$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 15:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining:  81 of 811

Flight A:  203 Entries; 21 Advanced
Flight B:  252 Entries; 25 Advanced
Flight C: 356 Entries; 35 Advanced
Day 2:  Sunday at noon

Note: Christopher Perry and Emmanuel Dimaano Jr bagged twice, will play their biggest stack on Day 2 and receive a min-cash for smallest.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 15:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining:  81 of 811

Flight A:  203 Entries; 21 Advanced
Flight B:  252 Entries; 25 Advanced
Flight C: 356 Entries; 35 Advanced
Day 2:  Sunday at noon

Note: Christopher Perry and Emmanuel Dimaano Jr bagged twice, will play their biggest stack on Day 2 and receive a min-cash for smallest.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining:  36 of 356

It took a little while to get there but Flight C made it into the money and on to Day 2. Nancy Dang made a late push to bag the Flight C lead with 418,000 with Brandon Sinawi not far behind.  Other notables advancing were Justin Zaki, Cheri Beatty, Anthony Askey, Shawn Sorgi, and Jeffrey Kaplan.

Complete Day 2 chip counts, seat assignments, and full payouts will be posted as soon as they are available.

Top ten Flight C bags:

• Nancy Dang – 418,000
• Brandon Sinawi – 393,000
• James Wong – 379,000
• Jeffrey Kaplan – 355,000
• Israr Khan – 328,000
• Harmeet Chawla – 314,000
• “Bud” Waggoner – 305,000
• Rasam Mohammadian – 303,000
• Shawn Sorgi – 301,000
• Timothy Buckley – 296,000

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14:  2,000/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players Remaining:  52 of 356

Flight C is down to 52 players with the goal of hitting 36 to make some money. That puts them very close to the bubble and calling it a night.

Tampa legend Justin Zaki is still in the running for a Day 2 seat and adding to his credentials. He has $2.7 million in career earnings along with WPT and WSOP final table appearances including third place in the 2011 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship. In local news, Zaki finished second to David Moses last December in the 2019 Winter Poker Open Championship.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 13:  1,000/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players Remaining:  77 of 356

The (probable) final break of the day is complete after tournament staff pulled the 500 units out of play and tightened up some stacks.

Bud Waggoner is still leading the field with a stack up to 235,000. There are a few with a chance to catch him but it will be tough for anyone to catch Roberto Molina as the overall Day 2 leader with his 800+ bag.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12:  1,000/2,000 with a 1,500 ante
Players Remaining:  98 of 356

Flight C is down under 100 players remaining on the road to the last 36 for Day 2. This session will go later into the evening but we expect only one more break today.

It looks like poker room favorite Russell Waggoner, the man everyone calls “Bud”, is the leader late in the day. One of our Event 1 big leaders (and 12th place finisher) has built his stack up to 185,500 and looks to be having a great time.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10:  500/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Players Remaining:  133 of 356

The player count is dropping quickly with a lot of tables broken over the first level back from break. They are down to 133 of the starting 356 and zooming along. But there’s still a long ways to go with only 36 of them advancing to Day 2.

Fred Dabus is one of those trying to book his seat tomorrow. He has plenty of big scores to his credit but looking for his first Tampa win. Dabus won a Big Stack Special in Hollywood, nearly won the Coco Poker Open Championship in 2016, and made a WSOP final table in 2015 where he finished eighth out of 2,497 players.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining:  196 of 356

The second break is complete and players returned to their seats trying to make a stack. With all players seated earlier, the entry count for Flight C locked in at 356.

That puts the combined total for Event 2 up to 811 for a fantastic start to the series. The $100,000 guaranteed prize pool was pushed up to an incredible $267,630.

Thanks to everyone for making the tournament a success.

We will post the payout information as soon as it is available.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Entries:  356

Everyone who bought into Flight C has been seated and the counting can commence. No matter the exact number, it is a huge day in the Poker Room. Players will make their way through this level and take the second break of the day.

Vitor Coelho was one of those waiting but now he is ready to run it up. The Tampa favorite has several big tournament wins, including a SHRPO title in Hollywood and WPTDeepStacks trophy, but he is still waiting for his first win on home soil.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6:  300/500 with a 500 ante
Entries:  356

Tournament staff are working hard to get all the alternates seated and the end is near. We are awaiting the accounting to officially call the final number.

Two Tampa regulars have their seats and trying to keep them for the rest of the day. Steve Tziris and Josias Santos both gave it a shot yesterday but fell short of bagging and both are back today trying again.