$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Tampa Main Event
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 13: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 50 of 189

Herb Woodbery and Michael Parisi built a pot and Parisi was at risk for 12,500. Woodbery did not have much more but had a chance to knock a player out.

Woodbery:
Parisi:

Both had big suited cards and it was Parisi nailing the flop. The board finished and Woodbery was left with only 2,800.

He found a nice hand to try and get back in the game but his was dominated by and he couldn’t come back on the board.

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Tampa Main Event
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 13: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 61 of 189

Players are back in their seats and ready to finish up their day with the last three levels.

Dino Patsourakis continued to lead with 240,000 but Barry Wiedemann is creeping up with 220,000. They have two hours to chase each other down.

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Tampa Main Event
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12: 600/1,200 with a 200 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 61 of 189

Twelve levels are in the books and the 61 remaining players are heading on their final break of the day. They will return and play three more levels before calling it a day.

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Tampa Main Event
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12: 600/1,200 with a 200 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 70 of 189

Duane Felix opened to 2,200 from under the gun and an opponent shipped all in for 19,500 from middle position. Douglas Akers cold four-bet shoved for 27,500 and Felix let it go.

Akers:
Opponent:

Akers was ahead for the KO and the board ran clean to drop the field down to 70 players even.

Douglas Akers – 45,000

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Tampa Main Event
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 11: 500/1,000 with a 100 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 74 of 189

The field is dropping pretty quickly, a little faster than you would expect in an event this big. They are down to nearly seven tables when ten came back from dinner an hour ago.

Peter Walsworth is still around and he probably wouldn’t mind duplicating his last time at a SHR poker table. He trekked across the state in April to participate in the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown and he won the $5,000 Big Stack for a cool six-digit payday.

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Tampa Main Event
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10: 400/800 with a 100 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 100 of 189

The numbers were crunched and Flight A of the Main Event officially drew 189 entries. That is only two off last year’s opening flight and well within the expected numbers with two huge flights to come. That puts us more than halfway to the $300,000 Guarantee and we should get there tomorrow.

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Tampa Main Event
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10: 400/800 with a 100 ante
Flight A Entries: 189

Cards are back in the air and we confirmed that the big stack did indeed belong to Dino Patsourakis. The SHR Tampa favorite is enjoying his time so far and laughing it up with his tablemates.

The clock shows an unofficial 189 entries in Flight A but we will wait for the smart folks to do all the proper accounting.

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Tampa Main Event
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 300/600 with a 75 ante
Flight A Entries: 188

A quick walk among the tables found one big stack waiting for a return. It looks like Ioannis Patsourakis will be the leader coming back with a very nice 182,300 stack.

We’ll double check that it is still Patsourakis in that seat but, either way, someone is coming back to a lot of chips.

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Tampa Main Event
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 300/600 with a 75 ante
Flight A Entries: 185

Main Event players are now on a 60-minute dinner break. Plenty of time to enjoy all the food options in the casino before coming back for six more levels.

The quarter chips will be coming out of play during the break and we should see some faster action when they return.

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Tampa Main Event
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 300/600 with a 75 ante
Flight A Entries: 185

Mackenzie Ramsay was facing a short-stack shove for 2,500 with the board reading and he easily called.

Ramsay:
Opponent:

Ramsay needed to dodge a diamond, a four, an ace, or a king for the knockout. None of those 15 outs hit the river to give him the pot.

Mackenzie Ramsay – 93,000