Tag Archives: 2018 WPTDeepStacks

Event 1 Flight A: Nick Costarelis Leads

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 150/300 with a 25 ante
Flight A Entries: 100

Nick Costarelis

The first break is over and everyone is chasing Nick Costarelis after four levels. He ran his 20,000 starting stack up to 89,000 and he was the clear leader heading into Level 5. Costarelis is riding a heater at the moment after a final table bubble 11th place finish in the 1,896-entry May Little Slick event a few weeks ago.

Flight A has four more levels of late registration plus the break and there are more than a few exercising their re-entry option.

Event 1 Flight A: WPTDeepStacks Champ Joins

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4: 100/200
Flight A Entries: 90

Anthony Astarita

We have a bit of SHR Tampa poker royalty in the field this afternoon. Anthony Astarita recently grabbed his seat in Event 1 and aiming for another win.

He only owns one career title but it was a big one. Astarita was the last player standing in the 2016 WPTDeepStacks Main Event and walked away with more than $130,000 for the major victory.

Event 1 Flight A: Filling In

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3: 75/150
Flight A Entries: 83

Herbert Woodbery

The poker room is filling up as Event 1 leaves the morning hours behind. More familiar faces are putting up their buy-in and the entry count is nearing triple digits after the first hour. That puts Flight A on an easy path to topping the last year’s number of 103.

Tampa regular Herbert Woodbery was an early entrant and he’s dragging pots and stacking chips. Woodbery made the final table of last year’s Event 3 and he picked up his biggest career cash when he won the 2016 Seminole Casino Immokalee Poker Challenge Main Event.

Event 1 Flight A: Early Fireworks

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2: 50/100
Flight A Entries: 71

Felix Nunez

We don’t often see massive hands in the first ten minutes of the first flight of the first event of a series. But Felix Nunez found it.

We missed the early action but it was blind versus blind with two flopped monsters. The small blind player flopped sevens full with 9c7h on the 9h7d7s board but Nunez in the big blind had a bigger boat with 9d9s.

A tough cooler for the small blind and he was down a single quarter chip when he couldn’t find the case seven on the Ks turn or 2h river. Nunez doubled his starting stack and his opponent was gone after the next hand.

Event 1 Flight A: Kicking of WPTDeepStacks

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

It’s about that time to kick off the next big WPTDeepStacks series. The popular summer series returns with five events over 12 days including the $300,000 Guarantee Main Event capping it off.

But first, we have the opening tournament on the schedule. Event 1 has a $570 buy-in with a $200,000 guaranteed prize pool and six starting flights over three days. There’s no timing reason to miss it.

Each entrant will sit down to a 20,000 starting stack and all Day 1 levels run 30 minutes long. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 around 3:30pm and the flight will end after Level 14. Those with chips will bag them up for a return on Sunday for Day 2. This is a “best stack forward” tournament, players can play as many flights as they wish and put their biggest stack in play on Sunday.

The series gets underway at 11am in the poker room and we’ll be there to follow the action.

  • $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

WPTDeepStacks Series Day 1 Schedule

Primary Event Schedule

11AM: Event 1 Day 1A – $570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

  • $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

6PM: Event 1 Day 1B – $570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

  • $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