$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 8: 300/600/75 Ante

Players are on their second break of the day and registration will close for this flight when they return. If players bust after that point, they will have to wait for one of the remaining five flights to try again.

There are 360 entrants showing on the clock with a few more expected to jump in the game.

$250 Limit Omaha/8 (Re-Entry)
Level 7: 600/1,200 Limits

Robert Campbell is one of our familiar faces in Event 2 and he’s always one of the favorites when entering an Omaha/8 tournament.

Campbell has over $800,000 in career earnings including 12 tournament titles. Of those dozen victories, all but one came in an Omaha/8 event. His biggest cash came with a 30th place finish in the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 6: 200/400/50 Ante

One of the more accomplished Seminole Hard Rock Poker regulars took a seat before the first break. Chance Kornuth is usually found grinding the high-limit cash games out in the poker room but he will occasionally take a seat in the big tournaments.

Despite being a cash game pro, Kornuth has run his career tournament to nearly $2.5 million. A number that will probably be topped if he wins this one. His résumé shows seven tournament wins including a Pot Limit Omaha WSOP bracelet in 2010.

$250 Limit Omaha/8 (Re-Entry)
Level 4: 300/600 Limits

We have a nice turnout for the Omaha/8 tournament and we’re seeing a lot of familiar faces. There are 55 entrants in the limit game at the first break and they’ll take 15 minute to relax before starting back up.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 150/300/25 Ante

It wasn’t too tough to find the biggest stack in the room during the break.

Peter Chin is sitting at one of the edge tables in the 5-seat, threatening players on either side and he chip towers were easily spotted. His 84,175 stack eclipsed those closest to him with five other players topping the 50,000 mark.

Chin has past success here including two titles during the 2013 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open.

Top and notables stacks:

Peter Chin – 84,175 (281 bb)
Hung Le – 54,550 (182 bb)
Farzan Nasserzadeh – 53,850 (180 bb)
Jonathan Marlow – 53,600 (179 bb)
Muzaffer Yesilce – 53,275 (178 bb)
Luis Cristobol – 52,125 (174 bb)
Ido Ashkenazi – 47,175 (157 bb)
Scott Tye – 46,050 (154 bb)
Elliott Zaydman – 38,050 (127 bb)
Steven Bennett – 34,550 (115 bb)
Raymond Ruszkowski – 22,975 (77 bb)
Ory Hen – 21,500 (72 bb)
Erik Christensen – 20,675 (69 bb)
Kim Stone – 15,625 (52 bb)
Scott Efron – 11,500 (38 bb)

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 4: 100/200

Players are on their first break of the flight and we’ll be able to get a good look at some of the big stacks while they take a breather.

The entrant count will climb over 300 shortly after they return putting Event 1 on a pace to easily top the $500,000 guarantee. We’ll track down our early leaders and find out who had a nice run over the first four levels.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 4: 100/200

Among the many poker players we see in our events throughout the year, Ory Hen had the best year of them all. He came into the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open” with a statement and rode it all the way to become the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year.

An impressive feat and it all began with a title in this same event last November. Hen outlasted 2,130 other entrants in last year’s Event 1 to take home over $65,000 of the $639,300 prize pool.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 3: 75/150

Flight 1A jumped over the 200 entrant mark before they moved into the noon hour and 230 are in the game midway through Level 3. A nice way to kick things off on a weekday morning and it bodes well for the rest of the starting flights.

Jeff Kessler was unable to run up his first bullet after his bad beat but took another seat in the game. Other regulars in early action include Jorge Gomez, Steven Bennett, Scott Efron, and Raymond Ruszkowski.

$250 Limit Omaha/8 (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 100/200 Limits

The big Event 1 starting field isn’t the only tournament kicking off today. We have a smaller but talented field for Event 2 and some Limit Omaha/8 for those who love their game with four hole cards and scooping pots.

Marc Perlman won this event last year and we’ll be looking out for him when they get underway. Robert Campbell is another local Omaha specialist we expect to see as he looks for his 13th career title.

Players will begin with 10,000 stacks and play 30-minute levels from start to finish. Late registration and re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 4:30pm. This is scheduled as a one-day event to crown our first Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open” champion before the end of the day.

Cards are about to fly and we’ll keep an eye on them as they play down.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 2: 50/100

We generally don’t see anyone getting too frisky early in these big events but a former Seminole Hard Rock Poker champ didn’t waste anytime.

Jeff Kessler is back with us this series and took his seat as a late registrant. He went big on his first hand after mixing it up with against an aggressive opponent. The chips went in the middle after the flop and Kessler was looking good for the insta-double against .

The turn was harmless but the river was unkind. He was left with a short stack but still grinding away. Kessler has two titles to his name including the Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open” Seniors title in 2013.