$1,500 + $150 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Poker Open” Main Event

Blinds: 75/150

The numbers are climbing towards 200 entrants for the day but  a good number of them will turn out to be re-entries.

There have been several big bust out hands early including flopping bottom two taking out the 8-seat with Kings. Table 41 saw the 8-seat with the most casual way of announcing “quads” before tabling for the mortal nuts to send the 5-seat out.

More regulars to The Poker Room at Seminole Hard Rock are showing up in the field including Event 13 winner champ Haim Gil Nagar, Elliott Zaydman, Jean LeBlond, and Day 1A big stack Nigel Murray is relaxing at the bar checking out his competition for tomorrow.

$1,500 + $150 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Poker Open” Main Event

Blinds: 50/100

It’s still early on Day 1B of the Main Event and the numbers are climbing steadily. There are more than 150 entrants registered midway through the first level to easily surpass the $500,000 prizepool. Every player now adds money across the board for bigger paydays.

The Kessler father/son combo is back to fire their second bullet of the Main Event, Jeff and Zach both failed to survive through 1A and giving it another shot. Event 15 champion Nicholas Mahabee is in today’s field looking to add to his trophy case.

There are still players lined at the cage and we’re tracking down the big early name.

$1,500 + $150 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Poker Open” Main Event

Blinds: 50/100

The final starting day of the Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open” Main Event is underway as the field builds a prizepool to exceed the $500,000 guarantee. A huge field of 210 entrants put their money up on Day 1A for a shot at the big prize but only 48 of them survived to carry ships into Day 2.

Serge Coles and local Nigel Murray finished 1A as the two biggest stacks and players today will try to match them. Day 1B players sit down with 20,000 stacks to play ten 1-hour levels with late registration or re-entry open until 4:30pm.

We will be here throughout the day bringing live updates and reports from around the poker room.

Day 1A top ten chip counts:

$1,500 + $150 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Poker Open” Main Event

We have ended play for the day in Event 18 here at the Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open.” 210 players started the day with hopes of building a big stack to take forward to Day 2 on Sunday and nearly 12 hours later we were down to 48 players, meaning nearly a quarter of the field survived. Among those making it through to day 2 were Michael Mizrachi and David Diaz but it is Serge Coles leading the way with 249,500 in chips followed very closely by Nigel Murray with 249,000 in chips. Rounding out the top three is Kevin Froemming with 233,300. Players will return at 1 p.m. on Sunday. For those that did not make it through or have not yet taken their shot, Day 1B will get underway tomorrow at noon. We will have full chip counts as soon as they become available.

$1,500 + $150 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Poker Open” Main Event

Blinds: 500/1K/100 ante

There isn’t much going on right now other than people racing for their tournament lives, Michael Mizrachi trying to grind a short stack into a big one, and local Nigel Murray walking around to tables in between hands dishing out good natured insults like “the worst player at the table is the chip leader” (Nigel is among the chip leaders himself).

Once the players have bagged and tagged, we’ll get you who made it through the day and what their chip counts are. There are 63 players remaining at the present time.

$1,500 + $150 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Poker Open” Main Event

Blinds: 400/800/100 ante

Players are on their last break of the day – a 15 minute color up the green 25 chips break. There are 81 players of the original 210 remaining. A couple of twitter updates from players that have played today:

Heading into last break of the night. Was stagnant for 4 hours, then a sweet double up from @TheGrinder44. Sitting with 104k, avg is 51k.

— Abbey Daniels (@abbeydaniels1) November 30, 2013

Very strange not being chipped up early… Don't think I like it. No sir, I didn't like it. #sadface @WPTRegional @SHRPOLIVE

— Redlocks (@zachtax) November 30, 2013

@SHRPOLIVE @SHRTPoker http:// Great pic of me. Lol http://t.co/n96AckLiGQ

— Kobi Ribak (@kribak1) November 30, 2013