$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 11: 600/1,200 with a 200 ante
Flight F Players Remaining: 45 of 125

Flight F is down to only five tables remaining with some tough players still around. Brandon Byars, Rob Manjura, Patrick Eskandar, Manny Minaya, and Seminole Hard Rock team member John Racener have chips in the game but everyone is chasing Aric Pluskat.

The former WSOP Circuit runner-up has pushed his stack over 150,000 with a few more hours left in the day. Daniel Ramirez is sitting at his table and his 130,000 stack is nothing to dismiss either.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 10: 500/1,000 with a 100 ante
Flight F Players Remaining: 60 of 125

The prize pool and payout information was released with Event 7 drawing 624 entries to create a prize pool worth $310,350. The last 63 players will take home some money with a min-cash worth $1,055 and the winner earning $74,513 plus a 2016 Winter Poker Open Championship seat.

2016 Winter Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, FL
Event 7
$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
Entries: 624
Prize Pool: $310,350
December 8 – 11, 2016

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 9: 400/800 with a 100 ante
Flight F Players Remaining: 70 of 125

Registration has closed on Event 7 and the final flight drew 125 entries. The six starting flights combined for 624 entries to push the prize pool over $300,000.

The official prize pool and payout information will be posted as soon as it is available.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 8: 300/600 with a 75 ante
Flight F Entries: 120

Flight F is in the final level with open registration for Event 7 and we expect to see the number run up a bit more before closing in less than 30 minutes.

Brandon Byars is the early leader in the big field after running his 20,000 starting stack over 100,000 in the first few hours. After a rough run the last few days, Byars could do with some run-good.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 7: 250/500 with a 75 ante
Flight F Entries: 110

The 2016 Winter Poker Open welcomed Seminole Hard Rock Tampa team member John Racener to the series this evening. He’s making his first appearance of the series as the Event 7 continues to climb higher.

Racener is best known for a runner-up finish in the 2010 WSOP Main Event but the Florida pro already owned a WSOP Circuit Main Event win before that summer. He’s looking to join a fellow 2010 WSOP November Niner in Day 2 after John Dolan bagged up yesterday.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 6: 200/400 with a 50 ante
Flight F Entries: 104

Rob Manjura knows about conquering big, multi-day fields here in the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa poker room. He won the opening event of the 2016 WPO series that was 721-entries strong. That was Manjura’s second Hard Rock guitar trophy (and third win here total) but he had to fire here again after a cooler in Flight E.

He was only a few hands away from bagging up a Day 2 stack but his queens ran smack into flight leader Onder Ekinci’s pocket aces. Manjura is back this evening, in nearly the same seat as earlier, but he has to deal with a tough draw against Ryan Dunn, Brandon Byars, and 2015 WPO winner John Pappas.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 150/300 with a 50 ante
Flight F Entries: 101

With nearly two hours left to get in the game, the $200,000 guaranteed prize pool in Event 7 has climbed to $300,000 with registration/re-entry open until 10:30pm. There will be some nice money up top sometime tomorrow evening.

They are having a lot of fun in the back for of the room and naturally AJ “Doc” Santos is in the middle of it. He has last year’s SHRP Player of the Year Ory Hen to his right with Daiane Mendes and Manny Minaya to his left. All three have had success here and enjoying their Saturday evening.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 150/300 with a 50 ante
Flight F Entries: 92

Flight F players are returning to their seats after the first break and they are within shouting distance of hitting creating a $300,000 prize pool out of this $200,000 Guarantee.

Cheri Beatty is trying for his second big run of the series. The Tampa regular started the 2016 WPO off well when she final tabled the Ladies Event last week but was unlucky to finish in fourth place.

Happy I decided to switch gears. It’s been a great comeback. @SHRTPoker
Love this game pic.twitter.com/rVLQupZkRd

— ℭℌℰℜℐ (@CheriBeatty) December 11, 2016

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Day 2 Blinds: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 89 of 499

Flight A: 76 Entries, 14 Advanced
Flight B: 76 Entries, 12 Advanced
Flight C: 80 Entries, 15 Advanced
Flight D: 106 Entries, 21 Advanced
Flight E: 161 Entries, 27 Advanced
Flight F: Saturday @ 6pm
Day 2: Sunday @ Noon

Structure Sheet

Day 2 chip counts through Flight E:

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 3: 75/150 with a 25 ante
Flight F Entries: 76

Flight E has wrapped up but Flight F is still its infancy on the far side of the poker room. We have 76 entries in the game after the first hour and only 25 away from running the $200,000 guaranteed prize pool up to $300,000.

Alex Ivan is back with us this evening trying to build a bag for tomorrow. He already has success this series when he finished second in the Pot Limit Hold’em event a few days ago.