$100 + $25 No Limit Hold’Em Deep Stack

Blinds 150/300

We’ve started Level 5 which means registration is closed. 285 entrants is showing on the tournament clock and on the computer where they are letting alternates in the unofficial number is 302. Still a line as players wait for other players to bust out so they can take a seat. Easily the largest number of entrants we’ve had in any flight yet. It’s easy to understand how there are so many when you see hands like the following:

There is a raise to 600, a re-raise to 1800 from the button, the big blind has about 6K in front of him and calls the 1800. The initial raiser calls as well. The flop comes and the big blind tosses the rest of his chips into the middle. The first player folds and the button snap calls and turns over for a flopped set of queens. “Well s***,” said the big blind. “I don’t know what I have yet,” he said as he reveals . He needs a miracle and doesn’t get it… and joins the line of alternates down stairs. It’s almost like they are burning money here. A poker player’s paradise. Appropriate since we’re appropriated right near Seminole Paradise at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Hollywood.