$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 13: Blinds 1k/2k/200 ante
81 players remaining, 86k (43 bb)

Big Stacks

Mina Akladious 358k
Guy Hayun 263k
Dan Stier 237k
Jose Avila 218k

$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 12: Blinds 800/1,600/200 ante
90 players remaining, 77k avg (48 bb)

Mina Akladious (Boynton Beach, FL) has been on a heater the last few levels and is the clear chip leader with nearly 300k as players head to their last break of the night.

Alkadious says he flopped quad 8s in a 100k pot for a double knockout, but his game isn’t just luck.

In one healthy pot, the board is and his opponent leads out for 11k, with 8k behind.  Akladious goes deep in the tank and flashes A-8 for two pairs.

“You got it?” asks Akladious, who’s wondering if the player has the four-card flush.

“There’s too much money in there,” he says while making the call.  His opponent simply shakes his head and mucks.

Akladious is also running good in life as his wedding is in nine days, and his fiance, Melissa Hanrahan, must have a great sense of humor.

“I can win this and then get a prenup,” he laughs after a good start to the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Showdown’s $1 Million Guaranteed opening event.

We’ll see how Hanrahan reacts as the tournament plays out.

$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 10: Blinds 500/1k/100 ante
117 players remaining,  59k (59 bb)

$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 9: Blinds 400/800/100 ante
153 players remaining, 45k avg (57 bb)

Players are back from the green (25) chip color-up break and nearly half the flight is gone.

278 entries began the second of six flights and two of the players are enjoying themselves.

Brian Gelrod (Brooklyn, NY) can’t help but photo bomb Vendel Johnson (Pembroke Pines, FL) who has one of the few 100k stacks.

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

Chip Leaders

Michael LaRocca (Boca Raton, FL) 172k
June Kelley (Pembroke Pines, FL) 129k
Jason Lyons (Boca Raton, FL) 122k
Francis Margaglione (Davie, FL) 120k
Daniel Bozza (Pompano Beach, FL) 113k
Mustafa Lobut (Miami, FL) 112k
Vendel Johnson (Pembroke Pines, FL) 108k

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

Several players are moving past the 100k mark including Michael LaRocca (Boca Raton, FL).

As things move along the big stacks will keep an eye on the $1,000 bonus that goes to the end of night chip leader.

$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 6: Blinds 200/400/50 ante

Cody Ferguson (West Palm Beach, FL) is the chip leader thanks to a big hand against Cord Garcia (Katy, TX) before the last break.

The chips are all in on a flop of with Ferguson holding against Garcia’s .

“I got it in drawing dead,” laments Garcia who has the worse flush, “for a million blinds. Actually I had a backdoor straight flush draw.”

There were no miracles for Garcia who drops to 10k after shipping a 35k double-up to Ferguson.

Garcia finished in 4th place at the December, 2013 Winter Poker Open at Seminole Hard Rock Casino, Tampa, FL for $33,000, while Ferguson finished 4th place last week in Pompano Beach for $34,000.

$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: Blinds 150/300/25 ante

278 entries is the total of tonight’s 7 pm flight, putting the total entries for Flights A & B at 564.

Chip Leaders

Cody Ferguson 72k
Gustavo Moscon 70k
Thomas Collazo 63k
Scott Wyler 62k
Mor Zucker 61k
Larry Klur 61k
Steven McKoy 56k
Steven Steinmetz 55k
June Kelley 53k
Daniel Wellborn 53k
Michael LaRocca 53k

$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 4: Blinds 100/200

The last level of entry is winding down as we have 250+ entries.  Players have through the first break of the night (~9:15 pm)  to jump into this event.

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

Among those who have recently joined the field include Jonathan Tamayo, Danny Suied, Adam Levy, Mike Beasley, Darryll Fish, Dan Heimiller, Corrie Wunstel, and Phillip Hui.