$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Next Blinds: 1,500/3,000/300 ante
Day 2 – Sunday 1 pm

The opening flights are in the books of the $1 Million Guaranteed kickoff event of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown.

Flight B finished the night with Mina Akladious (Boynton Beach, FL) claiming the $1,000 end of night chip lead bonus when he edged Sascha Walter (Stuttgart, Germany) by less than 8k in chips.

“I folded Ace-Queen in position,” said Akladious, who needed 7k to call a raise on the final hand. Standing pat with 255k turned out to be the right fold as Walter nearly grabbed the lead on his table’s last hand.

Walter won a 165k pot when his AK knocked out two players to finish the night just shy of the bonus with 247k. But both players trail the top two stacks from the morning session.

David Shaw  earned the Flight A $1,000 bonus with 277k, less than 2k ahead of Robert Williams’ 275k.

The day began with 286 entries in Flight A, followed by 278 in Flight B as, coincidentally, both fields finished with 59 players.

That leaves 118 players with an average stack of 119k (40 bb) when they resume play with Day 2 at 1 pm Sunday.

In the meantime, the next round of flights takes off 11 am, Friday as Flight C is the third of six starting flights in the series opener.