$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 9: 400/800 with a 100 ante
Players Remaining: 126 of 418

The player in the hijack raised to 1,800 and Charlemagne Benjamin three-bet to 5,000 on the button. The hijack called and the flop was .

The hijack checked and Benjamin bet 5,000. The hijack quickly folded and Benjamin took the pot. In the one level of play since the break, Benjamin has almost doubled his stack without a big pot at showdown.

Charlemagne Benjamin – 60,000

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
End of Level 8: 300/600 with a 75 ante
Players Remaining: 153 of 418

The players are taking their third break of the day and the staff is racing off and coloring up the green chips. When cards get back in the air around 7:35 p.m., blinds will be 400/800 with a 100 ante.

With six levels left in the day’s action, there is still lots of poker talent alive in the field.

Here’s a look at some notable chip counts:

Nick Yunis – 40,000
Anthony Astarita – 58,500
Charlemagne Benjamin – 34,000
Ryan Dunn – 9,000
Zo Karim – 43,000
Will Givens – 27,000
William Vo – 55,000
Dylan Drazen – 29,500

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Returning to Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 99 of 1,063

Flight A: 199 Entries, 21 Advanced
Flight B: 266 Entries, 24 Advanced
Flight C: 306 Entries, 26 Advanced
Flight D: 292 Entries, 28 Advanced
Flight E: In Progress
Flight F: In Progress
Day 2: Wednesday at 1pm

Chip counts through Flight D :

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
End of Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 Ante
Flight D Players Remaining: 28 of 292

Action has come to an end for Flight D with 28 players remaining of the starting 292 entries.

Joaquin Sosa bagged the biggest stack of the flight and his 262,500 is good enough for a top five stack when they return tomorrow. Others advancing were David Jackson, Eric Piderit, Evan Teitelbaum, and Al Gomez.

Full chip counts to be released as soon as they are official.

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50

Through five flights of the $150 no limit hold’em re-entry event, the field has already amassed 1,481 entries and cruised past the $150,000 guaranteed prizepool.

The last of the starting flights gets underway in just a couple minutes at 7 p.m. and with just 186 entries in Day 1F, the prizepool will have over $200,000.

Players will start with 10,000 in tournament chips and the schedule for the day is the same as the first five flights. They will play 14, 30-minute levels before bagging and tagging their chips for the day.  There is late registration and unlimited re-entry until the start of level 7, which is around 10:20 p.m.

The survivors of the 14 levels will come back tomorrow at 1 p.m. to combine into a single field with the survivors of the first five flights and play Day 2.

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 7: 250/500 with a 75 Ante
Flight E Entries: 418

Registration closed on Flight E with the biggest turnout so far. The fifth flight drew 418 entrants to surpass the $150,000 guaranteed prize pool and leave the tournament only 186 entries shy of pushing it to $200,000. A lock for the 7pm flight.

Chip counts through Flight C

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 6: 200/400 with a 50 Ante
Flight E Entries: 405

Flight E players are on a short, 10-minute break to give players a few extra minutes to hop in the game. When they return, registration will close on this flight and leave only the 7pm run to get in.

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 150/300 with a 50 Ante
Flight E Entries: 374

There was a bit of an entry explosion in Flight E over the hour, it seems people were waiting for the evening to get involved. The entry quickly jumped over 350 and we have 374 in the game after the first break.

Lisa Levy leads the way after nearly quintupling her starting stack but there’s a long ways to go.

Top stacks and notables:

Lisa Levy – 48,675 (162 bb)
Courtland Twyman – 43,000 (143 bb)
Jerrold Jacobs – 42,400 (141 bb)
Hany Ayoub – 40,200 (134 bb)
Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy – 37,200 (124 bb)
Robert Hinton – 35,500 (118 bb)
Daniel Ramirez – 35,000 (117 bb)
Cheri Beatty – 22,000 (73 bb)
Bryce McVay – 19,000 (63 bb)
Anthony Astarita – 18,000 (60 bb)
Ido Ashkenazi – 14,800 (49 bb)
Michael Newman – 12,600 (42 bb)
Marty Robbins – 12,000 (40 bb)
Mike Beasley – 9,900 (33 bb)
Nick Yunis – 8,000 (27 bb)
John Palace – 3,900 (13 bb)
Ory Hen – 3,500 (12 bb)

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 11: 600/1,200 with a 200 Ante
Flight D Players Remaining: 54 of 292

Flight D is moving right along in the front of the ballroom, only six tables remain and we expect them to drop under 30 players before they bag up after Level 14.

Local favorite Al Gomez is still cruising along. He’s still looking for his first SHRP title though he’s had his fair share of final table appearance. Gomez scored his biggest cash last March when he earned $20,000 for finishing third in the 2016 Seminole Casino Immokalee Poker Challenge Main Event.

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 3: 75/150 with a 25 Ante
Flight E Entries: 187

There’s was little doubt Event 5 would hit the $150,000 guaranteed prize pool after the fast start yesterday. It didn’t take long into Flight E for it to hit and players are now running it up higher. The next stop is $200,000 with 604 entries combined between Flights E and F.