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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.

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

The fourth 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:  Nearing completion
Flight D: Underway
Flight E:  Saturday, 11am
Flight F:  Saturday, 6pm

Late registration and re-entry are available until the start of Level 9 (about 10:30pm).  Players who bust out may re-enter the same flight or any subsequent flight until registration closes.

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

Flight C Total Entries:  67
Flight C Players Remaining:   19
Average Stack:  105,800  (53 big blinds)

Players are taking their last break of the day before playing the final two levels.

Shortly before the end of level 12, Randy Raji opened for 6k early, then the short-stack on his left shoved.  Michael Laake re-shoved from the middle with more chips.

Randy was happy to make the overcall, having both opponents covered, since he was holding pocket Aces.  The shortie had pocket 6s and Michael had AQ offsuit.

The board ran out K 3 3 7 T and changed nothing.  Randy’s weapons of mass destruction busted both opponents and in the process, propelled him into the chip lead with about 330,000.

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Level 11:  Blinds 800/1,600/200 ante

Flight C Total Entries:  67
Flight C Players Remaining:   29
Average Stack:  69,300  (43 big blinds)

Registration for this flight closed at the start of level 9.  There were 67 entrants of which 29 remain in action.

Among those still with chips is John Racener, poker ambassador and 2010 WSOP Main Event runner-up.  He’s sitting on about 61,000, a little below average but still workable with 38 big blinds.

The next flight takes off at 6pm and there are two final fights on Saturday at 11am and 6pm, so still plenty of chances to get a share of the quarter-million-dollar prize pool!

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

The third 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:  Underway
Flight D:  Today, 6pm
Flight E:  Saturday, 11am
Flight F:  Saturday, 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 B Total Entries:  62
Flight B Players Remaining:   13
Average Stack:  143,000  (48 big blinds)

At the completion of level 14, there were 13 players remaining to bag up chips.

Eddie Kofler was the chip leader with 266,000.

Here are the other dozen to bag chips:

Pedro Arcia – 239,000
Rob LeBeau – 218,000
Peter Dragar – 217,500
Bryan Cuzino – 194,000
Thuy Beltran – 153,500
Tony Jacks – 151,000
Joseph Parrish – 143,000
Shawn Compton – 87,000
Daniel Li – 57,000
Travis Fulford – 54,500
Joe Williams – 47,000
Joshua Fulford – 34,000

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Level 9:  Blinds 500/1,000/100 ante

Total Entries:  62
Players Remaining:   34
Average Stack:  54,700  (55 big blinds)

Registration has closed for Flight B, but there are four more flights over the next two days, so still plenty of chances to play.

Hard Rock Poker Ambassador and 2010 WSOP Main Event runner-up John Racener will be playing Flight C, which takes off at 11am Friday!