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

Players are off on their first break of the day as the staff race off the 100 chips. They are less than 50 players from the money and play is beginning to tighten up. Nicholas Mahabee has moved up over 300,000 while former chipleader Luis Santoni has dropped back a little since the start.

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

It’s not uncommon for players to show up late for Day 2 especially if sitting on a nice stack. Table 34 only had one player sitting down just five minutes before the start but filled before too long. Table 33 still has a bag of chips in the 6-seat and everyone is wondering about the whereabouts of Vic Vasa.

Vasa finished Day 1D with 169,100 but still hasn’t made a showing and is slowly getting blinded down.

There are 180 players remaining in the field with 15 minutes left in Level 15 with 126 making the money.

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

Finding yourself all-in with Ace-Queen versus Kings is generally a losing proposition. When the hand does win it’s usually popping an Ace or some miracle straight but Ed Vasoncelos found an interesting way to get there this afternoon.

Vasoncelos was all-in with versus Michael Belkin with the pocket Kings when the flop came out leaving Vasoncelos looking for one of three Aces or the case 3. It was the which came next to turn Belkin’s big pair into merely a King kicker.

The double-up moved Vasoncelos to 140,000 midway through the first level of the day.

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

It didn’t take long for us to catch the first player heading out the door. Anibal Salazar began Day 2 with just 24,000 and moved all-in with on the flop. Margarita Ramirez Serrano had just finished unbagging her chips and called with for top pair top kicker. She hit trip Jacks with the turn to knockout Salazar early in the day and move over 150,000.

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

Event 1 of the Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open” is ready to declare a winner after four days, and eight flights, of Day 1 action. The tournament drew 2,098 entrants and 233 survived to make it into Day 2 with a chance to win the top prize of $45,121.

Luis Santoni begins the day with the chiplead with 286,800 closely followed by Max Jones with 284,200. Due to the great turnout, the field is split almost evenly between tables upstairs and downstairs.

It took a few extra moments to get everything settled at the start of the day with the returning players, but cards are in the air and we won’t stop until there is a champion in Event 1. The chip average is ~90,000 with blinds starting in Level 15 1.5k/3k/300 ante.

Stay tuned for live updates throughout the entire day.

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

And Day 1 is officially in the books. Out of the 329 that started the day today, 42 will be back in about 10 hours to take their shot at some of the $209,800 prize pool. The chip leader for Day 1H was Jason Ibrahim with 232,800 in chips. Here are all the chip stacks for the day 1H survivors:

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

Blinds 1.2K/2.4K Ante 300

There are 49 players left as we play the last level of the night. We witnessed three all in hands while walking around the tournament area. Two survived, one did not.

The first one saw a player open for 4.5K, the small blind call, and then the short stacked big blind move all in for just under 20K. The initial raiser folded and the small blind called. The short stack held and was against . The flop came keeping the 9’s in the lead. The turn changed that as it was the and the river only improved the short stacks hand giving him a straight when it was the .

The second hand saw a short stack move all in for about 7K and receiving two callers, creating a pot of about 25K. The two callers checked it down on the board and the young lady with pocket 10’s eliminated the short stack who held .

The last hand saw another short stack get it all in for approximately 20K with . He was called by a player with and was in big trouble when the flop came . A miracle three outer on the turn in the form of the gave him the card he needed to survive and the meaningless on the river meant a double up and the chance to move on to Day 2 action in less than 11 hours.