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Level 13: 1,000/2,000/300
Flight E Players Remaining: 57/214

With a stack of about 250,000, Flight E’s Nashaat Antonious is challenging the overall chip lead currently held by Flight B’s Mirza Sopovic. Antonious is freshly back in his seat following the last break of the night and has two levels left in the day to chip up and overtake Sopovic.

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Level 12: 800/1,600/200
Flight E Players Remaining: 63/214

Fresh off a $40,000 score in Hollywood, Martin Markov is in search of another deep run and final table appearance here in Tampa. He recently played a big pot in position against Jordan Chizick that saw Markov make a tough call.

The board was . Chizick checked. Markov bet 11,500. Chizick raised, making it 41,700 to go. Markov thought for a couple minutes, then reached into his stack for a call.

Markov: for top pair
Chizick: for third pair

Markov raked the pot and jumped toward the top of the counts with about 175,000.

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Level 10: 400/800/100
Flight E Players Remaining: 82/214

Julio Marrero shares a table with the aforementioned Nick Costarelis and has played some big pots as of late. Marrero previously held the chip lead with a stack of nearly 200,000. He’s back to reality over the last half hour or so surrendering nearly half that and currently sits at just over 100,000.

First, he was second best in a pot holding against on an board. A few hands later he and a lone opponent got 7,500 in preflop. The flop fell ace high and they got his opponent’s last 28,000 in — Marrero held while the opponent held . Marrero never improved.

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Level 9: 400/800/100
Flight E Players Remaining: 95/214

Nick Costarelis owns one of the biggest stacks in the room following break. Late in Level 8, he played a monster pot holding on a board. There was big action on the river and Costarelis’ quads left his opponent speechless. Costarlis raked a pile and has played it cool since retaining his big stack well in to Level 9.

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Level 9: 400/800/100
Flight E Entries: 214 (Total Entries: 568)

Level 9 is underway and registration is closed in Flight E of the WPTDeepStacks $570. There was a massive turnout for the weekend play as 214 entries ponied up the buy-in for their shot at a prize pool expected to hit the $350,000 mark. With a combined field of 568 entries, the kiddie sits at $284,000 with tonight’s 6pm Flight F expected to add another $70,000 or so.

Updated tournament breakdown:

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Level 8: 300/600/75
Flight E Entries: 210 (Total Entries: 564)

The entry count continues to go up, but bustouts are going faster than new faces are coming. With 210 registered in Flight E to this points, there’s only 14 tables in play. The field has nearly cut in half as Level 8 is underway with blinds of 300 and 600 with a 75 ante.

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Level 7: 250/500/75
Flight E Entries: 202 (Total Entries: 556)

Nick Zivolich is at or near the top of the counts following some big action at Table 2. Zivolich battled with Julio Abreu who lead following the break. The pair played a pot worth nearly 80,000 chips and Abreu was on the bad end of it. He was left with about 10,000 chips and busted a short while later.

With the former chip leader on the rail, Zivolich now owns one of the tournament’s big stacks.

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Level 6: 200/400/50
Flight E Entries: 193 (Total Entries: 547)

Herbert Woodbery isn’t one to miss a major series at Seminole Hard Rock Tampa. In fact, he rarely misses a major series at Seminole property. He’s in the Flight E field and chipped up slightly over the first five levels claiming just about 30,000 late in Level 6.

Woodbery, local to the area, claims two Seminole Championship final tables. Most notably, he scored a tournament W in the Seminole Immokalee Poker Challenge earning him $51,000. A few months before that, he chopped the Coco Poker Showdown pocketing $20,380. He went on to finish seventh in that season’ Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year race.

It’s been slower in the 2016/17 season, but Woodbery hopes to change that with some solid player during the WPTDeepStacks-Tampa.

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Level 5: 150/300/50
Flight E Entries: 176 (Total Entries: 530)

The first break wrapped just moments ago and players are back in their seats playing to blinds of 150 and 300 with a 50 ante. The clock reads 176 Flight E entries bringing the combined field to an event 530.

Having turned his 20,000 starting chips into about 55,000, Julio Abreu sits atop the counts early in the day. Abreu has experienced some modest success in Hollywood, but the Tampa-area grinder is in search of some scores in his hometown.

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Level 4: 100/200/25
Flight E Entries: 157 (Total Entries: 511)

Jordan Chizick is a three-time Seminole major champion. All three wins came in his backyard during series across the state at the Hollywood property. Looking to diversify his Seminole resume, Chizick trekked northwest and is among the WPTDeepStacks field here in Flight E.