$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: Blinds 25/50

Minutes after the bags close from Day 1A, Flight B settles in for it’s crack at the $1 Million Guaranteed prize pool of the opening event of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown.

Players start with 25k in chips (500 bb) and levels last 30 minutes each.  Registration and re-entry is open until ~9:15 pm.

This is the second of six starting flights with Day 2 set for 1 pm Sunday.

Day 1A: Thursday, March 27 – 286 Entries/59 players remaining
Day 1B: Thursday, March 27 – 7 p.m.
Day 1C: Friday, March 28 – 11 a.m.
Day 1D: Friday, March 28 – 7 p.m.
Day 1E: Saturday, March 29 – 11 a.m.
Day 1F: Saturday, March 29 – 7 p.m.
Day 2: Sunday, March 30 – 1 p.m.

The remaining 60-ish players are bagging and tagging for the day. David Shaw, Robert Williams, and Michael Ortiz look to be the biggest stacks in the room and as a special bonus, the chip leader at the end of each flight will receive $1,000.

$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 14: Blinds 1,200/2,400/300 ante

A player in early position raises to 11,500, Michael Ortiz calls from the hijack, and both players in the blinds call to see a flop of .

The player in the small blind leads out for 20,000, getting folds from the player in the big blind and the preflop raiser. Before Ortiz acts on his hand, though, the player in the small blind turns over his own cards, for top two pair.

With a smile on his face, Ortiz takes one last look at his cards and folds face up.

“I cost myself a lot of money on that one,” says the player in the small blind.

“I had a funny feeling you had ace-queen anyway,” replies Ortiz.

Despite losing the pot, Ortiz dodges what could have been a big loss and is still going strong with about 289,000.

$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 13: Blinds 1,000/2,000/200 ante

Michael Ortiz – 253,400 (126 bb)
Eugene Kleyman – 237,700 (118 bb)
Wendy Freedman – 202,100 (101 bb)
Donald Carlton – 189,300 (94 bb)

$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 12: Blinds 800/1,600/200 ante

About 104 players remain from the Day 1A starting field of 286 entries. The average stack is currently at about 68,800 (43 bb).

$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 10: Blinds 500/1,000/100 ante

Picking up the action after a flop of with about 15,000 in the pot, Michael Ortiz is in the tank after his opponent moves all in for roughly 21,000. After a little while Ortiz calls with , leading his opponent’s .

Ortiz fades his opponent’s outs as the turn and river secure the pot for him with a pair of kings, increasing his stack to a tournament leading 220,000.

$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 10: Blinds 500/1,000/100 ante

About 153 players remain from the Day 1A starting field of 286 entries. The current average stack is about 47,000 (47 bb).

$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 9: Blinds 400/800/100 ante

Eugene Kleyman (Brooklyn, NY) – 146,400 (183 bb)
Michael Ortiz (Miami Lakes, FL) – 141,000 (176 bb)
Dan Heimiller (Downey, CA) – 102,500 (128 bb)