$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 14: 1,200/2,400/400 Ante
Flight 1B Entries: 324
Players Remaining: 72
The final level of the night is underway with the clock showing 72 players remaining. In 13 minutes and 58 second the clock will stop and they’ll log just a few more hands before bagging and tagging. Complete chip counts through Flight B will be posted shortly thereafter.
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 14: 1,000/2,000/300
Flight 1B Entries: 324
Players Remaining: 72
After flying under the radar most of the day, poker pro Jon “PearlJammer” Turner has grown his stack as of late. He holds 120,000 chips and is trending in the right direction with less than two levels remaining in the day.
Turner owns more than $1,700,000 in live tournament earnings and claims closer to triple that figure in online scores.
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 13: 1,000/2,000/300
Flight 1B Entries: 324
Players Remaining: 81
The final break of the night is over and players are freshly back in their seats set to log two more levels of action. John Grasso has emerged with a gigantic stack of over 420,000 chips. Not only does that put him in the lead in his respective flight, it puts him well ahead of Flight A Chris Thompson’s 240,000.
Grasso resides in Coral Springs and has a modest tournament resumes that includes four cashes and $25,804 in earnings. All signs point to him bagging the chip lead, but with nearly 60 minutes of action left in Flight B, anything can happen.
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 12: 800/1,600/200 Ante
Flight 1B Entries: 324
Players Remaining: 91
Ryan Dunn and Adam Levy find themselves seated next to eachother late in the day in Flight B. Dunn, who won an event here during the Lucky Hearts Poker Open, claims the advantage over Levy. The pair holds 160,000 and 137,000 respectively with Level 12 just minutes from concluding.
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 11: 600/1,200/200 Ante
Flight 1B Entries: 324
Players Remaining: 109
After busting Flight A, John Depersio is back at it here in Flight B. Depersio, who resides in Parkland, Fla., has turned his 20,000 starting chips into 150,000 and is in good position to earn a Day 2 berth with just over 90 minutes remaining in his respective flight.
Depersio is a two-time tournament champion with more than $221,000 in earnings on the poker felt.
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 10: 500/1,000/100 Ante
Flight 1B Entries: 324
Players Remaining: 136
While it’s not his 20,000-chip stack that’s turning heads, Antonio Albanes has found a way to stand out among the sea of 136 players still alive in Flight B of Event 1. Albanes is sporting a sharp, light dress shirt with a fancy vest and a crisp tie. Pulling the look together is a pair of tie-die glasses that spell out “Groovy”.
What’s not so groovy is the hand he recently played. He checked the flop in a multi-way pot in early position only to see two players go all in.
“I’m going to get stay out of this one,” he said when it folded back to him.
As mentioned before, he sits on just about 20,000 chips or 20 big blinds.
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 9: 400/800/100 Ante
Flight 1B Entries: 324
Players Remaining: 153
This evening’s Flight B of Event 1 of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown drew 324 entries bringing the two-flight total to 694. That puts the prize pool at an unofficial $208,200 — well on pace to the best the $500,000 guarantee.
Flight-by-flight breakdown:
Flight A: 370 Entries, 71 Advanced
Flight B: 324 Entries, TBD Advanced
Flight C: April 1 – 11am
Flight D: April 1 – 6pm
Flight E: April 2 – 11am
Flight F: April 2 – 6pm
Players in Flight B will log about three more hours of play before action concludes. At that time, all those still alive bag and tag set to return for Day 2 Sunday at 1 p.m.
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 9: 400/800/100 Ante
Flight 1B Entries: 324
Cards are back in the air and registration is closed in Flight B of Event 1. Tournament staff is still verifying the final attendance figure, but in the meantime we took a quick walk around the room and noted some of the bigger stacks.
It appears Ermias Braki leads the field with 170,000 chips. He’s had quite the hot streak thus far, but other such as Adam Levy (115,500), Oren Maimon (107,000) and Mark Theodore (105,000) have made their presence known as well. Theodore is seated next to Elizabeth Dabas who was the chip leader following the first break. Her stack has gone down since we last touched based with her as she now holds 66,500.
We will provide the final attendance for Flight B as soon as it’s verified.
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
End of Level 8: 300/600/75 Ante
Flight 1B Entries: 323
Players are in the midst of their final break prior to the close of registration with the clock showing 323 entered. Cards go back in the air in about 10 minutes, and at that time, the field will be finalized and we’ll have the Flight B attendance figure.
A look at some of the notable stacks will be posted shortly.
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 7: 250/500/75 Ante
Flight 1B Entries: 303
The field sits at 303 entries and counting at about the midway point of Level 7. They pair with the 370 entries from Flight A to bring the two-flight total to 673 and counting. Late registration is open until about 10:30 p.m. in Flight B, while Flight C, D, E and F are still to come.
Those players still alive in Flight B include: