$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 16:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Day 1C Players Remaining:  55 of 542

Flight C came to an end with Zekri Qovanaj bagging a huge chip lead among the 55 today and the 101 overall coming back tomorrow. His 778,000 is way ahead of the rest of the field and he’ll be a favorite to go deep tomorrow.

Action gets back underway on Sunday at noon with everyone in the money. We will post the payout information and Day 2 seat draw as soon as it is available.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 16:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Day 1C Players Remaining:  55 of 542

Hand-for-hand on the money bubble began in Level 15 but ended in Level 16. At took several rounds and several short stack survivals to get to the point when Mitch Mitchell moved all in for 99,000.

Isaac Shulmaister called and they waited for the rest of the tables to finish. When they flipped up their cards, Mitchell was in great shape to double up late.

Mitchell:
Shulmaister:

Mitchell had the bigger ace and he faded the flop. The bad news was the turn to pair Shulmaister’s jack. The river finished the board and Mitchell was unlucky to exit on the money bubble.

The remaining 55 players will bag their chips for a Day 2 return tomorrow at noon in the money.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 15:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Day 1C Players Remaining:  72 of 542

The final break of the day has come and gone and we have two new big stacks at the top of the counts. Marcus Little is the new leader of the pack with 458,000 but Zekri Qovanaj isn’t far behind with 456,000. That’s a tight race for the Flight C lead with the bubble coming up.

Blind levels are now 40 minutes long and we should wrap things up near the end of Level 16.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Day 1C Players Remaining:  96 of 542

We caught up with the action on Table 19 with about 65,000 in the pot and Chris Mills all in for 95,000 from the cutoff with the board reading . Alan Thomas was on the button and considering what to do.

“Sorry guys,” Thomas told the rest of the table as he thought it through. He cut out 95K from his stack, put it back, thought some more, and then tossed in a chip to call.

“I have ace king,” he said before flipping up .

Mills turned over for a flush draw/gutshot draw. Thomas was ahead with top pair top kicker but needed to fade 12 outs on the river, all the spades and tens in the deck.

The river came to give Mills the king-high straight to double up to 254,500 and knock Thomas down to less than a starting stack.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 13:  1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Day 1C Players Remaining:  112 of 542

The color-up break came to an end and we have another big stack in the room. Rasheed Dunlap is the new leader in Flight C with his 375,500 a few yellow chips bigger than Ryan Luker’s 371,500.

They’ll have another break after Level 14 to pull the purple chips from play with the money bubble expected somewhere around Level 16.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12:  1,500/2,500 with a 2,500 ante
Day 1C Players Remaining:  120 of 542

Tournament staff sent players on another 15-minute break after Level 12 to pull the black chips out of play and introduce the 25K chips.

They will return to play two more levels before the purple chips are colored off as well and they will make the money soon after.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12:  1,500/2,500 with a 2,500 ante
Day 1C Players Remaining:  120 of 542

Another Tampa tournament is another chance for Ryan Luker to stack big. The 2017 WPTDeepStacks Tampa Main Event final table member builds them big here and he’s up to 330,000 (plus some shuffling chips) as they head into the end stage of the day.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 11:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Day 1C Players Remaining:  152 of 542

Flight C is dropping quickly despite no more chances to enter. They still have some ways to go with 55 advancing but they are moving right long.

We mentioned Jacob Ferro earlier, the second-place finisher in the WPT RRPO Hollywood Championship this week, and we found another player in today’s field who also made a deep run in that tournament. Scott Levitt was poised for a monster finish at his local joint but it fell short.

He came back for Day 4 of that Championship leading the last 15 players but that was where the good news ended. A brutal run of cards for Levitt saw three players double through him and he had to settle for a 13th place finish.

Levitt made the trek across the state this weekend to visit family and play today with his son.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10:  800/1,600 with a 1,600 ante
Day 1C Players Remaining:  224 of 542

The second break was a bit of controlled chaos with a couple hundred players leaving the area at the same time. But it was fun chaos, big money chaos.

When we could get around, we found two big stacks at one table and they looked like the leaders at this stage. Cody Brinn was up to 154,000 and the two-time WSOP Circuit ring winner out-chipped tablemate Mansoor Kader’s 138,600.

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Day 1C Entries:  542

Registration closed for the final flight of WPO Event 3 and the $400 buy-in game 542 this afternoon for combined 1,000 entries on the nose. The $100,000 guarantee was easily surpassed and they put $335,000 up for grabs.

Flight C will keep playing this evening until only 55 players remain. They will advance to Day 2 with the other 46 from the first two flights.

Chip counts through Flight B