Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
Chino Rheem – 85,000
David Paredes – 82,000
Carlos Mortensen – 49,000
John Dolan – 48,000
Dan O’Brien – 47,000
Greg Ostrander – 46,000
Martin Jacobson – 40,000
Jake Schindler – 40,000
Nicolas Cardyn – 37,000
Kevin Saul – 32,000
Taylor von Kriegenbergh – 29,000
Erick Lindgren – 28,500
Nacho Barbero – 28,000
Andy Seth – 27,000
Erica Lindgren – 24,000
Matt Giannetti – 23,000
Tom Marchese – 20,000
Alex Queen – 18,000
Mohsin Charania – 12,000
David Sands – 7,000
Busted #SHRPO #5K Main Event 1a. QQ v AA. Better luck tomorrow. GL to my pieces & swaps!
— Redlocks (@zachtax) August 22, 2013
Table 19 has emerged as one of the toughest tables in the room on Day 1A at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open main event. Huck Seed, Noah Schwartz, Eric Baldwin, Faraz Jaka, and Billy Pilossoph are seated together at the table.
Welp that does it for my first bullet, turned top pair into a bluff and ran into a hand I never expected to see. Back at it tomorrow #10mill
— Darryll Fish (@The_DFish) August 22, 2013
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
Jason Duval – 115,000
Tyler Patterson – 74,000
Kory Kilpatrick – 73,000
Justin Zaki – 52,000
Nick Schulman – 47,000
Dylan Linde – 40,000
Samantha Cohen – 37,000
Russell Thomas – 34,000
Darren Rabinowitz – 31,000
Dan Kelly – 29,000
David Peters – 29,000
Calvin Anderson – 27,000
JJ Liu – 27,000
Ruben Visser – 27,000
Amanda Musumeci – 25,000
Adam Geyer – 25,000
Danny Suied – 24,000
Darryll Fish – 23,000
Dermot Blain – 19,000
Terrence Chan – 18,300
Jonathan Roy – 14,000
Chris Hunichen – 13,000
Justin Gardenhire – 12,500
Level 5 comes to an end, and Level 6 begins with increased blinds of 150-300 and a 50 ante. The tournament clock shows 579 entrants in the Day 1A field, though that number will certainly increase since registration remains open until the end of the dinner break (about 8:00 pm).
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
Joe Serock – 86,000
Jesse Martin – 63,000
Daniel Weinman – 53,000
Barry Wiedemann – 50,000
Joseph Cheong – 47,000
Jared Jaffee – 42,000
Ryan Julius – 42,000
Noah Schwartz – 41,000
Cliff Josephy – 40,000
Kurt Jewell – 38,000
Scott Baumstein – 38,000
Tony Ruberto – 37,000
Jason Koon – 37,000
Paul Volpe – 36,000
Dan Shak – 35,000
Justin Young – 33,000
Andrew Badecker – 32,000
Mark Radoja – 31,000
Rex Clinkscales – 29,000
Huck Seed – 29,000
Ben Zamani – 29,000
Jonathan Little – 27,000
Justin Bonomo – 26,000
Stu Paterson – 24,000
Chris Johnson – 23,000
Shannon Shorr – 22,000
Theo Tran – 22,000
Faraz Jaka – 15,000
Barry Hutter – 8,000
The board read 
when three players contributed 1,500 to the pot, including Nelly and Shawn Cunix. The 
fell on the river and Cunix put in a bet of 3,500. Nelly called right behind him and the third player folded his cards. Nelly turned over 
for the rivered straight and Cunix mucked his hand. Nelly was over 40,000 after the hand and Cunix busted a short time later, but Cunix re-entered and is currently playing at another table.
The rapper Nelly stopped for a quick photo on the red carpet outside the tournament room before taking his seat on Day 1A of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open’s $10 Million Guaranteed Main Event.