$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 2: Blinds 50/100
84 Entries – Reg/RE open until ~2:30 pm

There’s a steady stream of players at the registration window, proving some players are early risers or simply continuing an all night poker bender.

While the field is quickly approaches 100 entries, some player are still hitting the snooze button:

Got 5th in this PLO thingy yesterday @SHRTPoker ! gona save myself 3 bullets and super late reg this 350 with 20 bbs later.

— Natasha Barbour (@natashabarbour) December 6, 2014

Event 1 Structure 

Day 1A: 109 Entries/20 Players Remaining
Day 1B: 83 Entries/14 Players Remaining
Day 1C: 112 Entries/17 Players Remaining
Day 1D: 100 Entries/13 Players Remaining
Day 1E: Underway/Registration Open Until 2:30 pm
Day 1F: Saturday 6 pm
Day 2: Sunday 12 pm

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1:  25/50

A packed Saturday schedule has a 10 am start for Flight E, one hour earlier than the usual tournament start time.

The fifth of six flights for Event 1 features 20k in chips and 30 minute levels.

Registration & Re-entry is open until the start of Level 9 (approximately 2:30 pm).

This tournament has a $150,000 Guaranteed prize pool and gets underway at the top of the hour.

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

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

Level 14: Blinds 1,500/3,000/400 ante

With 13 players remaining out of 100 entries, the average stack for this flight is 154k.

Chip counts for the baker’s dozen:

Julio Novo – 299,000
Steve Trizis – 222,500
Daniel Henske – 220,500
Eddie Carroll – 172,000
Dugg Hadden – 171,500
Mark Weare – 167,000
Scott Queckboerner – 163,000
David Bennett – 157,000
Michael Turton – 154,000
Steven Bennett – 76,500
Paul Stanechewski – 73,000
Michael Bojkovic – 62,000
Jacob Naumann – 60,000

These players will join the survivors of the other five flights for Day 2 on Sunday at 12 noon.

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

Level 14: Blinds 1,500/3,000/400 ante

After Julio Novo limped from early position, Barbara Cardin shoved for 45k from the button.  After giving it a little thought, Julio called, showing .  Barbara was racing with pocket 8s.

The board was not good for the last woman remaining in this flight.  The community cards rolled out and sent the pot to Julio, while sending Barbara home without any chips to bag.

Thirteen players remain and are bagging their chips for the night.  Counts will be posted shortly.

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

Level 14: Blinds 1,500/3,000/400 ante

Julio Novo is the chip leader as they come down the home stretch in Flight D.

Steve Trizis is on his right and opened for 15k on the button, getting calls from Julio in the small blind and Dugg Hadden in middle position.

The flop fell and it was checked to Steve who tossed in a bet of 20k.  Julio called and Dugg folded.

Turn was the and both players remaining in the pot checked to see the hit the river.  Julio led out for 10k and Steve called, showing .  Julio mucked as Steve said “What did you think I was raising with?”

14 players remain with just half a level left to play.

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

Level 13: Blinds 1,200/2,400/300 ante

The cards are just not falling Joe Gibbons’ way.  He tried again in this flight, making it all the way to the next-to-last level.

On a flop of Joe got all-in and called by the player in seat 8.  Joe’s was ahead of his opponent’s .

The turn brought the and his opponent said “Diamond!”   Sure enough the river delivered the filling out the flush.  Joe headed for the exit, but I expect we’ll see him again tomorrow.

With Joe’s departure in 17th place, only 16 remain in this flight with an average stack of 125k.

Pot Limit Omaha – High Only (Re-Entry)

Level 18:  Blinds 3k/6k

The heads-up battle between Josh Adkins and Mike Raimon did not last long.  On the turn with the board reading all the chips went in the pot.

Mike had 9432 for two pair and straight draw.  Josh held for a set of 7s and flush draw.

The river was a brick and Josh took the pot and the tournament!  He earned $4,040, the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Winter Poker Open Trophy Guitar, and a $1,650 seat in the Championship event.

Mike Raimon collected $2,525 for second place and also goes home with bragging rights for out-lasting his wife Natasha.

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

Level 12: Blinds 1k/2k/300 ante

Even after losing a race with pocket 7s against AQ and shipping a double-up across the felt, Dugg Hadden (St. Petersburg, FL) is still the chip leader.  He’s sitting behind about 200k.

Only 27 players remain in Flight D making the average stack 74k.

They’ll take a break at the end of this level, then return to play two more before bagging up for the night.