$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Players Remaining: 78 of 369

With significant preflop action in front of him, Johanssy Joseph squeezed all in for 43,700 in the big blind. George Dolofan called to put Joseph at risk, and the rest of the table folded out of the way.

Joseph:
Dolofan:

The board ran out , and Joseph won the pot with eights up. Dolofan was left with just a few chips, and he was eliminated one hand later.

Johanssy Joseph – 105,000 (44 bb)
George Dolofan – Eliminated

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 13: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante
Total Players Remaining: 87 of 369

Flight A is back underway after the final break of the day with only 87 players remain of the 369 starting entrants.

David Lithgow has been among the leaders throughout the day, now he’s back on top. His stack is more than 100K clear of the second biggest stack owned by Paul Balzano and Randall Pfeifer is sporting a castle as well.

Two more levels to play and the survivors will bag up for a return on Sunday.

David Lithgow – 295,000 (148 bb)
Matthew Yorra – 245,000 (123 bb)
Paul Balzano – 186,000 (93 bb)
Randall Pfeifer – 173,500 (87 bb)
George Dolofan – 120,400 (60 bb)
John Holley – 78,300 (39 bb)
Ben Charlemagne – 72,000 (36 bb)
Ory Hen – 67,800 (34 bb)
Johansy Joseph – 55,500 (28 bb)
Jessica Dawley – 54,000 (27 bb)
Jason Bral – 48,000 (24 bb)
Wally Maddah – 31,900 (16 bb)

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50

The second flight of event 10 has just been seated, and the cards are in the air for Day 1B. This morning’s Day 1A flight drew 369 entries, setting a strong pace toward the $1 million guarantee.

Here are the rest of the vitals for this event:

• $1,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 20,000 chips
• Levels are 30 minutes apiece
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9 (10:30 p.m.)
• Day 1 will end after Level 14 or Tournament Director discretion
• Event 10 Structure Sheet

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 12: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Total Players Remaining: 117 of 369

The field is creeping back towards a single digit size but Paul Balzano is not going anywhere. He’s quietly built his stack to 150,000 with a few more levels in the day and looking good for a late run. Balzano has a few SHRP titles to his credit with his last coming in 2012 during the 2012 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open” series.

They will play down this level, take a 15-minute break, then finish out two more levels before bagging up.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 10: 500/1,000 with a 100 ante
Total Players Remaining: 162 of 369

We found several of our Seminole Hard Rock Poker team members still grinding away in the first flight. Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Ambassador Wally Maddah leads them all but each has enough chips at this stage to get things down over the next five levels of the day.

Wally Maddah – 49,000 (49 bb)
Mukul Pahuja – 34,000 (34 bb)
Loni Harwood – 32,000 (32 bb)
Jessica Dawley – 22,000 (22 bb)

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 9: 400/800 with a 100 ante
Total Players Remaining: 198 of 369

Registration has closed on the first flight of Event 10 and it’s a very nice number. The morning session drew 369 entrants to set a nice pace for the next five flights.

Less than 200 remain but those who left us already can jump back in for the second flight at 6pm.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 8: 300/600 with a 75 ante
Total Entries: 352

Players are taking off on the second break of the day and registration will close down when they restart. The clock shows more than 350 in so far and we should pick up a few before the come back to the tables.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 6: 200/400 with a 50 ante
Total Entries: 315

The Flight A field crossed the 300 entrant mark late in Level 6 and on an easy pass to hit the average we need to blast past the $1 million guarantee.

We starting to see some new faces in the ballroom today including Jacob Bazeley back in town looking for his second major SHRP title. He only cashed once during the 2015 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open” but it was a big one, winning the Championship for nearly $569,000.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 150/300 with a 50 ante
Total Entries: 280

Players are back in their seats and the clock is running. The entrant count is clicking closer to 300 with two more hours remaining to register or re-enter.

David Lithgow returns to the biggest stack in the room, more than quadrupling his 20,000 starting stack in two hours of action. Level 1 leader Francis Margaglione didn’t fair as well in the next three levels and dropped beneath a starting stack after his early double.

Top stacks and notable names:

David Lithgow – 80,300 (268 bb)
Gregg Fund – 66,500 (222 bb)
David Shaw – 61,000 (203 bb)
Luiz Guimares – 61,000 (203 bb)
Maurice Millares – 60,950 (203 bb)
Kenneth Bruno – 49,300 (164 bb)
Thayer Rassmussen – 43,200 (144 bb)
Marty Robbins – 39,900 (133 bb)
Eli Levy – 37,000 (123 bb)
Ari Engel – 28,550 (95 bb)
Jacob Bazeley – 28,325 (94 bb)
Francis Margaglione – 14,975 (50 bb)
David Jackson – 9,625 (32 bb)