$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)Level 11: 600/1,200/200 Ante 5x961

Registration closed in Flight E of Event 8, a $150 no limit hold’em re-entry tournament, about an hour ago. The fifth of six starting flights drew 189 entries bring the five-flight total to 997 and officially pushing the prize pool past its $100,000 guarantee with tonight’s flight F still to go.

Here’s a look at how the flights have broken down to this point:

Complete chip counts will be posted after Flight E wraps later tonight. If you couldn’t make for it the 11 a.m. installment, the sixth and final starting flight kicks off this evening at 6 p.m.

$1,650 No Limit Hold’em Purple Chip Bounty (Re-Entry)
Level 20: 3,000/6,000/1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 7
Average Stack: 283,000 (47 bb)

Daren Stabinski made his move shortly after the break with a shove after Ronald Sullivan opened to 14,000 from the button.

Stabinski:
Sullivan:

Stabinski needed a lot of help but couldn’t come from behind as the dealer spread to give Sullivan the hand and bounty.

Daren Stabinski: Eliminated in 7th Place ($6,700)
Ronald Sullivan: 280,000 (47 bb)

$1,650 No Limit Hold’em Purple Chip Bounty (Re-Entry)
Level 20: 3,000/6,000/1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 7
Average Stack: 283,000 (47 bb)

Players are back in their seats and ready to grind some more bounties. Gaston Miculitzki leads while Daren Stabinski and Timothy Banks have the shortest stacks.

Seat 2: Timothy Banks – 116,000 (19 bb)
Seat 3: Joe Kuether – 171,000 (29 bb)
Seat 4: Jason Wheeler – 386,000 (64 bb)
Seat 5: Gaston Miculitzki – 610,000 (102 bb)
Seat 7: Marcus Stein – 383,000 (64 bb)
Seat 8: Ronald Sullivan – 162,000 (27 bb)
Seat 9: Daren Stabinski – 115,000 (19 bb)

$1,650 No Limit Hold’em Purple Chip Bounty (Re-Entry)
Level 19: 2,500/5,000/500 Ante
Players Remaining: 7
Average Stack: 283,000 (57 bb)

Players were about to take their first break of the day when a major hand went down. Gaston Miculitzki moved all-in from small blind after Jason Wheeler opened from the button.

After counting down his stack and cutting out the calling chips, Wheeler called with only to see Miculitzki’s big . The aces held and Wheeler pushed the chip lead one seat to the left.

Jason Wheeler: 386,000 (77 bb)
Gaston Miculitzki: 610,000 (122 bb)

$570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
End of Level 8: 250/500/75 Ante
Players: 200

Players in Event 12 are on their second 15-minute break of the day. Registration closes when cards go back in the air and the complete prize pool will be posted shortly thereafter. As is, the field sits at 200 entries matching the $100,000 guarantee to the number.

$1,650 No Limit Hold’em Purple Chip Bounty (Re-Entry)
Level 19: 2,500/5,000/500 Ante
Players Remaining: 8
Average Stack: 247,500 (50 bb)

Joey Couden began the final table with the second biggest stack but it disappeared in a hurry. He pushed most of his stack over to Marcus Stein and the rest to Jason Wheeler a few hands later.

His last shot came when his ran into Wheeler’s and he couldn’t find anything on the board to save his day.

Joey Couden: Eliminated in 8th Place ($5,025)
Jason Wheeler: 515,000 (103 bb)

$1,650 No Limit Hold’em Purple Chip Bounty (Re-Entry)
Level 18: 2,000/4,000/500 Ante
Players Remaining: 9
Average Stack: 220,000 (55 bb)

Seminole Hard Rock Tampa team memberJustin Zaki defended the big blind against Jason Wheeler who was on the button. The flop was . Zaki checked. Wheeler bet 12,000. Zaki called.

The turn was the . Zaki checked again. Wheeler bet 24,500. Zaki called.

The river was the . Zaki checked a third time. Wheeler sloppily pushed in a stack of 90,000 chips. Zaki, who thought he was at risk, went into the tank. After a couple minutes, he called. Wheeler tabled for a flush. Zaki turned over for top pair and stood from the table. After the dealer counted down the stacks, it was revealed Zaki was left with 6,500 chips. He went on to bust 9th the very next hand.

Justin Zaki – Eliminated in 9th place ($3,769)

$1,650 No Limit Hold’em Purple Chip Bounty (Re-Entry)
Level 18: 2,000/4,000/500 Ante
Players Remaining: 9
Average Stack: 220,000 (55 bbs)

Seat 1: Joey Couden – 375,000 (94 bb)
Seat 2: Timothy Banks – 108,000 (27 bb)
Seat 3: Joe Kuether – 125,500 (31 bb)
Seat 4: Jason Wheeler – 446,500 (112 bb)
Seat 5: Gaston Miculitzki – 200,000 (50 bb)
Seat 6: Justin Zaki – 142,000 (36 bb)
Seat 7: Marcus Stein – 230,500 (58 bb)
Seat 8: Ronald Sullivan – 176,000 (44 bb)
Seat 9: Daren Stabinski – 176,500 (44 bb)

$1,650 No Limit Hold’em Purple Chip Bounty (Re-Entry)
Level 18: 2,000/4,000/500 Ante
Players Remaining: 11
Average Stack: 180,000 (45 bbs)

After a small slowdown in the action, Table 8 saw a huge pot with a three-way all-in and big hands all around.

Michelle Shah:
Michael Telker:
Raymond Roberty:

Shah was in a great position for the double up until the dealer spread the flop. The board ran clean for Telker’s set to give him the double elimination.

While that was going on, Stephen Diamantas and Abbey Daniels were going out on the other table to put them on the final table bubble. Which promptly burst when Telker was knocked out even after collecting all those chips.

$570 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry (Re-Entry)
Level 6: 150/300/50 Ante
Players: 162

Yesterday’s $1,100 WPTDeepStacks Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event champion, Salomon Ponte, is back in action here in Event 12. He bested 1,684 entries to earn better than $344,000 in prize money just about 24 hours ago. A 26-year-old A, the victory marked Ponte’s largest tournament score to date.

He’s a new entry here in today’s noon event and shares a table with Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year contender Timothy Miles.