Event 1 Flight B: Field Thins to Start Level 12

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 12: 800/1,600 with a 200 Ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 144 of 443

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As the stacks thin so too does the field and only 144 of the original 443 starters remain in Flight B of the $1,000,000 guaranteed opener. Among those to hit the rail are Karl Manouchakian, Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Mukul Pahuja and Tampa ambassador Wally Maddah, Neil Blumenfield, Michael Newman and Steven Bennett.

Event 1 Flight B: Juan Endara Crosses 200K

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 11: 600/1,200 with a 200 Ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 162 of 443

Juan Endara
Juan Endara

With a stack of over 200,000, the Flight B chip leader is currently Juan Endara. Endara, a resident of Miami, appears to sit on roughly 212,500 which would be good enough to put him within the top 10 of the Flight A advancers from a few hours ago. Endara has a tough table with the likes of 2015 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year Ory Hen and a POY contender from last season Zoltan Czinkota. With over 175 big blinds and 1 hour and 45 minutes left to play, he’s in good position to bag a big stack heading to Day 2.

Juan Endara – 212,500

Event 1 Flight B: More Tampa Faithful

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 9: 400/800 with a 100 Ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 216 of 443

Karl Manouchakian
Karl Manouchakian

In addition to Seminole Hard Rock Tampa team member Wally Maddah, Tampa regular Karl Manouchakian also made the trek to join us here in Hollywood. In 2016 alone, Manouchakian has recorded 11 major tournament cashes at the Seminole Hard Rock properties including a victory in a $350 event during the WPTDeepStacks-Tampa series. Those scores have accounted for over $90,000 in earnings in addition to numerous other deep runs in daily events.

Event 1 Flight B: Registration Closed; Two-Flight Total at 846 Entries

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 9: 400/800 with a 100 Ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 234 of 443

The second break wrapped and registration is closed in Flight B of the Rock ‘n’ Roller Poker Open $360 buy-in, $1,000,000 guaranteed opener. The second of eight starting flights drew a field of 443 entries bringing the combined field to 886 and putting the event well on pace to best its seven-figure target.

Here’s a breakdown of the flights thus far:

Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open Event 1
$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
$1,000,000 Guaranteed

FlightDateEntriesAdvanced
AWed 11am40380
BWed 6pm443TBD
CThur 11am
DThur 6pm
EFri 11am
FFri 6pm
GSat 11am
HSat 6pm
Updated Totals84680

Flight B is scheduled to conclude following Level 14 and the complete Day 2 chip counts will be posted shortly thereafter.

Event 1 Flight B: Helping the Entry Count

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 7: 250/500 with a 75 Ante
Flight B Entrants: 422

Neil Blumenfield
Neil Blumenfield
Ory Hen
Ory Hen

After busting Flight A, Neil Blumenfield and Ory Hen did their part to up the entry count by getting back in the action in tonight’s Flight B. Blumenfield and Hen share a table and it’s Blumenfield’s 34,000-chip stack that has Hen’s 26,500 edged out.

Blumenfield is best known for his 3rd-place finish in the 2015 WSOP Main Event while Hen earned Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year honors that same year.

Event 1 Flight B: 6pm Installment Hits 400 Entries and Keeps Going

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 6: 200/400 with a 50 Ante
Flight B Entrants: 404

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With 404 entries midway through Level 6, Flight B has officially surpassed the 403 entries of Flight A which began today at 11am. That puts the field at a combined 807 entries with late registration and re-entry available in Flight B until 10:30pm.

A total of 80 players advanced from Flight A and tonight’s flight should see around that number earn their way to a Day 2 as well.

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Event 1 Flight B: Cards in the Air Following First Break

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 150/300 with a 50 Ante
Flight B Entrants: 371

Play is back underway following the first break of the day in Flight B. The clock shows 371 entries to this point bringing the combined field to 774 entries and growing.

Here’s a look at some of the notables stacks from Flight B:

Flight B chip leader Daniel Wilson
Flight B chip leader Daniel Wilson
  • Daniel Wilson – 85,000
  • Omar Diaz – 60,500
  • Ari Gutman – 51,500
  • Sal Sollecito – 48,000
  • Michael Newman – 45,500
  • Nancy Nieto – 45,000
  • David Fetjin – 44,275
  • John DePersio – 43,000
  • Ido Ashkenazi – 38,000
  • Neil Blumenfield – 37,925
  • Ory Hen – 29,000
  • Raminder Singh – 22,000
  • Brian Gelrod – 22,000
  • Steven Bennett – 22,000
  • David Shmuel – 19,500
  • Zoltan Czinkota – 15,000
  • Wally Maddah – 10,375

Event 1: Chip Counts Through Flight A

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Returning to Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 Ante
Players Remaining: 80 of 403

Flight A: 403 Entries, 80 Advanced
Flight B: Wednesday at 6pm
Flight C: Thursday at 11am
Flight D: Thursday at 6pm
Flight E: Friday at 11am
Flight F: Friday at 6pm
Flight G: Saturday at 11am
Flight H: Saturday at 6pm
Day 2: Sunday at 1pm

RankFirst NameLast NameChip Count
1NicholasCookendorfer291,000
2CharlesCarragher284,000
3DavidRauf271,500
4JuanRodriguez236,000
5GabrielDiaz219,000
6BenLindemulder206,500
7KevinHo206,000
8MarkTarich201,500
9AllanBieler190,500
10JorgeGomez188,000
11AlexanderMorgovsky179,500
12AntonyVidmer160,000
13RobertNewhouse155,500
14JoshWasserman146,500
15SchneurBorenstein145,000
16DebraPope132,500
17MatthewRizai132,000
18Chein MinChiu129,000
19RobertWomack122,500
20ClaudemirOsorio120,000
21RyanO'Cull120,000
22JimmyCortes119,500
23PeterBronstein118,500
24FariborzZojaji118,000
25JohnBinnis117,500
26JoseGallegos116,500
27DavidCoughlin113,500
28LesleyHerard113,000
29CharlemagneBenjamin110,000
30BruceRawdin109,000
31AdamMorck108,500
32RichardPace107,000
33YoandriAlmaquer105,000
34GregSpinder102,000
35JoseDelacruz98,000
36GeorgesBoyadjian96,000
37KaiKuppe94,000
38TomislavKrizanic93,500
39DonaldMaloney92,000
40MichaelTufaro90,000
41ReneEsquivel89,000
42NormZapczynski87,000
43StuartKrazney86,500
44MatthewPakre83,500
45NoelNLN80,500
46KaanKaleli79,500
47EnriqueBetancourt77,500
48DejanPetkovic77,000
49DanaChowen77,000
50JasonWandling77,000
51JonathanBitter71,500
52DaneCassidy69,500
53HollanderPreap69,500
54StevenMcKoy67,000
55IvanStarostin67,000
56EliBohadanah62,000
57KimKotalik61,000
58MarkGaudino58,500
59DavidThalheim57,000
60KevinDeng52,500
61GilNagar51,500
62AnthonyNassar51,000
63JonathanCabrera48,000
64HomeroMolina47,000
65OvensonBenoit43,500
66JasonJohnson43,000
67StevenSanzone42,000
68MicheleMcLeod40,500
69CarlosBolanos40,500
70JulieNgo40,000
71MichaelCappello39,500
72ToniTurner39,000
73EthanKaplan38,500
74AlanPhillips35,000
75MarcelaNewmark32,000
76NeilShapiro31,000
77JuanDiaz31,000
78PercivalBroderick30,500
79BaruchJacobs25,500
80ZaprudnovJuri23,000