$360 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Flight D Players Remaining:  52 of 173

Time is running out to build a bag in Flight D. The field is back from the final break of the day and three more levels remain in action.

It’s a pretty tight race near the top of the counts. Matthew Larson had the biggest break stack with 174,000 but Wilfor Maraentes Pinto’s 173,000 was only a single 1K chip behind. Rounding out the close stack is Jeff Trudeau Jr with 170,000.

$360 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 11:  1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Flight D Players Remaining:  63 of 173

In a three-way pot with the flop reading , the big blind player bet 7,000 and Jeff Trudeau Jr called in the cutoff. The button player moved all in for 23,000 to get a fold from the big blind and quick call from Trudeau Jr.

Trudeau Jr:
Button:

Trudeau Jr flopped a king-high straight against the rockets to leave the button drawing thin. The turn gave Trudeau Jr’s opponent three outs to a bigger straight but the river kept Trudeau Jr in the lead for the knockout.

Jeff Trudeau Jr – 86,000 (57 bb)

$360 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10:  500/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Flight D Players Remaining:  72 of 173

While players were gone during the break, we took a walk among the tables to look for some big stacks. It took a moment to duck around the purple chip color up but we found what we needed.

Ronald Johnston of Port Orange, FL was the leader and his 129,000 stack was the only over 100K. Ivan Freitez Rosales was second with 96,000 and a few more were creeping up to six-digits.

$360 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight D Entries:  173

Flight D is back underway after the second break and registration is closed on the fourth of six flights. The Friday early session added another 173 entries to put the combined count at 462 and the prize pool at $138,600 towards the $250,000 guarantee.

Flight E kicks off at 6 pm in the Poker Room with the final chance tomorrow at 11 am.

Chip counts through Flight C

$360 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Flight D Entries:  163

Level 8 is here and that means time is running out to join Flight D. They will run through this 30-minute level, take a 15-minute break, and registration will close around 3:34 pm.

Justin Zaki was a late entrant and one of the more talented players in the field. Of his $2.5 million in career earnings, he picked up another nice cash this summer with a $2,650 SHRPO Big 4 final table appearance in Hollywood.

Another new face is Manny Minaya, also coming off success at our sister poker room. He was in Hollywood last week and finished first out of 337 entries to win their $150 Big Stack that also included a WPT seat for the victory.

$360 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6:  300/500 with a 500 ante
Flight D Entries:  150

The entry count hit 150 in Level 6 to put the tournament halfway to the $250,000 guaranteed prize pool. That’s a good start with huge crowds expected for this evening’s flight and Saturday morning.

A few more familiar faces are here including Jeff Morzella, Jeff Trudeau Jr, Bryce McVay, Ok Haselton, and Jennifer Haselton.

$360 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5:  200/400 with a 400 ante
Flight D Entries:  125

The first break is complete and we found a couple of early frontrunners in the field. Jason Parson was the first break leader after four levels, up to 80,800 coming back from the first break. He will be one to watch going forward.

It looks like the second-biggest stack belongs to John Haas as the April Saturday Triple 30 winner is up to 65,100.

There’s still plenty of time to catch either player with late registration available until ~3:30 pm and Flight D running through Level 14.

$360 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4: 200/300 with a 300 ante
Flight D Entries:  110

Level 4 is coming to an end and Flight D players are preparing to take the first break of the day. We have 110 entries in the mix and only a half dozen away from making this the biggest flight so far.

$360 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3: 100/200 with a 200 ante
Flight D Entries:  97

Flight D is nearing triple digit entries and will be the biggest flight of the tournament so far by the time registration closed.

Vitor Coelho is here early and trying to win that first SHR Tampa guitar trophy. Despite big success elsewhere, including tournament wins in Hollywood and Atlantic City plus a WPTDeepStack win in Jacksonville (and more than $1,000,000 in career earnings), the Tampa resident has yet to win a tournament on his home turf.

This would be a good one to get.