$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10: 1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Flight C Entries: 420

We are back underway in the poker room with 420 entries in Flight C and more expected before the night is through.

We tracked down our second biggest stack in the room. SHRP regular Mark Manesh was the owner of a 240,000 stack and returned with the best chance to catch leader Lou Stadler.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Returning to Level 10: 1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Flight C Entries: 405

There are ten minutes remaining before players return from dinner break and now we know they will all be chasing Lou Stadler at the top of the counts. The former Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown turbo champ put together a nice afternoon run to build his stack up to 280,000.

There are two other stacks over 200,000 and we will identify them after they return to action.

Top stacks and random counts:

Lou Stadler – 280,000 (187 bb)
Zoltan Czinkota – 140,500 (94 bb)
Zach Mullennix – 133,500 (89 bb)
Jake Schwartz – 128,000 (85 bb)
Evan Teitelbaum – 127,000 (85 bb)
Nancy Birnbaum – 102,000 (68 bb)
Elliot Zaydman – 94,000 (63 bb)
Stewart Newman – 56,500 (38 bb)
Phil Hui – 51,000 (34 bb)
Dani Dayan – 48,000 (32 bb)
Ory Hen – 39,000 (26 bb)
Erik Christensen – 34,000 (23 bb)
Charlemagne Benjamin – 31,500 (21 bb)
Daren Stabinski – 19,000 (13 bb)

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Flight C Entries: 404

Level 9 has come to an end and the big Flight C field is now taking a 40-minute dinner break. We will take this chance to walk the empty tables to track down some chip counts.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Flight C Entries: 387

Tristan Wade’s seat did not stay empty for very long and the table did not get any easier when the new player took a seat.

Stewart Newman, another Florida pro, took the vacant spot and trying to avoid the pitfalls of Wade before him.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
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Level 8: 500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight C Entries: 374

We caught the last part of a big hand involving Florida poker legend Tristan Wade. He was in a multi-way pot to the flop and was heads-up by the time the board finished with the and ,

Wade put his chips in the middle with a ten-high rivered straight holding but his opponent caught better with the jack-high straight . Wade was in good shape until he made a straight.

We expect to see the WSOP bracelet/WSOP Circuit ring winner again before the day is through.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7: 400/800 with a 800 ante
Flight C Entries: 347

They keep right on coming in the door, running up the prize pool and keeping the staff on their toes.

Phil Hui was a recent edition and one of the more successful players we have in the room today. He owns a WSOP bracelet along with four WSOP Circuit rings and two major SHRP titles, the last coming the past November in the Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6: 300/600 with a 600 ante
Flight C Entries: 319

Flight C players made a quick exit out of the poker room and it was quiet for a few minutes. They’ll step away for 15 minutes and return for three more levels, after that they will have a 40-minute dinner break.

The prize pool topped $250,000 over the last few levels and it will be a race to see if we can double up the $150,000 to $300,000 before registration closes tomorrow at noon.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6: 300/600 with a 600 ante
Flight C Entries: 260

The players keep churning through the system and we have new faces joining the original gang. Oneil McCalla and Abbey Daniels were among the recently departed along with a big group of others.

McCalla has been a regular face in our tournaments for years, both big and small. He won his first title here back in 2012 during the Everglades Poker Open and he earned another during the 2013 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 300/500 with a 500 ante
Flight C Entries: 243

They keep showing up and we keep giving them seats. Every table in the poker room is currently in use, either in the tournament or cash games, and it’s a great day to be a poker player.

Ory Hen did not have to wait for his seat, he was here bright and early. The 2015 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year has a handful of SHRP tournament wins including three Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open titles and he won the big $1,650 event during this series in 2015.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4: 200/400 with a 400 ante
Flight C Entries: 225

Players returned to their seats after the first break and cards went flying once again. We have a steady group of players processing their way through registration and the poker room is jumping this afternoon.

But no one is running away with a massive stack like the two previous days when we had multiple players over 100K after three levels. Zach Mullennix is the sole owner of a triple-digit stack and his 105,000 led the way coming back to Level 4.