$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Tampa Main Event
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 15: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 36 of 189

Dino Patsourakis was leading for most of the day. Right up until the last few hands. Corey Lipke did the slow build during the last few levels and passed Patsourakis after all hands were complete.

Lipke is the current leader with 333,000 followed by Patsourakis with 307,000.

Full chip counts of the 36 remaining players will be posted as soon as they are available.

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Tampa Main Event
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 15: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 41 of 189

David Brown moved all in for 15,600 from under the gun and the dealer threw an all-in chip at his spot.

“Give them all to me!” Brown joked and the dealer tossed the other two all-in chips his way.

It folded around to Mackenzie Ramsay in the big blind.

“I didn’t look,” Ramsay said. “I have to be live.”

He called and he was not live.

Brown:
Ramsay:

Brown was looking good for the small double but Ramsay hit the pretty well. The turn and river finished the board to send Brown out short of bagging.

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Tampa Main Event
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 50 of 189

A big three-way pot developed on Table 14 with a lot of chips at risk. With the board reading , Scott Caracciolo and Phil Strickland checked and the cutoff bet 10,500. Caracciolo called from the small blind and Strickland check-raised all in for 75,300.

The cutoff waited a few minutes, folded his hand, and Caracciolo called.

Strickland:
Caracciolo:

Stickland’s flopped boat was huge against Caracciolo’s flopped trip threes and he had a big double after the turn and river.

Phil Strickland – 192,000
Scott Caracciolo – 40,000

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Tampa Main Event
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 13: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 50 of 189

Herb Woodbery and Michael Parisi built a pot and Parisi was at risk for 12,500. Woodbery did not have much more but had a chance to knock a player out.

Woodbery:
Parisi:

Both had big suited cards and it was Parisi nailing the flop. The board finished and Woodbery was left with only 2,800.

He found a nice hand to try and get back in the game but his was dominated by and he couldn’t come back on the board.

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Tampa Main Event
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 13: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 61 of 189

Players are back in their seats and ready to finish up their day with the last three levels.

Dino Patsourakis continued to lead with 240,000 but Barry Wiedemann is creeping up with 220,000. They have two hours to chase each other down.

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Tampa Main Event
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12: 600/1,200 with a 200 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 61 of 189

Twelve levels are in the books and the 61 remaining players are heading on their final break of the day. They will return and play three more levels before calling it a day.

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Tampa Main Event
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12: 600/1,200 with a 200 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 70 of 189

Duane Felix opened to 2,200 from under the gun and an opponent shipped all in for 19,500 from middle position. Douglas Akers cold four-bet shoved for 27,500 and Felix let it go.

Akers:
Opponent:

Akers was ahead for the KO and the board ran clean to drop the field down to 70 players even.

Douglas Akers – 45,000

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Tampa Main Event
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 11: 500/1,000 with a 100 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 74 of 189

The field is dropping pretty quickly, a little faster than you would expect in an event this big. They are down to nearly seven tables when ten came back from dinner an hour ago.

Peter Walsworth is still around and he probably wouldn’t mind duplicating his last time at a SHR poker table. He trekked across the state in April to participate in the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown and he won the $5,000 Big Stack for a cool six-digit payday.

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Tampa Main Event
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10: 400/800 with a 100 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 100 of 189

The numbers were crunched and Flight A of the Main Event officially drew 189 entries. That is only two off last year’s opening flight and well within the expected numbers with two huge flights to come. That puts us more than halfway to the $300,000 Guarantee and we should get there tomorrow.

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Tampa Main Event
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10: 400/800 with a 100 ante
Flight A Entries: 189

Cards are back in the air and we confirmed that the big stack did indeed belong to Dino Patsourakis. The SHR Tampa favorite is enjoying his time so far and laughing it up with his tablemates.

The clock shows an unofficial 189 entries in Flight A but we will wait for the smart folks to do all the proper accounting.