$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
End of Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Day 1A Players Remaining: 63 of 326

Flight A drew 326 entrants with 63 players moving on to Day 2 on Sunday at 1pm.

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 3: 75/150/ with a 25 ante
Day 1B Players: 200

After a rocky start, Shandra Seay is experiencing a little better luck on her second entry.

Most recently, local regular Michael Newman called from late position and Seay raised the button to 300. The small blind folded, the big blind called and so did Newman.

Three-handed, they saw a flop of . All three players checked.

Fourth street was the and the big blind checked a second time. Newman lead for 500 and Seay called. The big blind folded and Newman was heads up with Seay.

The dealer burned and turned the on the river and Newman checked. Leay started to put what looked like 800 into the pot and Newman quickly let it go. After some friendly banter, Seay showed the table for flopped trips.

Shandra Seay – 34,000

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 3: 75/150/ with a 25 ante
Day 1B Players: 200

Level 3 is freshly underway with the clock reading 200 entries in Flight B. Among them are Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Mukul Pahuja and South Florida regular Nancy Birnbaum.

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 2: 50/100
Day 1B Players: 147

Early bustout from flight 1A of @shrpo $360 $500. Flight 1b at 6pm. Follow along next 3 weeks for updates!

— Matthew Affleck (@mcmattopoker) July 28, 2016

True to his word, Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Matthew Affleck is among the Flight B field in Event 1 of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open. He’s back at it after busting Flight A and is one of 182 players registered toward the end of Level 2.

Matthew Affleck – 19,000

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50
Day 1B Players: 147

Shandra Seay’s stay in Flight B of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open opener was short lived. A mere 20 minutes into play, Seay looked down at [qs,] in the small blind. On a flop of , Sheay got all in versus the big blind’s [as,].

The turn and river didn’t change a thing and the dealer counted down the stacks. Seay was slightly covered and went down as one of the first eliminations of the event.

The unknown player in the big blind now sits on a stack of more than 800 big blinds just a few hands into the night.

Undeterred, Seay quickly re-entered is back among the field with a 20,000-chip starting stack.

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Day 1A Players Remaining: 72 of 326

Flight A moved into the 14th level of the day, the last chance to build up a stack for Day 2 or take another shot.

They’ll pause the clock with ten minutes remaining and each table will deal a randomly drawn number of hands.

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50
Day 1B Players: 70

It’s 6pm in South Florida and Flight B of the 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $360 buy-in, $500,000 guaranteed event is underway! Today’s 11am flight drew 326 entries and is nearing its end as Flight B is freshly off and running.

Like the 11am installment, players in tonight’s play begin with 20,000 chips and log 30-minute levels throughout the night. Play is set to conclude just before 2am local time with those fortunate enough to advance returning for Day 2 Sunday at 1pm.

Day 1B details:

6PM: Event 1 Day 1B – $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

Updates throughout the flight’s completion will be available right here at SHRPO.com!

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 13: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante
Day 1A Players Remaining: 81 of 326

Al Gomez was looking at an early end to his day. He was moved to a table at the front of the room and sat with only 8,000.

“I’m on one bullet today,” Gomez commented.

“This is it,” he said pointing at his stack.

But that wasn’t the end, he has since pushed his stack better than ten-fold higher and caught a nice hand for a triple.

An opponent three-bet shoved with and it was an easy call for Gomez with . To juice up the pot, a middle position player came along with .

Gomez saw bad news on the flop but he came from behind on the turn. That card also gave the tens a lot of outs with a flush draw, open-ended straight draw but it didn’t get there on the river.

A big hand that pushed Gomez’ stack over 87,000.

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 12: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Day 1A Players Remaining: 99 of 326

Flight A is back in action and the next stop is the end-of-day bagging process. The average stack is still above 40 big blinds but they are getting them in the middle often.

Jennifer Parker continues to lead the opening session with more than 260,000 and a few players without shouting distance.