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

Level 2: Blinds 50/100
29 entries (Reg/Re open until ~3:30 pm)

Tables are slowly filling in the Poker Room with several familiar faces including:

John Holley
Marc Kropf
Hristos Tsironis
Rick Clayton

$250 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed
Level 1:  Blinds 25/50

The third of four starting flights is underway here in the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Poker Room.

Players start with 15,000 chips and all levels are 30 minutes long. Registration and re-entry are available until the start of level 9 (about 2:30 pm).

Event 7 Structure

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

$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 Flight A, the clock stopped at the same time in Flight B.

There were 28 entries in this flight and by the time they reached level 12, only 4 remained to bag chips.  Average stack for this flight is 105k.

Here are the chip counts:

Matthew Stewart 158,000
Gabriel Tudorache – 131,200
Josias Santos – 122,000
Daiane Mendes – 10,600

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

Level 12: Blinds 1,500/3,000/400 ante
(clock stopped with 26 min remaining in level)
10 players remaining, 89k avg (56 bb)

A fast thinning field ends Flight A nearly three levels early.

Tournament Director Byron Rodriguez stopped the action when the field was down to 10 players.  All remaining flight will end earlier than the originally scheduled 14 levels.

Here’s a look at the chip counts as the players return for Day 2 Tuesday at 12 pm.

Name-Chip Count

Paulo Castro 148,000
Mike Balfe 115,700
Chris Lowe 106,400
Henry Hurly 99,600
Jeff Buffenbarger 93,700
Wally Maddah 56,700
Douglas Chan 52,200
Marino Thomas 43,500
Marc Lowe 38,600
Ok Haselton No Report

Flight A Photo Gallery

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

Level 1:  Blinds 25/50

The second of four starting flights 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 9: Blinds 600/1,200/200
59 Entries

Flight A ends up with 59 entries in this $50,000 Guaranteed trophy event.

The field will play 14 levels or when 12% of the field remains (7 players), whichever comes first; currently 20 players remain.

The next flight for this event is at 6 pm.

$250 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)5

Level 5: Blinds 200/400/50 ante
54 Entries (Reg/RE open until ~3:30 pm)

Ross Fischer (Davie, FL) is among the players grateful for this “second chance” tournament after failing to bag chips in the $560. But there’s definitely some envy wishing they were playing on Day 2 for a shot at $63,216.

Registration for Event 7 is open for four more levels, with another flight tonight at 6 pm.

$250 Big Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed
Level 1:  Blinds 25/50

The first of four starting flights is underway here in the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Poker Room.

Players start with 15,000 chips and all levels are 30 minutes long. Registration and re-entry are available until the start of level 9 (about 2:30 pm).

Event 7 Structure