$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
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Level 15:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Flight D Players Remaining:  38 of 298

The last break is done and cards are back in the air with 38 players remaining. There are more than a few short stacks trying to slide into Day 2 and they’ll need to do some work.

George Allen is the latest leader and he took a lot of his 390K stack from former big stack Blake Robinson. Tyler Wallace is up to 355,000 while Dan Clemente still hovers over 300,000.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Flight D Players Remaining:  39 of 298

The last break of the day is here with 39 players remaining and 30 spots for Day 2. Tournament staff are pulling the purple chips out of play and they will return to play until we lose nine more players.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 13:  1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Flight D Players Remaining:  54 of 298

Another break in the books and the 54 remaining players are back in action trying to make the last 30.

Dan Clemente is the new leader in the room as the September Super Stacks Event 1 chip cruised up to 300,500. Blake Robinson sits in second with 282,000 followed by Jacob Naumann with 260,000.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12:  1,500/2,500 with a 2,500 ante
Flight D Players Remaining:  56 of 298

Players must have somewhere to be on a Friday afternoon. The pace is much quicker today than the previous two and there are only seven tables left with 56 remaining in the field.

Moving right along.

Nicole Diaz is on the upswing while the field drops and the Tampa regular is up to 110,000 heading into the late parts of the day.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 11:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Flight D Players Remaining:  72 of 298

Flight D is down to the last ten tables of the tournament, 80 players trying to get one of the 30 spots set to advance to Day 2 in a few hours. There will be a couple breaks between now and then and we expected to bag up somewhere during Level 16.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10:  800/1,600 with a 1,600 ante
Flight D Players Remaining:  104 of 298

Registration closed for Flight D of TPC Event 2 with 298 entries putting the combined total at 928 with one more flight to go tomorrow at 10 am. The prize pool is up to $310,880 with tomorrow’s session expected to be huge.

Flight D will play down to 30 players and they will advance to Day 2 on Sunday at 11 am in the money.

Chip counts through Flight C

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
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Level 9:  600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Flight D Entries:  298

The second break came to an end, players returned to their seats, and registration closed for Flight D of TPC Event 2. Tournament staff are running the numbers and we will report them when we have the official entry count.

Derrick Cutler is the new leader in the room and stacked up to 143,800. Don’t feel too bad for former leader Marsha Wolak, she’s still up there and second with 137,200. Jacob Naumann has the third biggest stack with 128,200 followed by Kyle Rignola’s 124,000.

Cutler has a little history in his books; he made the final table of the 2013 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship, the tournament with a $10,000,000 guarantee and $11,000,000 prize pool.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight D Entries:  286

Players are in the midst of Level 8 which means time is running out to join the fourth of five starting flights. The count is creeping up towards 300 and the prize pool continues to climb.

They will take their second break at 2:15 pm and we will close registration when they return.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
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Level 7:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Flight D Entries:  274

The entry count keeps climbing and adding to the already big prize pool. The prize pool is already over $300,000 and it will continue to grow until registration closes at 2:30 pm.

We found a bunch of former Tampa champions in the field including 2016 WPTDeepStacks Tampa Main Event winner Anthony Astarita, 2021 September Super Stacks Main Event champ Thomas Elder, and Woodrow Pass who owns at least a half dozen guitar trophies.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6:  300/600 with a 600 ante
Flight D Entries:  249

With the board complete and reading , Al Gomez moved all in for 21,100 from the small blind with about 38,000 in the pot already. His opponent on the other end of the table took a few minutes to think it through, determined the price was right, and called with the bigger stack.

Gomez:
Opponent:

Gomez had an overpaid to the board and his queens were good for a full double up to 80,200.