Event 1A: $570 Deep Stack, $300K Gtd
Day 2 Blinds: 1,500/3,000/500 | Structure
Players Remaining: 35/174

Flight A: 174 Entries, 35 Advanced
Flight B: Thursday at 6pm
Flight C/D: Friday at 11am/6pm
Flight E/F: Saturday at 11am/6pm
Day 2: Sunday at 12pm

Chip counts through Flight A:

Event 1A: $570 Deep Stack, $300K Gtd
Level 14: 1,200/2,400/400 | Structure
Flight A Players Remaining: 35/174

Tournament announced there will be two more hands played before Flight A of the Winter Poker Open $570 wraps. Nick Costarelis holds the chip lead with 200,000 and will likely coast to the top spot early on. As is, 35 players remain, but another couple could bust over the next two hands.

Complete Flight A chip counts will be posted within the hour.

Event 1A: $570 Deep Stack, $300K Gtd
Level 14: 1,200/2,400/400 | Structure
Flight A Players Remaining: 45/174

Nick Costarelis is cruising to kick off Level 14, the final level of the night. Costarelis is piling up and unknown amount of chips, but has a couple hundred worth of gray alone.

The clock shows 45 players remaining and they’re set to log less than 30 minutes of player before we wrap. Still in are Costarelis, Filipp Khavin, Ty Wilson and others.

Event 1B: $570 Deep Stack, $300K Gtd
Level 1: 25/50 | Structure
Flight B Entries: 43 | Total Entries: 217

It’s 6pm in Tampa and Flight B of the Winter Poker Open $570 is off and running. It will match its Flight A predecessor with its players taking their seats to 20,000 starting chips and logging 14, 30-minute levels on Day 1. Registration and re-entry are available until about 10:30pm with play concluding around 1:45am.

Details:

6pm: $570 Deep Stack NLH Re-Entry, Flight B

• $570 buy-in and $300,000 guaranteed
• 20,000 chips and 30-/40-minute levels
• Registration and unlimited re-entry available until the start of Level 9 (~10:30pm)
• Play concludes following Level 14 (~1:45am)
• Day 2 begins Sunday, December 10 at noon
• Structure sheet

Updates from Flight B will begin shortly after the Flight A chip counts are posted.

Event 1A: $570 Deep Stack, $300K Gtd
End of Level 12: 800/1,600/200 | Structure
Flight A Players Remaining: 59/174

Level 12 is a wrap and players in Flight A are on their final break of the night. Players will return to their seats in 15 minutes and they’ll log one more hour of action before bagging and tagging for the evening. Complete chip counts will be posted following the tournament’s.

Event 1A: $570 Deep Stack, $300K Gtd
Level 12: 800/1,600/200 | Structure
Flight A Players Remaining: 59/174

Over the course of about six hours of play, the field has roughly chopped in a third as less than 60 remain in contention. One recent bustout was the aforementioned Rafael Reis. Reis got felted shoving in to Ty Wison and Wilson’s flopped set of eights was best. Reis hit the rail while Wilson grew his chip stack to 200,000 and took the chip lead.

Event 1A: $570 Deep Stack, $300K Gtd
Level 11: 600/1,200/200 | Structure
Flight A Players Remaining: 80/174

Ty Wilson started it off with a raise to 2,500. The button called and it was on Rafael Reis in the big blind. Reis three-bet to 8,500. Wilson called while the button got out of the way. They were heads up to the flop.

Flop:

Reis lead for 12,500. Wilson called.

Turn:

Both players checked.

River:

Both players checked again.

Wilson: for aces-up
Reis: for jacks-up

Wilson took the pot and grew his stack over 100,000.

Ty Wilson – 125,000

Event 1A: $570 Deep Stack, $300K Gtd
Level 10: 500/1,000/100 | Structure
Flight A Players Remaining: 90/174

After finding the felt early, Marie Harrell re-entered and proceeded to run up a stack. It’s now late in Level 10 and she finds herself having accumulated about 45,000 worth of chips. That puts her at about average with just over two more hours remaining in the day.

There’s a tough field still in with the likes of John Racener, Bruce Snell, Mike Raimon, Austin Buchanan and others all remaining. Anthony Astarita and John Dolan, meanwhile, have hit the rail.

Event 1A: $570 Deep Stack, $300K Gtd
Level 9: 400/800/100 | Structure
Flight A Players Remaining: 106/174

Registration is closed and the field is final in the first of six flights of the Winter Poker Open $570 buy-in, $300,000 guarantee. A strong field of 174 entries ponied up the buy-in generating $87,000 toward the guarantee.

Flight A is slated to play six more levels before wrapping. Those unable to make this 11am installment are able to get in the game tonight at 6pm.

Event 1A: $570 Deep Stack, $300K Gtd
Level 8: 300/600/75 | Structure
Flight A Entries: 171

Level 8 is nearly a wrap and opportunities to get in on the Winter Poker Open $570 Flight A are drawing slim. Registration is available until about 3:30pm and at that time the desk will close. As is, the clock shows 171 entries marking a huge turnout in the series opener.