$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 6: 200/400 with a 50 ante
Entries: 67

Mike Laake put the Seminole Hard Rock Poker team on the board during last year’s Winter Poker Open winning this very event for $54,756. Laake defeated a field of 634 entries and recorded what was then his eighth major tournament victory.

“It feels great,” Laake said back then. “I kind of let the tournament come to me. I didn’t press too many edges […] Everything kind of fell my way.”

Laake is back and his title defense begins in Flight C. He chipped up recently after C-betting a flop, but is still under starting stack.