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Level 13:  Blinds 1,200/2,400/300 ante

Flight E Total Entries:  154
Flight E Players Remaining:  45
Average Stack: 102,600  (43 big blinds)

Making her Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Spring Deep Stack Series debut today is Angel Vu.  She’s the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year.

One of the events that propelled her to the top of that leaderboard was when she won the $500 Deep Stack NLH event here in Tampa last Summer, cashing for over $69,000.   Read her interview here.

She went on to win a $1k SixMax NLH event during the Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open last November for over $30,000.  Her career earnings are closing in on a quarter-million dollars.  Not bad for a Vietnamese immigrant who learned the game while dealing poker!

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End of Level 12:  Blinds 1k/2k/300 ante

Flight E Total Entries:  154
Flight E Players Remaining:  54
Average Stack:  85,500 (43 big blinds)

Konstantinos Pantaridis is a fixture on the felt here at Seminole Hard Rock Tampa.  He managed to survive a recent all-in encounter when he shoved with and ran into pocket Jacks.  He said “sixty-forty” when he saw his opponent’s cards.

Then the flop came 6 4 x giving him an open-ender, followed by a 7 on the turn for the straight, and he said, “Oh, I meant 100%”.

He doubled his short stack on that hand, but it did not last long and he busted out before the break.

Players are on their last break and they’ll return for two final levels before bagging up.

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Level 12:  Blinds 1k/2k/300 ante

Flight E Total Entries:  154
Flight E Players Remaining:  59
Average Stack:  78,300 (39 big blinds)

Just after the blinds went up, Herbert Woodbery was all-in holding on a flop of K J x.  His open-ended straight draw was up against a player holding K6 for top pair.  The last two were bricks and Herbert busted out.

There’s one more starting flight for this event coming up at 6pm so Herbert will still be able to try again, if he wants to.

Registration for the final flight will be open until the start of level 9 (about 10:30pm.)

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Level 9:  Blinds 500/1,000/100 ante

Flight E Total Entries:  154

Registration has closed for this flight with 154 entries, bringing the overall total number of entries to 441.  This is also the largest flight so far.  They’ll play through the end of level 14, then call it a night.

One final flight takes off at 6pm.  That will be your last chance to chase a share of the $250,000 guaranteed prize pool!

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Level 1:  Blinds 50/100 (Click here for complete structure)

The fifth of six starting flights of the $250,000 Guaranteed event is underway in the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Poker Room!

Players began with 30,000 chips and all Day 1 levels are 30 minutes long.  They will play 14 levels then remaining players will bag up their chips and advance to Day 2 on Sunday at 12 noon.

Schedule of Starting Flights
Flight A:  Completed – 14 of 74 advance
Flight B:  Completed – 13 of 62 advance
Flight C:  Completed – 16 of 67 advance
Flight D:  Completed – 21 of 84 advance
Flight E:  Underway
Flight F:  Today, 6pm

Late registration and re-entry are available until the start of Level 9 (about 3:30pm).  Players who bust out may re-enter the same flight or any subsequent flight until registration closes.

This is NOT a best-stack forward event.  If a player has chips at the end of their flight, they must forfeit those chips if they wish to play a subsequent flight.

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End of Level 14:  Blinds 1,500/3,000/400 ante

Flight D Total Entries:  84
Flight D Players Remaining:   21
Average Stack:  120,000  (40 big blinds)

Flight D ended more with a whimper than a bang.  No big bust-outs on the last hand, just 21 players hanging onto their chips.

Jeffrey Morzella bagged the most with 235,500.

Here are the other 20 who bagged chips:

Daniele Scalini – 221,000
Jim Chen – 213,000
Blaney Mitchell – 211,500
Derek Bowers – 202,500
Anthony Brammer – 191,500
Vi Ly – 142,000
Jason Weber – 125,000
Jamison Smith – 116,500
Tayler Riley – 116,500
Hristos Tsironis – 104,500
On Kim – 94,500
Rick Sigurdson – 92,500
John McConnoll – 92,500
Brad Patton – 72,500
Wally Maddah – 65,500
Mike Raimon – 58,000
Richard Schwind – 57,500
Manny Minaya – 44,500
Praveen Challagundla – 35,500
Tan Nguyen – 27,500

They will join the other survivors on Sunday at 12 noon for Day 2.

Two more flights take place Saturday at 11am and 6pm, so don’t miss out on this quarter-million-dollar guaranteed prize pool!

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End of Level 12:  Blinds 1k/2k/300 ante

Flight D Total Entries:  84
Flight D Players Remaining:   30
Average Stack:  84,000  (42 big blinds)

The final 30 players are off on their last break of the night.  They’ll return to play two more levels, then bag up for the night.

Hristos Tsironis was in the lead with about 180,000, but then Jin Chen overtook him.  A player was all-in with K5 against Jin’s pocket 9s.  The board ran out 5 4 4 2 9 and Jin took the pot, chipping up to about 210,000.

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Level 9:  Blinds 500/1,000/100 ante

Flight D Total Entries:  84
Flight D Players Remaining:   65
Average Stack:  38,800  (39 big blinds)

Registration has closed for this flight, leaving just two more starting flights for this event, Saturday at 11am and 6pm.

Lots of familiar faces are still on the felt, some of whom are taking their second (or third) shots.

Folks spotted before the break:

Rob Gill
Peter Bogulski
Mike Raimon
Alexander Beece
Manny Minaya
Rick Sigurdson
Filipp Khavin
Derek Bowers
Hristos Tsironis
Danny Castillo
Michael Laake

One face making his Spring Deep Stack Series debut in this flight is David Levi, who dropped in for a couple of days for a WSOP warm-up.

Another die-hard player in this flight is Wally Maddah, who came straight from the emergency room, after spending four hours there being treated for some type of insect bite that caused severe swelling in his hand and ankle.

If you’ve missed out (or busted out) of this flight, your next chance is Saturday morning at 11am for Flight E!

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End of Level 14:  Blinds 1,500/3,000/400 ante

Flight C Total Entries:  67
Flight C Players Remaining:   16
Average Stack:  125,500  (42 big blinds)

Sixteen players will advance to Day 2 from Flight C.  Harvey Vandeven leads with 306,000.  Here is the complete list:

Harvey Vandeven – 306,000
Randy Raji – 263,500
Jared Reinstein – 194,000
Greg McNealy – 190,000
David Lawrence – 148,500
David Harting – 116,000
Paul Stanechewski – 99,500
Damian Radanov – 99,000
Charles Guzman – 92,000
William McPhillips – 85,500
Chad Kitchen – 83,000
Matthew Steele – 74,000
Michael Cavalieri – 47,500
John Racener – 37,500
Vincent Fiorenza – 34,000
Joseph Worth – 31,000

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End of Level 14:  Blinds 1,500/3,000/400 ante

Flight C Total Entries:  67
Flight C Players Remaining:   16
Average Stack:  125,500  (42 big blinds)

On the very last hand of play, Hector Vazquez was all-in on the turn with the board showing 6 6 4 Q.  Harvey Vandeven had him covered and made the call.

Hector had for trip sixes and he was way ahead of Harvey’s (two pair).

Then another Queen hit the river, giving Harvey a bigger boat with Queens-full, and sinking Hector’s sixes-full.  Hector finished 2nd in event 1 a few days ago.  He’s going to have to fire another bullet in this event if he wants to repeat.

That pot put Harvey’s stack at 306,000 and he’s the chip leader for Flight C.  Full chip counts coming shortly.