$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.
$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 9: 400/800 with a 100 ante
Flight C Players Remaining: 47 of 80
Registration closed just a few minutes ago and tournament staff has finalized the numbers in Flight C of the Winter Poker Open $570.
The most recent of six start days drew 80 entries putting the three-flight total at 232 with three flights still to come. As is, the prize pool sits at $116,000 — more than halfway to its lofty target of $200,000.
Tournament breakdown:
| Flight | Entries | Advanced |
| A | 76 | 14 |
| B | 76 | 12 |
| C | 80 | TBD |
| D | Tomorrow @ 6pm | – |
| E | Saturday @ 11am | – |
| F | Saturday @ 6pm | – |
| Totals | 232 | 26 |
$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 9: 400/800 with a 100 ante
Entries: 80
Entered event 7 @SHRTPoker 570 and pick up AA 1st hand and nearly double. Took me about 20 min to bluff most of them away
— john holley (@hohnjolley) December 9, 2016
Back up to 33k on break at end of late reg
— john holley (@hohnjolley) December 9, 2016
$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 8: 300/600 with a 75 ante
Entries: 78
The reigning winner of the Winter Poker Open Championship is in the house. Just about 12 months ago, John Templeton defeated a field of 453 entries in the $1,650 buy-in, $300,000 guaranteed finale. He ended up chopping three ways with David Lappano and Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Sheddy Siddiqui. In the end, Templeton went down as the champ and earned $134,000.
The champ recently picked up 
on a 
board to scoop a nice pot. His stack currently sits at about 43,000.
$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 7: 250/500 with a 75 ante
Entries: 73
Seminole Hard Rock Poker regular Ryan Dunn was in the big blind. A player had opened to 1,700 from middle position and a late-position player called. Dunn three-bet, making it 5,500 to go. The middle-position raiser took a minute, but mucked. The late-position player called and they saw a flop of 
. Both players checked.
The turn was the 
and both players checked again.
Dunn lead for 7,500 on the 
river. The player in late position called and Dunn turned over 
for top-top to take a nice pot.
$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.
$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 150/300 with a 50 ante
Entries: 62
Level 5 is off and running and the first break is officially behind us. It appears Mohammad Affaneh leads the way. Affaneh sits on over 40,000 chips and has more than doubled his starting stack in the first four levels of play.
$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 4: 100/200 with a 25 ante
Entries: 60
Just about three weeks ago, Rafael Reis turned a modest $360 investment into more than $155,000. The super-sized return came at the hands of an equally super-sized, 5,018-entry field in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open’s $360 buy-in, $1,000,000 guaranteed opener in Hollywood. The event went down in the books as the largest tournament in Florida state history and Reis’ win came following a nine-way chop.
With a fat wallet, Reis made his way to Tampa and has taken a shot in a few of the prelim events. He’s searching for that next score and hopes it comes in the Winter Poker Open $570.
$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 3: 75/150 with a 25 ante
Entries: 57
Anthony Astarita was long a staple of the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa cash games, but he’s becoming quite the tournament regular in recent months. Astarita broke through for his first major score during June’s WPTDeepStacks-Tampa Main Event. He carded victory good for a $131,000 score and has followed it up with a handful of other cashes including a fourth-place finish in October’s Deep Stack series for $18,000.
Astarita is off to a slow start here in the $570, below starting stack toward the end of Level 3.
$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 2: 50/100
Entries: 36
Level 2 is underway and the field has doubled in size in the first 45 minutes of play. Flight C is pretty much on pace with yesterday’s 11am Flight A and should grow up toward 80 players by the time registration closes at 3:30pm.
Among those in the early action is Michael Scott. Scott already carded a deep run and notable score at this year’s Winter Poker Open following a fifth-place finish in the $150 Deep Stack Turbo. He earned $1,226 for that performance.