$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 10: 500/1,000/100 Ante

Barry Hutter has struck first and bags the chip lead for Day 1A with 182 players advancing out of 502 entries into today’s flight.

Hutter managed to sneak over the 300,000 chip mark and will carry 305,000 chips into Day 2 running away from the rest of the field.  Daniel Shiff ends up second with 213,000 chips and Event 6 champion Eliyaho Levy put away 210,100.

Some of the other top stacks include Luis Santoni (184,500), Vladimir Dobrovolski (182,900), Ty Reiman (182,900), Jake Schindler (181,700), Diaz Gilbert (180,200) and Yunior Bella (179,600).

Other notables include Pasquale Caiazza (162,000), Brian Altman (161,600), Darren Elias (150,000), Jerry Wong (150,000), Faraz Jaka (149,900), Christopher Bolek (141,700), Darryll Fish (132,700), Dan Suied (125,000), Steve Brecher (120,200), Anthony Zinno (93,600), Marvin Rettenmaier ($88,300), Will Failla (74,800), Jason Mercier (69,800), Mohsin Charania (66,900) and Sorel Mizzi (40,500).

Day 1B kicks off tomorrow at noon and all the players that advanced tonight will continue their quest for this championship at noon on Sunday.

Congratulations to everyone who advanced to Day 2!