Flight A: $350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em Level 3: 75/150/25 Ante Entries: 86
As a surprise to no one, the clock just recently ticked over 83 Flight A entries and the tournament is officially on pace to best its $100,000 guarantee. Needing a total of 334 entries, Flight A has done its part and is expected to pull its weight even more during the three-and-a-half hours of late registration.
Tournament schedule:
Flight A, Underway, late registration until ~3:30 p.m.
Flight A: $350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em Level 2: 50/100 Entries: 81
Tom NguyenBruce Snell, Sr.
A pair of final tablists in yesterday’s events — Tom Nguyen (Event 1) and Bruce Snell, Sr. (Event 2) — are right back at today here at the Seminole Hard Rock. Both players bubbled their respective tournament’s chops, so to speak.
First, Nguyen busted 7th in Event 1 for $12,739 only to see the final six agree to an even chop worth $36,620. Snell, meanwhile, exited the $250 Turbo 5th for $1,988 while the final four negotiated a chop that saw Paul Neessen earn $6,001 as well as a $1,100 Main Event seat.
Flight A: $350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em Level 1: 25/50 Entries: 50
The third of five primary events on the WPTDeepStacks-Tampa schedule is here. Cards went in the air just moments ago for the first of four starting flights in the $350 buy-in, $100,000 guaranteed tournament. Subsequent flights begin tonight at 6 p.m. and tomorrow at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Players in all flights begin with 20,000 chips and log 14, 30-minute levels on Day 1 before play concludes. Late registration and unlimited re-entry are available until the start of Level 9.
Here’s more on today’s 11 a.m. installment:
11am: Event 3, $350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em – Flight A
$350 buy-in, $100,000 guaranteed
20,000 starting chips
Day 1 levels are 30 minutes, Day 2 levels 40 minutes
Registration available until the start of Level 9 (~3:30pm)
With the 698-entry opener in the rear view, the $350 event is expected to keep the momentum going heading into this weekend’s $1,100, $300,000 guaranteed Main Event.
Updates throughout the day — including registration figures and end-of-flight chip counts — will be posted right here at SHRTPoker.com.
2015 Winter Poker Open Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Tampa Event #3 $150 Deep Stack Turbo No Limit Hold’em ($15,000 Guarantee) Total Entries: 199 Prize Pool: $22,230 December 6, 2015
2015 Winter Poker Open Event 3 Champion John Duhig
Tampa, Fla. (December 6, 2015) — The third event of the 2015 Winter Open Poker lived up to its Turbo name and we had a new champion in record time. The $150 buy-in Turbo No Limit Hold’em tournament took less than eight hours to complete and Lithia, FL resident John Duhig walked away the winner.
Event 2 had a $15,000 guaranteed prize pool and it was quickly surpassed before the first break. There were 199 entered when registration was closed at the start of Level 13 and they were off to the races. With 15-minute levels, action was brisk and they were in the money six hours after the start.
The tournament paid out the last 18 players but Seminole Hard Rock Tampa ambassador Wally Maddah missed out on his second cash of the day after his Event 1 min-cash earlier.
Local regulars Carlos Loving and Eric Rivkin slid into the money but were unable to make the final table. Cynthia Young’s elimination set the stage for the final table ten with Ricky Young holding the chip lead. But it was anyone’s game with the average stack at 12 big blinds.
There was a quick succession of eliminations with the climbing blinds and most major pots played out with preflop action. Players quickly dropped until regular PLO cash game player Tam Nguyen was eliminated in 3rd place.
Dallas Henderson and Duhig took very little time to negotiate the terms of a deal to divide the remaining prize pool. Duhig held the lead and picked up the added $1,650 Winter Poker Open Championship seat while Henderson picked up a $500 bonus in the deal.
It was a fun, fast tournament and players appreciated a good time in the poker room on a Sunday afternoon.
Event 3 final results:
1st: John Duhig – $4,668 + $1,650 WPO Championship seat* 2nd: Dallas Henderson – $5,668* 3rd: Tam Nguyen – $2,112 4th: Ricky Young – $1,778 5th: Rich Bowings – $1,334 6th: Anthony Pellegrini – $1,112 7th: Terry Hancock – $889 8th: Brandon Byars – $667 9th: Garrett Smith – $500 10th: Sourinay Chandara – $445 11th: Cynthia Butler – $445 12th: Oscar Zeledon – $445 13th: Remedios Patalinghug – $389 14th: Harry Rieger – $389 15th: Eric Rivkin – $389 16th: Douglas Decker – $333 17th: Myong Han – $333 18th: Carlos Loving – $333
$150 Deep Stack Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 27: 60,000/120,000/20,000 Ante
Tam Nguyen
Tam Nguyen is a regular in our PLO cash games in the poker room and now has her deepest tournament run. She laddered up throughout the final table, riding a short stack until it caught up with her.
She moved all-in and got a quick call from Dallas Henderson then saw she was in trouble with against . The dealer couldn’t put out a save as the board ran to send the popular player out in 3rd place.
Henderson and John Duhig quickly negotiated terms to chop up the remaining prizepool to wrap it up. Full Event 3 results coming shortly.
$150 Deep Stack Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 27: 60,000/120,000/20,000 Ante
Ricky Young
Dallas Henderson took a big chuck of chips off Ricky Young, and followed up by taking the rest. Young was down to 130,000 and moved all-in from the button.
It was only 10,000 more to Henderson’s big blind and he quickly called to find .
“I’m live,” laughed Young.
He tabled and couldn’t catch up as the board ran to send him out in 4th place for $1,778.
$150 Deep Stack Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 25: 40,000/80,000/10,000 Ante
Anthony Pellegrini open shoved for his small stack and found calls in Ricky Young and John Duhig to the flop. Young then moved all to get a fold from Duhig and they tabled their cards.
Pellegrini: Young:
Young’s top set had Pellegrini looking for a miracle but he was drawing dead after the turn to go out in 6th place for $1,112.
$150 Deep Stack Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 25: 40,000/80,000/10,000 Ante
Terry Hancock
Dallas Henderson limped his small blind and Terry Hancock moved all-in from the big. Henderson considered for a minute and called with ahead of Hancock’s .
The favored Henderson and Hancock could not catch up as the board finished and to send him out in 7th place.
$150 Deep Stack Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 24: 30,000/60,000/5,000 Ante
Brandon Byars
John Duhig stayed active and had another player at risk a few hands later. Brandon Byars open-shoved for his 250,000 stack and Duhig moved all-on over the top with . The blinds let their hand go and Byars was in trouble with .
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