$350 Seniors No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50

It’s time the Seniors to take the spotlight at the 2015 Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open as the first tournament after the mini-break for the Super Bowl.

The tournament is open to anyone 50 years or older and it usually turns into a fun, raucous event by the end, This is a two-day event with play ending at 11pm or the final table, whichever comes first.

The event has a $350 buy-in with a $20,000 guarantee. Players begin with 10,000 stacks and 30-minute levels throughout the day. Late registration and re-entry is available until the start of Level 9, approximately 4:30pm.

It will be a slow buildup at the start but play in the ballroom is back underway.

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 18: 3,000/6,000/1,000 Ante

Event 10 is back from its first break of the restart and things are moving nicely. They broke a table immediately after they returned getting down to 99 player remaining, just two tables away from the money.

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 22: 8,000/16,000/2,000 Ante

Denis Cyr quietly left us in 19th to pause the clock once again. They are redrawing seats for the final two tables and will get back underway.

19th Denis Cyr (Boischatel, ON) – $2,881
20th Joe Kuether (Las Vegas, NV) – $2,881
21st Steven Karp (North Miami Beach, FL) – $2,881
22nd Elliott Zaydman (Coconut Creek, FL) – $2,881
23rd Hans Winzeler (Miami, FL) – $2,881
24th Farzad Raji (Palm Harbor, FL) – $2,881
25th Tristan Wade (Boynton Beach, FL) – $2,881
26th Zo Karim (Orlando, FL) – $2,881
27th Mark Dugay (Saint John) – $2,881

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 22: 8,000/16,000/2,000 Ante

Just a few minutes after the break ended, there were two eliminations in quick succession.

Steven Karp was all-in versus Carlos Loving . Loving flopped second pair plus the flush draw when it came then completed the flush on the turn. Karp set of Jacks couldn’t find a boat and he was gone in 21st.

While that was playing out, Table 8 had Joe Kuether at risk with against Stephen Diamantas’ . He also caught a small part of the but it wasn’t enough to save him as it completed to send him out in 20th.

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 15: 1,500/3,000/500 Ante

The big field, small buy-in Event 10 field is getting ready to restart for Day 2 with 169 of the starting 1,335 entrants still around for the title.

The tournament featured eight starting flights and they were on the modest side until yesterday’s last two flights. They combined to put the field over the $150,000 guaranteed prize pool and they’ll now split up $160,200 between the final 81 players.

Everett Gilmore leads the way as the only player over 400,000 but that is no lock for success. The average stack is just over 30 big blinds to start so this should move fast over the early 30-minute levels.

Players are in their seats to unbag their chips and about set to go.

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 21: 6,000/12,000/2,000 Ante

Between scheduled breaks and redraws, it’s been stop and go over the last few hours. They are off on their second break of the day but with just 21 players remaining, there will be another redraw in the near future.

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 21: 6,000/12,000/2,000 Ante

While players are dropping off the final three tables, local regular Daren Stabinski has been grinding away all day. He found a needed double as the field shrinks.

He was all-in against high-stakes grinder Tim “Tim0theeAdam” Adams with the dominant against and the board was a drama-free . The hand moved him near 400,000 while Adams dropped under 20 big blinds.

Stanbinski has success at these levels with a 1st and 2nd in the $1,100 events here during the Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘N Roll Poker Open”.