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Event 7 Flight D: Registration Closes with Over 600 Entries

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 9: 400/800 with a 100 ante
Flight F Players Remaining: 70 of 125

Registration has closed on Event 7 and the final flight drew 125 entries. The six starting flights combined for 624 entries to push the prize pool over $300,000.

The official prize pool and payout information will be posted as soon as it is available.

FlightEntriesAdvanced
A7614
B7612
C8015
D10621
E16127
F125TBD
Totals62489

Event 7 Flight F: Byars Leading; Registration Closing

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 8: 300/600 with a 75 ante
Flight F Entries: 120

Brandon Byars

Flight F is in the final level with open registration for Event 7 and we expect to see the number run up a bit more before closing in less than 30 minutes.

Brandon Byars is the early leader in the big field after running his 20,000 starting stack over 100,000 in the first few hours. After a rough run the last few days, Byars could do with some run-good.

Event 7 Flight F: Team Member Racener Pushes It Higher

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 7: 250/500 with a 75 ante
Flight F Entries: 110

John Racener

The 2016 Winter Poker Open welcomed Seminole Hard Rock Tampa team member John Racener to the series this evening. He’s making his first appearance of the series as the Event 7 continues to climb higher.

Racener is best known for a runner-up finish in the 2010 WSOP Main Event but the Florida pro already owned a WSOP Circuit Main Event win before that summer. He’s looking to join a fellow 2010 WSOP November Niner in Day 2 after John Dolan bagged up yesterday.

Event 7 Flight F: Manjura Trying Again

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 6: 200/400 with a 50 ante
Flight F Entries: 104

Rob Manjura

Rob Manjura knows about conquering big, multi-day fields here in the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa poker room. He won the opening event of the 2016 WPO series that was 721-entries strong. That was Manjura’s second Hard Rock guitar trophy (and third win here total) but he had to fire here again after a cooler in Flight E.

He was only a few hands away from bagging up a Day 2 stack but his queens ran smack into flight leader Onder Ekinci’s pocket aces. Manjura is back this evening, in nearly the same seat as earlier, but he has to deal with a tough draw against Ryan Dunn, Brandon Byars, and 2015 WPO winner John Pappas.

Event 7 Flight F: Passing $300,000

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 150/300 with a 50 ante
Flight F Entries: 101

Daiane Mendes (left), AJ “Doc” Santos (center), and Manny Minaya (right)

With nearly two hours left to get in the game, the $200,000 guaranteed prize pool in Event 7 has climbed to $300,000 with registration/re-entry open until 10:30pm. There will be some nice money up top sometime tomorrow evening.

They are having a lot of fun in the back for of the room and naturally AJ “Doc” Santos is in the middle of it. He has last year’s SHRP Player of the Year Ory Hen to his right with Daiane Mendes and Manny Minaya to his left. All three have had success here and enjoying their Saturday evening.

Event 7 Flight F: Back from Break

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 150/300 with a 50 ante
Flight F Entries: 92

Cheri Beatty

Flight F players are returning to their seats after the first break and they are within shouting distance of hitting creating a $300,000 prize pool out of this $200,000 Guarantee.

Cheri Beatty is trying for his second big run of the series. The Tampa regular started the 2016 WPO off well when she final tabled the Ladies Event last week but was unlucky to finish in fourth place.

Event 7: Chip Counts Through Flight E

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Day 2 Blinds: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 89 of 499

Flight A: 76 Entries, 14 Advanced
Flight B: 76 Entries, 12 Advanced
Flight C: 80 Entries, 15 Advanced
Flight D: 106 Entries, 21 Advanced
Flight E: 161 Entries, 27 Advanced
Flight F: Saturday @ 6pm
Day 2: Sunday @ Noon

Structure Sheet

Day 2 chip counts through Flight E:

RankFirst NameLast NameChip Count
1JerrySilva473,000
2OnderEkinci321,500
3StevenPellingra307,500
4ScottRiddell254,500
5JosephBoulais253,000
6NicholasWilliams240,500
7AhmadHamoush240,000
8RafaelReis234,000
9JohnHolley218,000
10DerekBowers212,500
11AriProstak186,500
12JosephAcquavella185,000
13ScottEfron181,000
14DavianSantana170,000
15IvanColes167,000
16TomNguyen166,500
17WilliamKopp162,000
18IanPearson160,000
19MichaelSanchez158,000
20SheldonGross149,500
21WilliamOndrus148,500
22VitorCoelho138,500
23ClaudimirOsorio138,000
24KarlManouchakian137,500
25MohammadGoodarzi135,500
26MostafaAsari Piralvan134,000
27BryceMcVay132,500
28DavidCoolman132,000
29StevieTrizis129,000
30MarkScacewater120,000
31FrankPerez113,500
32WilliamMcIntyre107,000
33BradPatton106,500
34AlexanderGrassia104,500
35JordanJoeckel101,500
36JohnAlegria101,000
37JohnDolan98,000
38MarounAkiki97,000
39JamesCarmadella97,000
40AnthonyAstarita95,500
41PatrickCurry93,500
42ElizabethProvan92,000
43AndreBoyer90,000
44AllauddinKhan88,000
45JosephBuonodono88,000
46CraigJenkins86,500
47SeanHeywood85,500
48MichaelSoares85,000
49CharlemagneBenjamin85,000
50Mark "Bud"Wiser84,500
51CarlosRodriguez Rojas84,000
52DavidTuthill82,500
53MatthewLeecy82,000
54MichaelTraficante82,000
55JosiasSantos78,500
56John ChristianTempleton78,000
57RandolphSpain77,500
58TerryKiersey73,500
59RemediosPatalinghug73,500
60MichaelScott73,500
61PeterWalsworth73,000
62RodRodrigue72,500
63DanielLobato72,500
64A.J.Kelsall71,000
65DimitryAgrachov70,000
66TonyMarch66,500
67DonaldScheib65,000
68MilindNaik64,000
69JohnRyan62,500
70MohammadAffaneh61,500
71DanielMidal61,000
72MichaelDimitry59,500
73TimothySteorts58,500
74YaoZhao57,500
75CyricGamber57,000
76KostasPapastaurou57,000
77JamesHoy55,500
78JohnO'Neal54,500
79MeirBarack52,500
80CarlosLoving50,000
81Terri-AnneCrawford49,000
82MichaelGencal47,500
83MarvinKarlins42,000
84BrianBlanchard37,500
85JosephGarcia33,000
86WallyMaddah32,000
87CharlesWells20,000
88StuartFerguson18,500
89ForrestJahn III12,500

Event 7 Flight F: Closing on $300K

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 3: 75/150 with a 25 ante
Flight F Entries: 76

Alex Ivan

Flight E has wrapped up but Flight F is still its infancy on the far side of the poker room. We have 76 entries in the game after the first hour and only 25 away from running the $200,000 guaranteed prize pool up to $300,000.

Alex Ivan is back with us this evening trying to build a bag for tomorrow. He already has success this series when he finished second in the Pot Limit Hold’em event a few days ago.

Event 7 Flight E: Ekinci Leads as Players Bag and Tag

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Flight E Players Remaining: 30 of 161

Onder Ekinci

The clock is paused with 10 minutes remaining in Level 14 and tournament staff is wrapping Flight E action. Action began at 11am with a field of 161 entries and the clock currently shows 30 remaining. Onder Ekinci and his 300,000 chips will go down as the chip leader following a double knockout late, but Jeff Boulais and Steve Pellingra will bag monsters as well.

Boulais topped the counts following the second break while Pellingra ran into his stack after coming out on the winning end of a quads versus fullhouse battle. Both players claim over 250,000 chips and will be heading to Day 2 with a top 10 stacks — at least for now.

Jeff Boulias
Steve Pellingra

A ton of notables are likely to advance from the Flight E field including reigning defending Winter Poker Open Championship winner John Templeton, John Holley, Vitor Coelho, Charlemagne Benjamin and David Tuthill.

Complete chip counts will be posted within the hour.

Event 7 Flight E: Late Ekinci Goes Big

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Flight E Players Remaining: 30 of 161

Onder Ekinci

With only a few minutes left in the night, Onder Ekinci had all his chips in the middle and in danger of going out. He doubled up in that hand with Ac8s versus the KcQc of Scott Efron and didn’t stop there.

On one of the last hands of the evening, he found AhAd with both Dmitry Agrachov and Event 1 champ Rob Manjura all-in. It was a cooler for Manjura with QcQd and Agrachov was crushed with As2d. The board ran out Js5h2h7s3s to send the double KO/Flight E chip leading pot to Ekinci.