$5,250 SHRPO Championship (Single Re-Entry)
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
End of Level 10:  1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 138 of 396

Day 1A of the $5,250 SHRPO Championship is in the books and 138 players from the field of 396 Flight A entries bagged and tagged at the end of the night.

On top of the chip counts is 2017 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Champion Tony Sinishtaj, who bagged a chip-leading stack of 365,500. He is followed by Gal Yifrach with 356,000, Ben Farrell with 322,500, Chris Moneymaker with 309,000 and Athanasios Polychronopoulous with 302,000 as the unofficial top five stacks.

Sinishtaj scored an elimination late in Level 8 to increase his already hefty stack. That was around the time that Moneymaker actually joined the field, getting in about a half-hour before registration closed.

In the span of two levels and change, Moneymaker more than septupled his stack, mainly thanks to getting his stack in with pocket kings against pocket aces. His opponent flopped an ace to make a set, but the board brought running hearts to give Moneymaker the nut flush, en route to his bagging a top-four stack.

Those who bagged up will return Sunday at noon, while Day 1B kicks off Saturday at 11 a.m.

Full chip counts of the Flight A survivors will be posted later tonight.