$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 8: 300/600 with a 75 ante
Total Entries: 360

We’ve had our fair share of successful players hit the ballroom for some SHRPO action and Jerry Wong can be counted among them. He has a few tournament wins to his credit, including a tournament title during our 2012 Seminole Hard Rock Summer Splash series, but he has a bigger tournament on his mind now.

Wong is part of the final table in the big daddy tournament, a brand new member of the WSOP Main Event November Nine. He locked up his spot at the table a few weeks ago and now has to wait until the end of October to get back into action.

Wong is guaranteed at least a $1,000,000 payout and will ladder up from there. His second biggest score is nothing to complain about either, a third place finish in the 2013 PCA Main Event put $725,000 in his bankroll.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 7: 250/500 with a 75 ante
Total Entries: 330

Table 50 was a tough table to draw today, some big names and top players filled in a lot of the seats.

AJ “Doc” Santos is a regular during our big SHRP events when he’s not busy grind big PLO games in our sister poker room in Tampa. He has no problem firing multiple bullets into an event and has to here.

Santos put all his chips in the middle with the board reading and his was actually ahead of his opponent’s . Santos needed to dodge a hurt but the river was no good.

While Santos was hitting the registration desk, the table still had three big spots to deal with. Noah Schwartz, Daniel Buzgon, and David Diaz were equally dispersed around the table to make it a rough road. Those three have combined for nearly $9 million in career earnings, two WSOP bracelets, and one WPT title.

Luckily for the rest, that table will be breaking soon.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 6: 200/400 with a 50 ante
Total Entries: 310

Two-time WSOP Circuit winner Aaron Massey is making his first appearance this series but has a little work to do with his first bullet.

He dropped down to 7,000 after mixing it up with Al Gomez then calling a small bet with the board reading only to see Gomez flopped a set of ducks.

Massey has run up short stacks in the past and will need to do so if he wants to bag later tonight. A good result here for the former HPT Player of the Year will put Massey over $3 million in career earnings.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 150/300 with a 50 ante
Total Entries: 280

Players are back in their seats after the first break and we’re nearing 300 entrants for the third flight of Event 10.

Solange Lucas is your early leader when she ran her 20,000 starting stack up to 76,000 in two hours of play. She’s followed by $1,650 May Deepest Stack winner Scott Heiligman and SHRP regular Zoltan Czinkota looking for his third final table of the series.

Top stacks and some notable names:

Solange Lucas – 76,000 (253 bb)
Scott Heiligman – 56,450 (188 bb)
Zoltan Czinkota – 50,000 (167 bb)
Aaron Gordon – 48,400 (161 bb)
Fredric White – 47,750 (159 bb)
Robert Dukes – 47,000 (157 bb)
Alan Dobrow – 45,600 (152 bb)
Pavel Szckesny – 45,375 (151 bb)
Daren Stabinski – 33,150 (111 bb)
Josh Hillock – 29,600 (99 bb)
Cate Hall – 19,625 (65 bb)
Jonathan Brody – 16,500 (55 bb)
Thayer Rasmussen – 16,000 (53 bb)
Bill Gazes – 14,600 (49 bb)
Ronnie Bardah – 13,725 (46 bb)
David Jackson – 13,000 (43 bb)

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 4: 100/200 with a 25 ante
Total Entries: 260

Flight C players are on their first break of the day with 260 entrants showing on the clock and more than two hours left to get in on the action.

That also means it’s time for the first look at the early leaders and biggest stacks while they are out of the room.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 4: 100/200 with a 25 ante
Total Entries: 240

Bill Gazes is old school poker, first tournament cash in 1993 old school. We’ve had him pop up over the last few series and he’s back with us today.

Gazes is still looking for his first major tournament victory though there were some very close calls. In his career, he’s made seven WSOP final tables, finished second in the 2007 WSOP H.O.R.S.E. event, and went to two WPT televised final tables.

Today it looks like Gazes has two priorities. Playing in the $1 Million GTD Event 10 while spending his time behind hands concentrating hard on the monitor behind him showing the US Women’s National Team Olympic soccer match versus New Zealand. Multi-tasking at its best.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 3: 75/150 with a 25 ante
Total Entries: 220

Sheddy Siddiqui and Darryll Fish aren’t the only two SHRP team members in action today, we caught up with Cate Hall in the middle of the room for some of her first action of the series.

Hall is having a nice run over the past few months. She finished in ninth place during the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship in April, followed that up with a deep run in the $10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale, then went to Las Vegas and cashed six times during the World Series of Poker.

Beat long odds & am at the right airport at the right time w/a valid ticket. Next stop @shrpo for 2 weeks of great weather, fun & the Big 4.

— Cate Hall (@catehall) August 3, 2016

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 2: 50/100
Total Entries: 180

Flight C is quickly growing and should hit 200 entrants before noon rolls around, but it’s oddly quiet in here for a ballroom full of players. It’s usually a little louder on a Friday morning but there’s only murmurs, chip shuffling, and the occasion outburst so far.

All business today.

We found two SHRP team members in early action today. Sheddy Siddiqui and Daryll Fish jumped in before lunchtime, grinding away trying to put chips in a bag.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50
Total Entries: 110

Cards are in the air for Flight C of Event 10 with over 100 entrants at the start including Bradley Young. And he’s having a very fine week.

Young finished in second place during the $570 Double Black Chip Bounty NLH/PLO Event 7 and followed that up with his first SHRPO title by winning the $360 Pot Limit Omah/8 Event 9 two days ago.

$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50

The first two flights of Event 1 are wrapped up and it’s time for the middle two flights to get rolling, starting off with Flight C at 11am. The big $570 buy-in Event 10 is well on pace to surpass its $1,000,000 Guarantee and we’ll get closer this afternoon.

Two Matts sit atop the leaderboard after yesterday’s action. Matthew Yorra bagged up 332,500 in the opening flight while SHRP team member Matt Affleck put 310,500 in his bag early this morning. The tournament drew a combined 725 entrants yesterday with 134 moving on.

The next session is set to run at the top of the hour and players will sit down to 20,000 starting stacks. Levels will run 30 minutes today with late registration and re-entry available until the start of Level 9 at 3:30pm. Play will conclude at the end of Level 14 and those with chips will return on Sunday for Day 2.

• $1,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 20,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
• Day 1 will end after Level 14 or Tournament Director discretion
• Event 10 Structure Sheet