$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.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50
Entries: 18

Flight C of the Winter Poker Open $570 buy-in, $200,000 guaranteed event is underway. As is the field stands at 152 entries with 26 having advanced to Day 2. Jerry Silva bagged a monster in last night’s Flight B turning his 20,000 starting chips into massive holdings of 473,000.

Today’s action continues the event and marks the third of six starting flights. Cards went in the air just moments ago and players are filing in taking their seats. Play is scheduled to include 14, 30-minute levels with late registration and re-entry available until about 3:30pm.

Here are the details:

11AM: Event 7 Day 1C – $570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)

• $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

Updates throughout the day will be available right here at SHRTPoker.com.

Main Event Schedule

11AM: Event 7 Day 1C – $570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)

• $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

6PM: Event 7 Day 1D – $570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)

• $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

Secondary and Satellite Schedule

2PM: Event 19 – $65 Satellite into Event 7 (1-in-10)

• 5 seats guaranteed into $570/$200K GTD Event 7
• Players begin with 10,000 in chips and 20-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 19 Structure Sheet

After a busy day in the poker room yesterday, with three new WPO trophies awarded, today was more laid back with two flights of the $570 buy-in/$200,000 Guarantee Event 7.

Both flights hit the exact same number of entries, 76 in each, to put a total of 152 into the tournament with four more flights to run. Those numbers put us on an easy pace to hit the guaranteed money with the weekend grinders ready to hit the felt.

Seminole Hard Rock Tampa ambassador Wally Maddah (pictured above) seemed like he was ready to put a bag together but he crashed out late when his AJ was four-flushed by KJ.

Tom Nguyen led the latter parts of the day but most of his stack ended up in front of Jerry Silva. The Tampa regular put an incredible 473,000 away for Day 2, nearly double second place Nicholas Williams. Also advancing were Karl Manouchakian, Marvin “Flying Duckman” Karlins, Mark “Bud” Wider, Stevie Tziris, and the aforementioned Nguyen.

Tomorrow brings the next two flights, the first at 11am and the second at 6pm, and we’ll cross into six-digit prize pool territory before they are done.

There will also be one last satellite into Event 7 that will run at 2pm. The $75 buy-in satellite has five seats guaranteed into the $200,000 Guarantee event with 1-in-10 grabbing one.

• 11AM: Event 7 Flight C – $570 buy-in/$200,000 Guarantee
• 2PM: Event 7 Satellite – $75 buy-in/5 seat Guarantee
• 6PM: Event 7 Flight D – $570 buy-in/$200,000 Guarantee

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Day 2 Blinds: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 26 of 152

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

Structure Sheet

Day 2 chip counts through Flight B:

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
End of Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 12 of 76

Play has come to an end for Flight B with only 12 players advancing to Day 2 on Sunday. Tom Nguyen was the leader late until he tangled with Jerry Silva, sending most of his stack across the table.

Nguyen was able to pull back another 57,000 on the last hand of the night with a set of sixes over Silva’s set of threes but Silva retained the lead with more than 473,000 going into the bag.

Full chip counts will be posted when they are available.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 13 of 76

Players have reached the ten-minute mark of Level 14 and tournament staff announced two more hands before bagging up.

Tom Nguyen was well over 200,000 after the last break but those chips did not stick around long. They are now sitting in front of Jerry Silva with a huge lead of his own.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 13: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 19 of 76

Players are back in their seats after the final break of the day with only 19 players still around with a chance to put chips in a bag.

Tom Nguyen is the current leader with his 155,000 sitting tops among the two tables.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 12: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 21 of 76

There was a failure to launch in Flight A for Marvin “Flying Duckman” Karlins but Flight B seems to be treating him just fine.

He busted out early in the afternoon session but he’s run his 20,000 stack to 88,000 in late action. Karlins even picked up his famed pocket deuces earlier.

“Hey Marvin,” Wally Maddah yelled from another table. “Did you get ducks yet?”

“Yeah,” Karlins responded. “I raised them to 4,000 and won.”

“Were the blinds 25/50?” Maddah asked back.

“Nope, they were 50/100.”

Ducks.