$250 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed

Level 3:  Blinds 100/200

Daiane Mendez was somewhat disappointed with her stack at the end of Flight B.  She bagged only 10,600, less than the starting stack of 15,000.

The upside is that she can try again today, since this event allows players to bag more than once and take their “best stack” into Day 2.

If she does better today, she’ll have more chips tomorrow.  If for some reason she fails to bag chips at the end of this flight, she will still have her 10,600 chips from last night.

$250 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed

Level 2:  Blinds 50/100

Players are still filling in the empty seats here in the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Poker Room, looking to get a piece of that $50,000 prize pool for the low, low, price of just $250.

Some of the usual suspects in action already:

Steven Bennett
Tim Clermont
Tony Antonious
Tom Nguyen
Anthony Pellegrini
Kyle Peck
Daiane Mendes
Tim Harrell
Manny Minaya
Richard Hope
Robert Quintana
Claudemir Osorio
Robbie Godbey

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$50,000 Guaranteed

Level 1:  Blinds 25/50

The fourth and final starting flight is underway here in the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Poker Room.

Players began with 15,000 chips and all levels are 30 minutes long.  Late registration and re-entry are available until the start of level 9 (about 10:30pm).

Event 7 Structure

Cards are in the air!

$250 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Level 12: Blinds 1,500/3,000/400 ante  (26 minutes remaining)

Since the clock stopped early in Flights A & B, the clock stopped at the same time in Flight C.

There were 51 entries in this flight and by the time they reached level 12, only 6 remained to bag chips.  Average stack for this flight is 127,500.

Here are the chip counts:

John Pappas 216,500
John Holley 144,300
John Ripstra 144,000
Herbert Woodbery 120,000
Marcus Seitz 72,000
Richard Clayton 66,500

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Level 11: Blinds 1k/2k/300
7 players remaining, 109k avg (55 bb)

The field is down to a final table and playing one more level before bagging and tagging.

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Level 9: Blinds 600/1,200/200 ante
51 entries, 14 players remaining

Registration closes with 51 entries and the field is quickly down to 14 players.

John Holley (Destin, FL) is the chip leader with more than 100k.

This flight will play until the start of Level 12. There are currently 138 entries for the first three flights with tonight’s 6 pm flight still to go.

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Level 7: Blinds 400/800/75 ante
48 entries (Reg/Re open until ~3:30 pm)

We don’t want to prematurely mention the “O” word, but there’s a potential as Flight C is at 48 entries.

There are two more levels to enter with registration closing before the start of Level 9.  The fourth and final flight starts tonight at 6 pm in this $50,000 Guaranteed prize pool tournament.

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Level 5: Blinds 200/400/50 ante
45 entries (Reg/Re open until ~3:30 pm)

Players are back from break and more Poker Room regulars are in the field including local business man John Pappas and “Tampa Bay” Ray DelCueto, who has a WSOP circuit ring on his resume.

Pappas and DelCueto are both from the Bay area and frequent fliers at Seminole Hard Rock Tampa.

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Level 4: Blinds 150/300/25
41 entries (Reg/Re open until ~3:30 pm)

Mike Raimon (Bradenton, FL) is back at the Tampa Winte Poker Open and looking to take home the hardware, a customized guitar trophy.

He just missed in Event 2 when he was runner-up to Josh Adkins (Tallahassee, FL) for $2,525.

Raimon announced his presence via a Twitter; the field as been warned:

$250 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
14 players advanced, 93k avg (31 bb)
Next Blinds: 1,500/3,000/400 ante
Day 2: 12 pm Tuesday

The list of Flight A & B players who bagged chips for Day 2: