2018 WSOP Circuit - September

Event 2 Flight A: Down to Four Tables

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 Ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 36 of 247

Herbert Woodbery

Flight A is creeping down towards a magic number that might end their day early. The structure says they will play through 18 levels or 12% of the field, whichever comes first. With 247 entries, that 12% number might hit before they reach the end of Level 18.

Herbert Woodbery looks like your current leader with a couple barrels of 5K chips and around 250,000 as Flight A nears the end.

2018 WSOP Circuit - September

Event 2 Flight A: Tristan Wade Cruising

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 Ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 45 of 247

Flight A is shrinking as they inch closer to their end-of-day play and Tristan Wade is making a bid for another deep run in only the second day of the series.

Wade is over 160,000 in the late stages of the day less than 24 hours after he finished 16th in Event 1 for a fine start to the trip.

2018 WSOP Circuit - September

Event 2 Flight A: Field Final at 247 Entries

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 13: 800/1,600 with a 200 Ante
Flight A Entries: 247

Level 13 is underway and registration is closed in Flight A of the WSOP Circuit re-entry at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek. The first of four start days drew 247 entries amassing $81,510 toward the $300,000 guarantee. That puts the tournament easily on pace to best its six-figure target with the next three flights expected to top this one.

Tournament update and remaining schedule:

FlightDay/TimeEntriesAdvanced
AUnderway247TBD
BUnderway (Registration Until ~10:30pm)TBDTBD
CTomorrow at 11amTBDTBD
DTomorrow at 4pmTBDTBD
Day 2 Players—247TBD

Play is slated to go through Level 18 with it wrapping around 9pm.

2018 WSOP Circuit - September

Event 2 Flight A: Chris Conrad Versus Pedro Palacio

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12: 600/1,200 with a 200 Ante
Flight A Entries: 244

Chris Conrad

Chris Conrad is trending up recently playing a raised pot with Pedro Palacio. The pair checked a KdKh3d flop. The turn fell the 4s and Conrad checked again. Palacio bet and Conrad called. The board completed with the Js and Conrad lead for 16,600. Palacio took just a moment or two to think before calling.

Conrad: KsQd for trips
Palacio: Mucked

Conrad took a healthy pot and increased his stack to around 100,000.

2018 WSOP Circuit - September

Event 2 Flight B: Level 2 Underway in the Evening Flight; Updates Start when Flight A Concludes

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2: 50/100
Flight B Entries: 93

The 4pm Flight B of the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek WSOP Circuit Re-Entry got underway about 40 minutes ago and Level 2 is going now. The clock reads nearly 100 entries in the action and they combined with Flight A field to make a portion of the overall field.

Like its 11am predecessor, the 4pm Flight B sees players get 15,000-chip starting stacks for their $400 buy-in. Registration and re-entry are available until the start of Level 13 with play concluding following Level 18.

Details:

4PM: Event 2 Day 1B – $400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

  • $300,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
  • Players begin with 15,000 in chips
  • Day 1 levels last 30 minutes; Day 2 levels last 45 minutes
  • Late registration available until start of Level 13
  • Day 1 will end after Level 18 or Tournament Director discretion
  • Event 2 Structure Sheet

With Flight A deeper into the structure, that’s where we’ll concentrate the majority of live reporting efforts. Updates for Flight B will begin when A concludes.

2018 WSOP Circuit - September

Event 2 Flight A: Tristan Wade

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 400/800 with a 100 Ante
Flight A Entries: 244

Tristan Wade

The Flight A entry count is continuing an upward tick and approaching the 250 mark. That puts the tournament well on pace to best the $300,000 guaranteed with a prize pool already in excess of $80,000. Registration is still open for Flight A and three additional flights remain to climb the entries higher.

One player standing above the rest here midway in the opening flight is Tristan Wade. Wade has about 100,000 chips and looks to add to accolades that include a WPTDeepStacks Player of the Year title and more than $1,700,000 in reported earnings.

2018 WSOP Circuit - September

Event 2 Flight A: Zoltan Czinkota Going Good in Level 9

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 300/600 with a 100 Ante
Flight A Entries: 240

Zoltan Czinkota

Another Florida regular is making waves here in the Flight A of the WSOP Circuit $400 re-entry. Zoltan Czinkota has been on a hot streak turning his 15,000 chips into about 90,000. That’s good for one of the big stacks and puts Czinkota on pace for a potential bag here in the series opener.

Czinkota has had some good success at Seminole events including a third-place finish in the 2016 Player of the Year race. That title won him entries in various events throughout the following season and he’s been chasing deep runs ever since.

2018 WSOP Circuit - September

Event 2 Flight A: Wally Maddah on the Coco Grind

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7: 200/400 with a 50 Ante
Flight A Entries: 218

Wally Maddah

Wally Maddah is in the midst of his 2018 WSOP Circuit debut. The Tampa area grinder is perhaps the most recognizable of all the Seminole regulars. By his own account, he owns 99 Seminole cashes — 50 in his home room in Tampa, 47 in Hollywood and two here in Coconut Creek. Do that math and that puts him one shy of 100 Seminole cashes.

He’s put a few entries toward a cash here in the $400 re-entry, but still has a long way to go to nab the elusive 100th.

2018 WSOP Circuit - September

Event 2 Flight A: Good Day for Curtis Daye

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 100/200 with a 25 Ante
Flight A Entries: 207

Curtis Daye

The first break wrapped just about 15 minutes ago and the field has piled in nicely here for the $300,000 guarantee. Curtis Daye has enjoyed some of the best fortune during the early going and finds himself with about 55,000 chips and toward the top of the counts. Daye has a tough table with South Florida regulars Zoltan Czinkota and Elliot Zaydman facing off against him.

2018 WSOP Circuit - September

Event 2 Flight A: Mike Laake Going for Gold

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3: 75/150
Flight A Entries: 168

Mike Laake

Mike Laake made the short trek southeast to join the action here in Coconut Creek. Laake is one of Seminole Gaming’s best poker supporters and has carded more than $950,000 in wins during his on-felt career. His resume boasts a number of cashes at the Hollywood and Tampa properties, but just a few here in Coconut Creek. He’s a part of the Flight A field and looking for a strong score that would likely push him in to seven-figure territory for career earnings.