The blinds have been increased to 75/150. There are 28 players registered for the tournament so far.

Joel Pridgen (pictured) raises to 300 and gets four callers. Five players see a flop of and Pridgen continues with a 300 chip bet. Greg “C” raises to 1,200 and Pridgen tosses in a call.

The turn is and Pridgen checks again. Greg C bets 2,500 and Pridgen calls. The river is the and Pridgen check-calls 4,000 from Greg C.

“I guess we are chopping,” says Greg C as he tables .

Pridgen nods his head and shows . Pridgen rivers a straight to chop with Greg C, who flopped the nuts. Both players are still right around their 10,000 starting stack.

William Alexander – Chip Leader

$560 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed

Eighteen players out of 113 entries in Flight 3 made the cut and bagged their chips for the night.

These 18 players will join the 23 survivors of the first two flights at 10am Sunday for Day 2.   A complete list with seat draw will be posted in the morning.

Of the 41 returning players, only the final 24 will get paid.  William Alexander bagged 247,500 and is the overall chip leader among the final 41.  Average stack is 91k.

Here are the Flight 3 players with their chip counts:

Rank Player Chips
1 William Alexander 247,500
2 Nate Kaplan 181,500
3 Jack Rovello 162,000
4 Jim Rumptz 146,500
5 Ralph Dyer 143,000
6 Joel Wadsworth 121,500
7 Chris Williams 103,500
8 Julio Novo 90,000
9 Barry Champion 66,000
10 Richard Higgins 59,000
11 Anthony Moon 59,000
12 Barbara Cardiva 58,500
13 Tim Pettus 54,500
14 Vitor Coelho 54,000
15 Ivan Maya 52,000
16 Marc Davis 34,000
17 William Booth Jr 33,500
18 Ryan Sponaugle 25,500

Daylight Savings Time begins tonight, so don’t forget to roll your clocks forward an hour!

Players are taking their seats and cards are getting in the air as the second event of the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Spring Poker Open gets underway.

The $210 Pot Limit Omaha tournament has 22 players registered so far, but there is plenty of time for players to late register and re-enter. Players will be able to do that up until the beginning of level 5, at which point the field size will be set and payouts can be calculated.

Levels will be 30 minutes long and players will start with 10,000 in chips. The blinds are starting out at 50/100. This is a one day event, so stay tuned to the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Blog for coverage of the event from start to finish.

Terri Crawford raises to 11,000 from late position and it folds to Gediminas Garmus in the big blind, who goes into the tank.

“Just come back for Sunday,” said Crawford while Garmus is thinking.

“I want to double up,” said Garmus. “I’m all in.”

Crawford asks for a count and after the dealer pulls in the 11,000 from both players she finds out it is 26,400 more for her to call.

“I don’t know how to fold this,” said Crawford while making some groans.

Crawford pushes the chips forward to call and she sees she is slightly behind with her against Garmus’ .

The flop put Crawford squarely in the lead as the dealer spread a flop of . The turn is the , which left Garmus drawing dead and heading for the exits. As Garmus is heading for the door, the staff began to come around with bags for the remaining nine players to bag and tag their chips.

There are ten players remaining and they have all combined to the one table as there are just a few minutes remaining in the day.

Oscar Lindo bets 6,000 after both Adam Santos and Konstantinos Pantaridis check to him on a flop of . Pantaridis is the only caller and they both check the turn card.

The river is the and Pantaridis checks a third time. Lindo bets 15,000 and Pantaridis goes into the tank.

“I guess you got lucky on me,” said Pantaridis while playing with his chips.

Pantaridis pushes forward a call and isn’t happy to see Lindo turn over . Pantaridis mucks his hand and Lindo takes the pot. Pantaridis slips to 185,000 while Lindo grows his stack to 122,000.

Terry Roy (pictured) raises to 6,400 from the hijack. Rob Manjura calls from the small blind and the big blind calls as well. Three players  see a flop of and all three players check.

The turn is the and Manjura leads out for 8,000. The big blind folds and Roy calls. The river is the and Manjura bets again, this time 9,500.

Roy doesn’t take too long to call and tables , good for ace-high and takes the pot after Manjura tables .

Roy is sitting with 63,000 in chips after he scoops the pot. Manjura is hovering around the 90,000 chip mark.

The blinds have been increased to 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante. There are 12 players remaining and this is the last level of the night.

Oscar Lindo and Filipp Khavin get all of Lindo’s 36,600 chips into the middle preflop and it was a flip for Lindo’s tournament life.

Lindo shows and Khavin tables . The board runs out and Lindo doubles up to 77,000 while Khavin is crippled with 3,500.