$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 150/300 with a 50 ante
Flight D Entries: 75

Players are back in their seats after the first break of the day and the entry count continues to increase at a steady interval. We’re seeing more regular faces put up the buy-in and we should have a nice field by the time registration closes at 10:30pm.

John Holley jumped in before the break and ready to continue the heater he’s been running. He pulled the rare feat of cashing twice in the same day on Wednesday when he made the money in the $150/$50,000 Event 4 then turned around and final tabled the Pot Limit Omaha a few hours later. It was just another day for Holley and not his best single day either, he cashed three times in one day during the 2016 Coco Poker Open.

Going back into the past, but only two weeks, Holley cashed twice in the 2016 RRPO in Hollywood with one final table followed up by two WSOP Circuit event final tables before coming down to the warmer climes of Tampa.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Day 2 Blinds: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 41 of 232

Flight A: 76 Entries, 14 Advanced
Flight B: 76 Entries, 12 Advanced
Flight C: 80 Entries, 15 Advanced
Flight D: Friday @ 6pm
Flight E: Saturday @11am
Flight F: Saturday @ 6pm
Day 2: Sunday @ Noon

Structure Sheet

Day 2 chip counts through Flight C:

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 3: 75/150 with a 25 ante
Flight D Entries: 55

We continue to see a nice pace of new players jumping in the game as we get closer to the $200,000 guaranteed prize pool.

John Dolan will have to fire another bullet if he wants to add another title to his credit. He was an early entrant and early exit in the second level but he can run another one up.

Dolan is known to most as a member of the 2010 WSOP Main Event November Nine, where he took home $1.77 million for sixth place, but that is not his only big score. Three of his top five cashes came in SHRP tournaments with a fourth place in the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship ($549K), runner-up in the 2012 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship ($459K), and a title in the 2014 Coco Poker Open Championship ($220K).

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 2: 50/100
Flight D Entries: 40

It was slow progress over the first level of Flight D but we’re seeing an influx of players in the second level including local favorite Manny Minaya.

He’s sitting at a fun little table with Hebert Woodbery and Seminole Hard Rock Tampa ambassador Wally Maddah to his left. But Minaya can probably handle those two with his experience. He has nearly $1.7 million career earnings that include a Borgata win for $222,000 and a WSOP Circuit Main Event runner-up in Tunica. Minaya’s second career cash was only a fourth place finish in a WSOP Omaha/8 tournament in 2005.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Flight C Players Remaining: 15 of 80

The clock is paused with 10 minutes left in Level 14 and tournament staff just announced players will log three more hands before action concludes.

Rafael Reis, who won the largest event in Florida poker history just about three weeks ago at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open, is smiling ear-to-ear as he’ll likely be going home as the Flight C chip leader. Reis has had an active day that’s enjoyed more peaks than valleys and he currently sits well above 200,000. Those bagging alongside Reis include Elizabeth Provan who has some history with the pace setter. Provan, too, final tabled the record-setting RRPO event finishing seventh for more than $53,000.

The clock shows 15 players and they’re all that’s remaining from 80 starters. Other notables still in alongside Reis and Provan include Anthony Astarita, winner of this summer’s WPTDeepStacks-Tampa Main Event. Reigning Winter Poker Open Championship winner John Templeton, meanwhile, was a recent elimination.

Complete chip counts through Flight C will be posted within the hour.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 13: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante
Flight C Players Remaining: 18 of 80

Anthony Astarita just scored a knockout eliminating Tampa regular Mike Raimon in a multi-way pot. Astarita had been skidding downward, but his stack now tops 100,000 will less than an hour remaining in the day.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50

Event 7 has locked down three flights in the $200,000 Guarantee tournament with three more yet to go. Flight D will round out the Friday night action as we go head-first into the weekend.

The first three flights combined to put 232 entries in the event and put them more than halfway towards the money goal. We’ll have another good addition this evening then pile it up on Saturday.

Players will sit down to 20,000 starting stacks and levels will run 30 minutes a pop. Late registration is available until the start of Level 9 at 10:30pm and they can re-enter as often as needed during that time. Flight D will continue at the point until the end of Level 14 when all survivors will bag up their chips for a return on Sunday.

• $200,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 20,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
• Day 1 will end after Level 14 or Tournament Director discretion
• Event 7 Structure Sheet

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 12: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Flight C Players Remaining: 25 of 80

Rafeal Reis, who was already toward the top of the counts, raised to 3,600 only to see the player on his direct left shove for 16,400. It folded back around to Reis and he called.

Opponent:
Reis:

The flop brought a quick lead change in the hand as the dealer burned and turned the . The turn fell the and the river completed the action with the . Reis scored the knockout and grew his stack. Reis justified calling the shortstack’s all-in bet while the rest of the table gave a friendly needle to him and his hot streak of cards.

The very next hand Reis’ ace-queen bested the ace-10 of local Mike Raimon in a modest pot. Reis’ stack now sits well over 200,000 and he is the chip leader late in the event.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 11: 600/1,200 with a 200 ante
Flight C Players Remaining: 28 of 80

It was a raised pot with at least one caller and action was on Mohammad Affenah in the small blind. He called only to see the big blind jam. It folded around to Affenah who was covered by the all-in bet. He called off and the hands were tabled.

Big blind:
Affenah:

The flop nailed Affenah falling two queens — . The turn and river weren’t enough for the opponent and Affenah got the full double and then some. He now sits at just over 30,000 chips.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 10: 500/1,000 with a 100 ante
Flight C Players Remaining: 37 of 80

From 80 starting entries, Flight C of the Winter Poker Open $570 is down to just 37 remaining toward the end of Level 10. Florida pro John Holley and defending champion Mike Laake are among the notables to have hit the rail.