.
$500 Double Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight A Entries: 463
A scan of the field during the break turned up four players with at least 130K in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:
1. Tuan Pham – 168,100 (168 bb)
2. Nathaniel Galliford – 146,300 (146 bb)
3. Guoan Pan – 135,000 (135 bb)
4. Mark Donly – 133,100 (133 bb)
Tuan Pham picked up a lot of his chips in a key hand where he got it all in with 
after a flop of 
, and they held up against his opponent’s 
to give Pham a big double-up — and the chip lead.
Registration has closed, and as soon as official numbers are released for this flight, we will post them here in the updates.
The final 12.5% of the players in each starting flight will finish in the money, earning $800. The final 7% of each starting flight will advance to Day 2, which begins Sunday at 2:00 pm.
$250 Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 11: 1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Players Remaining: 45 of 76
Registration has closed for the $250 Turbo NLH tournament, and it drew 76 entries to create a prizepool worth $15,960. The final eight players will finish in the money (so the Money Bubble will occur at the final table), with a min-cash of $580 and the winner taking home $5,551 and the trophy.
2021 WPT Tampa
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event 2
$250 Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Entries: 76
Prize Pool: $15,960
June 9, 2021
1st: $5,551 + Trophy
2nd: $3,430
3rd: $2,239
4th: $1,534
5th: $1,106
6th: $842
7th: $678
8th: $580
$250 Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Structure
Level 9: 500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Entries: 76
The players return from break in the Turbo event to begin Level 9, with blinds at 500-1,000 with a 1,000 big blind ante.
A scan of the field during the break turned up Randell Summers as the chipleader with 74,500 (75 big blinds), followed by Ben Brown with 70,000 (70 big blinds).
Brown earned his big stack in a three-way all-in situation where he caught a lucky river card. According to Brown, all three players put in 8,000 each on a flop of 
, and then they got it all in on the turn on a relatively unimportant card.
One player turned over for the lead, the second player turned over , and Brown turned over 
, and only an eight on the river would save him.
Sure enough, the river card was an 
, and Brown won the pot with two pair, tens and eights, to build up his big stack.
Registration has just closed for this Turbo event, and the tournament clock shows an unofficial field size of 76 entries. The official field and payouts should be available soon, and we will post that information here in the updates.
$500 Double Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 200/400 with a 400 ante
Flight A Entries: 378
A scan of the field during the break turned up Long Nguyen as the clear chipleader with 93,000 in chips (233 big blinds), well ahead of Joe Santoro, who appears to be second with 68,900 (172 big blinds).
Registration remains open with a single re-entry option until the start of Level 9 (~9:30 pm). Players are allowed one entry and one re-entry in each starting flight, and this event is a best-stack-forward format.
The final 12.5% of the players in each starting flight will finish in the money, earning $800. The final 7% of each starting flight will advance to Day 2, which begins Sunday at 2:00 pm.
$500 Double Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 200/400 with a 400 ante
Flight A Entries: 378
Flight A is back in action with a few more players jumping in during the break. We still have more than two hours to run that up for a really good start to the day.
We found our most recent Tampa champ in the field. James Kerr was the last player standing in the $1,700 Tampa Poker Classic Main Event and earned $228,038 after a three-way final table deal.
$500 Double Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4: 200/300 with a 300 ante
Flight A Entries: 369
Level 4 came to an end and Flight A players were sent on a 15-minute break away from the tables. They will return to play four more levels, take another break, and then we will close registration for Flight A.
$500 Double Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3: 100/200 with a 200 ante
Flight A Entries: 347
The steady march of players into the Event Center continued into the new hour with nearly 350 in Flight A so far. With roughly 332 needed per flight to top the $1,000,000 guarantee, it’s safe to say they are headed in that direction.
Tony Miles was here early with one of the better résumés in the room, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone else who earned $5,000,000 from a single tournament. But Miles managed that feat when he finished runner-up at the 2018 WSOP Main Event final table.
$250 Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Structure
Level 1: 100/100
Flight A is underway for WPT Tampa Event 1 but the first guitar trophy will be awarded in Event 2 later this evening. The tournament gets underway at 6 pm in the Event Center with a $250 Turbo No Limit Hold’em tournament.
They will start with a 20,000 stack and all levels will last 15 minutes each. Late registration is available until the start of Level 9 at 8:15 pm with unlimited re-entries available during that time.
Since this is a one-day tournament, we will awarding our first WPT Tampa guitar trophy before too long.