2017 WPTDeepStacks
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tampa, Florida
Event #1
$570 Deep Stack
No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Entries: 738
Prize Pool: $369,000
June 8-11, 2017
1st – $85,604 + Guitar Trophy
2nd – $49,815
3rd – $30,443
4th – $25,092
5th – $20,295
6th – $16,605
7th – $13,284
8th – $10,148
9th – $7,011
10th-12th – $4,613
13th-15th – $3,321
16th-18th – $2,288
19th-27th – $1,956
28th- 36th – $1,734
37th-45th – $1,550
46th-54th – $1,365
55th-63rd – $1,218
64th-72nd – $1,070
$570 Buy-in No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure Sheet
Level 9: 400/800/100
Flight F Players Remaining: 88/170
Registration is closed in Flight F with a field of 170 entries. That brings the complete field to 738 entries and puts the prize pool at $369,000. Full payouts will be posted shortly. In the meantime, here’s a breakdown of the event to this point:
| Flight | Day | Entries | Advanced |
| A | Thur @ 11am | 103 | 21 |
| B | Thur @ 6pm | 82 | 19 |
| C | Fri @ 11am | 81 | 17 |
| D | Fri @ 6pm | 88 | 20 |
| E | Sat @ 11am | 214 | 40 |
| F | Sat @ 6pm | 170 | TBD |
| Totals | — | 738 | 117 |
$570 Buy-in No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure Sheet
Level 8: 300/600/75
Flight F Entries: 164 (Total Entries: 736)
Level 8 is here and it marks the final level of late registration. After it expires, players will go on a 15-minute break. When they return, the registration desk will close and the field will be final. As is, Flight F shows 164 entries putting the total field at 736 with a $368,000 prize pool.
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$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure Sheet
Level 7: 250/500/75
Flight F Entries: 153 (Total Entries: 727)
The weekend poker action drew 214 strong in the 11am flight and is off to another big start in tonight’s 6pm installment. With a sea of 156 entries filling the tournament floor, there’s a solid mix of pros, amateurs and Seminole Hard Rock Tampa regulars. For the second time this series, there’s a pair of defending champions jockeying for a Day 2 berth in the opener.
Defending WPTDeepStacks-Tampa Main Event champion Anthony Astarita has been taking his shots in the nighttime flights thus far during the 2017 series. With a few entries already in, he’s hoping the final Flight F goes a bit better. Last year, he scored $130,000 defeating nearly 540 entries in the Championship, a $1,100 no limit hold’em tournament.
It was Karl Manouchakian who joined Astarita as a 2016 WPTDeepStacks-Tampa headliner. Manouchakian crushed the prelims, kicking it off with a runner-up finish in this very event last year. From there, he won the $350 version a few days later. In all, he won more than $60,000 and donned the Player of the Series title.
Both Astarita and Manouchakian have reserved their bullets for the evening flights this year. Both have also fired a few without being able to find a bag. Flight F marks their final chance to start the 2017 series right where they ended 2016’s.
$570 Buy-in No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure Sheet
Level 5: 150/300/50
Flight F Entries: 132 (Total Entries: 700)
With 132 Flight F entries, the combined field in the WPTDeepStacks $570 sits at 700. That’s basically level with last year’s figure — 698 — and puts the prize pool at $350,000. Late registration and re-entry are available until about 10:30pm and the tallies are only going up between now and then.
$570 Buy-in No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure Sheet
Day 2 Blinds: 1,500/3,000/500
Players Remaining: 117/568
Flight A: 103 Entries, 21 Advanced
Flight B: 82 Entries, 19 Advanced
Flight C: 81 Entries, 17 Advanced
Flight D: 88 Entries, 20 Advanced
Flight E: 214 Entries, 40 Advanced
Flight F: Saturday at 6pm
Day 2: Sunday at 12pm
Day 2 chip counts through Flight E:
| RANK | FIRST NAME | LAST NAME | CHIP COUNT | TABLE | SEAT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MIRZA | SOPOVIC | 256,000 | 12 | 7 |
| 2 | KEVIN | HAZZARD | 255,000 | 6 | 2 |
| 3 | JOHN | PAPPAS | 254,500 | 18 | 6 |
| 4 | JEFFERY | BIEZUNSKI | 217,000 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | NICHOLAS | COSTA | 208,000 | 7 | 9 |
| 6 | OREN | SEGEV | 197,500 | 14 | 2 |
| 7 | YING | LIN | 194,500 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | KRISHNA | VELLANKI | 189,500 | 8 | 4 |
| 9 | MARTIN | MARKOV | 188,500 | 17 | 3 |
| 10 | BRANDON | BYARS | 187,000 | 12 | 3 |
| 11 | JEAN | ZABIN | 186,000 | 9 | 6 |
| 12 | THOMAS | LARSON | 179,500 | 15 | 3 |
| 13 | JULIO | MARRERO-SOSA | 178,000 | 16 | 7 |
| 14 | STEPAS | TINDZIULIS | 174,000 | 3 | 1 |
| 15 | NASHAAT | ANTONIOUS | 166,500 | 2 | 7 |
| 16 | Anthony | Vitale | 161,500 | 17 | 8 |
| 17 | JORDAN | CHIZICK | 161,000 | 12 | 9 |
| 18 | ROBERT | MANJURA-BOODY | 159,500 | 16 | 3 |
| 19 | MICHAEL | COLLINS | 158,000 | 2 | 1 |
| 20 | GERALD | SILVA | 152,500 | 8 | 3 |
| 21 | RAFAEL | FERNANDES | 147,500 | 9 | 9 |
| 22 | JOSHUA | FULFORD | 147,000 | 11 | 6 |
| 23 | MICHAEL | DICKERSON | 139,500 | 6 | 1 |
| 24 | ELIZABETH | MCKANE | 139,000 | 10 | 9 |
| 25 | PHILLIP | WEAST | 139,000 | 16 | 5 |
| 26 | RONALD | SULLIVAN | 138,000 | 10 | 6 |
| 27 | PLAMEN | STOYANOV | 130,000 | 4 | 7 |
| 28 | ALCIDES | GOMEZ II | 128,000 | 14 | 3 |
| 29 | WILLIAM | DUBAY | 118,500 | 11 | 2 |
| 30 | ALEX | GRANDJACQUET | 118,000 | 12 | 4 |
| 31 | TOM | FLEISCHER | 116,500 | 4 | 9 |
| 32 | Eliud | Diaz | 114,000 | 13 | 3 |
| 33 | MARK | WISER | 114,000 | 2 | 3 |
| 34 | JOSEPH | STEUR | 113,500 | 5 | 6 |
| 35 | DAVID | TIFFENBERG | 113,000 | 6 | 4 |
| 36 | DAVID | GRAHAM | 113,000 | 13 | 9 |
| 37 | RICHARD | KANE | 110,000 | 12 | 2 |
| 38 | CLAUDEMIR | OSORIO | 110,000 | 4 | 6 |
| 39 | MICHAEL | SCOTT | 109,000 | 11 | 3 |
| 40 | DUSHYANT | GULATI | 109,000 | 14 | 9 |
| 41 | BRUCE | SNELL | 107,500 | 5 | 3 |
| 42 | JOSEPH | ACQUAVELLA | 106,000 | 11 | 4 |
| 43 | DANIEL | GRIGGS | 101,000 | 6 | 7 |
| 44 | ANDRES | FLOREZ | 100,000 | 6 | 9 |
| 45 | seyedali | rad | 100,000 | 5 | 9 |
| 46 | DUSTIN | GESELIUS | 99,500 | 11 | 9 |
| 47 | YAZAN | MUSA | 99,000 | 1 | 3 |
| 48 | AMI | RUBIN | 98,500 | 14 | 1 |
| 49 | MONIR | MAHER | 96,500 | 16 | 2 |
| 50 | TONY | MILES | 96,000 | 9 | 4 |
| 51 | JAMES | RUBINSKI | 94,500 | 10 | 2 |
| 52 | RAYMOND | DWYER | 93,500 | 13 | 7 |
| 53 | JAMES | WALDEN | 90,500 | 3 | 6 |
| 54 | ANTHONY | PELLEGRINI | 90,500 | 7 | 1 |
| 55 | PAUL | STANECHEWSKI | 89,500 | 3 | 9 |
| 56 | MICHAEL | TURTON | 88,000 | 13 | 4 |
| 57 | SEAN | HEYWOOD | 86,500 | 6 | 3 |
| 58 | MARK | FARGASON | 85,500 | 15 | 1 |
| 59 | VENCENT | WHITE | 85,500 | 15 | 2 |
| 60 | AMANDA | JONES | 85,000 | 12 | 6 |
| 61 | DEREK | MELICHER | 84,500 | 10 | 3 |
| 62 | WILLIAM | MCKOWN | 80,500 | 17 | 2 |
| 63 | JOSEPH | SQUIRES | 80,000 | 9 | 1 |
| 64 | BRANDON | VASAPOLLE | 80,000 | 3 | 2 |
| 65 | ARIC | PLUSKAT | 79,500 | 4 | 8 |
| 66 | RICHARD | PETROVIC | 79,000 | 17 | 1 |
| 67 | FRANCISCO | GOMEZ | 77,500 | 5 | 7 |
| 68 | DANIEL | LI | 76,500 | 6 | 6 |
| 69 | TYRONE | WILSON | 75,000 | 4 | 1 |
| 70 | AMELIO | AMATO | 74,500 | 10 | 8 |
| 71 | JAMES | MCDONALD | 73,500 | 15 | 8 |
| 72 | JOEL | PRIDGEN | 73,500 | 5 | 2 |
| 73 | DANIEL | SILVA | 71,500 | 9 | 2 |
| 74 | EARL | VANLANDINGHAM III | 69,500 | 2 | 2 |
| 75 | MICHAEL | GARRISON | 69,500 | 10 | 4 |
| 76 | DMITRIY | KONIKOV | 68,500 | 14 | 7 |
| 77 | SANJIB | ACHARYA | 67,500 | 6 | 8 |
| 78 | BRIAN | ARBAUGH | 65,500 | 7 | 2 |
| 79 | STANLEY | TAVANESE | 65,000 | 15 | 5 |
| 80 | ALEC | BRADLOW | 62,500 | 8 | 2 |
| 81 | WILLIAM | MCINTYRE | 62,500 | 7 | 6 |
| 82 | RICHARD | BEHNKE | 62,500 | 4 | 2 |
| 83 | BORIS | COX | 59,500 | 11 | 7 |
| 84 | ROBERT | PANETTA JR | 59,500 | 16 | 8 |
| 85 | WALID | MADDAH | 59,000 | 13 | 6 |
| 86 | JOHN | ALEGRIA | 58,500 | 12 | 1 |
| 87 | MARIE | HARRELL | 58,000 | 7 | 4 |
| 88 | DAVID | LAWRENCE | 57,500 | 2 | 4 |
| 89 | NIKOLAOS | COSTARELIS | 57,500 | 15 | 7 |
| 90 | TOM | BIGLER | 56,500 | 14 | 4 |
| 91 | RONALD | RAMACG | 56,000 | 16 | 1 |
| 92 | MARK | SMYRSKI | 55,500 | 13 | 2 |
| 93 | JAMES | MCCARTY | 54,000 | 5 | 4 |
| 94 | ALAN | RAMKHALAWAN | 53,000 | 13 | 1 |
| 95 | BRANDON | VESCIO-BERMENDER | 52,500 | 1 | 8 |
| 96 | STANLEY | HOLLEY | 52,000 | 14 | 6 |
| 97 | JOHN | WIGGINTON | 51,500 | 9 | 8 |
| 98 | JENNIFER | AROJADO | 51,000 | 8 | 7 |
| 99 | JODY | KEELING | 50,000 | 2 | 9 |
| 100 | MICHAEL | DUNN | 48,500 | 8 | 1 |
| 101 | ANTHONY | HOBBS | 48,000 | 9 | 7 |
| 102 | MARK | HOYLE | 47,500 | 1 | 7 |
| 103 | ROBERTO | MELO | 47,500 | 13 | 8 |
| 104 | JOHN | DOBSON | 44,500 | 7 | 7 |
| 105 | AARON | PORTER | 42,000 | 3 | 4 |
| 106 | KYLE | MASSEY | 42,000 | 3 | 7 |
| 107 | STEPHEN | SPEER | 42,000 | 1 | 1 |
| 108 | HUYEN | VO | 42,000 | 11 | 1 |
| 109 | Sufian | Soufan | 41,500 | 1 | 6 |
| 110 | TROY | SYMONS | 41,500 | 8 | 8 |
| 111 | SELMA | SAYIN | 37,500 | 17 | 7 |
| 112 | PRAVEEN | CHALLAGUNDLA | 34,500 | 18 | 2 |
| 113 | DOUGLAS | LANIER | 29,500 | 15 | 9 |
| 114 | CHRISTOPHER | BOYLE | 28,000 | 3 | 3 |
| 115 | LOUIS | CONSTANT | 23,000 | 8 | 6 |
| 116 | ROBERT | BROWNING | 19,000 | 10 | 1 |
| 117 | ROBERT | IRBY | 12,000 | 5 | 1 |
$570 Buy-in No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure Sheet
End of Level 14: 1,200/2,400/400
Flight E Players Remaining: 40/214
Level 14 in today’s 11am Flight E expired moments ago and it appears 40 players will advanced to tomorrow’s Day 2.
Complete chip counts will be posted shortly.
$570 Buy-in No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure Sheet
Level 14: 1,200/2,400/400
Flight E Players Remaining: 46/214
Kevin Hazzard is playing his way to the top of the counts late in Flight E. He sits on well over 200,000 and hopes to join fellow Flight E chip leader Nasaat Antonious as one of the big stacks in tomorrow’s Day 2.
Level 14 is underway now and it marks the final level of the night. Complete chip counts through Flight E will be posted after action concludes.
$570 Buy-in No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure Sheet
It’s Saturday night and each of the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa poker room’s 46 tables is full with the area’s best action. That includes not only Flight E and F of the WPTDeepStacks $570, but all those cash tables chasing $500 high hands paid every 30 minutes until midnight.
$570 Buy-in No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure Sheet
Level 1: 25/50
Flight F Entries: 55 (Total Entries: 623)
The last of six starting flights in the WPTDeepStacks $570 is off and running at Seminole Hard Rock Tampa. As of this morning’s action, the field sits at 568 entries generating a $284,000 prize pool. Seminole Hard Rock staff is hoping for a big flight tonight that pushes the entry count over 700 and creates a prize pool over $350,000.
Flight F details:
6pm: Event 1 ($570 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry) – Flight F