$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 10:  500/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  63 of 140

Table 14 is having a great time this evening, non-stop chatter and even some poker. The table has TJ Shulman, Matthew Zarcadoolas, Sean Shah, and Luis Dominguez but Steve Buckner is the driving force in the good times.

The chips get in the middle often and it’s never dull. First, “Cuz” knocked a player out when his ace-five made a wheel on the river against ace-queen, and then he got the table loud soon after.

Shulman was all in and risk against Buckner but it looked like a chop was coming. Buckner had the bigger stack with and Shulman was holding .

Both were freerolling backdoor flush draws after the flop but Shulman had a shot when the turn came . The table erupted, as it’s apt to do with this fun gang, but it was a chopped pot after all when the dealer put out the river.

$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 9:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  72 of 133

Players returned from their dinner break with 133 entries on the clock and a familiar face at the top of the counts. Hector Pacheco won this tournament in 2021, taking home $62K for the efforts, and now leads is an early chip leader in this one with 175,500.

Here’s a look at some of the counts in among the seven tables in action:

Hector Pacheco – 175,500 (176 bb)
Jair Fajardo – 147,500 (148 bb)
Scott Zakheim – 109,000 (109 bb)
Roni Zelichonok – 108,500 (109 bb)
Richard Saunders – 100,000 (100 bb)
TJ Shulman – 99,000 (99 bb)
Paul Domb – 94,000 (94 bb)
Pasquale Caiazza – 65,500 (66 bb)
Sean Shah – 64,500 (65 bb)
Raminder Singh – 63,000 (63 bb)
Luis Dominguez – 60,500 (61 bb)
Steve Buckner – 58,000 (58 bb)
Richard Whitebrook – 45,000 (45 bb)
Matthew Zarcadoolas – 37,000 (37 bb)
Roberto Bendeck – 30,000 (30 bb)
Sean Phillippi – 30,000 (30 bb)
Paul Balzano – 30,000 (30 bb)
Solange Lucas – 28,500 (29 bb)
Harrison Ruggiero – 28,000 (28 bb)
Julio Delgado – 27,000 (27 bb)
Al Norman – 18,000 (18 bb)

$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 8:  400/800 with a 600 ante
Flight A Entries:  130

Flight A players were sent on a 40-minute dinner break and tournament staff will pull the black chips out of play. We have 130 entries in the field so far with late registration available until Sunday at 11 am.

$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 7:  300/600 with a 600 ante
Flight A Entries:  116

Players are back in their seats after the second break with the dinner break only 80 minutes away. The entry count continues to climb as they get closer to the $100,000 guarantee.

Jair Fajardo is the early leader with just shy of 200K with Paul Domb, Scott Zakheim, Roni Zelichonok, and Richard Saunders also holding six digits in their stacks.

Here are some random counts from around the room:

Jair Fajardo – 199,100 (332 bb)
Paul Domb – 142,400 (237 bb)
Scott Zakheim – 133,400 (222 bb)
Roni Zelichonok – 131,000 (218 bb)
Richard Saunders – 104,200 (174 bb)
Luis Dominguez – 76,100 (127 bb)
Richard Whitebrook – 75,500 (126 bb)
Paul Balzano – 37,300 (62 bb)
Solange Lucas – 37,200 (62 bb)
Steve Buckner – 36,300 (61 bb)
Julio Delgado – 34,000 (57 bb)
Brandon Schwartz – 34,000 (57 bb)
Richard Leger – 30,300 (51 bb)
Raminder Singh – 28,000 (47 bb)
Carlos Bermudez – 27,000 (45 bb)
Rafael Lima – 16,000 (27 bb)
TJ Shulman – 15,100 (25 bb)
Harrison Ruggiero – 15,000 (25 bb)

$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 6:  300/500 with a 500 ante
Flight A Entries:  102

The second break rolled around and players are taking another 15 minutes away from the action, refresh and maybe grab some good.

They will return and play two more levels before their 40-minute dinner break.

$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 5:  200/400 with a 400 ante
Flight A Entries:  98

The entry count is nearing triple digits for the first flight of the first tournament of the series. We’re a third of the way to the $100,000 with a busy weekend anticipated.

A few early friends in the field include Steve “Cuz” Buckner, Harrison Ruggiero, Luis Dominguez, Pasquale Caiazza, Solange Lucas, TJ Shulman, Carlos Bermudez, Eric Kolodny, Richard Leger, Rafael Lima, and Jay Romano.

$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 3:  100/200 with a 200 ante
Flight A Entries:  70

Flight A players cruised into the afternoon and take their first break with 70 entries in the field and many more expected with late registration available until Sunday at 11 am.

Slow structure, long time to get in the game.

$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 1:  100/100

We kick off the 2025 May Deep Stack Poker Series this morning with Flight A of Event 1 at 11 am. It is a $400 buy-in Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em tournament with a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool and three long flights.

Players sit with 30K in their stacks and all Day 1 levels last 40 minutes, going up to 60 at the start of Day 2 and 90 minutes starting with Level 27. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Day 2 on Sunday at 11 am.

They will play through 14 full levels and survivors will bag up their chips for Day 2.

• $100,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 30,000 in chips
• Levels 1-14 last 40 minutes; Level 15-26 last 60 minutes
• Levels 27+ last 90 minutes
• Late registration until start of Day 2
• Day 1 will end after Level 14
• Event 1 Structure Sheet

Primary Event Schedule

11AM: Event 1 Day 1A – $400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)

• $100,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 30,000 in chips
• Levels 1-14 last 40 minutes; Level 15-26 last 60 minutes
• Levels 27+ last 90 minutes
• Late registration until start of Day 2
• Day 1 will end after Level 14
• Event 1 Structure Sheet

Satellite Schedule

6PM: $150 Multi-Event Satellite (1-in-10)

• Two $1,250 packages guaranteed; includes seat in $400 Event 1 and $600 Event 3 plus $250 in cash
• Players begin with 10,000 in chips
• Levels last 15 minutes
• Late registration until start of Level 9 (8:15pm)
• Structure Sheet