$1,100 Pinktober Main Event (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12: 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining: 22 of 101

The last break of the day is nearly upon us and the remaining players will have a little breather before playing out the last two levels of the evening.

There are a lot of stacks hovering around and near the average while two are going big. Tom Nguyen continues to lead with 312,000 but Peter Walsworth is not far behind with 310,500.

$1,100 Pinktober Main Event (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12: 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining: 27 of 101

In a snap, Flight A is down to the last three tables of the day and we should lose about half of those before we are done.

There are still some Tampa regulars battling to make it through including Ok Haselton, Tony March, Herbert Woodbery, and Justin Zaki.

$1,100 Pinktober Main Event (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 11: 1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Players Remaining: 40 of 101

Now that registration is closed on Flight A, the field is shrinking quickly. They are down to 40 players remaining and not too many away from the last four tables.

SHR Tampa regular Tom Nguyen looks like your current leader with dead on 250,000 after the dinner break.

$1,100 Pinktober Main Event (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10: 500/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Flight A Entries: 101

The dinner break is complete and Main Event players are back in their seats with registration closed. The accounting was quick and Flight A officially drew 101 entries for a great start to the tournament. That also means  another $1,010 donated to the American Cancer Society.

With two big flights on Friday and Saturday, the $300,000 guaranteed prize pool looks like a virtual lock.

Flight A players have five more levels to negotiate, with a break after Level 12, before survivors bag up for a Day 2 return on Sunday.

$1,100 Pinktober Main Event (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight A Entries: 100

Level 9 came to an end and tournament staff sent Flight A players on their one-hour dinner break. The entry count clicked up to 100 before the left and registration will remain open until the return at 6:34 pm.

$1,100 Pinktober Main Event (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight A Entries: 99

Tampa regular Karl Manouchakian took his seat after the second break. He owns one of those popular SHR Tampa poker guitar trophies for a win during the 2016 WPTDeepStacks series and came very close to getting a big one last past summer.

Manouchakian was one unlucky river card away from booking a win in the $1,650 Mega Stack event, settling for second as Mario De La Puente took the title.

$1,100 Pinktober Main Event (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8: 400/800 with a 800 ante
Flight A Entries: 93

We mentioned Femi Fashakin earlier, one of our regulars who won his first WSOP bracelet this summer and it a huge tournament.

John Gorsuch is another with a big 2019 win in Las Vegas. He was part of the 8,809-entry field in the $1,500 Millionaire Maker and cruised to the bracelet that came along with a $1,344,930 payout. Not only was the first bracelet for Gorsuch, but it was also his first recorded tournament win.

Not a bad way to break through to the top of the podium.

Unfortunately for Fashakin, we found Gorsuch sitting in Fashakin’s previous seat. Swapping one champ for another.

$1,100 Pinktober Main Event (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7: 300/600 with a 600 ante
Flight A Entries: 88

The second break of the day is complete and the entry count is creeping up on 90 with more than three hours remaining for late registration or re-entry.

Mitch Smith was our chip leader at the first break, he continued to build his stack and is up to 125,000 at that midpoint of the day. But John King went a little bit bigger and returned from break with his stack at 133,000.

$1,100 Pinktober Main Event (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6: 300/500 with a 500 ante
Flight A Entries: 83

The Florida poker scene has a lot of talent spread around the Sunshine State with its fair share of huge success. We have one of our more recent success stories in the Pinktober Poker Open Main Event this afternoon.

This past summer, Femi Fashakin joined the ranks of WSOP bracelet winners from Florida and he to do a lot of work to do to get his. The World Series of Poker celebrated its 50th anniversary this summer in Las Vegas and put together a tournament called The Big 50, a $500 buy-in game with four starting flights.

The tournament drew a whopping 28,371 entries, the biggest field in WSOP history, and Fashakin made it through that massive field to earn the bracelet along with a $1,147,449 payday.

An insane “return on investment”.

$1,100 Pinktober Main Event (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6: 300/500 with a 500 ante
Flight A Entries: 78

With the flop reading and 7,500 already in the pot, Nathaniel Palombo checked on the button and his opponent bet 13,500. Palombo pulled a check-raise all in for 23,600 which prompted his opponent to stand up from his chair.

After talking and thinking it through, Palomob got the call he wanted.

Palombo:
Opponent:

Both players hit the flop but Palombo’s bottom set had a virtual lock on the hand against top pair/top kicker. The turn left his opponent drawing dead to the river and Palombo moved up to 54,700.