$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 7: 250/500/75 Ante
Flight 1E Entries: 575

“Can we get to 600 players?”

That’s a question we’ve heard a few times and right now there’s a good chance, they have 45 minutes of play and a 15 minute break to boost the number. The flight is a success even if we drop short of six bills because the prize pool is over $600,000 with one last flight to go.

Ian O’Hara is in the early flight today and looking for his first trophy here in the ballroom. He has five career titles but has yet to grab a Hollywood trophy after three second place finishes. That fact is a little skewed when you look at his official runner-up cash against Jason Mercier in the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $25K High Roller.

While he didn’t take home the big, shiny trophy, he earned $527,000 after the two struck a deal. That’s $10,000 more than Mercier took home with the official title.