$360 No Limit Hold’em Big Stack
Level 10: 400/800 with a 100 ante
Players Remaining: 38 of 87

The player under the gun raises to 2,400 and the player in early position calls, Dylan Drazen calls from the hijack, and the player on the button calls as well.

Daren Stabinski is in the small blind and three-bets to 9,000. The original raiser folds, the player in early position calls, Drazen folds, and Schwartz moves all in for 11,000.

Stabinski and the player in early position both call. Any further action would create a side pot between Stabinski and his opponent in early position.

The flop is and Stabinski checks. His opponent bets 15,000 and Stabinski shakes his head in disgust before folding face-up.

Schwartz shows , good for middle pair and needs to improve against his opponent’s . The turn is the and the river is the to give Schwartz two pair, the best hand, and the pot to more than triple up.

Ira Schwartz – 39,500

$360 No Limit Hold’em Big Stack
Level 10: 400/800 with a 100 ante
Players Remaining: 41 of 87

The cage has calculated the payouts and they have been released. The top nine spots will get paid with a min-cash worth $783 and the winner taking home $9,135.

Here is a look at the payouts:

1st: $9,135
2nd: $4,959
3rd: $3,132
4th: $2,349
5th: $1,827
6th: $1,566
7th: $1,305
8th: $1,044
9th: $783

$360 No Limit Hold’em Big Stack
Level 9: 300/600 with a 100 ante
Players Remaining: 42 of 87

There is a three-way preflop all in between Evan Teitelbaum in the small blind, Alik Sitnyakovsky in middle position, and a player who goes by “Paulie All In” from the hijack.

Sitnyakovsky is all in for 10,800, “All In” commits his last 10,000 to the middle, and Teitelbaum has both players covered.

Teitelbaum shows and is up against Sitnyakovsky’s and “All In’s” .

The board runs out and “All In” triples up. Sitnyakovsky wins a tiny side pot and has just a couple big blinds remaining.

“Paulie All In” – 31,700
Evan Teitelbaum – 18,000
Alik Sitnyakovsky – 1,600

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 20: 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 44 of 1,239

Event 9 is quickly down to five tables not long after making the money with 72 remaining. They are moving right along and the stacks are building with some big local names hanging at the top.

Our chip leader (above) wishes to remain anonymous at the moment and his 700,000 is being chased down my Michael Foley.

Top stacks and notables:

Anonymouse – 700,000 (58 bb)
Michael Foley – 657,000 (55 bb)
Bill Farnan – 640,000 (53 bb)
Michael Marks – 545,000 (45 bb)
Marcello Bellizzi – 520,000 (43 bb)
Jordan Meltzer – 520,000 (43 bb)
Carlo Rodriguez – 425,000 (35 bb)
Eli Levy – 403,000 (34 bb)
Frankie Flowers – 235,000 (20 bb)
Paul Balzano – 230,000 (19 bb)
Al Gomez – 218,000 (18 bb)
Jake Dollinger – 179,000 (15 bb)

$300 H.O.R.S.E. (Re-Entry)
Upcoming Level 11: 1,500/3,000 Limits
Prize Pool: $14,790
Players Remaining: 20/58
Average Stack: 29,000 (9 bb)

The remaining 20 players are on a 40-minute early dinner break. On top of the chip counts is William “Bumpereno” Munley with about 75,000.

Here are the payouts:

1st: $4,584
2nd: $3,254
3rd: $2,071
4th: $1,479
5th: $1,183
6th: $887
7th: $740
8th: $592

$360 No Limit Hold’em Big Stack
Level 9: 300/600 with a 100 ante
Total Entries: 87

Level 9 is underway and the green chips have been colored up and raced off. The blinds are now 300/600 with a 100 ante and late registration and re-entry has closed for this event.

There are officially 87 entries in the field, generating a prizepool of $26,100. The cage is calculating the payouts and the official payouts will be released shortly.

Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Ambassador Wally Maddah, Daren Stabinski, Marcus Stein, Solomon Ponte, Carlos Loving, and Brian Phillis are all among the 87 entries still remaining.

$300 H.O.R.S.E. (Re-Entry)
Level 10: 1,200/2,400 Limits
Prize Pool: $14,790
Players Remaining: 25/58
Average Stack: 23,200 (9 bb)

Hold’em

The player under gun raised, Ben Matthews called from the cutoff, and David Prociak called from the small blind.

The flop fell and Prociak checked to the preflop raiser who continued. Matthews and Prociak both called.

The turn was the and Prociak checked to the UTG player who bet again. Matthews folded and Prociak called.

The river was the and both players checked.

Prociak tabled for a pair of jacks, his opponent flashed the and mucked, and Prociak collected the pot.

David Prociak – 33,000 (13 BB)

$300 H.O.R.S.E. (Re-Entry)
Level 10: 1,200/2,400 Limits
Prize Pool: $14,790
Players Remaining: 26/58

Omaha 8

With the board reading , Event 11 champion Ronnie Morone was all in for his last 1,400 with against his opponent’s .

“Need a six,” said Morone, looking for a scoop.

The river was the , no help to Morone, ending his tournament.

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 20: 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 49 of 1,239

Once Event 9 hit the money, they wasted no time mixing it up for a double or payout. It was a steady pace to the cage and included Marty Robbins, Ariel Rosello, Brian Phillis, and Seminole Hard Rock Tampa poker ambassador Wally Maddah.

They will go on another 15-minute break after this level and we’ll take a look for some of the big movers.

50th: Ariel Rosello – $550
51st: Adam Perez – $550
52nd: Roman Pshekhonov – $550
53rd: Giovanni Sigurta – $550
54th: Austin Rattet – $550
55th: Robert Levin – $491
56th: Marty Robbins – $491
57th: Brian O’Keefe – $491
58th: Brian Phillis – $491
59th: Jami Kopacz – $491
60th: Benjamin Sriqui – $491
61st: Robert Blankenship – $491
62nd: Wally Maddah – $491
63rd: Sean Anderson – $491
64th: Paulette Pipitone – $431
65th: Gaston Miculitzki – $431
66th: Alex Faynshteyn – $431
67th: Thomas Gari – $431
68th: Evan Lash – $431
69th: Robert Smith – $431
70th: Lazaro Ruiz – $431
71st: Enrique Perez – $431
72nd: Kenneth Bruno – $431