$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
End of Level 9: 300/600/75 Ante
Entries: 496
Dinner time has rolled around and players are taking a 60-minute break away from the tables. The second flight is very close to hitting 500 entrants and we might get there before registration closes after this break.
$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
Level 8: 250/500/75 Ante
Entries: 472
The second flight of the Main Event officially surpassed the entrant number from the opening day and we have 472 in the game with two more hours to register.
We found John-Christian Templeton this afternoon and he’s technically the last player to win a Seminole Hard Rock Poker major title. Last month he was grinding away at the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Winter Poker Open and finished with two nice results.
Templeton final tabled the opening tournament of the series and followed that up by winning the Championship for $134,000. It was a tough table which included pros Sheddy Siddiqui and T.K. Miles.
$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
Level 7: 200/400/50 Ante
Entries: 450
We found our first two stacks to hit the 100K mark, they stood out in the crowd with the room devoid of player. First break leader David Sapers crossed over the big number but the lead was taken away by Jeff Pringle on the other side of the room.
They stand alone in the six-digit category but Farhad Roozbeh isn’t far behind with 96,000.
Top stacks and notable counts:
Jeff Pringle – 111,475 (279 bb)
David Sapers 100,525 (251 bb)
Farhad Roozbeh – 96,025 (240 bb)
David Johnson – 82,775 (207 bb)
Jeffrey Coburn – 78,225 (196 bb)
David Tuthill – 65,825 (165 bb)
Martin Carnero – 55,750 (139 bb)
Asher Conniff – 53,000 (133 bb)
Kathy Liebert – 51,425 (129 bb)
Loni Harwood – 46,500 (116 bb)
Jonathan Duhamel – 45,600 (114 bb)
Anthony Spinella – 41,875 (105 bb)
Vinny Pahuja – 41,800 (105 bb)
Stewart Newman – 34,875 (87 bb)
Sheddy Siddiqui – 33,525 (84 bb)
Harrison Gimbel – 32,025 (80 bb)
Ory Hen – 31,550 (79 bb)
Allen Kessler – 30,250 (76 bb)
Dan Suied – 28,975 (72 bb)
Josh Beckley – 28,225 (71 bb)
Tristan Wade – 24,400 (61 bb)
Jared Jaffee – 23,375 (58 bb)
Keven Stammen – 20,325 (51 bb)
Ralph Massey – 20,000 (50 bb)
Aaron Massey – 16,750 (42 bb)
$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
Level 6: 150/300/50 Ante
Entries: 431
Players are about to take their second break of the day as we’re edging up to yesterday’s entrant count of 461. There’s still a slim possibility we’ll hit the guarantee in this flight but it’s a lock we’re going to blast past $1,000,000 early tomorrow.
$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
Level 6: 150/300/50 Ante
Entries: 415
We’re starting to see a few hardy souls enter the ballroom this afternoon after spending a little time in the Bahamas. More than a few players made the trek from Paradise Island in the Bahamas to South Florida after grinding away at the PCA series last week.
The flight is less than an hour and many are taking the opportunity to jump across the Florida Straits for the $1,000,000 Main Event.
Asher Conniff is here today after cashing in the PCA Main Event and ready to add to his already impressive results. His two biggest scores came less than two weeks apart when he won the opening event of the 2015 Borgata Spring Poker Open then followed that up by winning the WPT World Championship (after famously mis-clicking into a satellite).
A nice $1,000,000 heater.
$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
Level 5: 100/200/25 Ante
Entries: 400
The second flight of the Main Event crossed over 400 entrants midway through Level 5 leaving us 170 entrants short of hitting the magic number to pass the $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool.
Even the stormy Florida weather isn’t keeping us from getting there.
Dan Suied is one of our early players today, taking time away from the cash games to play in the big event. His last tournament victory came here during the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open when he captured Event 1 for a nice $110,000 payday.
$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
Level 5: 100/200/25 Ante
Entries: 392
We found two new players in the game and both had success during last year’s Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open.
Kelly Minkin and Greg Rosen both made their way through a 1,000-player field in last year’s Championship and made the live-streamed final table six. Rosen finished in fourth place for $220,189 while Minkin came close to becoming the first woman WPT champion with her third place result.
$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
Level 4: 75/150/25 Ante
Entries: 375
The ballroom is filling at a steady pace and was have over 380 in the game after the first break. David Sapers made the most of his early levels and sits back down to the biggest stack in the room. His 78,400 leads the way while we have another five players over 60,000.
Top counts and notable stacks:
David Sapers – 78,400 (523 bb)
David Johnson – 66,750 (445 bb)
Michael Pawelek 64,750 (432 bb)
Petko Tsakov – 64,200 (428 bb)
Farhad Roozbeh – 61,900 (413 bb)
Alban Frasheri – 57,625 (384 bb)
Howard O’Leary – 56,275 (375 bb)
Steven Wilkie – 53,275 (355 bb)
Paul Fisher – 51,625 (344 bb)
Almedin Imsirovic – 50,150 (334 bb)
Sean Shah – 49,200 (328 bb)
Asher Conniff – 43,050 (287 bb)
Kathy Liebert – 42,400 (283 bb)
Anthony Spinella – 41,075 (274 bb)
Jonathan Duhamel – 34,925 (233 bb)
Martin Carnero – 31,950 (213 bb)
Sheddy Siddiqui – 31,350 (209 bb)
Matt Waxman – 26,975 (180 bb)
Ralph Massey – 26,200 (175 bb)
Allen Kessler – 23,925 (160 bb)
Matt Stout – 22,275 (149 bb)
Vinny Pahuja – 20,850 (139 bb)
Nancy Birnbaum – 18,300 (122 bb)
Joe Kuether – 12,775 (85 bb)
$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
Level 3: Blinds 75/150
Entries: 333
Flight B players are on the first break of the day with a very nice 333 entrants in the game so far. The $1,000,000 guarantee is within reach with five and a half hours to register for this flight and a brand new one tomorrow.
We’ll find our first round of leaders with the room empty and see who had a good first two hours.