Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 50
| Mike Leah | 58,000 |
| Taylor von Kriegenbergh | 53,000 |
| Christina Lindley | 47,000 |
| Clint Tolbert | 46,000 |
| Terrence Chan | 43,000 |
| Vanessa Rousso | 39,000 |
| Elio Fox | 37,000 |
| Theo Tran | 36,000 |
| Nick Petrangelo | 34,000 |
| Alexander Kuzmin | 33,000 |
| Jason Koon | 32,000 |
| Nancy Birnbaum | 28,000 |
| Dan Kelly | 23,000 |
| Andy Seth | 23,000 |
| Jake Cody | 22,000 |
| Matt Salsberg | 14,000 |
| Amir Babakhani | 4,500 |
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 50
| Amanda Musumeci | 52,000 |
| Phil Ivey | 51,000 |
| Jeremy Ausmus | 47,000 |
| Johnny Miller | 45,000 |
| Matthew Burnitz | 43,000 |
| Ryan Fair | 43,000 |
| Matthew Elsarelli | 40,000 |
| Matt Affleck | 39,000 |
| Kenny Nguyen | 37,000 |
| Victor Ramdin | 36,000 |
| John Beauprez | 35,000 |
| Abbey Daniels | 35,000 |
| Brian Hastings | 33,000 |
| Cory Zeidman | 31,000 |
| Jeff Fielder | 29,000 |
| Justin Bonomo | 27,000 |
| Lauren Kling | 27,000 |
| Loni Harwood | 27,000 |
| Raj Patel | 26,000 |
| Frank Kassela | 25,000 |
| Jacob Bazeley | 23,000 |
| Bill Gazes | 22,000 |
| Abe Mosseri | 22,000 |
| James Calderaro | 17,000 |
| JJ Liu | 13,000 |
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
| Michael Tait | 68,000 |
| Pete Rios | 55,000 |
| Aaron Overton | 42,000 |
| Russell Thomas | 40,000 |
| Chino Rheem | 37,000 |
| Erica Schoenberg-Lindgren | 36,000 |
| Bart Hanson | 36,000 |
| Andrew Badecker | 35,000 |
| Shawn Busse | 33,000 |
| Jesse Martin | 32,000 |
| Ted Lawson | 31,000 |
| Tony Cousineau | 29,000 |
| Joe Elpayaa | 28,000 |
| Dwyte Pilgrim | 26,000 |
| Bryan Piccioli | 24,000 |
| Ankush Mandavia | 24,000 |
| Jim Collopy | 24,000 |
| Lee Childs | 23,000 |
| Dan Buzgon | 22,000 |
| Joe Kuether | 21,000 |
| Cliff Josephy | 19,000 |
| Jason Duval | 18,000 |
| Nelly | 18,000 |
| Trevor Pope | 17,000 |
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 25
| Nick Mitchell | 44,000 |
| Eugene Katchalov | 41,000 |
| Zachary Kessler | 40,000 |
| Kyle Bowker | 40,000 |
| Bryan Campanello | 39,000 |
| Danny Masterson | 38,000 |
| Jared Jaffee | 37,000 |
| David Sands | 36,000 |
| Jesse Yaginuma | 35,000 |
| Phil Laak | 35,000 |
| Aaron Jones | 34,000 |
| David Diaz | 34,000 |
| Tony Dunst | 32,000 |
| James Mackey | 32,000 |
| Eddie Ochana | 29,000 |
| Joseph Cheong | 28,000 |
| Matt Jarvis | 26,000 |
| Huck Seed | 24,000 |
| Robert Mizrachi | 24,000 |
| Steven Silverman | 24,000 |
| Mike Dentale | 21,000 |
| Ty Reiman | 20,000 |
| Chris Bell | 18,000 |
| Alex Bolotin | 17,000 |
| Ruben Visser | 15,000 |
| Brandon Steven | 15,000 |
| Sam Barnhart | 7,100 |
The players are back from their first break of the day. The blinds are still 75/150, but now there is an ante of 75. At the moment, the board reads 833 entries for Day 1C.
Day 1B of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $10 Million Guaranteed Championship drew 690 entries, bringing the total to 1,324. At the end of the day, it was Gjergj Sinishtaj (pictured above) who finished as the chipleader with 376,000.
Day 1C needs to attract at least 676 entrants to reach the $10 million guarantee — less than the size of the Day 1B field. Since the later starting days in major tournaments tend to attract more players, it seems like the safe money is on the Seminole Hard Rock reaching the guarantee.
The official chip counts are in, and here’s a look at the top of the leaderboard for Day 1B:
1. Gjergj Sinishtaj – 376,000 (188 bb)
2. Raj Vohra – 322,000 (161 bb)
3. Chris Dombrowski – 266,800 (133 bb)
4. Deborah Hinton – 255,700 (127 bb)
5. Neri Sanchez – 241,200 (120 bb)
6. Uri Kadosh – 218,500 (109 bb)
7. Marc Davis – 211,600 (105 bb)
8. Bradley Rhodes – 199,100 (99 bb)
9. Kelly Minkin – 197,400 (98 bb)
10. Ravi Raghavan – 195,900 (97 bb)
Also surviving the day were Mike Matusow, Jared Hamby, Jamie Armstrong, Allen Bari, Allen Kessler, and Kevin Eyster, who won the Seminole Hard Rock Showdown in April. Among the many who came up empty on Day 1B were Phil Ivey, Jason Mercier, David Sands, Cliff Josephy, and the rapper Nelly.
Day 1C begins Saturday at 12:00 noon ET, and any players who busted (or are unhappy with a short stack) can re-enter as many times as they’d like until registration closes after the dinner break (8:00 pm).
For the complete list of 417 survivors from Days 1A and 1B, click here for the PDF file.
Picking up the action after the river of a 
board, the player in the big blind bets 10,000. Gjergj Sinishtaj, on the button, raises to about 35,000 effective and after a few moments, his opponent calls all in. Sinishtaj tables 
for a full house, his opponent mucks, and Sinishtaj collects the pot to increase his stack to about 370,000.
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
| Raj Vohra | 250,000 (156 bb) |
| Neri Sanchez | 215,000 (134 bb) |
| Vinny Pahuja | 200,000 (125 bb) |
| Michael Lipman | 170,000 (106 bb) |
| Matt Stout | 160,000 (100 bb) |
| Jared Hamby | 160,000 (100 bb) |
| Leo Wolpert | 140,000 (87 bb) |
| Mike Matusow | 115,000 (71 bb) |
| Kevin Eyster | 92,000 (57 bb) |
| David Benyamine | 91,000 (56 bb) |
| Darren Elias | 67,000 (41 bb) |
| Matt Glantz | 55,000 (34 bb) |
| Dan Shak | 43,000 (26 bb) |
| Brett Richey | 40,000 (25 bb) |
| Mike Beasley | 32,000 (20 bb) |
Among the players to be recently eliminated are Jason Mercier, Dan Kelly, and Kory Kilpatrick.
The blinds are now 600/1,200 with a 100 ante. There are 324 players remaining from the 690 Day 1B entries.