Day 1A: $350 Deep-Stack No-Limit Hold’em with re-entries ($150,000 Guaranteed)
Level 5: Blinds 200/400, Ante 50
Players Remaining: 126/170

The Day 1A field is up to 170 entries, more than 1/3rd of the way to reaching the guarantee. The average stack is currently about 40,000 (100 big blinds).

Among those who have recently entered the field include Stuart Paterson, Tony Ruberto, and Matt Elsarelli.

Day 1A: $350 Deep-Stack No-Limit Hold’em with re-entries ($150,000 Guaranteed)
Level 4: Blinds 150/300, Ante 50
Players Remaining: 126/154

With the board reading and about 4,000 in the pot, chip leader Muzaffer Yesilce checked from the small blind. The player under the gun bet 2,000, the player on the button raised to 4,500, and Yesilce check-reraised to 12,000. After a few moments the UTG player folded, leading to the player on the button reraising all in for about 24,000.

Yesilce called with for a full house, eights full of sevens, leading his opponent’s for trip eights. The river was the , securing the pot for Yesilce and giving him about 163,000.

$350 Deep-Stack No-Limit Hold’em with re-entries ($150,000 Guaranteed)
Level 4: Blinds 150/300, Ante 50
Players Remaining: 126/149

Chip leaders at the first break

Muzaffer Yesilce – 101,550
Joseph Casella – 91,475
Vladimir Kovalchuk – 78,825
Luis Santoni – 71,600
Haim Toorgeman – 71,150
Francis Margaglione – 70,225

We are through two levels on Day 1A of the $350 Deep-Stack No-Limit Hold’em event and as of now, the field is up to 125 entries.

There is a break at the end of Level 3 and we’ll take that opportunity to go through the field and find the chip leaders.

Among those we’ve spotted in the field thus far include Luis Santoni, Ilya Lekach, Scott Zakheim, Ory Hen, Greg Marcus, and Joel Harwood.

Every weekday from 1pm-3pm, Eric Reed and Leroy Hoard can be heard discussing all things sports on 104.3 FM and 790 AM the ticket. They will be on the air live from right here in the poker room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino at the top of the hour.

In addition to today, they will be back tomorrow, next Thursday and Friday, and every Friday until the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open in August. Players are welcome to stop by and check out the show.

For a look at the full schedule of the 2015 Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood Deep Stack Series, including qualifiers and satellites, please click here.

Welcome to live coverage of the The 2015 Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood Deep Stack Series!

Today kicks off the first event of six in an 11-day series of exciting tournament action. On the docket for today is Day 1A of the $350 Deep-Stack No-Limit Hold’em event with re-entries, with a guaranteed prize pool of $150,000. There will be three starting flights (Today, Friday, and Saturday), with the survivors from each returning Sunday to play down to a winner.

Players begin with 30,000 in chips and the plan for the day is to play 15 40-minute levels, with a 40-minute dinner break after Level 9 (roughly 6:30pm). For a look at the structure sheet, please click here.

There are currently 63 players registered and registration will remain open until the start of Day 2 (blinds and antes will be at the 3,000/6,000/1,000 level at that time).

For a look at the entire schedule of the Deep Stack Series , please click here.

The cards are in the air, so keep it here for updates throughout the day on all of the exciting action!