$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
Level 21: 5,000/10,000/1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 132
Average Stack: 319,000 (32 bb)

We’ve had a consistent parade to the payout desk and nearly 40 players have hit the rail since the money bubble burst.

Among those cashing were Evan Teitelbaum, Ryan Dunn, Ralph Massey, Mukul Pahuja, and 2015 November Niner Neil Blumenfield.

$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
Level 21: 5,000/10,000/1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 148
Average Stack: 284,000 (28 bb)

Most of the field was focusing on the money bubble while Gustavo Lopez was busy becoming our first player to sport a 1 million chip stack.

The Miami grinder has over $100,000 in career earnings and already set to add to his total.

$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
Level 20: 4,000/8,000/1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 169
Average Stack: 249,000 (31 bb)

It was a money bubble as smooth as you’ll see. The Main Event quickly played down to a few players from the money when tournament staff asked dealers to hold up on the bubble.

There was one table still going and they hit the money without a single round of hand-for-hand action. Michael Foley found himself at risk and drawing very thin, all his chips were in the middle with and the board reading against Josh Beckley’s .

Foley had two outs to stay alive but blanked the river to go out in 170th while the 2015 November Niner jumped to 785,000 and the rest of the field was in the money.

$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
Level 19: 3,000/6,000/1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 178
Average Stack: 237,000 (39 bb)

Half an hour after the first break and we’re one table break away from making the money. Play will slow down from here through the money bubble paying 169, then it will ramp right back up.

Some of the recent eliminations include Andrew Bedecker, Victor Figueroa, Stephanie Hubbard, and Seminole Hard Rock pro Sheddy Siddiqui.

$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
Level 19: 3,000/6,000/1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 216
Average Stack: 195,000 (32 bb)

We did indeed find a stack bigger than Harrison Gimbel or Loni Harwood, two of them as a matter of fact.

Vincent Fiorenza has moved up from his 341,000 returning stack and went on break with 582,000 out front. On the other side of the room, former WPT DeepStacks Edmonton champion Mike Smith is leading the way as they approach the money bubble. He’s the first over 600,000 and is in good shape for a long day.

$2,650 No Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50

While most are keeping an eye on the Main Event playing down on one side of the room, there’s another big buy-in event kicking off. The $2,650 Single Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em game is a nice option for those grinders failing to make it deep in the Main Event.

This is a two-day tournament with all survivors bagging up their chips at the end of Level 14 and return tomorrow to play down to a winner.

$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
Returning to Level 19: 3,000/6,000/1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 225
Average Stack: 187,000 (31 bb)

Players are on the first break of the day and 56 eliminations away from the money. We’ll take another walk around the room and see if anyone has caught up to Loni Harwood and Harrison Gimbel.

$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
Level 18: 2,500/5,000/500 Ante
Players Remaining: 234
Average Stack: 187,000 (37 bb)

Harrison Gimble and Loni Harwood are two of the biggest stacks in the room and one of them is leading the way. Stacks are fluctuating with the action but Harwood’s ~575,000 is outpacing Gimbel by a few grey chips.

There are 15 minutes left until the first break and we’ll have an idea how close we are to making the money when 169 remain.

$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
Level 18: 2,500/5,000/500 Ante
Players Remaining: 243
Average Stack: 173,000 (35 bb)

Seminole Hard Rock Poker pro Matt Affleck has two things on his mind today. Running late in the Main Event and watching his beloved Seattle Seahawks in the NFL playoffs. One is going well, the other not so much.

Affleck began Day 2 with 223,000 then added more than 100,000 to his stack in the first few levels. His 335,000 will be in the top part of the counts while his Seahawks are currently losing their game.

$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
Level 17: 2,000/4,000/500 Ante
Players Remaining: 270
Average Stack: 156,000 (39 bb)

T.K. Miles is grinding his stack in the middle of the room and trying to extend his current Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year lead while picking up some cash. With two qualifying events complete, Miles went deep in the Coco Poker Open and finished fifth in the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Winter Poker Open.

Miles began the day a few chips shy of 80,000 and continues to hover around that point.