$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 150/300 with a 50 ante
Flight B Entries: 261

Seminole Hard Rock Poker’s Loni Harwood was involved in a five-way pot on an flop. It checked to her in position, and she bet 800. The player in the worst position called, the next two folded, and Mahendran Ramanathan check-raised all in for 5,425. Harwood re-shoved with the largest stack, and the other player called all in for what looked like 12,350.

Harwood showed for the flopped flush, and Ramanathan tabled for a draw to a better flush. The third player shook his head and showed for a flopped straight that was drawing dead to a running chop.

The on the turn brought Ramanathan into the lead with a king-high flush, and the river secured his triple-up.

Harwood lost the main pot but won the side, essentially breaking even on the exchange.

Loni Harwood – 32,000

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
End of Level 4: 100/200 with a 25 ante
Flight B Entries: 228

The first four levels are complete, and the field has been sent on their first 15-minute break of the evening. There are 238 entries so far, with late registration available for another four levels.

Here are some chip counts from around the room:

Francis Margaglione – 88,000
Alex Haber – 60,000
Daniel Pearlman – 45,000
Darryll Fish – 37,500
Scott Zakheim – 35,500
Danny Suied – 35,000
Jon Brody – 33,000
Marcus Stein – 32,500
Eli Levy – 29,200
Jon Borenstein – 24,350
Wally Maddah – 23,000
Ido Ashkenazi – 19,000
Michael Tait – 17,650
Mike Beasley – 12,475

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4: 100/200 with a 25 ante
Flight B Entries: 228

Darryll Fish opened to 525 in middle position, the button called, and the big blind defended to create three-way action.

The flop was . It checked to Fish, who continued for 1,000, and both opponents called. The turn was the , and Fish bet another 2,500. Both opponents called, then all three checked through the river.

The button showed big blind showed , and Fish showed to win the pot with a pair of kings.

Darryll Fish – 32,000

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Returning to Level 15: 1,500/3,000/500 ante
Players Remaining: 88 of 441

Flight A: 441 Entries, 88 Advanced
Flight B: In Progress
Flight C: Friday at 11am
Flight D: Friday at 6pm
Flight E: Saturday at 11am
Flight F: Saturday at 6pm
Day 2: Sunday at 1pm

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2: 50/100
Flight B Entries: 182

Wally Maddah has made the trip across the state, and the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Ambassador has taken his seat in the Day 1B flight. Maddah is sharing a table with Marcus Stein as Level 2 begins.

Let’s get the party started @shrpo event 1, $570 1m GTD, @SHRTPoker #Hardrocklife pic.twitter.com/rzN4JG8JJ3

— wally Maddah (@wallymystar) August 3, 2017

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
End of Level 14: 1,200/2,400/400 ante
Flight A Entries: 441
Players Remaining: 88

Play came to an end for Flight A with 88 players advancing of the 441 starting entries. SHRP team member Matt Affleck bagged up the biggest stack of the day and will return on Sunday with 213,000.

He’s followed by Ryan Smith, Dominic Capina, 2017 LHPO WPTDeepstacks Champ Michael Graffeo, and 2016 Seminole Tampa Winter Poker Open champ David Bradshaw.

All remaining players will return for Day 2 on Sunday at 1pm. Full counts to come as soon as they are available.

Top five stacks:

Matt Affleck – 213,000
Ryan Smith – 210,500
Dominic Capina – 205,000
Michael Graffeo – 192,500
David Bradshaw – 190,000

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 25/50
Flight B Entries: 182

There are four members of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker team in attendance so far for Event 1.

Loni Harwood and Darryll Fish both endured short Day 1A flights this afternoon, and they’ve both returned for Day 1B after a few hours of down time.

Over on the other side of the room, Jessica Dawley is one of two team members still alive in the Day 1A field. Dawley is sitting short with less than 10 big blinds as she and the rest of the remaining field play the last four hands of their day.

Matt Affleck is also among the shortening Day 1A crowd, and he has closer to 100 big blinds in his stack. Affleck is just finishing his last hand, and he’ll have somewhere around 220,000 chips in the bag after a productive afternoon.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 25/50

One flight is running down and it’s time to start the evening flight of the $1,000,000 Guaranteed opening tournament of the 2017 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open series. After a great turnout for Flight A, it will be interesting to see the kind of numbers that show for Flight B this evening.

The $570 buy-in tournament has six starting flights and 441 entries jumped into Flight A to put it on a nice pace to hit the guaranteed prize pool. They will pack themselves into the back of the ballroom and continue building until registration closes later this evening.

Entrants sit down to 20,000 starting stacks and play 30-minute levels throughout the day. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 10:30pm with play continuing for 14 full levels. After Level 14, surviving players will bag up their chips for a return on Sunday for Day 2.

• $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 1 Structure Sheet

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12: 600/1,200/200 ante
Flight A Entries: 441
Players Remaining: 144

The final break is over and players returned to their seats to play down three more levels.

Every is chasing Thao Le at the top of the counts but there are some fine players not far behind. We expect to lose a half dozen more tables between now and bagging, so the stacks will climb in the next 90 minutes.

Top stacks and a few notables:

Thao Le – 154,000 (96 bb)
Bruce Snell – 151,000 (94 bb)
Greg Levine – 149,000 (93 bb)
Evan Teitelbaum – 111,000 (69 bb)
Neil Blumenfield – 102,000 (64 bb)
Elliott Zaydman – 92,000 (58 bb)
Roberto Alberro – 82,000 (51 bb)
Matt Affleck – 71,000 (44 bb)
Eric Piderit – 69,200 (43 bb)
“Miami John” Cernuto – 56,000 (35 bb)
Steven McKoy – 31,500 (20 bb)
Asher Conniff – 29,700 (19 bb)
Jessica Dawley – 24,100 (15 bb)

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
End of Level 11: 600/1,200/200 ante
Flight A Entries: 441
Players Remaining: 162

Flight A players are on their last break of the day. They will return in ten minutes then play three more levels before bagging up.

We’re looking out for our late leaders and will check out the stacks.