$300 + $50 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack

Blinds: 1.2k/2.4k/300 ante

Tournament staff announced there would two more hands played in Day 1B and three players at Table 43 decided they weren’t happy with their current stack conditions. All three moved in consecutively with one of them looking at a 90,000 stack when done. The 3-seat was holding against and the live cards of .

The 3-seat jumped ahead on the with the 5-seat picking up a gutshort draw. The turn changed little but the 4-seat came from behind to hit the river for the double knockout.

Players are bagging their chips and it looks like Mark Bernstein will be the end of day leader with 456,400 which is good enough for 2nd place overall. Working on official chip counts and will post when available.

$300 + $50 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack

Blinds: 1.2k/2.4k/300 ante

There are still 70 players left in the event with just a few small stacks getting them in behind and one player not even here to play his 8,000 at the table. One local was trying to run the chip-and-a-chair story with one 5k chip left behind. He managed to double it up but was out the next hand when he raced with against . The flop all but ended it and the turn/river did the job.

One gentleman has slowly built his stack up until he got into it big with two premium hands. Neither player was short and the 100k pot was waiting for the winner but he was sitting pretty with up against . He pulled the pot and is sitting near 300,000. We will track his details down after the level.

$300 + $50 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack

Blinds: 800/1.6k/200 ante

The players are off on their final break of the day and they have slowly moved down under 80 players remaining in the field. Unlike the other starting days, we are seeing very little drama in the room but some stacks are beginning to stand out.

We will track down our Day 1D chipleader and update after the break.

$300 + $50 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack

Blinds: 600/1.2k/200 ante

Mention the lack of bad beats and one is bound to happen. There was a battle of the blinds at Table 40 with the small blind showing up against with the small blind at risk. The big blind flopped the world, as the grinders like to say, when it came .

“Nice flop,” the 1-seat said with a little bitterness.

The AQ was technically ahead but 3-seat would have to get unlucky to miss the rest of the board. It didn’t take long because the hit on the turn to ship the pot to the big blind and send another out.

The field is under 100 for the day and staff keep the tables balanced.

$300 + $50 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack

Blinds: 500/1k/100 ante

The levels since the break have been quiet in terms of big hands or big stacks, other than a minor squabble at Table 39 between a few players with incessant chirping. The floor settled them quickly in between breaking tables.

All players are now upstairs and we’re one table down up here, leaving all the tables downstairs for the cash game grinders. The short stacks are taking their shots and most are walking down the stairs but no dramatic hands to speak of.

$300 + $50 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack

Blinds: 400/800/100 ante

The 8-seat at continues to run good at Table 41 and picked up yet another double elimination before the tournament went on break. He put the 2-seat and 4-seat all-in on the flop holding for the flush draw up against the other players holding top pair. He blanked the turn but hit the river to bring his total up to five knockouts for the day.

His name is Steve Ekin from Verona Beach and looks like the chipleader going into Level 9 with 154,000. Ekin is no stranger to The Poker Room at Seminole Hard Rock and won the Seniors Event here August 2012 during Seminole Hard Rock Summer Splash.

$300 + $50 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack

Blinds: 300/600/75 ante

There was another double eliminated on Table 32, we hustled over when we saw half the table stand up. A sure sign a big pot is about to be settled.

Three players in the hand and the 2-seat had the others covered holding up against and all-in preflop. The Nines stayed ahead on the flop but the 2-seat picked up an open-ended straight draw with the turn, though three of his outs were already dead.

“I like my hand!” he said several time, “I really like my hand!”

spiked on the river to give the gentleman a big double KO and get the field down to 144 players remaining. Players are now on their second break of the day after coloring off the green chips.

$300 + $50 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack

Blinds: 250/500/50 ante

The 8-seat is having a pretty nice run at Table 41 since the players came back from break. He knocked out Zach Kessler in the 9-seat shortly after he fired his second bullet at the end of the re-entry period and has now taken out two more players.

He opened the action from early position and was called down by the blinds to see the flop. The blinds check-called his 1,500 bet to make the three-way to the turn and the 8-seat put both players all-in after they checked. Both players called with and to see they were behind the 8-seat’s magical .

The river blanked the to ship another big pot who is now sitting with ~70,000.

More than 100 players are out of the tournament so far today with 171 showing on the board. That leaves six tables in play downstairs but they are breaking at a steady pace.

$300 + $50 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack

Blinds: 150/300/25 ante

The official numbers are in and Day 1D drew an impressive crowd of 280 entrants to push the prizepool over $260,000 with one flight remaining tonight at 7pm. All players and alternates are now in their seats looking to make Day 2.

Tables are still going strong upstairs and down including a fine slowroll at Table 39. With the board reading , the 7-seat moved all-in and was instantly called by the 2-seat. The 7-seat confidently said “I have a flush,” while he tabled before the 2-seat just rolled over and the table let the room know, loudly, that he hit the Royal.

$300 + $50 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack

Blinds: 100/200

Players are off on their first break of the day and the board is showing 254 entrants so far with 10 minutes left to register plus a healthy line of alternates waiting to get checked in.

Players also had the option of surrendering their stack to the dealer and re-entering the tournament for a fresh stack. We just saw the first instance of this happening as the 5-seat at Table 41 lost a big one on the final hand of the level with turned two-pair versus a rivered straight. He was still left with 12,000 but opted to pay 350 for a full stack.

Official numbers coming after the break.