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$1,100 Main Event No Limit Hold’em
Level 7: 200/400/50 Ante
Entries: 152

The clock just recently surpassed the 150-entry mark putting the prize pool nearly halfway to the $300,000 guarantee. In light of today’s strong turnout, the six-figure target is likely to be surpassed during tomorrow’s play.

$1,100 Main Event No Limit Hold’em
Level 7: 200/400/50 Ante
Entries: 150

The second break is over and Level 7 is underway with a small blind of 200 and a big blind of 400. Miami’s Erik Christensen tops the counts holding a stack of 105,000.

While it’s Christensen who’s in front, it’s a close race that sees Aaron Martin sitting on 99,500 and Joel Gossett on 90,000.

$1,100 Main Event No Limit Hold’em
Level 6: 150/300/50 Ante
Entries: 147

Decided to play Tampa main event $1100 $300k last minute before Vegas!! Start my trip off right $$$ #shrtpoker @SHRTPoker

— Jeff Metajan (@JMetajanPoker) June 16, 2016

My AK wins the 3 way all in, I'm going to ship this @KarlMano @SHRTPoker pic.twitter.com/a509pLRKKC

— Duane Thilmony (@PokerDuane) June 16, 2016

$1,100 Main Event No Limit Hold’em
Level 5: 100/200/25 Ante
Entries: 140

The WPTDeepStacks-Tampa Main Event marks the last Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year points-eligible event before the $5,000,000 guaranteed Championship this August. The 10-tournament contest has been a two-horse race for much of the year with David Prociak and Timothy Miles always near the top of it.

As is, Prociak leads the way claiming an impressive 686.2638 points. That number puts him a bit ahead of Miles who claims 512.9075 and sits second.

Full SHRP POY Points Standings

Both players are in action here in Tampa looking to pad their total. For Miles, he’s already on entry number two after his aces were cracked in a three way pot at the end of Level 3. Prociak, meanwhile, has been firmly in his seat since cards went in the air just about two hours ago.

The SHPR Player of the Year earns a tournament buy-in and travel package valued at $44,000. Additionally, the top 20 points earners get a piece of the action.

The complete prize lists and details are posted at HardRockPoker.com.

$1,100 Main Event No Limit Hold’em
Level 4: 75/150/25 Ante
Entries: 132

Seminole Hard Rock Poker Tampa ambassador, not typically one to take part in the morning flights, is one of the tournament’s newest entries. Preferring the 5 p.m. or 6 p.m. start days, Maddah is cornered in the WPTDeepStacks-Tampa Main Event. He bit the bullet and made his way to the Seminole Hard Rock and has chipped up just slightly during the early stages of his Main Event run.

Wally Maddah – 26,500

$1,100 Main Event No Limit Hold’em
Level 4: 75/150/25 Ante
Entries: 132

Players are in their seats and Level 4 is freshly underway in the WPTDeepStacks-Tampa Main Event. Leading the way is Jim Seaver who sits on a stack of 81,000. Seaver, largely in part to the hand he played against Brian Reinert right before break, has more than tripled his holdings and now tops the counts early in play.

One of the other larger stacks in the room belongs to Joel Gossett. Gossett isn’t quite in Seaver territory, but he sits on a healthy 65,500.

Jim Seaver – 81,000
Joel Gossett – 65,500

$1,100 Main Event No Limit Hold’em
Level 3: 75/150
Entries: 128

The flop laid and an early position player checked. A middle position player made it 400 and Jim Seaver called behind him. WPTDeepStacks Player of the Year contender Brian Reinert was in late position and he called as well. The early position player made it four ways and it was off to the turn.

Fourth street fell the . The early position player checked. The middle position player continued for 600 while Seaver made it 1,500 to go. Reinert called and the remaining players folded. Seaver and Reinert were heads up.

The river completed the board with the . Seaver bet 5,500. Reinert thought for 30 seconds or so before he called. Seaver promptly flipped over for a rivered straight. Reinert reluctantly folded and surrendered the pot.

Jim Seaver – 71,000
Brian Reinert – 9,500

$1,100 Main Event No Limit Hold’em
Level 3: 75/150
Entries: 125

A 13-hour day wasn’t enough for Hank Zheng and Josias Santos. After logging a full day’s worth of play in yesterday’s Event 3 restart, the pair is right back at it here on Flight C of the $1,100 buy-in, $300,000 guaranteed Main Event.

Zheng and Santos began yesterday’s play at noon and checked and raised for nearly 13 hours straight before the event concluded just before 1 a.m. local time. Thankfully, their hard work paid off. The pair was part of the event’s four-way chop and Zheng walked with $21,159 while Santos earned ($18,643).

Undeterred by the long hours, both are in their seats, smiling and chipping up well before today’s first break.

Hank Zheng – 33,000
Josias Santos – 32,500

$1,100 Main Event No Limit Hold’em
Level 2: 50/100
Entries: 122

Two players among the 122 entered in Flight A of the Main Event bring with them Seminole Casino Hotel Immokalee tournament victories.

For Filipp Khavin, his win came in 2015 in the property’s $1,100 WPTDeepStacks Main Event. He bested a field of 228 entries to earn $47,769.

For Herbert Woodbery, his win was more recent. In march of this year, he bested 127 entries in the $1,650 Seminole Immokalee Poker Main Event good for a smooth $51,000. His heads-up opponent, David Prociak, earned $41,000 and a bundle of points toward the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year race which he now leads.

Both players are in action here early in Flight A of the WPTDeepStacks-Tampa Main Event and we’ll log their progress as the day goes on.