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

Level 11: Blinds 800/1,600/200 ante
81 players remaining, 51k avg (32 bb)

Two of the more gregarious players are side-by-side and entertaining Table 4.

On the final hand before the last break Jarrett Aaronson gets a fold from his opponent and survives his all-in bet. He then has no problem posing for the camera.

Then, one of the first hands after the break, Dave Coke takes his act to a whole new level.

“You want to see something really special,” Coke laughs, “take a look at this,” as he cozies up next to Aaronson in a playful way.

We’ll let the photos speak for themselves.

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

Level 10: Blinds 600/1,200/200 ante
93 players remaining, 44k avg (37 bb)

Cathryn Prance (Tampa, FL) is the only player with more than 100k and says she’s been “very forutunate” that her AA and KK have held up five times. But her biggest hand was when her suited 8-5 knocked out two players in a 100k chip pot.

Several Seminole Hard Rock Tampa regulars have top ten stacks including Vitor Coelho, Wally Maddah and Manny Minaya.

Chip Leaders

CJ Prance 161k
John Pappas 99k
Thomas Wilkes 98k
Vitor Coelho 88k
James Kerr 88k
Jason Weber 87k
Wally Maddah 84k
Manny Minaya 83k
Jerry Carter 82k
Craig Eshelman 76k

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

Level 9: Blinds 500/1k/100 ante
97 players remaining, 42k avg (42 bb)

Tonight’s Flight D field of 164 entries is now down to less than 100 players.

The third of four breaks, the green chip color-up, comes just after midnight.

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

Level 8: Blinds 300/600/75
164 entries

Before the last break, James “Ping Pang” Kerr (Lakeland, FL) made it clear he was looking to re-enter. But after four straight all-ins, Kerr never made it back to the cage after his stack ping-ponged all over the table.

“Hurry up, so I can rebuy,” Kerr said while waiting for a player to make a decision.

Kerr’s first all in was part of a 4-way pot when he was down to 5,875. He got a quadruple-up with the nut flush when he cracked the pocket Kings of Roger Perkins (Longwood, FL), who won the side pot.

The hand took Kerr to nearly the 25k starting stack and the roller coaster was on.

Chip Count-Kerr All in Result

5,875-Quadruples with vs & 2 random hands
24,500-Ships 18k double-up to Eddy Gibbs (Wesley Chapel, FL) <
5,850-Doubles with full house vs
12,250-Triples with vs &

Kerr ends the level with 31,600, just above the stack he would have gotten with re-entry.

“I’m willing to flip for $350,” says Kerr who didn’t have to pay for another bullet. “I either get a big stack or rebuy.”

While unconventional, the action was entertaining.

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

End of Level 6: Blinds 200/400/50 ante
164 entries

Tonight’s 164 entries pushes the four flight total to 602.

Flight: Entries-Players Remaining

A: 176-40
B: 114-24
C: 148-30
D: 164-TBD
E: 11 am Saturday
F: 7 pm Saturday

Tonight’s Chip Leaders

Sebastian Gallego 83k
Craig Eshleman 74k
Cathyrn Prance 70k
Jerry Carter 66k
Peter Williams 61k
Robert Heller 58k
Brian Haas 58k
Robbert Morris 55k
Newman 55k
Jason Durant 54k
Gediminas Garmus 54k
Trevilynn Blakeslee 54k
David Marzullo-Bryan 54k
Robert Poggio 53k
John-Christian Templeton 51k
Raymond Ortiz 51k

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

Level 5: Blinds 150/300/25 ante
154 entries

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

Level 4: Blinds 100/200
128 Entries

Chip Leaders

Amie Martini 52k
Vitor Coelho 48k
Andrew Koski 46k
Nicholas Conart 43k
Craig Eshleman 43k
Anh Ngo 41k
Mary Unger 40k

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

Level 3: Blinds 75/150
122 Entries

The board is 3-3-8-8-8 when a player bets 3,100. Anthony Dianaty (Tampa, FL) makes a min raise and his opponent quickly calls.

Dianaty flips over for an unbeatable quad 8s.

“I’ll be anonymous,” says the player who can’t believe his luck as he turns over QQ for a bigger full house than what’s on the board.

Dianaty picked up his first career cash with a 19th place finish ($3,500) here in the Spring Poker Open Championship Event.

We’ll make his hard luck opponent an early nominee for our Hard Rock, Hard Play of the Day.

Hard Rock, Hard Play of the Day Nominee

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

Level 2: Blinds 50/100
106 Entries

A steady stream of Flight D players has the 7 pm field at more than 100 entries.

“Table 15 chip leader,” jokes Wayne Brown (Babson Park, FL) as another table opens up in the tournament area just off the Rockin’ Pool. That’s because he’s the first to sit down with a 25k stack.

The action starts with four registered players and the table is now full; Table 16 is also up and running.

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

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

When the dust settled and all the chips were bagged, there were 29 players remaining.  Mark Shulla (Palm Beach Gardens, FL) was the chip leader with 274,500.  He’s earned himself a $1,100 seat in Event 9 on Sunday, June 8th.

The other stacks over 200k:

Francisco Gomez – 244,500

Norbert Kara – 241,000

Robert Quintana – 232,500

John Pfolsgrof – 219,000

That’s it for Flight C.  Flight D is underway with the next batch of hopefuls.