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

Flight A players are about to take off on their first break of the day with 95 in the game and more expected over the next two hours. Once they return, Flight A will move through four more levels before closing registration.

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4: 100/200
Flight A Entries: 90

We have a bit of SHR Tampa poker royalty in the field this afternoon. Anthony Astarita recently grabbed his seat in Event 1 and aiming for another win.

He only owns one career title but it was a big one. Astarita was the last player standing in the 2016 WPTDeepStacks Main Event and walked away with more than $130,000 for the major victory.

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3: 75/150
Flight A Entries: 83

The poker room is filling up as Event 1 leaves the morning hours behind. More familiar faces are putting up their buy-in and the entry count is nearing triple digits after the first hour. That puts Flight A on an easy path to topping the last year’s number of 103.

Tampa regular Herbert Woodbery was an early entrant and he’s dragging pots and stacking chips. Woodbery made the final table of last year’s Event 3 and he picked up his biggest career cash when he won the 2016 Seminole Casino Immokalee Poker Challenge Main Event.

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2: 50/100
Flight A Entries: 71

We don’t often see massive hands in the first ten minutes of the first flight of the first event of a series. But Felix Nunez found it.

We missed the early action but it was blind versus blind with two flopped monsters. The small blind player flopped sevens full with on the board but Nunez in the big blind had a bigger boat with .

A tough cooler for the small blind and he was down a single quarter chip when he couldn’t find the case seven on the turn or river. Nunez doubled his starting stack and his opponent was gone after the next hand.

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 25/50
Flight A Entries: 47

After a short delay to get everyone in their proper spots, cards are in the air for the start of the WPTDeepStacks series.

They’ll move through the first four levels of the day before taking a break.

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

It’s about that time to kick off the next big WPTDeepStacks series. The popular summer series returns with five events over 12 days including the $300,000 Guarantee Main Event capping it off.

But first, we have the opening tournament on the schedule. Event 1 has a $570 buy-in with a $200,000 guaranteed prize pool and six starting flights over three days. There’s no timing reason to miss it.

Each entrant will sit down to a 20,000 starting stack and all Day 1 levels run 30 minutes long. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 around 3:30pm and the flight will end after Level 14. Those with chips will bag them up for a return on Sunday for Day 2. This is a “best stack forward” tournament, players can play as many flights as they wish and put their biggest stack in play on Sunday.

The series gets underway at 11am in the poker room and we’ll be there to follow the action.

• $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 1A – $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 1B – $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