$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Day 1E Players Remaining: 153 of 605

Flight C players have moved into their last level of the night. Right around 150 players remain and we should see about 40 of them disappear in the next half hour.

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50

The clock strikes 6pm and it’s time to shuffle up and deal in Flight F of the $360 buy-in SHRPO opener. The $500,000 guarantee is already long gone as the prize pool is comfortably over $600,000 through the first five start days. This evening’s flight is expected to again blow the doors off the ballroom and help grow the kiddie up over $750,000.

Here’s a look at the details of Flight F:

6PM: Event 1 Day 1F – $360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

• $500,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 20,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
• Day 1 will end after Level 14 or Tournament Director discretion
• Event 1 Structure Sheet

The tournament’s prize pool and payouts will be posted shortly after registration closes around 10:30pm local time. Updates throughout the event’s completion will be available right here on SHRPO.com

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 12: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Day 1E Players Remaining: 180 of 605

Cheri Beatty’s stack was up and down throughout the day as she bounced to three different tables after they broke. She hit her high point before getting mixed up with Yves Fequiere.

Beatty opened the action and he called in the small blind to see the flop. Fequiere check/called a flop bet then check/called against after the turn. He led out after the river and Beatty must have sensed something was up.

She called with aces but they were no good when she saw Fequiere chased with . The hand dropped her under 30,000 and she was gone soon after when her sevens couldn’t outrace .

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 11: 600/1,200 with a 200 ante
Day 1E Players Remaining: 216 of 605

The accounting is complete and Flight C officially drew 605 entrants to take the total up to 2,036 for Event 1 with one last flight at 6pm. The current prize pool is $610,800 but that will climb significantly before registration closes at 10:30pm.

Chip Counts through Flight D

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 10: 500/1,000 with a 200 ante
Day 1E Players Remaining: 250 of 605

The field continues to shrink quickly after registration closed for the flight and we are now one “Kevmath” short.

He hit a high-point of 29,000 at the first break but took a slide south the rest of the way. His final act came against SHRP team member Loni Harwood when his big slick could not outrace her pocket sevens. The hand sent Mathers out and moved Harwood up to 40,000.

Busto from the @shrpo $360ament: UTG 2.1x, @Luscious_Lon call in sb, I shove AKo in bb for 19 bbs, utg fold, Loni calls and I don’t improve.

— Kevin Mathers (@Kevmath) July 30, 2016

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 9: 400/800 with a 100 ante
Day 1E Players: 605

Registration closed on the fifth flight of Event 1 leaving one more opportunity tonight at 6pm.

The unofficial entrant count for Flight E is sitting at 605 but we’re waiting on the official accounting to be complete. That would put the prize pool over $610,000 with a full flight to run it up.

Jon Borenstein was one of those late entrants, hopping in the game before the second break. He has some success here and it gave him momentum for a nice year-long run. Borenstein made an inaugural Big 4 final table last year and finished third in the $2,650 Freezeout then followed that up with a third place in this event during the 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown in March.collected the biggest score of his career when he finished eighth in the massive, massive-field WSOP Colossus II event for more than $115,000.

Borenstein finished up a great 12-month run when he collected the biggest score of his career with an eighth place finish in the massive, massive-field WSOP Colossus II event for more than $115,000.

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 7: 250/500 with a 75 ante
Day 1E Players: 590

It’s time for the second break of the flight and the last chance for players to play this afternoon. If they miss out now, there’s one last chance at 6pm.

There are 590 entrants on the board as they take their 15-minute breather and we’ll inch up close to 600 before the come back to the tables.

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 7: 250/500 with a 75 ante
Day 1E Players: 570

It was a good couple levels for Seminole Hard Rock Poker team members, first Sheddy Siddiqui knocked out a couple and now reigning WSOP National Champion Loni Harwood won a three-way all-in when she cracked aces.

She was all-in for 7,700 with two other opponents coming. Both Harwood and the player to her left were in trouble, her and his were facing down against .

Harwood didn’t have to wait long to see the good news, it came right on the flop. She had to dodge a diamond draw but the turn and river were good enough to move her up to 35,600.

“I was trying to build a stack or re-entry”, she said while stacking her newly won chips.

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 6: 200/400 with a 50 ante
Day 1E Players: 550

We don’t know how he got the chips in the middle but know Sheddy Siddiqui had two players all-in and dominated with . He must have trapped them well because the two short stacks were in trouble with and .

“Let it hold,” Siddiqui requested.

Neither of his opponents sniffed a piece of the flop and both were drawing dead to the re-entry desk on the turn. Siddiqui stacked up his chips and he was a bit over 40,000.

“I have the chips I paid for,” he half-joked about his two bullets and the 20,000 he got for each.

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 150/300 with a 50 ante
Day 1E Players: 500

“They call him king!” joked one of Tony Li’s tablemates.

Li may or may not be actual royalty but he is tops in Flight C after the first break. He ran his 20,000 starting stack over 90,000 in the first two hours of play, not quite checkmate because there’s still plenty of time to pass him.

Arthur Peacock, Matthew Silva, Robert Capote, and Tim Burden round out the top five but there are still a lot of deep stacks in the room.

Top stacks and notable counts:

Tony Li – 91,400 (305 bb)
Arthur Peacock – 75,000 (250 bb)
Matthew Silva – 71,000 (237 bb)
Robert Capote – 70,650 (236 bb)
Tim Burden – 67,000 (223 bb)
Richard Blanchar – 61,800 (206 bb)
John Depersio – 41,000 (137 bb)
Kevin Mathers – 29,375 (98 bb)
John Pappas – 27,025 (90 bb)
Eric Piderit – 26,500 (88 bb)
Cheri Beatty – 25,925 (86 bb)
Shawn Lytle – 25,200 (84 bb)
Daren Stabinski – 20,975 (70 bb)
Sheddy Siddiqui – 18,925 (63 bb)
TK Miles – 14,700 (49 bb)
Matt Waldron – 13,900 (46 bb)
Sean Shah – 13,650 (46 bb)
Herbert Woodbery – 10,175 (34 bb)