$250 Buy-In Seniors No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50

A surprise entrant in the Seniors Event is TJ Shulman. He skipped the first day of The $1,000,000 guaranteed Event 8 to play cash games but was in the room early getting ready for Flight 1C. Then he ran into a friend on the way to the cage.

“He offered me a prop bet,” Shulman explained, “and odds I couldn’t turn down.”

Shulman’s friend bet he couldn’t final table the Seniors Event with maximum of two entries. He didn’t think Shulman could resist the temptation of the big prizepool tournament on the other side of the room. If he does make the Seniors final table, he’ll have some juggling to do in order to take a shot at Event 8 as well.

$250 Buy-In Seniors No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 2: 50/100

The Seniors Field quickly increased to 93 players by the start of Level 2 and taking his seat was poker legend “Miami” John Cernutto.

The three-time WSOP bracelet winner has once again shown he is always a force to be reckoned with already putting up two top-three finishes in Events 2 & 7 in this 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open.

Cernutto will certainly be on of the players to watch in this event as it progresses as well as the rest of this series.

$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 3: 75/150

More top pros are making their presence felt in Event 8 including Ryan Tepen who played Flight 1A yesterday but skipped 1B for a night on the town with some friends.

Tepen quickly found himself in a five-way pot.  Out of the small blind, Tepen fired at a board getting only caller from the button.  After an fell on the turn, both players checked.  An on the river brought an bet from Tepen and a quick fold from his opponent giving Tepen the hand and a solid pot to add to his stack.

$250 Buy-In Seniors No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50

64 players have already gotten into today’s Seniors Event with more filing in.  With an outstanding start, it stands to be an exciting first day for Event 9.

With this being a re-entry event and players starting with 10k in chips, we’ll be in for an entertaining event with chips flying around the tables.  As one player said just before cards went in the air looking down at his stack, “One boo-boo and it’s over.”

$250 Buy-In Seniors No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50

The second weekend of the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open sees a speciality tournament kick off. The $250 buy-in Seniors Event is open to anyone 50 years or older and they are making a good showing of it.

Players start with 10,000 stacks and play 30-minute levels until 11pm this evening, or the final table, whichever comes first. Late registration is available until the start of Level 5 and players can re-enter as many times as they wish during that if they happen to bust out.

$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 2: 50/100

Players have begun filling up the ballroom. It was slow at the start but quickly passed 200 entrants at the start of Level 2. Notables in the field so far include Matt Affleck, Tyler Patterson, Nancy Birnbaum, Marsha Wolak, Ryan Tepen, Michael Wang, and Juliet Yarina.

Heading to Ft. Lauderdale, but first a #halfie @shrpo pic.twitter.com/S6L6dtQCyN

— Kevin Mathers (@Kevmath) August 22, 2014

On my way to the @SHRThePokerRoom to play the 560$ bird @shrpo this time I'll be there early!!!the end of level 2 #itsbetterlatethannever 🙂

— Alik Sitnyakovsky (@KingAlikMJstyle) August 22, 2014

Firing up @shrpo 560/1MM #AMilly

— Sheddy (@Sheddy88) August 22, 2014

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

Today is the second set of flights for Event 8 and players were waiting in the lobby long before the doors about to the tournament area. Thursday saw the first two flights of the big money tournament and 679 players put their money in the game but 135 kept their chips long enough to make it into Day 2.

Event 8 is a $560 buy-in Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em tournament which will run for six starting flights over three days with a huge $1,000,000 guaranteed prizepool. Starting days will run Thursday, Friday, and Saturday with the entire field merging on Sunday to play down to a champion.

Starting stacks are 500 big blinds deep and they will play those 25,000 chips in 30-minute levels through Level 15. Late registration/re-entry is available until the start of Level 7 and the registration desk will be busy all day. Anyone bagging chips at the end of the flight will return at 1pm on Sunday.

Tournament staff completed player instructions and we are off and running.

Heading to fire @shrpo 1mm bullet #2 in a few minutes. #pewpew #justbag #LSGtour2014

— Jason (@AppstOnSome) August 22, 2014

Haven't played a tourney since April. About to fire up flight 1C of 1 million gtd @shrpo. #SHRPO

— Felipe Casanova (@IDONTGIVEAPHIL) August 22, 2014

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

End of Level 15:  Blinds 1,500/3,000/500 ante

Flight B has come to an end and all the bags are sealed for the night.  About 53 players bagged chips — a full list will be posted in the blog when available.  The survivors will return Sunday at 1pm for Day 2.

David Jackson lost a big pot during the last level and dropped below 200k.

Tony Cesare bagged the chip lead with 334,500 in chips.  He’ll collect $1,000 as the Flight B chip leader.

Other stacks over 200k:

Jonathan Ounjian 282,500
Travis Jackson 248,500
Darryll Fish 240,000
Chad Freedman 233,500
Stephen Jones 213,000
Thong Tran 210,000