$560 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Blinds 1k/2k/200 ante
50 players remaining, 81k avg (41 bb)

The big stacks are in the 200k range and includes Raymond Millard (Tamarac) who is at 215k.

Other big stacks include Ryan Bunes (Plantation) and Aaron Tveit (New Hampton, NY) who are at 175k, while David Nowling (Fort Lauderdale) continues to be a big stack at 150k.

The field will play the last two levels with bag and tag set for ~6:30 pm

*Seminole Hard Rock Poker file photo

$560 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Blinds 600/1,200/200 ante
81 players remaining, 50k avg (42 bb)

We pick up the action with Norm Ketchum (Loves Park, IL) with a set of twos against his opponent’s flush draw. “I need a spade,” says the player at risk.

When a red card hits the river, Ketchum’s ducks adds 20k to his stack, taking it to 100k

“It’s a nice room,” says Ketchum who’s traveling Florida in his RV to avoid the Chicago winter.  “Very well lit,” he says, “I’ve been in every spot and I can always see the cards.”

Ketchum is another WSOP bracelet winner in the field (thanks to Brian Wilson for the tip!) and it’s his first trip to Seminole Coconut Creek.

Ketchum won his bracelet in the 2004 No Limit Deuce to Seven Lowball event and says he’s enjoyed the cash games here at the Stax Poker Lounge.

$560 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Blinds 500/1,000/100 ante
90 players remaining, 45k avg (45 bb)

WSOP bracelet holder David Diaz (Bartlett, TN) and Wendy Freedman (Las Vegas, NV) are both in the 85k chip range, which is double the average stack. While another familiar face in Mike Beasley (Davie) is struggling to get anything going with a 25k starting stack.

Diaz won his bracelet in the 2011 Triple Chance Event and has $1.4 million in career tournament earnings, while Beasley has $1.3 million in earnings.

Freedman has $355,000 in recorded earnings which includes a WSOP circuit ring.

“It’s a nice room,” says Freedman about the Stax Poker Lounge, “it’s good to be in Florida.”

$560 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Blinds 400/800/100 ante
108 players remaining, 38k avg (48 bb)

Players are back from the green chip color up break with 11 tables remaining.

David Nowling (Fort Lauderdale) is the chip leader with 140k as the big stacks continue to creep over 100k.

The field will play six more levels before bagging and tagging at ~6:30 pm.

$560 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Blinds 250/500/50 ante
130 players remaining, 31k avg (62 bb)

“This is the best part of my day by far,” says David Shaw (Boca Raton), as he wraps up his massage moments after being knocked out of Flight D.

Shaw says his downfall came when he hit a set of Queens on the turn, but it gave his opponent, who was holding , a flush. “That cost me 60k,” he says, “I had built up a pretty good stack.”

His consolation prize comes in a 2 1/2 hour massage from Lisa, one of Coconut Creek’s Massage Therapists. “I’m a machine,” she says while working out Shaw’s kinks.

Shaw is strictly a tournament player who comes to Stax Poker Lounge, “when they have a good series.”

$560 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Day 2 – Saturday 1 pm
Next Blinds: 1,500/3,000/300 ante

 $560 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Blinds 150/300/25 ante
162 Entries

@strizis Yes-will you you then. Nice series they are running. Great staff, blog, dealers, massage people and service!!!! @STAX_Poker

— Marsha Wolak (@marshawolak) January 31, 2014

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@STAX_Poker Day 1 was a ton of fun….c u Saturday for day 2 …. save me 1 of those awesome burgers…best poker burger ever!!!!

$560 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Blinds 150/300/25 ante
162 Entries

The largest flight to date brings 162 entries into the Stax Poker Lounge, setting the four flight total at 474 entries.

*Flights A-C

$560 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Blinds 100/200/25 ante
134 entries

Level 4 is underway, the last level to register and re-enter. The cage closes at ~1:10 pm.

$560 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Blinds 50/100
80 Entries

Bullet #2 in this $560 300k @STAX_Poker

— Ryan Gianquitti (@quitti33) January 31, 2014

Here we go!! @STAX_Poker @WPT Start the grind..# READY!

— FPrunrrunr (@FPrunrrunr) January 31, 2014