Event 1: $350 Deep Stack ($150,000 Gtd, $1,650 Seat Added)
Level 16: 2,500/5,000/500
Players Remaining: 153/1,029

After beginning Day 2 with 12 big blinds, 2016 WPTDeepStacks-Tampa Main Event champion Anthony Astarita chipped up to over 100,000. They found the middle of the table when a raising battle saw him all-in and behind against chip leader Martin Culotta.

Culotta:
Astarita:

Runout:

Astarita never caught up and Tampa’s defending champion hit the rail shy of the money. Culotta, meanwhile, grew his stack up toward 1,000,000.

Martin Culotta – 950,000
Anthony Astarita – Eliminated