$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

End of Level 12: Blinds 800/1,600/200 ante

Twelve levels have ticked away since this flight began and players are now on their third break of the day.

They’ll return to play three more levels, then call it a night.

$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Level 12:  Blinds 800/1,600/200 ante

The big blind was all in preflop for just under 25,000 with pocket tens and Trevilyn Blakeslee (pictured above) had him covered with in the hole on the button. The board was dealt and Blakeslee won the hand to eliminate her opponent. She stacked up 53,00 after the hand.

$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Level 12: Blinds 800/1,600/200 ante

Just before the blinds went up, (playing 600/1,200/200)  Konstantinos Pantaridis jammed his last 13k utg+1 and the player to his left came over the top to isolate.  Everyone else obliged by getting out of the pot.

Konstantinos rolled over and was trailing his opponent’s .  The board flew out 7 6 2 A A and was no help to Konstantinos.  He busted out of this flight, but plans to try again in Flight B starting at 7pm.

Down to 153 players remaining in this flight which will play through the end of level 15 before bagging up for the night.

$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Level 11: Blinds 600/1,200/200 ante

Dan Buzgon flopped the nut straight holding J9 and got all his chips in the middle against a player holding pocket Aces.

Then his opponent caught an Ace on the turn for a set, and the board paired on the river giving him a full house.  Dan reported to the rail with plans to hit the beach rather than the next flight starting at 7pm.

$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Level 10: Blinds 500/1,000/100 ante

Lots of local pros, regular grinders, and even some traveling pros in the Flight A field.   Just a sampling I spotted on my last pass through the room:

Tyler Patterson
Dan Buzgon
Bob ‘Uncle Krunk’ Panitch
Wendy Freedman
Cord Garcia
Michael Wang
Gregory Marcus
Jeff Silverstein
Stuart Paterson
Steven Bennett
Dimas Martinez
Ian O’Hara
Zo Karim
Wayne Brown
John Holley
Elliott ‘Comrade’ Zaydman
Mark Rose
Wally Maddah
Joe Kuether
Tony March
Konstantinos Pantaridis

$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Level 9:  Blinds 400/800/100 ante

The chips are chirping all around the room as Flight A heads into level 9.  The field of 377 has been narrowed down to 207 players already.

Here’s what some of the players are tweeting about:

Lose half my stack with Aces on the button. not being sarcastic but still #blessed

— john holley (@hohnjolley) August 21, 2014

Event 8 day 1a @shrpo nursing average stack pic.twitter.com/q4l61tx4cK

— wally Maddah (@wallymystar) August 21, 2014

$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 8: 300/600/75 ante

A few of local players are doing well after the first break. Angel Vu, who has enough chips to walk around and miss hands, has quietly moved over 80,000. Eric Piderit likes his table as they’ve jumped his 25,000 starting stack over 150,000 by the start of Level 8.

Piderit has a tournament win on his résumé from February during the WPT Lucky Hearts Open at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek.

$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 7: 250/500/50 ante

With the end of Level 6, registration has closed for Flight A with an unofficial 377 entrants showing on the clock. A fine start to the big tournament.

Brian Hastings continues to run up his stack while Angel Vu is also having a nice start to her tournament.

“I got to get away from poker last night.” Vu said. “I’m recharged.”

Not the worst view to wake up to in the mornin #SHRPO @SHRHollywood pic.twitter.com/vPl84VvkR9

— Zo Karim (@PakmanMMA) August 21, 2014

Back at the #shrpo $560 $1mil day 1a. Already ran good with an early table break from a table full of chatters. #shyandquietkindaday

— Daniel Buzgon (@WiLDmAn_75) August 21, 2014

$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50

A quick look through the chip stacks on break shows several players are having a very good start to their day. Jae Chung looks like the early leader and the previously mentioned Brian Hastings has grown his 25,000 starting stack to 63,700.

Jae Chung – 68,000
Robert Hancock – 67,700
Trevilyn Blakesless – 67,500
David Brown – 64,525
Brian Hastings – 63,700
Steven Diamond – 62,000
Ryan Jones – 60,575

Really wanted to jam here as I thought UTG had a draw and UTG+1 would have to fold AK. Would've won a big one. Th… http://t.co/xaXZqjrc3C

— Brian Hastings (@brianchastings) August 21, 2014

$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 100/200

More than 300 players have register for Flight 1A as they head off on their first break of the day. Two new WSOP bracelet winners are making their first appearance at the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open.

Brian Hastings is a local professional who won the $10,000 Heads-Up Championship during the 2012 World Series of Poker and Tyler Patterson just arrived in town fresh off his WSOP bracelet win this past summer. Patterson traveled a bit further than Hastings, his commute brought him from the great state of Washington.

1st event for me at Seminole Hard Rock. $560 nlh with 6 starting flights.

— Tyler Patterson (@TylerPoker) August 21, 2014