Flight A: $350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
Level 11: 600/1,200/200 Ante
Players Remaining: 41/126

Roberto Melo is putting himself in position to bag a big stack here in Flight A of the WTPDeepStacks-Tampa $350. Melo has been chipping up consistently and now claims nearly 160,000 midway through Level 11.

The Lakeland resident owns nearly $150,000 in tournament earnings. Most recently, he finished 21st among a field of 698 entries in yesterday’s $570 event. That deep run earned him a payout of $1,902.

Robert Melo – 157,000