Event 1 Day 1B – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8: 250/500 with a 75 ante
Flight B Entries: 142

Flight B has reached the eighth level of the day and we are nearing the last chance to jump in the game. They will play out Level 8, take a 15-minute break, then shut down registration for the evening.

The entry count has slowed over the last level so it will be a race to the 160 entries we had in Flight A.

Event 1 Day 1B – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7: 200/400 with a 50 ante
Flight B Entries: 141

The Flight B field continues to climb towards the 160 entries we saw in Flight B with one more hour to register for this session.

Seminole Hard Rock Tampa poker ambassador Wally Maddah made the cross-state trek this afternoon in time to fire the evening flight. The Tampa pro does not appear in too many WSOP Circuit fields but he has plenty of success in his home state. Maddah also picked up a nice win this summer in Vegas when he won a daily Deep Stack event at the Rio during the WSOP for nearly $20,000.

Omw to my to my second home @shrpo for 2 weeks @WSOP ring hunting @SHRTPoker #Hardrocklife pic.twitter.com/HzerIRwXSl

— wally Maddah (@wallymystar) September 21, 2017

Event 1 Day 1B – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6: 150/300 with a 25 ante
Flight B Entries: 136

With the WSOP Circuit in town, we expect to see a lot of their regular faces mixing it up with our local gang of grinders. They have a very dedicated group of players on their circuit and Vinny Moscati is one of the more successful.

Moscati owns six WSOP Circuit rings, good enough to put him a tie for tenth place overall with SHRP regular John Holley. He’s earned rings in Las Vegas, San Diego, Baltimore, and Tunica and now he’s looking to pick up his first in Florida.

Event 1 Day 1B – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 100/200 with a 25 ante
Flight B Entries: 130

Players returned from their break and everyone in Flight B is chasing SHR poker regular Qasem Jamhour. He pushed his 12,000 starting stack up to 68,000 in the first two hours and returns to a very nice 340 big blinds at this point.

Top stacks:
Qasem Jamhour – 68,000 (340 bb)
Carey Pickus – 53,150 (266 bb)
Andrew Blake – 46,200 (231 bb)
Ivan Suarez – 44,700 (224 bb)
Gabriel Marsh – 37,000 (185 bb)
Gregory Spinder – 35,000 (175 bb)
Shaundra Seay – 30,000 (150 bb)

Event 1 Day 1B – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4: 100/200
Flight B Entries: 120

Flight B players are ready to head off on their first break of the day with 120 entries in the mix and more expected with two and a half hours remaining in registration.

Event 1 Day 1A – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Returning to Level 15: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Players Remaining: 19 of 160

Flight A: 160 Entries, 19 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

Event 1 Day 1B – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2: 50/100
Flight B Entries: 90

Flight B is on the verge of pushing over triple digits and we’re seeing even more big names hit the felt. We’re on a pace to top the morning flight and push closer to the $500,000 guaranteed prize pool.

Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Sheddy Siddiqui jumped into the action near the start and grinding his way in our first WSOPC event. Most of his WSOP work is done during the main series in Las Vegas and he’s seeking his fourth career Circuit cash. Siddiqui’s biggest career score came two summer’s ago when he finished fifth out of 7,275 players in the Millionaire Maker for $333,000.

Event 1 Day 1A – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 15: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 19/160

With just over 25 minutes left in Flight A, the field narrowed to 19 remaining hitting the tournament’s 12-percent hard stop. Tournament staff stopped the clock, brought out the bags and players are now in the midst of the end-of-night processes.

Out in front of the first flight is Max Campbell with a stack of roughly 250,000. Complete Flight A chip counts will be posted within the hour.

Event 1 Day 1B – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2: 50/100
Flight B Entries: 82

Flight B kicked off right on the nose of 6 pm and we have a nice, tough crowd in early action including three-time WSOP bracelet winner Brian Hastings.

He owns his three WSOP titles in three different games, only one of which was in a No Limit Hold’em variation. Hastings won his first in 2012 by conquering the $10,000 Heads Up No Limit Hold’em event and he followed that up with two bracelets in 2015. One of those was a $10,000 Seven-Card Stud win and the other in $1,500 Ten-Game Mix.

Event 1 Day 1A – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 13: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 22/160

In a raised pot, there was heads-up action between Fredrik Wannius and Alan Saltzman on a board of . Saltzman was first to act and shoved having Wannius covered. Wannius called off his last 71,800 and the hands were up.

Wannius: for top pair
Saltzman: for a pair of sixes

Turn and River:

Wannius’ pair improved to trips and he earned the full double. The hand grew Wannius’ stack to better than 150,000 with just a few minutes left in the day.