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

Blinds 250/500 Ante 50

We have just started level 7 and are down to 99 players. Here are a few random images from around the tournament area:

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

Blinds 150/300 Ante 25

A late surge, either in new entries or re-entries, has pushed the number or registrations up to 244 – this is more than we had last night and brings our total number of entries thus far to 846. With still two more days of flights left to be played, the guarantee should be easily met and the prize pool will make finishing in the money well worth it.

There are currently 153 players still left, meaning we lost 91 players in the first two hours.

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

Blinds 100/200

The board read . The player in seat 7 led out for a bet. Seat 9 moved all in for about 5K. A young lady in seat 2 called. Seat 7 moved all in. Seat 2 insta-called. Three all in’s in a matter of ten seconds. The action was fast… furious. The hands:

Seat 9: – nut flush

Seat 2: – turned full house

Seat 7: – flopped full house and the winning hand

“What a bad turn card,” Seat 2 said. “Well, at least I can rebuy,” she added as she headed down to the cashier to give it another go.

There is 10 minutes left in Level 4 – registration will close soon. There are 221 registered entries thus far. That’s slightly less than the 239 we had last night but there is still time to go.

$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.

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

Blinds 25/50

114 players have taken their seats early on in Event 1 Day 1D. With an hour and 45 minutes left to register, we’re probably looking in excess of 200 by the time all is said and done. We’ll be providing updates and action throughout the evening.

We are done here for the day at the Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open”. Despite having 51 more players than the first flight, there were actually less players making it through the day as only 25 survived (compared to 27 for the earlier flight). That means 52 players total thus far have moved on to Sunday.

The current chip leader is Max Jones with a very impressive ending stack of 284,200 which is 90K more than his next closest competitor. Here are the chip counts for the players who made it through the day:

Day 1C will get underway at 11 am and Day 1D takes place at 7 pm.

Hope to see you here!

Players participating in the Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open” over the next three weeks have a chance to take down some great prizes if they do well enough. We have a Leaderboard Promotion that will be awarding the following prizes:

1st place: $5,300 entry into Seminole Hard Rock Showdown Day 1A on April 10th, 2014, 2 night stay in the Hotel and $200 gift certificate to Council Oaks Steaks & Seafood.

2nd place: $5,300 entry into Seminole Hard Rock Showdown Day 1A on April 10th, 2014.

3rd through 20th place: $575 entry into Seminole Hard Rock Showdown Mega Satellite (for the month of December 2013 only).

We will post frequent updates for the Leaderboard here. For specific rules regarding the promotion, contact tournament staff at The Poker Room at Seminole Hard Rock. Points are awarded as follows: