2024 Tampa Poker Classic Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa, Florida Event 9 $250 Seniors 50+ (Re-Entry) $10,000 Guaranteed Entries: 171 Prize Pool: $35,055 March 25, 2024
$250 Seniors 50+ (Re-Entry) $10,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 1: 100/200 with a 200 ante
We are closing out the 2024 Tampa Poker Classic with a fun one at 10 am. The $250 Seniors 50+ has a nice $10,000 guaranteed prize pool and it will be fun while they win some cash.
Players start with 30K stacks and all levels last 30 minutes. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 2:30 pm. They have a dinner break at 6:45 pm and return to find out last champ of the series.
$10,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
Players begin with 30,000 in chips
Levels last 30 minutes
Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9 (2:30pm)
This is a one day tournament and please to completion
2024 Winter Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa, Florida Event 9 $250 Seniors 50+ (Re-Entry) $10,000 Guaranteed Entries: 245 Prize Pool: $50,225 February 5, 2024
The last event on the 2024 WPO schedule was the popular $250 Seniors 50+ event with a $10,000 guarantee blasted times five for a prize pool over $50,000. It created a talented final table that ended up calling it a night with seven players remaining and Glyn Griffis holding a huge lead.
Griffis earned the title along with a cool $10,000 payout plus the last WPO trophy awarded for the series.
2024 Winter Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa, Florida Event 9 $250 Seniors 50+ (Re-Entry) $10,000 Guaranteed Entries: 245 Prize Pool: $50,225 February 5, 2024
Registration closed for the $250 Seniors 50+ tournament with 245 entries, quintupling the $10,000 guarantee into a prize pool worth $50,225. The last 31 spots will be paid with $460 for a min-cash and $11,145 up top for the last champ of the series.
2023 Tampa Signature Poker Series Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa, Florida Event 9 $200 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed Entries: 973 Prize Pool: $164,437 September 11-13, 2023
Jimmy Tomblin was the clear chip leader throughout the final table tonight, and he played his advantage well to take home the top prize of $28,850 along with the SPS guitar pick trophy. The Fort Lauderdale resident took his career earnings up above $400,000 thanks to what was the most dominant final-table performance we’ve seen during this tournament series.
We caught up with Tomblin shortly after the win, and here were his thoughts about winning his first trophy here at Seminole Hard Rock Tampa. “It feels amazing, it feels great. I’m going to put the trophy right in my kitchen [laughs],” said Tomblin.
“I mean I was just picking spots, a lot of three-betting, so I got a lot of folds because the ICM was so crucial. There’s guys with 10 to 15 bigs, and two other guys had 30 bigs, and I had 80. So it was pretty easy cruising. I had one big hand with a guy over here, and after that … I four-bet jammed him on the turn, and he found a fold. It was a pretty sick spot, and that got me to like 7 million,” said Tomblin when he was asked about his dominant journey at the final table.
“I opened under the gun, I was pretty active obviously, and a player jammed for 2.4 [million]. There was a re-jam, and I almost folded, but I couldn’t fold with queens. and aces, and I make the queen on the flop. I was just thinking about the numbers, and of course I have to call,” was Tomblin’s insight when asked about the hand that saw him take out two players in third and fourth place before the start of heads-up play.
“It’s ran great, everybody from the floor, to the dealers, the friendly players, media, everyone has been great, everyone has been awesome. Here and Hollywood are the best two stops that I go to,” said Tomblin when he was asked about what he’s enjoyed for far during the SPS tournament series that has seen him make a couple other of deep runs as well. Tomblin will also be playing in the championship event, maybe tomorrow of Friday depending on how tired he is after tonight.
Final Table Results:
1st: Jimmy Tomblin – $28,850 + SPS Trophy 2nd: Ray Lambert – $17,830 3rd: Tommy Hwang – $13,160 4th: Travis Hall – $9,830 5th: Eric Buek – $7,430 6th: Josh Snodgrass – $5,680 7th: Moytk Scott – $4,400 8th: Jose Passatino – $3,450 9th: Andrew Brannon – $2,740
$200 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 29: 100,000/150,000 with a 150,000 ante Players Remaining: 1 of 973
Ray Lambert got all in with in the hole from the button, and Jimmy Tomblin had him covered holding .
The final board read , and Lambert was eliminated in second place, good for $17,830. That gave Tomblin the tournament title, SPS guitar pick trophy, and top prize of $28,850 in prize money.
$200 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 29: 100,000/150,000 with a 150,000 ante Players Remaining: 2 of 973
James Tomblin took out two players when his pocket queens held up against pocket aces and on a board that delivered a third queen.
That hand kocked out Travis Hall in fourth place and Tommy Hwang in third place to set up a heads-up final with Tomblin holding 14.7 million against the 4.76 million of Ray Lambert.
James Tomblin – 14,700,000 (98 bb) Ray Lambert – 4,760,000 (31 bb) 3rd: Tommy Hwang – $13,160 4th: Travis Hall – $9,830
$200 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 26: 40,000/80,000 with a 80,000 ante Players Remaining: 6 of 973
Josh Snodgrass and Jimmy Tomblin were in for 225,000 each before a flop fell 7-3-2, and the money eventually got all in with Snodgrass holding pocket fives against the 8-7 of Tomblin that held up to win the hand with the turn and river both bricks. Snodgrass was eliminated in seventh place, god for $4,400. Tomblin is now the far and away chip leader with a stack worth 10.8 million.
Jimmy Tomblin – 10,800,000 (135 bb) Josh Snodgrass – Eliminated in Seventh Place ($4,400)