$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 18: 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 64 of 1,045

They have plenty of play today with the 60-minute levels but we continue to see stacks growing as the afternoon wears on. John Magnetta is the most recent to jump up the counts with 925,000.

And good luck Table 30. They already had to deal with Roberto Bendeck and Anthony Moran sitting side-by-side, now they have chip leader Oliver Berens on the other side of the table. That is a lot of chips in one place.

Blinds are up and they are an hour away from another break.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 73 of 1,045

More big stacks are emerging and we found two more players over a million. Roberto Bendeck and Oliver Berens are sitting right on 1,100,000 with Anthony Moran (950,000), Seth Gilson (940,000) and Barton Taylor (890,000) trying to catch them.

But all is not well for some, below are those who hit the payout desk since the last break.

74th: Matthew Ehrlich – $708
75th: Patrick Sparks – $708
76th: Dimitry Agrachov – $708
77th: Scott Harwood – $708
78th: Cory Blum – $708
79th: Juan Ferrer – $708
80th: David Maslowski – $708
81st: Al Gomez – $708
82nd: Danny Schechter – $647

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 78 of 1,045

It was three-ways to the flop between Zyad Qasem, Svi Soudai, and Michael Newman sitting on the button. Qasem and Soudai checked and both called 31,000 from Newman.

Qasem checked the turn, Soudai bet 85,000 and Newman raised to 200,000. Qasem released and Soudai called after a minute’s thought. Both players checked the river and Newman was good with to take the big pot.

Michael Newman – 978,000 (122 bb)
Svi Soudai – 810,000 (101 bb)

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 82 of 1,045

Players returned to their seats after the first break. Blind levels are now 60-minutes long and they will stay that way until Level 26 when they move up to 90.

Svi Soudai is back in the lead with 1,100,000 and the only player in seven-digit territory.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 16: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining: 82 of 1,045

Once the bubble was burst, there was the standard quick rush to the payout desk as the short stacks trying to build a castle or call it a day. We have 82 players remaining as they prepare for the first break of the day.

83rd: Claudio Kalili – $647
84th: Marco Oliveira – $647
85th: Erik Christensen – $647
86th: Ira Schwartz – $647
87th: Robert Gianquitti – $647
88th: Robert Leff – $647
89th: Aaron Klausman – $647
90th: Scott Levitt – $647
91st: Edgar Varas – $616
92nd: Kobi Ribak – $616
93rd: Sean Harper – $616
94th: Steven Cardarelli – $616
95th: Preecha Taepakdee – $616
96th: Stuart Greenbaum – $616
97th: Kevin Chan – $616
98th: Timothy Hand – $616
99th: Brian O’Keefe – $616
T-100th: Jacobo Fernandez – $308
T-100th: Stewart Newman – $308

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 16: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining: 99 of 1,045

The money bubble hit right as the blinds went up and the tournament went into hand-for-hand mode. It didn’t take long to burst that bubble.

On one table, Stewart Newman was all in for 59,000 against Fred Dabus after the flop. Dabus called and they held up the action while the rest of the tables finished their action.

On the neighboring table, Barton Taylor put Jacobo Fernandez all in with the board reading and Fernandez called at risk. The rest of the tables completed their hands and both tables ran out the boards.

Newman was ahead with top set against Dabus’ flush draw . The turn was safe for Newman but Dabus filled his flush on the river to send Newman out.

Fernandez was in trouble against Taylor with dominated by and Fernandez had seven river outs to stay in the game. The river was a blank and Fernandez was sent out as well.

Newman and Fernandez chopped up 100th place money and each collected $308.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 15: 3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 104 of 1,045

The money bubble is close and it took a cooler to get Wally Maddah to give up his chips. He moved all in with his short stack holding pocket kings and he ran into the big blind’s monster with pocket aces. He couldn’t catch a miracle and we are now four spots from the money.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 15: 3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 109 of 1,045

There are a lot of chips on Table 34, sitting side-by-side.

Svi Soudai bagged the lead in Flight B and now he has to deal with Zyad Qasem on his right. He began the day with 367,000 but now he’s up to 920,000 and looks like the chip leader with Seth Weinberg dipping a bit.

After a fast start, the quick parade of eliminations slowed as the money bubble gets close.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14: 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining: 118 of 1,045

The numbers are in and Event 1 of the May Deep Stack Poker Series officially drew 1,045 entries to create a prize pool worth $307,900. More than double the $150,000 Guarantee.

The last 100 spots will be paid with a min-cash earning $616 and the winner walking away with $68,290. We added on a $1,650 Event 4 to the winner and the final ten payouts including a $560 seat into Event 3.

2018 May Deep Stack Poker Series
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino 
Hollywood, Florida
Event 1
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed
Entries: 1,045
Prize Pool: $307,900
May 17-20, 2018

1st: $68,290 *
2nd: $41,264 **
3rd: $25,192 **
4th: $21,189 **
5th: $17,495 **
6th: $14,262 **
7th: $11,490 **
8th: $8,873 **
9th: $6,256 **
10th: $4,255 **
11th – 12th: $3,695
13th – 15th: $2,617
16th – 18th: $1,693
19th – 27th: $1,386
28th – 36th: $1,201
37th – 45th: $1,078
46th – 54th: $954
55th – 63rd: $862
64th – 72nd: $770
73rd – 81st: $708
82nd – 90th: $647
91st – 100th: $616
* – $1,650 Event 4 seat added to 1st place
** – Top ten payouts include $560 Event 3 seat

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14: 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining: 150 of 1,045

Cards are in the air for Day 2 of Event 1 and registration is now closed. We had 33 players enter the tournament before action kicked off to push the combined total of entries to 1,045. Tournament staff are crunching the numbers and we will have the payout information as soon as it is available.

SHRP regular Charlemagne Benjamin was one of those taking the late re-entry option and sat down with 30,000. But it was not to be, Benjamin caught on the first hand and lost a race against pocket sixes to bust in a hurry.