$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 150/300/50 ante

Players are back from their break with the 324 entrants showing on the clock and one more hour of late registration/re-entry.

Of those players, a nice number of them managed to double their starting stack (or better) in the first four levels with Ardit Kurshami the early leader.

Ardit Kurshami – 60,100
Aris Lopez – 57,350
Miguel Russo – 50,000
Russell Nicholas – 49,275
Andrew Graham – 47,650
Vladimir Kovalchuk – 47,450
Dinh Nguyen – 47,225
Nancy Thomas – 45,375
Jack Rolnitzky – 45,250
Darrell Davis – 43,425
Noah Novick – 43,425
Shane Delante – 43,000

Made the first break @shrpo and what a nice break pic.twitter.com/6pTubYqOEC

— wally Maddah (@wallymystar) August 15, 2014

$250 Omaha 8B
Level 18: 2,500/5,000

The final table of nine players for Event 2 at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open has returned and they will now play down to a champion. The winner will be the first Main Event champion of the tournament series. Play resumes with the final 5 minutes and 19 seconds remaining in Level 18. Here is a look at the chip counts and seating chart for the start of play.

Seat 1: Michael Wang – 53,000
Seat 2: Wayne Brown – 28,000
Seat 3: Avi Levy – 159,500
Seat 4: Arnold Cohen – 19,000
Seat 5: Gene Hochman – 24,000
Seat 6: John Binns – 208,000
Seat 7: George Boyadjian – 90,500
Seat 8: Brent Keane – 69,500
Seat 9: “Miami” John Cernuto – 167,500

Stay tuned for coverage of the final table.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 4: 100/200

Player are off on their first break of the day and chips are being counted. We will return with the first round of leaders shortly.

took me for ever to get here (3hrs) but finally I'm here! Firing the 350$ bird 500,000$ gr @shrpo came at begging of lvl 4 to 100/200 #VAMOS

— Alik Sitnyakovsky (@KingAlikMJstyle) August 15, 2014

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 4: 100/200

Level 4 was most active on the tournament board as the field has grown over 300 for the flight. Former winner Nigel Murray jumped into the action and quickly had to hit the registration desk for another entry when couldn’t beat flopped bottom two against an opponent.

Peter Striano, another Seminole Hard Rock Poker Room fixture and 3rd place finisher in the 2013 Seminole Hard Rock Rock and Roll Poker Open Main Event, has joined the fun and we are beginning to gather chip counts of the local regulars.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 3: 75/150

The second level wasn’t so kind to a few folks including Zach Kessler. Angel Vu and Kessler filled in the blanks as he hit the rail. His turned two pair with was no good against the 5-seat’s flopped set of Fives.

While gathering those details, two other dealers announced “seat open!” and action is heating up while Kessler went back to the registration desk for his second bullet.

The field has grown over 250 players as they move into the third level of the day and three-time WSOP Circuit champion Nancy Birnbaum is back in the ballroom with her second shot at making Day 2.

Here goes nothing . . . #SHRPO $500k gtd pic.twitter.com/UTsIFQfAWY

— Michael Bielecki (@MBielecki) August 15, 2014

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 2: 50/100

The first 30 minutes are in the book and everyone is relaxed in the tournament area. No one found their way out the door but many more are showing up.

The 1C field went over 200 players during the first level. Some Seminole Hard Rock poker regulars have joined the field including Errol Massey, Zach Kessler, and Angel Vu back for her third bullet in an attempt to pad her SHRP Player of the Year lead.

Made my way to the @SHRHollywood #shrpo Day1 of the $350 500k gur. #letsdothis

— Dolline Willis (@dolline_willis) August 15, 2014

Another bullet @shrpo 500k today #pewpew #justbag

— Jason (@AppstOnSome) August 15, 2014

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50

Day 1C of Event 1 is underway and this flight looks to top both the initial fields from yesterday. 1A and 1B combined for 796 players with only 116 players making it through to Day 2.

The $350 buy-in Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em tournament has a $500,000 guaranteed prizepool and they were halfway there with four starting days left to play. Players can register or re-enter until the start of Level 7 and can surrender their stacks before that time if they wish.

They begin with 20,000 stacks with blinds at 25/50 and 30-minute levels.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

End of Level 15:  1,500/3,000/500 ante

On the last hand of the night, Michael Jagroo shipped a 55k double-up across the felt, dropping his stack to 269k.

If he had won that pot, he would have won the chip lead bonus.  Folding that hand would not have helped, however, because Hany Ayoub bagged 356,500 to claim the $500 bonus as the Flight B Chip Leader.

Zack Goodman just missed out on the bonus, bagging 354,500, just 2,000 fewer than Ayoub.

The chip counts are being recorded and once the list is available, it will be posted here in the blog