$100 + $25 No Limit Hold’Em Deep Stack

Blinds 50/100

Deep stack poker usually means avoiding big pots and races. Apparently no one has told the players here at Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open” that as we’ve seen numerous players already tossing 200 big blinds into the middle as if it were nothing.

Case in point:

A player moves all in on a board. It’s a huge overbet of about 8K into a 2K pot. His opponent calls him… with … only top pair with a gutshot straight draw. He’s drawing dead, of course, as his opponent has the monster eight high flush with .

A few moments later, the same player who had the eight high flush felts another player who decided to stick in his entire stack in with just top pair. This time, the big stack has a set and he’s tripled his starting stack as the result of the loose play of his opponents.

We are up to 171 players registered for this flight with Level 3 about to start in less than 5 minutes. With all the early bust outs though there probably are only 150 playing currently.