Among the players to take their seat after play began were Chris Moorman, Aaron Massey, Brandon Steven, Russell Thomas, Danny Fuhs, Adam Geyer, Joseph Cheong, Amanda Musumeci, Kurt Jewell, Jonathan Roy, Keven Stammen, Dan O’Brien, Jason Duvall, Mohsin Charania, David Benefield, Tony Dunst, Erick Lindgren, Erica Lindgren, Chino Rheem, Trevor Pope, Tristan Wade, Harrison Gimbel, Mike Leah, Ben Hamnett, Matt Salsberg, Jacob Bazeley, Ty Reiman, Andrew Lichtenberger, Jake Balsiger, Shaun Deeb, Isaac Baron, Loni Harwood, Mike Telker, Brent Hanks, Mike Beasley, Andy Seth, Taylor Paur, Shawn Buchanan, Joseph Elpayaa, and Nelly.

Busted in first orbit of Florida 5k. Lost 5k with qq<aa and then kq hh <aa aiof k52 hh

— Ari Engel (@realAriEngel) August 22, 2013

The field is at 413 entrants currently and tons of big names are out there. Here are some of the table draws:

Table 14: Shannon Shorr, Chris Johnson, Neville Darrell
Table 15: Jonathan Little, Scott Baumstein, Ari Engel
Table 16: Dan Shak, Joe Serock
Table 17: Blake Bohn, Jake Schindler, Theo Tran
Table 19: Faraz Jaka, Eric Baldwin, Noah Schwartz
Table 21: Joe Kuether, Kyle Bowker, Kory Kilpatrick
Table 34: Nick Petrangelo, Adam Levy, Jeremy Ausmus
Table 44: Tom Marchese, David “Doc” Sands
Table 49: Isaac Haxton, Matt Stout

Also in the field are Justin Bonomo, Daniel Weinman, Todd Terry, Dan Kelly, Cliff Josephy, Justin Young, Darryll Fish, Shawn Cunix, Terrence Chan, David Peters, Dylan Linde, Dermot Blain, Darren Rabinowitz, John Dolan, Carlos Mortensen, Kevin Saul, David Paredes, Danny Suied, Athanasios Polychronopoulos, Matt Affleck, Ryan Riess, Gavin Smith, Tommy Vedes, and Ruben Visser.

Welcome to our coverage of the $10 Million Guaranteed Championship Event at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida.

After 20 preliminary events and a plethora of satellites, it’s finally time for the one that everyone has been waiting for. The Championship Event carries a $5,300 buy-in with re-entries allowed for nine levels (prior to the dinner break on the three Day 1’s). Players can re-enter on a later starting flight as well and will advance to Day 2 with their best stack. The plan for Day 1A is to play 13 levels. The first nine levels are 40 minutes, followed by a 90-minute dinner break, and four one-hour levels to close out the day.

Play is set to begin at noon, so keep it here throughout the day for live updates on all of the exciting action.

The Mega Satellite that began at noon ($575) is down to 62 players from the starting field of 600. Play has slowed down considerably recently, as only 60 will secure a seat into the Main Event. Among the players remaining are Alex Bolotin, Rex Clinkscales, and Pedro “Pete” Rios.

Also going on is an $1,120 Mega Satellite into the Main Event that attracted 55 players. That tournament is about three hours in and 11 players from the remaining 32 will lock up a seat. Still in the hunt over there is David Fox, Mike Beasley, David Paredes, Bill Mullins, Tyler Patterson, and Joe Ebanks.

There were 204 entrants in Event #18 ($240 PLO Double Stack – $10K Guaranteed). Action is currently in Level 4 and 144 players remain. Among the names in the field are Sam Barnhart, Ashly Butler, Kyle Bowker, Sam Grizzle, Wald Maddah, Zo Karim, Jean Gaspard, John Holley, and Chris Bell.

The $575 Mega Satelite into the Main Event is down to 100 players, 60 of whom will win a seat. Still in the field are Marsha Wolak, Jerry Wong, Rex Clinkscales, Alex Bolotin, Stu Paterson, John Beauprez, and Scott Baumstein.

Meanwhile, Event #17 ($300 NLHE – $25K Guaranteed) is down to seven players with Luis Vazquez holding the chip lead. First place is $16,964.

Event #17 ($300 NLHE – $25K Guaranteed) began Monday night and only has 14 players left from its starting field of 233 entries. Here are the chip counts entering play today.

1. David Shaw – 345,000
2. Nashaat Antonious – 265,000
3. Alex Vazquez – 214,000
4. David Yeazell – 177,500
5. Luis Vazquez – 133,500
6. Georges Boyadjian – 110,500
7. Akiva Pearlman – 110,000
8. Delbert Tingler – 110,000
9. Marco Falchi – 107,000
10. Nolan Burton – 94,000
11. Manuel Gomez – 86,500
12. Eduart Bajrami – 79,500
13. Mansoor Kader – 39,000
14. Harold Mahaffey – 25,000

Event #18 ($240 PLO Double Stack – $10K Guaranteed) began a short while ago, but currently most of the action in the ballroom is for the $575 Mega Satelite into the Main Event. There were 600 entrants and action is in Level 7 now, with about 220 players remaining.

On the first hand at Table 3, Jon Rosenberg shoves from the hijack for 1,535,000. Neville Darrell confirms the amount before he calls from the big blind with , racing with Rosenberg’s .

The board runs out , giving Darrell a full house to eliminate Rosenberg.

Neville Darrell – 9,300,000 (93 bb)
Jon Rosenberg – Eliminated in 19th Place ($7,032)

The blinds are still 50,000-100,000 with a 15,000 ante as the final 18 players redraw for seats at the final two tables, but they will be going up soon. (Action ended last night with about 10 minutes left in this level.)