$360 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 5: 200/400 with a 400 ante Flight E Entries: 91 (Total Entries: 474)
Mario De La Puente
Flight E players are back in their seats after the first break with 91 entries so far. Registration will remain open until the start of Level 9 and players can fire as many times as they wish during that time.
Mario De La Puente had to exercise one of those options early, busting on the first hand of the day, but he’s cruising now. The Event 2 champion is up to 62,100 and leading the field.
$360 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 4: 200/300 with a 300 ante Flight E Entries: 88 (Total Entries: 471)
Mark Wiser
The entry count is up to 88 and the prize pool is nearing $150,000 on its way to $250K. The bigger field means we’re seeing a snowballing with re-entries and we should hit triple digits after the first break.
Mark Wiser is back in the Poker Room after a jaunt across the county to Las Vegas for the first weekend of WSOP action. He has plenty of success her including a Six-Max win during the Tampa Poker Classic in February.
$360 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 2: 100/100 with a 100 ante Flight E Entries: 69 (Total Entries: 452)
Wayne Daley
Unlike the first two days of opening flights, when we were still toiling in the weekdays, the entry count took a deliberate march higher while registration was open. It’s a bit different today and the number is clicking up at a nice, steady pace as we near 70 in the first hour.
This will turn out to be the biggest flight so far with two monsters yet to go.
Wayne Daley is among the early crew looking for another WPTDeepStacks Tampa cash. He made two trips to the payout cage last year including a deep run in the Main Event.
2019 Seminole Hard Rock WPTDeepStacks Tampa Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa, Florida Event 3 $360 Pot Limit Omaha 8/Big O (Re-Entry) Entries: 35 Prize Pool: $10,500 June 6, 2019
Ramses Rosa
The WPTDeepStacks Tampa series hit the second day on the schedule and we continue to bring you a steady dose of non-hold’em games. On Thursday it was a $360 buy-in Pot Limit Omaha 8/Big O mix and Ramses Rosa won the second SHR Tampa title of his career.
Tampa loves Omaha and the tournament drew 35 entries on weekday afternoon to create a prize pool worth $10,500. Several of our top players joined the field including Scott Anderson, Wally Maddah, and Event 1 champ Mario De La Puente.
After a long grind, they made the final table and into the money with four getting paid. They played it all the way out and Rosa earned $4,620 plus the guitar trophy after defeating Michael Bozeman heads-up.
This is the second time Rosa took home a title and his first since 2011. That one came in an Omaha 8 game so look out for him when we run the next. Rosa picked up the biggest cash of his career last week when he banked more than $20,000 for a fourth-place finish in the Memorial Day weekend $150 Big Stack Special.
Event 3 results:
1st: Ramses Rosa – $4,620 + Guitar trophy 2nd: Michael Bozeman – $2,625 3rd: Doug Arcadi – $1,890 4th: Ronald Brown – $1,365
$360 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 1: 100/100 Flight E Entries: 38 (Total Entries: 421)
The player instructions are complete, players are seated, and dealers put cards in the air for the fifth flight of Event 1. They will play four 30-minute levels before taking their first break.
We are at the midpoint of Event 1 and the opening tournament on the WPTDeepStacks Tampa schedule is ready to ramp it up. The first four flights of the tournament drew 383 entries and that was before the weekend got here. Now it’s time to run that number up.
The $360 buy-in tournament should hit its $250,000 guaranteed prize pool tomorrow afternoon and we will set the table today.
Entrants start with 20,000 deep starting stacks and the tournament has 30-minute levels throughout. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 around 3:25 pm and their day will end after Level 14. Anyone with chips will bag them up and return on Sunday along with the other 55 who advanced.
Cards go in the air at 11 am and we will track them all the way down.
$250,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
Players begin with 20,000 in chips with 30-minute levels
Single ante will be paid from the big blind for the entire table
Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
Day 1 will end after Level 14 or Tournament Director discretion
Thursday was another good day in the Poker Room and it sets up the WPTDeepStacks Tampa series for a big weekend. We ran two more flights of $360 buy-in/$250,000 Guaranteed Event 1 and the tournament is on a pace to fly by that number. With three of the seven starting flights locked up, we have 288 entries in the game with 41 players booking a seat in Day 2 on Sunday.
John Sellars was the big bag in Flight C and his 263,000 puts in second overall with a lot of action yet to come. Tampa winner Tom Nguyen was also among those advancing and we will post the entire list as soon as it is available.
In one-day trophy event news, the Pot Limit Omaha 8/Big O tournament is nearing its final table but they’ll have some work to do with only four getting paid. We will post the complete results first thing in the morning.
Tomorrow’s schedule is similar to today. We have two more flights of Event 1 running; one at 11 am and another at 6 pm. The non-hold’em game of the day is Event 4 with a $360 buy-in and Limit Omaha 8/Stud 8 mix to keep things interesting.
Schedule for Friday:
11AM: Event 1 Day 1E – $360 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
Players begin with 20,000 in chips with 30-minute levels
Single ante will be paid from the big blind for the entire table
Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
Day 1 will end after Level 14 or Tournament Director discretion
$360 Pot Limit Omaha 8/Big O (Re-Entry) Structure | Payouts Level 10: 600/1,200 Players Remaining: 15 of 35
Michael Bozeman
Event 3 continues on its trek to the next WPTDeepStacks Tampa champion but the live updates team is calling it a night. There are two tables remaining with a little work to reach the final table, and then hit the money bubble with five remaining.
Later tonight they will divide up the $10,500 and someone will walk away with the guitar trophy. We will post the results first thing in the morning and announce the winner.
