$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 11: 600/1,200 with a 200 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 20 of 76

James Carmadella claims a stack of over 200,000 and leads the field in Flight A of the $570 with just 20 players remaining. Carmadella is a Palm Harbor resident with a few small tournament results, but his play thus far has been anything but modest.

Those joining Carmadella at the final two tables include AJ “Doc” Santos, Anthony Astarita, Steve Trizis and John Alegria. Those who have gone bust, meanwhile, include Josias Santos, Tom Nguyen, Daniel Mijac and Marvin Karlins.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 10: 500/1,000 with a 100 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 28 of 76

WPTDeepStacks-Tampa Main Event champion Anthony Astarita limped from early position and a late position and the cutoff moved all in for 1,400. The short shoved prompted a raise from the button who made it 4,300 to go. It was back on Astarita. The champ made it 17,000 to go and the button eyed his stack. The button eventually let it go and Astarita had the opportunity to eliminate the cutoff.

Astarita:
Cutoff:

The revealed itself on the flop. The cutoff had some straight outs, but they never showed. Astarita’s pair of aces was best and he earned himself a medium-sized pot.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 9: 400/800 with a 100 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 30 of 76

Flight A of the $570 is moving fast with only 30 of the original 76 starters still in. Play is scheduled to continue through Level 14 or wrap at 11 percent of the starting field, whichever comes first.

Final three Flight A tables at a glance:

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 9: 400/800 with a 100 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 31 of 76

Registration is closed and it’s official.

Flight A of the Winter Poker Open $570 buy-in, $200,000 guarantee drew 76 players. They’ll join the starting fields from Flight B, C, D, E and F to complete the player pool.

Here’s a look at the tournament breakdown:

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 8: 300/600 with a 75 ante
Entries: 74

Level 8 is a little less than halfway through meaning there’s just a portion of a level plus a break left to register and re-enter Flight A. We’ll provide the final attendance figure when it’s verified in about 30 minutes.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 6: 200/400 with a 50 ante
Entries: 63

The entry count is growing slowly but surely as Level 6 is freshly off and running. One player not doing his part to help swell the prize pool is Seminole Hard Rock Tampa regular Tom Nguyen.

Nguyen, who’s often good for lots of action and multiple entries, took his seat shortly after the first break. The table joked that he was late.

“It’s on purpose,” Nguyen laughed. “If I was early I would have bought in my third one already!”

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 150/300 with a 50 ante
Entries: 61

Cards are back in the air following the first break of the day with the clock reading 61 entries to this point. Out in front of the early stages of play is Daniel Mijac. Mijac has turned his 20,000 starting chips into 43,500 and has more than doubled his holdings early.

Registration and re-entry are available until about 3:30pm and the entry count is expect

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 4: 100/200 with a 25 ante
Entries: 59

Marvin “Flying Duckman” Karlins always makes for great action. He recently opened a pot to 1,700 and went back and forth with a lone opponent before the opponent got his last 16,650 in pre. Karlins called and flipped over pocket nines. The opponent held kings and Karlins never caught up. Per usual, Karlins surrendered the pot with class.

Karlins earned nearly $120,000 in a WPT event in northern Florida just about a year ago. He’s been on the tournament grind ever since and has produced some modest results. He’s still in search of that next big score, though. Perhaps it comes in the Winter Poker Open $570. He’s in good shape early sitting above starting stack with the first break right around the corner.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 3: 75/150 with a 25 ante
Entries: 50

Josias Santos is quietly becoming of the steadiest of tournament players at Seminole Hard Rock Tampa. His first cash at the property came in 2014, but he’s recorded numerous in the year’s since. Most recently, Santos finished fourth in this June’s WPTDeepStacks-Tampa $350 for almost $19,000. Of course, that was overshadowed in recent days by his victory in Event 3 of the Winter Poker Open. He defeated 184 entries in the $150 Turbo to earn $4,749 following a heads-up deal.

Santos is back in action in today’s $570 and looks to repeat the feat.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 2: 50/100
Entries: 39

Tony March is a regular in the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa room and he’s becoming a regular at Table 31 Seat 2 as well.

Yesterday, March maneuvered through a tough, 508-entry field and graced the final table in the $150 Deep Stack. March got a bit lucky when he was back against the ropes only to see the board read a straight for a chopped pot, but his good fortune stopped there. He went on to exit eighth earning $1,690.

The $150 final table played out on Table 31 and the draw saw March sitting in Seat 2. Now, about 12 hours later, Table 31 is in the rotation for Flight A of the $570 and March drew — you guessed it — Table 31 Seat 2.

We’ll keep an eye on March’s progress in the event.