$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.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 13: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 18 of 76

The under the gun player started it out with a fold only to see the remaining eight players at the table limp into the pot. With the pot limped eight ways, the dealer burned and turned.

Flop:

The small blind checked. So did the big blind. A pair of early position players checked and a handful in middle and late position did as well. It was on Anthony Astarita in the cutoff and he followed suit sending it to the button. The button bet 6,500. The small folded, but the big blind called. AJ “Doc” Santos called from early position and Maroun Akiki came along from his direct left. It folded back to Astarita who called. With that, the hand was sheared to a measly five players.

Turn:

All five players checked.

River: — Four to a straight on the board.

The big blind checked and so did Santos. It was on Akiki and he bet 11,000. Astarita folded, the button called and the big blind and Santos got out of the way. Akiki turned over for a straight. The button mucked and Akiki was the last man standing in a pot that began with eight players.

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

We’re heading into the second week of the 2016 Winter Poker Open and we’re running three days with six flights of the $200,000 Guarantee Event 7. One flight is wrapping up in the poker room and the second flight is set to go at 6pm.

The $570 buy-in Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em tournament will continue running starting flights into the weekend with Day 2 playing out on Sunday.

Tournament entrants will sit down to 20,000 starting stacks and play 30-minutes throughout the day. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 10:30pm and play will conclude at the end of Level 14. Survivors will put their chips in a bag and return for Day 2.

They’ll kick things off at the top of the hour and we’ll keep track of them as they progress through the evening.

• $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 A Players Remaining: 19 of 76

One player in the Event 7 field who’s already experienced a deep run in a Winter Poker Open event is John Alegria. Alegria played a long session in yesterday’s $250 Pot-Limit Omaha primary event before going home as the bubble boy. He was undeterred by the close call and subsequent heartbreak and now finds himself still in again with the field shrinking.

Alegria currently sits on just over 100,000 chips with the day’s final break just minutes away.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 11: 600/1,200 with a 200 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 20 of 76

James Carmadella claims a stack of over 200,000 and leads the field in Flight A of the $570 with just 20 players remaining. Carmadella is a Palm Harbor resident with a few small tournament results, but his play thus far has been anything but modest.

Those joining Carmadella at the final two tables include AJ “Doc” Santos, Anthony Astarita, Steve Trizis and John Alegria. Those who have gone bust, meanwhile, include Josias Santos, Tom Nguyen, Daniel Mijac and Marvin Karlins.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 10: 500/1,000 with a 100 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 28 of 76

WPTDeepStacks-Tampa Main Event champion Anthony Astarita limped from early position and a late position and the cutoff moved all in for 1,400. The short shoved prompted a raise from the button who made it 4,300 to go. It was back on Astarita. The champ made it 17,000 to go and the button eyed his stack. The button eventually let it go and Astarita had the opportunity to eliminate the cutoff.

Astarita:
Cutoff:

The revealed itself on the flop. The cutoff had some straight outs, but they never showed. Astarita’s pair of aces was best and he earned himself a medium-sized pot.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 9: 400/800 with a 100 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 30 of 76

Flight A of the $570 is moving fast with only 30 of the original 76 starters still in. Play is scheduled to continue through Level 14 or wrap at 11 percent of the starting field, whichever comes first.

Final three Flight A tables at a glance:

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 9: 400/800 with a 100 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 31 of 76

Registration is closed and it’s official.

Flight A of the Winter Poker Open $570 buy-in, $200,000 guarantee drew 76 players. They’ll join the starting fields from Flight B, C, D, E and F to complete the player pool.

Here’s a look at the tournament breakdown:

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

Level 8 is a little less than halfway through meaning there’s just a portion of a level plus a break left to register and re-enter Flight A. We’ll provide the final attendance figure when it’s verified in about 30 minutes.