$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
End of Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Flight D Entries: 509
Players Remaining: 96
Four of the six starting flights are complete in the series’ opening event, and the weekend brings the promise of exceeding the $1 million guarantee with ease.
This morning’s Day 1C flight drew 458 entries, and the field was trimmed to 89 by the time the clock ran out on their day. Jie Liu finished the flight atop the counts with 282,000 chips, good for the overall lead in Event 1 — for the time being, at least.
Raj Vohra (152,000) also made it through the session, as did Riley Fuller (108,000), Victor Figueroa (106,000), Evan Teitelbaum (87,000), Michael Amato (82,000), Tim Reilly (60,000), Ryan Olisar (46,500), and Andy Spears (26,000).
The later Day 1D flight was the biggest so far, with 509 entries turning up before the close of registration. That brought the total field to 1,704 entries across the first four starting flights — another stellar turnout with two flights still left to grow.
Jon Borenstein did the most work in the evening session, turning his 20,000-chip starting stack into 338,000 through the first 14 levels of play. That was just good enough to edge Sheldon Gross (326,000) for the overnight honors; both men surpassed Liu’s Day 1C mark.
It took Borenstein six entries to make one stick, a fact he made light of on Twitter as play concluded:
Bagged CL (so far) in the #shrpo 3420 1 mill opening event
— Jon Borenstein (@JBoishere) August 5, 2017
Dantonio Brown also finished the day strong with 271,500 chips, and the same can be said for Josh Beckley (223,000). Vitor Coelho (189,000), Eli Levy (158,000), Matthew Zarcadoolas (125,000), Erik Christensen (111,000), Dylan Drazen (88,000), and Jewook Oh (66,500) also advanced.
The Seminole Hard Rock Poker team performed rather well in the evening session, too.
Michael Laake just arrived from his home across the state in Punta Gorda, and he wasted no time getting to work. Laake ran up a big stack early, and he ended the day inside the overall top 10 with 239,000 chips. Sheddy Siddiqui had a productive day himself, increasing his starting stack sixfold to end the day with 120,000 chips. Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Ambassador Wally Maddah also earned himself a day of rest tomorrow, putting 54,000 chips in the bag.
In the end, 96 players advanced through Day 1D, so a total of 332 have punched their ticket to Day 2 so far.
The event’s final two starting flights, Days 1E and 1F, run tomorrow at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., respectively. The combined Day 2 goes off Sunday at 1:00 p.m.