$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 7: 250/500 with a 75 ante
Total 1E Entries: 580

Michelle Shah was quietly grinding her Flight E stack when she ran into a big blind defender. She opened to 1,300 and her opponent called from the big blind to see the flop.

He check/called 2,050 from Shah to the turn and he checked again. Shaha threw out all her non-5K chips for 2,800 and he check/raised to 8,000. Shah announced all-in for 25,000 and he gave it a lot of thought.

He eventually called and showed his flopped two pair to put Shah in trouble with . She had eight saving outs but none appeared on the river to send her out.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 6: 200/400 with a 50 ante
Total 1E Entries: 535

With the 535th entry today, Event 10 officially hit the $1,000,000 prize pool and it will continue to climb from this point forward. There’s still plenty of time to get in the action, late reg closes on this flight at 3:30pm and the final flight runs at 6pm.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 150/300 with a 50 ante
Total 1E Entries: 510

The field picked up a nice number of players while they were mingling in the lobby. Event 10 is only a handful of entries away from hitting seven-digit territory and everyone is watching the clock.

Vincent Caruso returned from break with the chip lead but there are three players on his heels, each a 1K chip behind the next.

Top stacks and some notable names:

Vincent Caruso – 63,000 (210 bb)
Robert Dukes – 62,000 (207 bb)
John Marlow – 61,000 (203 bb)
Parkison Keevican – 60,000 (200 bb)
Jose Silverman – 57,700 (192 bb)
Francois Zayas – 55,600 (185 bb)
Randall Cohen – 53,000 (177 bb)
Steven McKoy – 52,000 (173 bb)
William McIntyre – 50,000 (167 bb)
Qaseem Jamhour – 44,000 (147 bb)
Cate Hall – 41,325 (138 bb)
Erik Christensen – 38,500 (128 bb)
Sheddy Siddiqui – 29,125 (97 bb)
Jessica Meir – 26,650 (89 bb)
Raymond Ruszkowski – 22,000 (73 bb)
Joe Serock – 17,300 (58 bb)

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 4: 100/200 with a 25 ante
Total 1E Entries: 444

Flight E players are getting ready to hit their first break of the day as they approach 450 entrants in the morning session.

Joe Serock and his $3 million in career earnings took a seat during this level and joined SHRP team member Cate Hall’s table. Not a lot of fun for the other players there.

They’ll take their break at the top of the hour and return to play four more levels with late registration/re-entry open.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 3: 75/150 with a 25 ante
Total 1E Entries: 380

Richard DeVivo’s day hasn’t gone very well but he still has skin in the game. His kings were cracked early by tens to leave him short.

DeVivo picked up a needed double when he called a min-raise from the small blind then got his chips in the middle with the board reading . His opponent called with and DeVivo’s trip tens needed to dodge four queens.

The river blanked and DeVivo doubled up to 7,000.

“One more double and I’ll have a 15,000 stack,” DeVivo joked.

That would still be under a starting stack but a positive direction.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 2: 50/100
Total 1E Entries: 320

The entrant count quickly jumped over 300 during the second level and new tables are filling at a nice clip.

Two Seminole Hard Rock Poker team members are in the game before noon. Sheddy Siddiqui and Cate Hall took seats at adjoining tables in the second level with more expected before we close down registration.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 2: 50/100
Total 1E Entries: 264

It’s pretty clear from the early numbers that this will be the biggest flight so far in Event 10. By a long shot.

Over 250 entrants were in the game when they rolled out the second level of the day and it’s looking like we’ll pop the guarantee before we even have to think about the last flight at 6pm.

While a lot of pros wait late to register, Harrison Gimbel was here at the start. The WPT and PCA champ took his seat at the front of the room while others were still wandering down to the registration desk.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50
Total 1E Entries: 218

Oleg Merges wasted no time running up his starting stack. Only five minutes into the flight and he was all-in at risk. He wasn’t in too much danger with his dominating .

Merges faded the board to double up early.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50

Four flights down, two to go in the $1,000,000 Guarantee Event 10. So far we’ve seen 1,465 entrants take a shot with 281 players still around at the end to move on to Day 2. Nick Palma put nearly 500,000 in his bag yesterday to hold the current chip lead.

The penultimate flight is ready to go and the dealers are waiting for the players to take their seats for what we expect to be a huge Saturday morning/afternoon crowd.

Entrants sit down to 20,000 starting stacks and play 30-minute levels throughout Day 1. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 around 3:30pm and play will conclude at the end of Level 14.

It’s going to be a busy day in the ballroom and the prize pool will surpass the $1,000,000 mark before we are through.

• $1,000,000 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 10 Structure Sheet

Friday’s action at the 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open was all focused completely on the $570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry event.

Between the two starting flights that ran today, there were another 740 entries added to the field. Over the four flights that have kicked off so far, there are 1,465 entries, which has generated a prizepool of $732,500 thus far. The field is on pace to surpass the $1 million guaranteed prizepool.

Nick Palma bagged the Day 1C  chip lead with a massive 460,000 chip stack by the day’s end. He has the overall chip lead by 130,000 over his next competitor.

Randy Matieuzo bagged the Day 1D chip lead with a more modest 249,500. There were 74 survivors from the 1D flight and 73 moving on from the 1C flight.

The final two flights of this event get underway on Saturday and are expected to be the two biggest flights of the tournament.

Here is a look at Saturday’s schedule:

• 11 a.m. – Day 1E – $575 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry – $1 Million GTD Prizepool
• 6 p.m. – Day 1F – $575 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry – $1 Million GTD Prizepool