$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 9: 400/800 with a 100 ante
Flight B Entries: 76

Players are back in their seats and we’re still waiting on official numbers for the flight. We know one player who tried his best to up the count by one.

AJ “Doc” Santos is a known commodity in the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa poker room. He’s always having a good time. Santos jumped into Flight B right before the second break and had time for one hand.

And in Doc-style, that one hand was not boring. An opponent moved all-in from the button with Santos in the big blind.

“You moved all-in?” he asked her.

“Ok, let’s go.” he laughed.

Santos was behind but live with against then popped the flop. The turn was a blank and he improved to the overkill tens up on the river.

“I win? Hey, I won!” Santos laughed, though his opponent was not in a joking mood.

Santos planned to double up or re-enter during the break but he’ll have to deal with his instant 40,000.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 8: 300/600 with a 75 ante
Flight B Entries: 74

Flight B players are in their last level with open registration and re-entries with 74 in the game at this time. We expect to pop a few more in their over the next 30 minutes and get to this morning’s numbers.

Karl Manouchakian has a new seat in Event 4 and he’ll be tangling it up with Seminole Hard Rock Tampa ambassador Wally Maddah to his left. Manouchakian picked up a couple final table appearances during the Fall Deep Stacks Poker Series including a fifth-place finish in the $570 event.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 7: 250/500 with a 75 ante
Flight B Entries: 72

The field count clicked up two entries as we get closer to the Flight B number and it doesn’t look like Seminole Hard Rock Tampa ambassador Wally Maddah will be firing a second bullet.

Maddah is well over his 20,000 starting stack and moving towards 35,000 with more than an hour remaining for late registration and/or re-entry. He’s already locked up his WPO Championship seat as part of a final table deal in Event 1, now he’s trying to add another for winning Event 7.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 6: 200/400 with a 50 ante
Flight B Entries: 70

The Flight B count continues to climb but they’ve already lost one regular seat in the crowd when Ryan Dunn had to hit the rail early.

The former SHRP champion three-bet from the cutoff and called all-in after his opponent shoved. Dunn was dominated with versus and the was no help to keep him in the game.

Dunn has taken a few shots during the 2016 WPO but he’s seen more often grinding the great PLO games in the back of the poker room. He’s also a few weeks away from defending his big $2,650 Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open title. Dunn won the event for $140,000 and his biggest career tournament cash.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 150/300 with a 50 ante
Flight B Entries: 66

Another half dozen souls jumped in the game over the last 30 minutes to get us closer to passing this morning’s numbers. The steady climb will get us there before registration is closed for the flight at 10:30pm and we’ll be one step closer to the $200,000 Guarantee.

We found Enos Smith in this evening’s flight and you can never count him out for a deep run. Over the last six months, he has more than a half-dozen tournament cashes with each ending in a final table appearance. Smith is also a former SHRP champion when he won the $200 Big Stack event during the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 4: 100/200 with a 25 ante
Flight B Entries: 60

Flight B players are on their first break of the day with 60 entries in the game and growing at a faster pace than this morning’s run. That one finished with 76 entrants so we expect an even bigger crowd this evening.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Day 2 Blinds: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 14 of 76

Flight A: 76 Entries, 14 Advanced
Flight B: Thursday @ 6pm
Flight C: Friday @ 11am
Flight D: Friday @ 6pm
Flight E: Saturday @11am
Flight F: Saturday @ 6pm
Day 2: Sunday @ Noon

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Day 2 chip counts through Flight A:

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 2: 50/100
Flight B Entries: 46

The entry count for Flight B continues its steady climb higher to keep us on pace to walk over the $200,000 guaranteed prize pool later this week.

AJ Kelsall is among our evening grinders sitting next to another local favorite, Tony March. Kelsall has a nice history here; the WSOP Circuit winner conquered the 2014 Winter Poker Open Championship for $124,000.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 14 of 76

Nick Williams recently picked up ace-queen of spades and played a huge pot versus the previous chip leader James Carmadella’s ace-king. The flop fell king high but with two spades. The duo got the money all, Williams second best but drawing live. He went on to spike his spade, improve to a flush and took a massive lead late in the day with over 200,000.

Shortly thereafter, staff announced players would log three more hands of play before and bagging and tagging. It appears Williams will sleep on the lead while being joined for Day 2 by the likes of Steve Trizis and John Alegria. The clock currently shows 14 players left from 76 starters and complete chip counts will be posted within the hour.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 14 of 76

Tampa regular Steve Trizis is putting himself in position to make a run at the money in the $570. He’s chipped up nicely throughout Flight A and finds himself just a few minutes from bagging and tagging. Trizis, who sits on $180,000 in career earnings, is a medium-sized score away from crossing the $200,000 mark.

Complete chip counts for all advancing Flight A players will be posted shortly after play concludes.