$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6: 200/400 with a 50 ante
Flight D Entries: 142 (Total Entries: 541)

It’s been a great day in the poker room and your humble live reporter is calling it a day in anticipation of a fun Day 2. There will be some updates along the way with all the major points; prize pool and payouts along with Day 2 chip counts and seat assignments.

In addition to Day 2, we also have two huge WPTDeepStacks Main Event satellites running with a combined 25 seats guaranteed into the $300,000 Guarantee tournament.

11am: $140 Main Event satellite with 15 seats guaranteed
12pm: Event 3 Day 2
6pm: $260 Main Event satellite with 10 seats guaranteed

$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Returning to Level 15: 2,000/4,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 70 of 399

Flight A: 133 Entries, 20 Advanced
Flight B: 117 Entries, 21 Advanced
Flight C: 249 Entries, 29 Advanced
Flight D: Underway, late registration till 10:30pm
Day 2: Wednesday at 12pm

$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4: 100/200
Flight D Entries: 110 (Total Entries: 509)

Flight D players are getting ready for their first break of the evening as the entry count climbs. We expect to see a few more get in before registration closes around 10:30pm.

Table 4 has a tough road to get through. On one end you have Michael Laake and all his skill then on the other, you have Brandon Byars and Karl Manouchakian to deal with. This will be a fun table tonight.

$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3: 75/150
Flight D Entries: 101 (Total Entries: 500)

Flight D hit the next milestone for Event 3 and it was with entry 101 into the tournament. That pushed the prize pool up to $150,000 and last year’s number is now within reach. That leaves it only 13 away from topping the 2016 numbers with a lot of time to boost it.

Parm Mehmi is back in the poker room after a successful weekend. The Tampa poker favorite made a nice run in the opening tournament and finished 13th out of 797.

$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14: 1,500/3,000 with a 400 ante
Flight C Players Remaining: 29 of 149

The end was near and it was still a close race to see who would put together the biggest bag of the night.

Then Wayne Daley and Ian Casey mixed it up.

Casey three-bet shoved from the small blind for 102,000 and Daley did a double check of his cards before calling. Daley was in great shape with against and the board sent him the pot. He had a few more chips than Casey to send him out and take the lead.

That was moments before they paused the clock and played out the last four hands of the flight. Daley grabbed the lead and held it to put together 269,500 for a return tomorrow.

$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14: 1,500/3,000 with a 400 ante
Flight C Players Remaining: 37 of 149

Flight C is down to the last level of the evening with 34 players remaining and we should lose a couple more before they bag up.

Oscar Lindo has a chance to hit back-to-back big final table. He made Day 2 of the $200,000 Guarantee opening event and made it to the final table where he earned just under $30,000 for fifth place in a six-way deal.

$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 13: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Flight C Players Remaining: 39 of 149

Time is running out for the remaining players in Flight C and they are down to the last four tables. There are still several players in contention for the chip lead and it will be a race over the last two levels.

We found Julio Fernandez still grinding away. He’s coming off a nice result a few weeks ago when he won more than $35,000 in the $570 Deep Stack event in Hollywood.

$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 25/50

Three flights opened and closed their registration and it’s almost time to roll out the last one. The first three combined for 399 entries to surpass the $100,000 guaranteed prize pool and tonight they should top last year’s numbers.

They only need 114 to do that and last year’s Flight D drew a whopping 182 entries. It will be a busy night in the poker room.

As with the other flights, entrants will start out with 20,000 stacks and play 30-minute levels. Late registration and re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 around 10:30pm and they will continue through 14 levels.

Those who make it through will put their chips in a bag and return tomorrow at noon for Day 2.

• $100,000 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 3 Structure Sheet

$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante
Flight C Players Remaining: 49 of 149

The steady march to the last break continues and the field is down to five tables with three levels to go in the day.

Jordan Joeckel is still here and aiming to make another nice run. He does not sport a ton of results on his record but there are some big ones. Joeckel’s two top cashes came at our sister room in Hollywood with a runner-up finish in this winter’s LHPO $570 tournament and a 2016 SHRPO Big 4 fourth place finish in the $1,100 No Limit Hold’em event.

$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 11: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Flight C Players Remaining: 56 of 149

Tables continue to break at a steady pace and other players are emerging with big stacks. Wayne Daley is one and he’s sitting with a few chips over 110,000. It looks like some of them might have come from Ian Casey but he’s moving back in the right direction as well.

Daley has yet to win a SHR Tampa tournament but he came close a few months ago. He banked just under $9,000 for a runner-up finish in the March Triple 30 tournament.