$500 Double Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 3: 100/200 with a 200 ante Flight F Entries: 620 (Total: 3,398)
John McConnell
We heard yelling from across the room and hustled over to see what was the fuss. It was a big, crazy hand.
As reconstructed from first-hand accounts and math, it was a three-way pot with the flop reading when all three stacks went in the middle. Event 2 champ John McConnell was the shortest stack with ~15,600 up against Dan Parsons with ~23,900 and Jason Glover with ~30,100.
McConnell: Parsons: Glover:
It was set-over-set-over-top/top with McConnell only 5% to win the hand. The turn improved his chances and the river locked up his runner-runner full house and caused the table eruption.
McConnell tripled up with his boat, Parsons picked up a rebate with his smaller boat, and Glove was left the shortest after the hand.
John McConnell – 46,800 Dan Parsons – 16,600 Jason Glover – 6,200
The Event Center is packed to kick off Flight F with more than 500 entries at the start and many many more expected throughout the morning into the afternoon.
They hit another milestone topping 3,000 entries and the next stop is 3,489 to push the prize pool over $1.5 million.
Five flights down with two to go in the opening WPT Tampa event. We already have 2,778 entries in the field to create the biggest in our history and they are going to put a lot more in today.
They’ll start out with 20,000 double stacks and all levels last 30 minutes on Day 1. Late registration is available until the start of Level 9 at 2:30 pm with a single re-entry available if someone loses their stack.
The flight will pay out the last 12.5% of the field and the top 7% will bag up their chips for a Day 2 return tomorrow at 2 pm.
$1,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
Players begin with 20,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
Late registration/re-entry until the start of Level 9 (2:30pm)
Single re-entry per flight
Tournament will pay top 12.5% of starting field
Day 1 will end at 7% of the field or Tournament Director discretion
$500 Double Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 20: 6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante Flight E Players Remaining: 48 of 696
Flight E Chipleader John Gordon
Flight E came to an end with about 20 minutes remaining in Level 20, with blinds at 6,000-12,000 and a 12,000 ante. However, since one of the earlier flights ended near the start of Level 19, Day 2 will begin no later than that, when the blinds were 5,000-10,000 with a 10,000 ante.
Action was scheduled to end when the field reached 49 players, but when that happened, another player was eliminated from a hand that was already in progress. So this flight ended with 48 survivors.
The Flight E chipleader is John Gordon, who bagged up 676,000 in chips. (The overall chipleader is still Simeon Knafo, who survived Flight C with 1,050,000.) The official chip counts from Flight E can be found in the list below.
Flight F begins tomorrow (Saturday) at 10:00 am, and Flight G begins at 5:00 pm.
$500 Double Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 20: 6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante Flight E Players Remaining: 48 of 696
Here is the final batch of players who have finished in the money from Flight E:
49th: Anthony Conti – $800 50th: Spencer Sweisford – $800 51st: Hamid Izadi – $800 52nd: Phillip Galiano – $800 53rd: Javier Valerio – $800 54th: Patrick Pettitt – $800 55th: Jason Ginsberg – $800 56th: Gilmar Alvesdealvarengajuni – $800 57th: James Kelly – $800 58th: Joseph Brum Pacheco – $800 59th: Huy Pham – $800
Action was scheduled to end when the field reached 49 players, but when Spencer Sweisford was eliminated in 50th place, a hand was already in progress that led to the elimination of Anthony Conti in 49th place. Like everyone else who was eliminated on Day 1, Conti received a payout of $800.
$500 Double Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 19: 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante Flight E Players Remaining: 59 of 696
Here are the most recent players who have finished in the money from Flight E:
60th: Juan Ramirez Parodi – $800 61st: Julie Than – $800 62nd: David Stanciu – $800 63rd: Joshua Whitney – $800 64th: Lumni Zhuta – $800 65th: Chencheng Zhou – $800 66th: Anderson Patino Jurado – $800 67th: Carl Diveglia III – $800 68th: Roberto Chamorro – $800 69th: Jonathan Hilton – $800
$500 Double Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with an 8,000 ante Flight E Players Remaining: 69 of 696
Here are the players from Flight E who have finished in the money so far:
70th: Phi Hong – $800 71st: Andrew Porter – $800 72nd: Blake Burke – $800 73rd: Marcus Yofon – $800 74th: Kevin Bouley – $800 75th: Steven Berry – $800 76th: Christopher Perkins – $800 77th: Armando Romero – $800 78th: Michael Dunn – $800 79th: Jeffrey Conley – $800 80th: Jacob Markel – $800 81st: Randy Charran – $800 82nd: Robert Wuestner – $800 83rd: Kenneth Tran – $800 84th: Habnel Acevedo – $800 85th: Peter Moore – $800 86th: David Lazarus – $800 87th: Thomas Osmun – $800
when all three stacks went in the middle. Event 2 champ John McConnell was the shortest stack with ~15,600 up against Dan Parsons with ~23,900 and Jason Glover with ~30,100.
turn improved his chances and the 
river locked up his runner-runner full house and caused the table eruption.
