$570 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Re-Entry
Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 Ante
Flight 1E Players Remaining: 144 of 651

Flight C is in the final level of the day, they’ll stop the clock with ten minutes remaining and pick a random number of hands to finish out the night.

Dantonio Brown was leading much of latter parts of the day but Jorie Damiani passed him by. She’s sitting with more than 280,000 in her stack and has a chance to become only the third player to bag more than 300,000.

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

Five starting flights are in the books, and this evening’s Day 1F is the final chance to join the field for this big re-entry event. More than 2,300 entries have already been sold for this event, so the $1,000,000 guarantee has been exceeded with ease. By the time registration closes tonight, the prizepool should approach $1,500,000 with close to 3,000 total entries.

Here are the vitals for Day 1F:

• Players begin with 20,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
• Day 1 will end after Level 14
• Event 9 Structure Sheet

$570 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Re-Entry
Level 12: 800/1,600 with a 200 Ante
Flight 1E Players Remaining: 189 of 651

On a flop, action checked to the player on the button, who bet 3,700. Bill Gazes check-raised all in for 15,900, and Dantonio Brown called from early position. The button re-shoved for a small remainder on top, and Brown called again to put both opponents at risk.

Gazes: (open-ended straight draw)
Brown: (pair of tens)
Button: (flush draw)

The turn and river were both blanks, and Brown earned the double knockout.

Two hands later, action folded to the small blind where Ryan D’Angelo moved all in for 12,400 with . Brown called from the big blind with , and the flop immediately gave him a straight. D’Angelo was drawing dead after the turn, and the river filled out the board to end his day just before the last break.

“Lucky masseuse,” Brown said as he stacked up another pot.

Dantonio Brown – 220,000 (138 bb)
Bill Gazes – Eliminated
Ryan D’Angelo – Eliminated

$570 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Re-Entry
Level 12: 800/1,600 with a 200 Ante
Flight 1E Players Remaining: 180 of 651

We could hear a big hand developing on the other side of the room, mostly by the raised voices. It was a three-way all-in pot with Shon Mekyten holding the biggest stack but worst hand.

The chips went in the middle after the flop with Mekyten’s  behind his opponent’s top/top and better flush draw .

“Keep it black!” extolled the top/top player before the turn filled Mekyten’s gutshot draw.

“Keep it black!” he said again, seemingly unaware that he was drawing dead. Mekyten faded the seven flush outs two send to players out late in the Flight E.

Shon Mekyten – 155,000 (97 bb)

$570 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Re-Entry
Level 11: 600/1,200 with a 200 Ante
Flight 1E Players Remaining: 225 of 651

Fellow WPT champions Asher Conniff and Michael Mizrachi were seated together for the bulk of the day, but the twosome has just been broken up.

Mizrachi opened to 2,500 under the gun, and the player next to act called. In the big blind, Asher Conniff said, “All right, I’m a sucker,” and called to make it a three-way flop.

All three checked through the flop, and the turn was the . Conniff led for 2,500, and only Mizrachi called. The river was the , and Conniff moved all in for about 11,000 total. Mizrachi instantly called, turning over for the flush. Conniff tabled a flush of his own, but his was second best and his last hand of the day. He was eliminated from Day 1E, while Mizrachi is now one of the big stacks in the room.

Michael Mizrachi – 175,000 (146 bb)
Asher Conniff – Eliminated

$570 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Re-Entry
Level 11: 600/1,200 with a 200 Ante
Flight 1E Players Remaining: 225 of 651

A clean-shaven Rafael Reis has moved up into contention for the biggest stack in the room as one of the few reaching 200,000 so far. He’s neck and neck with Thila Narayanan for the lead but they still have a few more levels to go.

Reis was a final table member of this event last year. He was involved with an eight-way deal that saw him pick up more than $87,000 for an official fifth place finish. Reis also owns a trophy from his win in the $570 buy-in tournament during the Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open” in 2014.

$570 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Re-Entry
Level 10: 500/1,000 with a 100 Ante
Flight 1E Players Remaining: 261 of 651

A player in early position opened to 2,800, and Max Droege three-bet to 6,200 on the button. The raiser called. Both players checked through the flop, and the turn was the . Droege bet 5,000, and his opponent check-raised all in for just over 30,000 total. Droege snap-called.

Droege:
Opponent:

The river was the , and quad queens earned Droege the knockout and a significant chip increase.

Max Droege – 98,000 (98 bb)

$570 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Re-Entry
Level 10: 500/1,000 with a 100 Ante
Flight 1E Players Remaining: 288 of 651

Joining the pot on an flop, Mike Dentale had 8,200 chips out in front of him, and Shawn Nguyen had raised all in for an additional 23,200 on top. Dentale spent a few minutes in the tank before calling to put Nguyen at risk.

Nguyen:
Dentale:

Dentale was drawing to runners, and the turn kept his hopes alive. The river was the , though, and Nguyen doubled up. Dentale got off to a fast start this afternoon, but his stack has been trending in the wrong direction of late.

Shawn Nguyen – 73,000 (73 bb)
Mike Dentale – 37,000 (37 bb)

$570 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Re-Entry
Level 10: 500/1,000 with a 100 Ante
Flight 1E Players Remaining: 288 of 651

The smart folks finished the accounting process for Flight E and the number is locked down. The fifth Event 9 starting flight drew 651 entrants to bring the combined total up to 2,313 with one more flight to go. The prize pool current sits at $1,156,500 and it will get much bigger before registration completed closes for the tournament.

We are assured of topping last year’s attendance figure of 2,474 and the might even tease $1.5 million before we’re done.

$570 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Re-Entry
Level 9: 400/800 with a 100 Ante
Flight 1E Entries: 651

Asher Conniff opened to 2,000 in middle position, and Gustavo Moscon called from the small blind.

The flop came , and Moscon check-called a bet of 1,600. Both players checked through the turn, and the river put a four-flush on board. Mocson checked again, and Conniff bet 3,000. Moscon called.

“Excellent call,” Conniff said, turning over for the miss. Moscon tabled , winning the pot with two pair.

“That was an excellent call,” someone else at the table added their compliment.

Gustavo Moscon – 80,000 (100 bb)
Asher Conniff – 23,000 (29 bb)