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

The final table of nine players is set for Event 2 at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open and the players will return tomorrow at 1 p.m. ET to play down to a champion. The winner will be the first Main Event champion of the tournament series. Play will resume on Friday with the final 5 minutes and 19 seconds remaining in Level 18. Here is a look at the chip counts when cards get into the air tomorrow.

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 (pictured above)

Tune back in tomorrow for all of the action and photos from the final table.

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

Level 7:  250/500/50 ante

Registration has closed with an unofficial entry count of 382.  Added to the 414 entries in Flight A, brings the total to 796 through the first two flights.

This event carries a $500,000 Guarantee on the prize pool and they’re nearly half way to that with four more starting flights to go.

Schedule for the final four starting flights:

Flight C:  Friday, 11am
Flight D:  Friday, 7pm
Flight E:  Saturday, 11am
Flight F:  Saturday, 7pm

The survivors of all six starting flights will come together for Day 2 on Sunday at 1pm.

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

Level 6:  200/400/50 ante

About ten minutes remain in this level and this is the last chance for players to re-enter this flight.  They can forfeit their chips and enter another flight, but if they bag chips, they cannot play another flight (there is no ‘best stack’ option as there has been in the past).

Two-time Seminole Hard Rock Poker titleist John Holley (Destin, FL) is still in the hunt.  He’s down to about 12k from the 20k starting stack (~30 big blinds)

John won two events here during this series last year.   He claimed both the 2013 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Seniors event title and the Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo title.  He also owns two WSOP Circuit rings and has lifetime tournament earnings over $849,000.

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

Level 5:  150/300/25 ante

Players are back in action following the break.  Some big stacks are turning up in the field:

Joseph Ingrassia 98,275
Hany Ayoub 72,050
Naga Haim 67,800
Joe Pozos 61,025
Robert ‘Carwash’ Williams 59,500
Yechezka Wells 53,450
Rostant Ramlal 51,600
Pasquale Carazza 50,850
Kobi Ribak 50,600
Nancy Birnbaum 50,400

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

End of Level 4:  100/200

Level 4 is done and players are on their first break of Flight B.

Just before the end of level 4, Robert ‘Carwash’ Williams (bb) got all-in on the river for his last 14,425.  The board showed .  Terri Anne Crawford was on the button and tanked for a couple of minutes.

“You trying to send me back to Tampa?” Terri asked, rhetorically.  These two players are both from Tampa and have run into each other back there on the felt at the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa.

She finally opted to call, leaving herself with less than 10k.  Carwash rolled over [9h7d] for two pair and Terri mucked.

Carwash chipped up to over 50k and must be among the early chip leaders.

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

Level 4:  100/200

Some decorated poker players have turned up in Flight B.

Nancy Birnbaum is one of the most decorated women on the WSOP Circuit.  She’s won 3 Circuit gold rings, a Ladies event Pendant and has over $417,000 in lifetime tournament earnings.

She’s fired her first bullet in Flight B and should be a fixture here over the next three weeks of tournaments.

$250 Omaha 8B
Level 15: 1,200/2,400

Event 2 continues to play fast and the field is down to the final 16 from the 76 that entered. Play will stop tonight when they reach the final table, unless every player votes to continue playing, and in that case they will play it out tonight. “Miami” John Cernuto is still in the hunt for the final table.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 15: 1,500/3k/500 ante

Here is a look at some of the chip leaders among the Day 1A survivors for Event 1 at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open.

Jordan Peralta

Matthew Goldman

Kai Young

Taragaturi Draueen

Edgardo La Torre

Dallas Perry

Luis Cristobol