$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 11: 1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 90 of 342

Flight A reached the end of Level 11 and the 90 remaining players are enjoying their last break of the day. We will drop a few more tables over the final three levels of the night with everyone eyeing a spot in the Day 2 field on Sunday.

$360 Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)
Structure
Level 9: 1,000/2,000 Limits
Entries: 67

Registration closed on the Omaha 8 trophy event and the tournament board shows 67 entries. They are down to the last five tables on the tournament and will take a 40-minute dinner break after Level 11.

We will post the official prize pool and payouts as soon as they are available.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10: 500/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 113 of 342

It’s not all serious business in the Event Center today. Jason Young and Michael Newman, two of our most recent major winners, have been sitting together most of the day and the laughs can be heard non-stop across the room.

“You run so bad here!” Young needled the Ultimate Re-Entry winner.

“I’m wrong,” Young laughed. “You win everything here but nothing outside of Florida.”

Newman took it all, laughed, and gave some right back. It’s easy to have fun for Newman and his 135,000 puts him among the leaders.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight A Entries: 342

Registration closed for Flight A of the $1,000,000 Poker Showdown opener and it drew 342 entries to put the tournament on an easy path to the seven-digit prize pool.

We have one more flight today kicking off at 6pm followed by two more flights on Friday and Saturday each.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8: 400/800 with a 800 ante
Flight A Entries: 331

We are heading towards the end of registration in Flight A and they cracked 300 entries with plenty of time to spare. Michael Newman recently joined his new table and he grabbed a seat next to the previously mentioned Jason Young.

Newman has plenty of SHRP wins including his run as the 2017 Rock ‘N’ Roller Poker Champion. In more recent news, he kicked off his Lucky Hearts Poker Open series with a win in the Ultimate Re-Entry opening event. Newman followed that big score with his first WSOP Circuit ring in the $400 Coco WSOPC turbo event.

$360 Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)
Structure
Level 5: 400/800 Limits
Entries: 56

The Omaha 8 tournament recently came back from their first break and the field moved over 50 entries while they were gone. A fine turnout for the specialty game so far with more expected.

Notables in early action include Eric Rivkin, Brian Gelrod, and David Shmuel along with Phil Hui coming off an Omaha 8 victory during the 2019 Lucky Hearts Poker Open.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6: 300/500 with a 500 ante
Flight A Entries: 274

The last time we saw Jason Young in a major Hollywood tournament, he was the one posing for the trophy pictures.

He is having a pretty decent start to his 2019. The WSOP bracelet winner began the 2019 SHR Lucky Hearts Poker Open with a final table appearance in the massive 4,500-field Ultimate Re-Entry starting event and bookended his series with a $263,000 win as the WPTDeepStacks Hollywood champion.

Young carried that success up the road to our sister room in Coconut Creek for the WSOP Circuit series. He went deep in the Main Event and a two-outer denied another title but that third-place finish put another $111,000 in his bankroll.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 200/400 with a 400 ante
Flight A Entries: 254

Players returned to their seats and Level 5 is underway with another dozen entries jumping in during the break. Everyone is chasing Sanu Singh in the early levels and he came back to a stack worth 86,000 for the clear lead.

Other notable bigger stacks include Daniel Vo (73,000), Michael Tureniec (58,000), Dimitry Agrachov (50,000), Rob Brown (48,000), Mark Nahama (47,000), Jacquelyn Scott (45,900), andThomas DiPietro (45,000).

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4: 200/300 with a 300 ante
Flight A Entries: 232

The clock ran out on Level 4 and the big Flight A field is taking their first break of the day with 232 entries in the game. They will return to play four more levels, take another break, and registration will close at the start of Level 9.