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

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.

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

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.

Happy I decided to switch gears. It’s been a great comeback. @SHRTPoker
Love this game pic.twitter.com/rVLQupZkRd

— ℭℌℰℜℐ (@CheriBeatty) December 11, 2016

$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:

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

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.

$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

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.

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.

$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

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 versus the of Scott Efron and didn’t stop there.

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

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 13: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante
Flight E Players Remaining: 35 of 161

Steve Pellingra is the Flight E chip leader with a stack of 295,500 chips following a huge confrontation with previous pace setter Dimitry Agrachov. The board laid . Pellingra was all in for 95,500 and Dimitry Agrachov, who was in for a rude awakening, had called.

Agrachov: for a fullhouse
Pellingra: for quads
Third player in the hand: for two pair

Agrachov’s boat was second best and Pellingra scooped a pot worth nearly 300,000. Pellingra is now your chip leader with under an hour remaining in the day. Agrachov still has chips, but he’s far from the lead.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
End of Level 12: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Flight E Players Remaining: 47 of 161

Players are in the midst of their final 15-mintue break of the night. There are a  lot of stacks building, but it appears Dimitry Agrachov and Vitor Coelho have two of the biggest.

Agrachov recently took a nice pot holding ace-king on a king-high board and getting a few streets of value. Coelho, meanwhile, has been stacking chips steadily throughout the day.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 11: 600/1,200 with a 200 ante
Flight E Players Remaining: 54 of 161

Onder Ekinci already made his way through a re-entry field this week finishing 10th in the Winter Poker Open $150 on Wednesday for just over $770. With that deep run behind him, he’s back in action at a higher pricepoint and looking for another score.

Ekinci recently got some help growing his stack when his outdrew the of an all-in opponent preflop. Ekinci spiked the on the flop and took a medium-sized pot.

His stack now flirts with the 100,000 mark.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 11: 600/1,200 with a 200 ante
Flight E Players Remaining: 59 of 161

The clock shows 59 players remaining from 161 starting and there’s a steady stream to the rail toward the end of Flight E. Players are set to log just three more levels before those still alive bag and tag set to return for Day 2 tomorrow at noon.

The big turnout drew many notables and two of those still in include a pair of Johns in Holley and Templeton.

John Holley is a five-time World Series of Poker Circuit gold ring winner while John Templeton is the defending champion in the Winter Poker Open Championship.