$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 17: 2,500/5,000/500 Ante

We have a new chip leader and it’s local favorite Chance Kornuth jumping up top. He began the day fourth in chips but a healthy distance away from David Maddox. That changed in the last level when he eliminated Jessica Dawley from that tough table and now sits with 560,000.

David Maddox hasn’t stop his climb though, he’s also over the 500,000 mark as the field gets within 40 players of the money.

Busted…ran my 6s into @ChancesCards 10s with 16bbs…GFY and your cell phone…@shrpo

— Jessica Dawley (@JessicaDawley) November 22, 2015

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 17: 2,500/5,000/500 Ante

The Day 2 field continues to shrink at a quick pace with 400 of the returning 609 players still around. They’ll now begin to adjust back to 9-handed play as they near the money bubble.

Michelle Shah is one of the players who bagged up chips in an earlier flight and played the PLO Event 3 on her day off. She made the final table and was part of a near-even chop among the last three. Shah would be happy to make back-to-back final tables today.

Jessica Meir began the day with a top five stack and is now chasing down chip leader David Maddox. The recent addition to her stack came when she eliminated Bryce McVay in a three-way pot with a turned set of sevens against his flopped top pair. The hand moved her over 400,000 and in contention for the lead.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 16: 2,000/4,000/500 Ante

A couple Seminole Hard Rock Poker ambassadors dodged the 3,000-entrant strong minefield to bring chips back for Day 2 but only one is still around.

Sheddy Siddiqui began the day with an above average stack but nothing went well for him today, crashing out in the second level. He’ll be back in the ballroom again looking to add to his $1 million in career earnings.

Wally Maddah is a regular face in the ballroom and representing our sister room in Tampa. His Day 2 starting stack was half the average and he’s grinding away.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 16: 2,000/4,000/500 Ante

We thought action would blaze at the start of play and were proved correct. More than eight tables worth of players have hit the rail to leave less than 520 remaining at the end of the first level.

Extra tables were added to ballroom to accommodate the large returning field, temporarily displacing your humble blogging team, but those tables were the first to send their players elsewhere.

All the top stacks are cruising along and it appears it’s the shorties taking the walks.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 15: 1,500/3,000/500 Ante

We mentioned one of the tough tables earlier and now we can see it live. Table 35 is going to have fun with a lot of trouble spots around the board. The first four seats are occupied by Abbey Daniels, Patrick Eskandar, Chance Kornuth, and Nancy Birnbaum with Jessica Dawley on the other side of the table.

Those five players have combined for more than $4.3 million in career earnings, one WSOP bracelet (Kornuth), and three WSOP Circuit rings (Birnbaum).

The other five players might be wondering what they did to deserve the toughest draw in the room.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 15: 1,500/3,000/500 Ante

After a few minutes delay to get everyone seated, cards are in the air to get the huge Day 2 underway. It will be a little crazy at the start with 10-handed action at the start with short stacks making moves and big stacks building towers.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Start of Level 15: 1,500/3,000/500 Ante

When all the starting days were complete, Event 1 was a complete success after drawing enough entrants to add more than $400,000 to the $500,000 guaranteed prize pool. The tournament drew 3,022 entrants across the six starting flights to build the pool to $906,600 and put $155,000 up top for the eventual winner.

Of those starting 3,022 entrants, we have 609 returning this afternoon for Day 2 in a bustling ballroom. The last 300 players will earn a piece of that prize pool and it will take them a few hours to get to the money bubble.

David Maddox bagged himself a nice chip lead during the opening flight and no one caught him over the next five. His 438,500 tops the second place stack of Haim Shrayer by 130,000 for a healthy advantage. Local pro Chance Kornuth finished last night with a top five stack and joins a tough starting table that include Abbey Daniels, Jessica Dawley, and Nancy Birnbaum,

Play is schedule to kick off at 1pm after everyone unbags their chips and gets ready to go. It will be a very long day that likely ends at 3am, but they have some big money at the end.

Event 1 Day 2 Chip Counts
Event 1 Day 2 Seat Assignments
Event 1 Payouts

$350 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50

It’s time for the next new tournament on the Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open” as the $350 Black Chip Bounty event is about to get underway.

The tournament features a $30,000 guaranteed prize pool to offer up a nice tournament on a Sunday afternoon surrounded by TVs playing NFL games. Due to the huge returning field for Day 2 of Event 1, this tournament is being played upstairs in The Poker Room at Seminole Paradise.

Players start with 15,000 in their stack and 30-minute levels until we have a new champion. Late registration and re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 around 4:30pm with a dinner break at 6:30. From each buy-in, $200 will go into the regular prize pool and $100 towards a bounty on each player’s head. Knock someone out, get a black casino chip worth $100.

Updates will be sporadic throughout the day with action taking place in the poker room, but we will keep one eye on the progress so we can pick up the action as they get close to the final table.