Sean Hampson moved all in for 48,700 holding and was called by the slightly shorter stack of Jeff Tamulski who held . Tamulski would pick up a straight draw on the turn but after the board ran out he would be our first player eliminated. Hampson moved up to approximately 100,000 in chips after the hand.
Over the past two days, the best and brightest poker stars in the Tampa area came together at Tampa Downs for the 2014 PPC North America Championship Event. A total of 420 entrants created the largest prize pool in PPC Poker Tour history, easily surpassing the $200,000 guarantee. Of those 420, only 64 will return today to take their shot at the top prize money and trophy. The top four finishers will also will $5,000 packages to the PPC Aruba Championship Event.
Danny Lobato will head into play today with a commanding chip lead holding a staggering 522,300 in chips. Lobato was sitting with just over 300,000 in chips when he won a huge pot at the end of the night by spiking a miracle six to move his stack north of the half-million chip mark. Sitting in a distant second with 330,100 is Chris Swanson who won a big pot with aces against Rex Clinkscales and his jacks to move up the chip counts.
Top 10 Chip Counts
Place
Player
Chips
1
Danny Lobato
522,300
2
Chris Swanson
330,100
3
Fred Miller
268,400
4
Arri Stone
250,100
5
Stan Trim
245,400
6
Evan Panesis
235,300
7
Ian Zeaman
231,800
8
Tom Clements
228,600
9
Steve Trizis
211,800
10
Evlys Gutierrez
210,000
In addition to the top 10, players such as John Pappas, Chris Bolek, Eddie Kofler, Chris Thompson, and Robert Harwell are all hoping to be one of the 45 players who make the money.
Cards will get in the air at approximately 3 p.m. local time. There's a lot on the line today and PokerNews will be there until the very end with all the poker action. Follow along and find out who will become the PPC North America Championship Main Event winner.