$350 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack (Re-Entry)
Level 27: 30,000/60,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 30 out of 2,692
Average Stack: 1,794,667

There is a three-way all in preflop with Jon Borenstein showing from the small blind and up against the big blind’s and under-the-gun’s .

The board runs out clean for Borenstein as it comes and he picks up the pot and eliminates two players. He drags the pot and is contending for the chip lead with only 30 players remaining.

Jon Borenstein – 3,800,000

$350 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack (Re-Entry) 
Level 27: 30,000/60,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 31 of 2,692
Average Stack: 1,736,774

Tim Piperakis moves all in from under-the-gun for just over 500,000 and Adam Levy moves all in for about 625,000 from the small blind. The big blind folds and the cards are exposed.

Piperakis shows and is flipping against Levy’s . The flop is and Levy is drawing to runners after Piperakis flops a set.

“That’s not good,” said Levy after the flop.

The turn is the and the river is the to give Piperakis the double up.

Tim Piperakis – 1,100,000
Adam Levy – 125,000

$350 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack (Re-Entry)
Level 26: 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 37 of 2,692
Average Stack: 1,455,135

A player in the cutoff moves all in and the button moves all in over the top. Dani Dayan moves all in from the small blind, having both players covered.

All three hands are tabled with Dayan showing , the button showing and the cutoff having the only pair with his .

The flop is and Dayan flops a full house to leave the cutoff drawing to running sixes and the button is dead. The turn is the and the river is the to send two players home and move Dayan up the chip counts.

Dani Dayan – 2,350,000

$1,100 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry)

The big Six-Max tournament drew 122 entrants to create a prize pool of $118,340. The last 15 players will take home a piece of money with a min-cash worth $2,130 and the winner will take home $30,188.

1st: $30,188
2nd: $20,437
3rd: $13,361
4th: $10,674
5th: $8,012
6th: $6,166
7 – 9th: $4,627
10 – 12th: $3,077
13 – 15th: $2,130

$350 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack (Re-Entry) 
Level 26: 25,000/50,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 42 of 2,692
Average Stack: 1,281,905

Marcus Stein raises to 120,000 from early position and action folds all the way to the big blind, who moves all in for 435,000. Stein verifies the amount with the dealer and then pushes a call forward.

Stein shows and has his opponent’s dominated. The board runs out and Stein’s jacks hold up to eliminate his opponent.

Stein drags the pot and extends his chip lead to put even more distance between himself and the rest of the field.

Marcus Stein – 4,100,000

$350 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack (Re-Entry) 
Level 25: 20,000/40,000/5,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 49 of 2,692
Average Stack: 1,100,000 (27 big blinds)

Jon Borenstein’s hold on the chip lead was short-lived, through no fault of is own. Marcus Stein at an adjacent table battled a smaller stack most of the day before he found a needed double before dinner. He did it again and won the biggest pot of the tournament so far.

It was a pre-flop battle before he was all-in for effectively 1.5 million and in great position with against . The news got even better on the flop and he locked up the hand on the for a full double up to 3.1 million.

$350 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack (Re-Entry)
Level 25: 20,000/40,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 49 of 2,692
Average Stack: 1,098,776

A player in middle position raises to 80,000 and Jason Kmetetz three-bets to 220,000 on the button.

“How much do you have left?” asked the player in middle position.

“I’m not hiding anything,” said Kmetetz. “It’s all right here.”

The floor comes over and rules that a player is entitled to a “reasonable estimation” of his stack and Kmetetz breaks his stacks down into stacks of 20 chips. He has about 600,000 behind.

Middle position calls and they are heads-up to a flop of . Middle position checks and Kmetetz moves all in for 625,000. His opponent goes into the tank for several minutes.

“Get the camera man,” said Kmetetz. “He’s either going to have a good victory or I’m going to win. It’s fifty-fifty.”

After some time in the tank, middle position calls.

“I probably lost,” said Kmetetz.

Kmetetz shows and is in the lead against his opponent’s .

The turn is the and the river is the , giving Kmetetz a double up to back over an average stack.

“Is it over?” asked Kmetetz.

Jason Kmetetz – 1,650,000

$350 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack (Re-Entry) 
Level 25: 20,000/40,000/5,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 54 of 2,692
Average Stack: 997,000 (25 big blinds)

The chips are flying tonight and Event 1 down to the last six tables. Even with the average stack hanging around 1 million, those are good enough for 25 big blinds.

Jon Borenstein continues to move up the counts while others are falling. He hit the 2.5 million mark at the start of Level 25 though he shipped a couple hundred K to a neighbor in a bad beat double up.

Event 1 is scheduled to play out today but more likely it will hit the 3am hard stop and return tomorrow. Unless this pace keeps up, then we might see a $140,000 payout.

$250 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Turbo
Level 29: 40,000/80,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Registered: 229
Players Remaining: 1

On a flop of , Cangir Elcin gets his last 800,000 into the middle and Aleksandr Shevelev calls.

Elcin shows , good for bottom pair and needs to improve to top Shevelev’s , good for top pair.

The turn is the , giving Shevelev two pair and leaving Elcin drawing to two outs in the deck. The river is the and Shevelev officially takes home the trophy.

Shevelev takes home $13,462 and the trophy for the win and the Elcin earns $7,935 for his runner-up finish.

Aleksandr Shevelev – $250 No Limit Hold’em Turbo Champion
Cangir Elcin – Eliminated

$350 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack (Re-Entry) 
Level 24: 15,000/30,000/5,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 81 of 2,692
Average Stack: 667,000 (22 big blinds)

There’s usually a lot of action after the dinner break; players getting frisky with full bellies and happy heads. Event 1 was no different and entire table of players hit the payout desk including Seminole Hard Rock Tampa ambassador Wally Maddah.

“Are you going to put me in the blog if I win a hand?” That was the question from Jason Kmetetz.

He was short stacked with ten big blinds and called all-in from the big blind after an early position shove. Kmetetz’ was dominating and the board gave him the full double to 670,000.

And he made the blog.