$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 11: 600/1,200/200 Ante

The field of 325 entries has shrunk down to 135 players but the chip piles continue to grow.

Though he’d taken a little hit a few mintues ago,, Michael Lipman is still standing tall at 180,000 chips.  A table over, Keith Morea has pushed his stack to 120,000.  Jessica Dawley has overcome a difficult table draw and has now reached the 92,000 chip mark.

We’ll see if these players can earn a couple of days off tonight before they head into Sunday’s Day 2.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 9: 400/800/100 Ante

Willie Wiggins just keeps finding the toughest tables in the room tonight.

This time he joins Dan Heimiller and former WPT Player of the Year Mukul Puhuja as all three are trying to find their way to Day 2.  Puhuja is getting the best of it right now as he’s now cleared 125,000 chips and is among the leaders tonight.

Five more levels of play stand in the way of tonight’s group and advancing to Sunday.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 9: 400/800/100 Ante

Registration has closed for Flight 1B of Event 10, and unofficially, there were 325 entries. Here’s a look at the players with at least 90,000 in chips at the break:

1.  Iman Dan  –  108,500  (136 bb)
2.  Jorge Masvidal  –  105,000  (131 bb)
3.  Joshua Hillock  –  92,000  (115 bb)
4.  Keith Morea  –  92,500  (116 bb)

Shortly after Level 9 began, Luis Santoni moved all in from middle position with , and Jessica Dawley called all in from the cutoff for 17,900 with . The board came , and Dawley won the pot with a pair of jacks to double up to 38,000.

Santoni dropped down to 27,000, and a hand or two later a short-stacked Matt Stout got it all in with 8-8 against Santoni’s Q-J. Santoni paired his queen on the flop, and it held up for him to eliminate Stout from Day 1B.

Luis Santoni  –  47,000  (59 bb)
Jessica Dawley  –  38,000  (48 bb)
Matt Stout  –  Eliminated

The field still has this level plus five more 30-minute levels to play tonight before stopping play around 1:45 pm ET.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 8: 300/600/75 Ante

The Day 1B field is up to 312 entries with about half an hour remaining in the registration period. Here is a look at the chip counts of some of the notables in the field:

Nancy Birnbaum  –  75,000  (125 bb)
Michael Johnson  –  60,000  (100 bb)
Tobin Banks  –  56,000  (93 bb)
Darryll Fish  –  55,000  (92 bb)
Sam Panzica  –  50,000  (83 bb)
Mukul Pahuja  –  48,000  (80 bb)
Barry Hutter  –  40,000  (67 bb)
Mark Darner  –  37,000  (62 bb)
Jake Schindler  –  35,000  (58 bb)
David Diaz  –  32,000  (53 bb)
Dan Heimiller  –  30,000  (50 bb)
Donny Mizrachi  –  27,000  (45 bb)
Joe Serock  –  27,000  (45 bb)
Stewart Newman  –  26,000  (43 bb)
Tony Ruberto  –  20,000  (25 bb)
Matt Stout  –  19,000  (32 bb)
Tom Dobrilovic  –  16,000  (27 bb)
Dan Buzgon  –  11,000  (18 bb)
Jessica Dawley  –  7,000  (12 bb)

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 7: 250/500/50 Ante

A number of Florida players struck gold at this year’s World Series of Poker and one of them is in the house today.

Sarasota’s own Barry Hutter had five cashes at the 2015 WSOP but none was bigger than his victory in the Event #14 Shootout to capture his first bracelet.  The $284,386 that came along with it was the biggest of his career and confirmed his place as one of top up-and-coming players in the game today.

Hutter stands at 37,000 chips and will look to add a Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open title this series to continue his spectacular summer.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 7: 250/500/50 Ante

Willie Wiggins, Zach Kessler and Stewart Newman were all seated together on the far side of the ballroom creating a formidable force for the rest of their table.

But Kessler wasn’t faring as well as the other two and found himself all-in in a three-way pot. Kessler tried the stand-up move to get some help but it didn’t come leaving just an empty chair and a seat card in his wake as he headed for the door.

Apparently the two of them won’t be missing him much as Wiggins continued his massage and Newman went back to his phone.

295 entries are now on the board here in Day 1B.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 150/300/25 Ante

Some other great names are in the house tonight joining us this evening.  2012 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock N’ Roll” Poker Open Main Event Champion Victor Figueroa is battling it out this evening.  Also here is Francis Margaglione who current stands in seventh place in the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year Standings.  Finally is Raymond Ruszkowski who is current 10th in the standings with an eye on the prize tonight – literally.

The entry count is now up to 277 and climbing with registration closing at the start of Level 9.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 150/300/25 Ante

There are some terrific players from top pros to Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino’s finest grinding away today.

A few of them include Darryll Fish who is fresh off his third place finish in the WSOP National Championships, Nancy Birnbaum and former WPT Player of the Year Joe Serock.

With talented players like this in the house tonight, it should make for some exciting poker as the evening wears on.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 150/300/25 Ante

A scan of the field during the first break shows five players have already cracked the 50K mark, with Daniel Buzgon coming in just under that. This gives us our first unofficial leaderboard of Flight 1B:

1.  Michael Johnson  –  67,300  (224)
2.  Christopher Boegler  –  57,200  (191 bb)
3.  Nikolai Sears  –  53,075  (177 bb)
4.  Brett Bader  –  52,800  (176 bb)
5.  Sam Panzica  –  52,275  (174 bb)
6.  Daniel Buzgon  –  49,500  (165 bb)

There are 259 entries so far, and registration remains open until the end of the second break (about 10:30 pm). For comparison, the Day 1A flight had 405 entries.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 4: 100/200

Some of the players who were in action yesterday have shown up again for tonight’s Day 1B.

WSOP bracelet winner Dan Heimiller was in Day 2 of Event 5 yesterday and is looking to make another Day 2 tonight.  Steven Graham finished ninth in Event 8 just missing the six-max final table.  And the one who is probably the most tired of them all is Lonnie Heimowitz who ended up as part of a five-way chop in Event 9 early this morning.

They’ll get a little rest for a while as Day 1B is now on break with 254 entrants so far.