There’s only one day remaining on the 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Winter Poker Open schedule and today we let fly with the final flight of the Championship. Flight C blasted another 235 entries into the tournament to push the $300,000 guaranteed prize pool well over $700,000.
We saw a lot of new faces come in during the afternoon including Lily Kiletto, Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Jessica Dawley, and 2014 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open champ James Calderaro.
Event 7 final table member Joey Alegria (pictured above) returned from dinner with the chip lead and only temporarily gave it up to Mark Chapman. He put away 378,500 for Day 2 and will begin Day 2 with the chip lead.
Only 110 of the starting 489 entries are still alive with a chance at the title and 45 of them will earn a piece of the prize pool tomorrow. The top two players will each take home a six-digit payout with the winner earning more than $187,000 plus a seat in the 2017 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship.
Day 2 kicks off tomorrow at noon and we will be here from start to champ.