$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 20: 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 160 of 2,724

The player under the gun opened with a raise to 115,000, leaving just 3,000 behind. A couple seats over, Felipe Perez failed to notice the action.

“Raise,” Perez said, before putting 20,000 into the pot. The floor was called for a ruling. Since Perez verbalized his action first, he was bound to a minimum raise and forced to make it 220,000 total. He did so with a shrug. “It’s okay, I have a good hand,” he said. The table folded back around to the initial raiser, who committed his last few chips to put himself at risk.

Perez:
Opponent:

The board ran out , and Perez won the knockout pot with jacks up.

Felipe Perez – 520,000 (52 bb)

$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry)
Level 4: 75/150
Total Entries: 87

With Event 10 getting into the money, we popped our heads into the smaller meeting room to check on the $1,650 Purple Chip Bounty gang that is closing on its first break.

The entrant count stands at 87 to easily surpass the $100,000 guarantee with more than four more hours to register.

We found Brian Phillis, TK Miles, David Diaz, Daren Stabinski, and Cathy Dever in action along with Seminole Hard Rock Poker team members Sheddy Siddiqui, Darryll Fish, and Cate Hall.

We’ll grab a round of chip counts during the break and see who’s doing well early.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 19: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 205 of 2,724

Will Givens opened the pot with a middle-position raise to 25,000, starting a flurry of action. The player in the cutoff moved all in for 27,000, the button called, and the big blind re-shoved for 57,000 total. Givens moved all in for 249,000 over the top, and the button called with the covering stack, putting three players at risk.

Givens:
Cutoff:
Button:
Big blind:

The board ran out , and Givens’ queens held to earn him the pot. He more than doubled up, eliminating a pair of opponents in the process.

As the pot was pushed to him, Givens picked up his cards and kissed the two queens, one at a time. “Love the ladies,” he said.

Will Givens – 593,000 (99 bb)

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 19: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 250 of 2,724

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 19: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 250 of 2,724

It took only two rounds of hand-for-hand action to get Event 10 in the money, though the first hand took nearly ten minutes.

Jerry Wong found a big hand at his table with an early raiser all-in for 15,000. He came along in small blind, as did the big blind, to the flop. Wong got a 25,000 flop bet called and another turn bet after it came . A river bet got the big blind to fold and the two players had to wait for other action to finish before tabling their hands.

“I’m pretty sure I’m the bubble,” said the soon-to-be bubble boy.

When all else was done, Wong tabled to best the unimproved to put Event 10 in the money.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 19: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 251 of 2,724

On an flop, Jodie Diamond got her last 40,000 into the middle with a pot of more than 80,000 already up for grabs. She was at risk against the player on her direct right, and she only needed to fade one out to survive.

Diamond:
Opponent:

Diamond was on the good end of the set-over-set flop, and the turn and river secured her double-up.

Jodie Diamond – 165,000 (21 bb)

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 18: 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 251 of 2,724

There are 251 players remaining, and only room for 250 of them in the payouts. Action is being dealt hand-for-hand until the next elimination, which will burst the money bubble. The next player eliminated will go home empty handed, while the rest of the field will be guaranteed to earn at least $1,144.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 18: 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 259 of 2,724

Four players were involved in a pot on a flop. Alfonso Perez checked from the small blind, and the big blind bet 20,000. Rachael Kranz called next to act, and the fourth player called in position. That brought the action back to Perez, and he check-raised all in for 82,000. The big blind folded, Kranz called, and the fourth player folded to leave Perez heads up for his tournament life.

Perez: (wheel)
Kranz: (straight draw)

The appeared promptly on the turn, leaving Perez dead to a chop. The river was the blank , and he was eliminated at the hands of Kranz.

“Thank you, dealer,” Kranz said as the pot was pushed in her direction.

“Thank you?” Perez shook his head as he stood up from his chair. “I’m sorry you weren’t good enough to fold.” After another moment, he added, “Best of luck. I mean that sincerely.”

Rachael Kranz – 400,000 (67 bb)
Alfonso Perez – Eliminated

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 18: 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 259 of 2,724

We caught the action with the flop reading and Ari Engel had bet out for 22,000. One other player released his hand before Raymond Ruszkowski raised it up to 49,000.

After a quick think, Engel announced all-in and Ruszkowski called after a few thoughts of his own. Engel needed to hit his flush draw with against Ruszkowski’s flopped set of but missed as the board completed .

Ruszkowski’s 303,000 stack covered Engel and the eight-time WSOP Circuit champ was eliminated.

Raymond Ruszkowski – 635,000 (106 bb)
Ari Engel – Eliminated

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 17: 2,500/5,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 297 of 2,724

Event 10 players are on their first break of the day with less than 300 remaining. With only 250 getting paid, we’ll see the money bubble hit before too long. The average stacks is 183,000 (31 bb) with the next level going to 3,000/6,000 and a 1,000 ante.