After a busy day in the poker room yesterday, with three new WPO trophies awarded, today was more laid back with two flights of the $570 buy-in/$200,000 Guarantee Event 7.
Both flights hit the exact same number of entries, 76 in each, to put a total of 152 into the tournament with four more flights to run. Those numbers put us on an easy pace to hit the guaranteed money with the weekend grinders ready to hit the felt.
Seminole Hard Rock Tampa ambassador Wally Maddah (pictured above) seemed like he was ready to put a bag together but he crashed out late when his AJ was four-flushed by KJ.
Tom Nguyen led the latter parts of the day but most of his stack ended up in front of Jerry Silva. The Tampa regular put an incredible 473,000 away for Day 2, nearly double second place Nicholas Williams. Also advancing were Karl Manouchakian, Marvin “Flying Duckman” Karlins, Mark “Bud” Wider, Stevie Tziris, and the aforementioned Nguyen.
Tomorrow brings the next two flights, the first at 11am and the second at 6pm, and we’ll cross into six-digit prize pool territory before they are done.
There will also be one last satellite into Event 7 that will run at 2pm. The $75 buy-in satellite has five seats guaranteed into the $200,000 Guarantee event with 1-in-10 grabbing one.