Winter Open

Event 1: First Day Counts

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$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

The opening day of the 2015 Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Winter Poker Open drew 157 entrants across the first two flights of Event 1. A fine kickoff to the festival and more players are getting in the game today.

We have 21 players coming back on Sunday so far with Peter Kosakowski holding a big lead. He’s the only player over 400,000 or 300,000. This tournament is a “best stack forward” event so even the shorter stacks have a chance to come back today or tomorrow and run up a bigger one for Sunday.

The end-of-day chip average was just shy of 150,000 and 37 big blinds when they return to 2,000,/4,000 blinds.

FIRST NAMELAST NAMECITYSTCHIP COUNT
PETERKOSAKOWSKILUTZFL441,500
MARCLOWETAMPAFL284,500
ThomasClementsNEW PORT RICHEYFL229,500
VITORCOELHOWESLEY CHAPELFL218,000
DAVIDLAPPANOLUTZFL216,500
ENZO GROMANOBRANDONFL213,500
STEVENPELLINGRATAMPAFL193,000
HERBERTWOODBERYWINTER GARDENFL160,500
GERALDSILVATAMPAFL158,500
BENJAMINREHMNORTH PORTFL151,500
ERICWILKINSONPALMETTOFL128,500
STEVENBELLASORLANDOFL118,500
TOMNGUYENTAMPAFL108,500
MOHDEIDATTLEBOROMA96,000
ERICRIVKINE HAMPTONNY95,000
MICHAELSCOTTTAMPAFL91,000
JOHNSIMCOXAPOPKA PL SZFL74,000
DAVIDDIBERNARDIMADEIRA BEACHFL72,500
ARCHIBALDMCLAUCHLINST PETERSBURGFL53,500
CRAIGCOMERFORDAPOPKAFL48,500
ERIKNELSONVALRICOFL44,000