$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 25/50
Flight E Entries: 49

Tournament staff issued the rules to the players and put cards in the air to start a big Saturday in the poker room. This flight drew 214 entries last year and we should see similar numbers today.

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 25/50

We are rolling through the first weekend of the WPTDeepStacks series and you only have two chances remaining to get into the big opening event. The $570 buy-in tournament already cleared the $200,000 guaranteed prize pool and they will continue piling up the money until registration closes this evening.

The penultimate flight kicks off at the top of the hour and it should be a huge day in the poker room.

All Event 1 entrants sit down to a 20,000 starting stack and play 30-minute levels on Day 1. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 3:30pm and they are scheduled to play 14 levels. Anyone still around will bag their chips and return tomorrow for Day 2.

Cards fly at 11am and it will be a fun day to grind.

• $200,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 20,000 in chips
• Day 1 levels last 30 minutes; Day 2 levels last 40 minutes
• Late registration available until start of Level 9
• Day 1 will end after Level 14 or Tournament Director discretion
• Players participating in multiple Day 1’s may choose their best stack for start of Day 2
• Event 1 Structure Sheet

Primary Event Schedule

11AM: Event 1 Day 1E – $570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

• $200,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 20,000 in chips
• Day 1 levels last 30 minutes; Day 2 levels last 40 minutes
• Late registration available until start of Level 9
• Day 1 will end after Level 14 or Tournament Director discretion
• Players participating in multiple Day 1’s may choose their best stack for start of Day 2
• Event 1 Structure Sheet

6PM: Event 1 Day 1F – $570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

• $200,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 20,000 in chips
• Day 1 levels last 30 minutes; Day 2 levels last 40 minutes
• Late registration available until start of Level 9
• Day 1 will end after Level 14 or Tournament Director discretion
• Players participating in multiple Day 1’s may choose their best stack for start of Day 2
• Event 1 Structure Sheet

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 150/300 with a 25 ante
Flight D Entries: 104 (Total Entries: 405)

With the big news of crushing the Event 1 guaranteed prize pool, your humble updates reporter is calling it a night to prepare for the huge turnout expected tomorrow. The last two flight run tomorrow and we should top the final numbers from this tournament last year.

11am: Flight E with late registration till 3:30pm
6pm: Flight F with late registration till 10:30pm

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4: 100/200
Flight D Entries: 99 (Total Entries: 400)

With 90 seconds remaining before the first break of Flight D, we had entry number 99 join the game to officially meet the $200,000 guaranteed prize pool.

That’s a big number the will continue to climb with late registration open this evening until 10:30pm and two more flights tomorrow.

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Returning to Level 15: 2,000/4,000 with a 500 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 57 of 301

Flight A: 113 Entries, 22 Advanced
Flight B: 93 Entries, 18 Advanced
Flight C: 95 Entries, 17 Advanced
Flight D: Underway
Flight E: Saturday at 11am
Flight F: Saturday at 6pm
Day 2: Sunday at 12pm

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3: 75/150
Flight D Entries: 84 (Total Entries: 385)

We thought Flight D might push the Event 1 prize pool over the $200,000 but it wasn’t a certainty before it kicked off. Now it’s all but a lock with only 15 more entries needed and registration open for more than three more hours.

Tampa regular Karl Manouchakian and he’s earned some hardware here. He has three tournament wins, all of them right here, and that includes an Event 3 win during the 2016 WPTDeepStacks Tampa series.

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
End of Level 14: 1,500/3,000 with a 400 ante
Flight C Players Remaining: 17 of 95

Action finished up for Flight C after a little flourish at the end dropped the field down to 17 players remaining. Thomas Hunnicutt was in contention for the overall lead but will have to settle for the end-of-flight lead. He put 250,000 in his bag which is good enough for second overall.

Also among those advancing were Mark “Bud” Wiser, Daniel “Soulja Boy” Castillo, Steve Trizis, and Anthony Berouty.

Full chip counts will be posted as soon as they are available.

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2: 50/100
Flight D Entries: 60 (Total Entries: 361)

Flight D is quickly filling up the poker room and the 60 entries so far leaves the field less than 40 away from hitting the $200,000 Guarantee with two big flights still left to go tomorrow.

We are seeing more familiar faces including Parm Mehmi, Wally Maddah, Jeff Morzella, and Marvin “Duckman” Karlins (pictured above).

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14: 1,500/3,000 with a 400 ante
Flight C Players Remaining: 21 of 95

Flight C is into their last level of the day and the field has been stuck on 21 players remaining since the last break. We expect to lose a few more in the last 30 minutes but it’s running pretty steady at the moment.