$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14: 1,500/3,000 with a 400 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 30 of 113

Flight A has reached the final level of the day. They will play down to until ten minutes remain, tournament staff will pause the clock, and all tables will finish off with a random number of hands before bagging up.

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 13: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 33 of 113

Mackenzie Ramsay’s time at the top did not last long. It seems a larger number of his trips make a trek across the table to Susan MacPherson. She was stacked up to 177,000 at the final break, good enough to lead the small crew over 100,000.

They will play out two more levels and survivors will bag up their chips for a Sunday return.

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 25/50

The first day of the WPTDeepStacks series concludes with the second flight of the $200,000 opening tournament. Flight A of the $570 buy-in tournament drew 113 entries to put it on the clear path to reaching that number. We’ll have another group of players kicking things off at 6pm while Flight A plays to the end of their day.

Each entrant will start out with a 20,000 stack and all Day 1 levels last 30 minutes long. Late registration is open until the start of Level 9 at 10:30pm with unlimited re-entries available during that time. Flight B will complete 14 full levels with all survivors bagging their chips for a Day 2 return on Sunday.

This is a “best stack forward” tournament so players can enter as many flights as they wish and play their biggest stack on Day 2.

Cards fly at the top of the hour and we will bring the final numbers with chips counts at the end of the day.

• $200,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 20,000 in chips
• Day 1 levels last 30 minutes; Day 2 levels last 40 minutes
• Late registration available until start of Level 9
• Day 1 will end after Level 14 or Tournament Director discretion
• Players participating in multiple Day 1’s may choose their best stack for start of Day 2
• Event 1 Structure Sheet

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 36 of 113

The clock is counting down and players are not far from their final break of the day. It will be a 10-minute walk away from the tables before the finish out the last two levels of the day.

Mackenzie Ramsay is the latest player to top the counts and it looks like his 107,900 is good enough for that honor.

The pace picked up recently and they are down to 40 tables. Doyle Scott Elliott was a recent elimination when he open-shoved from the small blind and his big slick ran right into the big blind aces.

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 11: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 42 of 113

We expected to see a quicker exodus for the door after registration closed but it’s not happening so far. The math says were should have approximately 23 players remaining at the end of the day but they are not near the number yet as the clock ticks down.

Tampa favorite son Tony March is still working his way through the field and looking for his first tournament win. He has plenty of big results and a dozen final table appearance but no picture with a trophy. March is known as much for his charity work as his poker play and a trophy would go well with his other accolades.

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10: 600/1,200 with a 200 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 56 of 113

After the quarter chips came out of play during the second break, we were able to take a quick peek at the seven remaining tables to check on some leaders.

No one is running away with the late chip lead and it appears Oscar Lindo leads them all. His 82,300 appeared to be the biggest in the room with a good number of close stacks trying to chase him down.

Lindo has one tournament win on his resume and it came during the 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open. His biggest tournament cash was right here after a final table appearance in the opening event of the 2015 Winter Poker Series for $20,000.

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 500/1,000 with a 100 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 63 of 113

Players are back in their seats and registration is closed for Flight A. They picked up another half dozen during the bring the final total to 113 with five more flights to go.

The $200,000 Guarantee will be bested before the weekend is through. Flight B rolls out at 6pm with late registration till 10:30pm

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8: 400/800 with a 75 ante
Flight A Entries: 107

Level 8 is underway and this is the last chance for players to hop in Flight A. We are sitting on 107 entries and it should go up a few before the break is over. Or players are waiting for Flight B to kick off at 6pm.

There are seven tables remaining, ten-handed at the extra comfy wide tables, and they will drop quickly once registration is closed.

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7: 300/600 with a 75 ante
Flight A Entries: 107

There has been no movement on the entry count going up but the player remaining count is going down. The previously mentioned Brandon Byars hit the rail shortly after his blog mention and we expect to see him fire off once again.

Susan MacPherson is still around and cruising at the same table abandoned by Byars. She still has to deal with Herbert Woodbery on her right but she’s grinding.

MacPhearson had a nice Winter Poker Open series a few years ago. She made the final table and finished fifth in the Ladies Event on the first day then bookended the series with a ninth-place finish in the Championship.

Both of those were her first reported tournament cashes, not a bad way to kick things off.

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6: 200/400 with a 50 ante
Flight A Entries: 107

Flight A crossed over 100 entries during the first break and they beat last year’s number soon after. The 2017 version of this event drew 103 entries in the first flight and ultimately ended up with 738 to crush the guarantee. We expect the big rate to continue over this flight and the five remaining.

Tampa regular Brandon Byars didn’t wait to get in his seat. He was one of the first the check into his table this morning and he’s still cruising on a single shot.