$570 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Returning to Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 77 of 395

Flight A: 395 Entries, 77 Advanced
Flight B: In Progress, Late reg till 10:30pm
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 NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2: 50/100
Total Entries: 168

On a flop of , there is about 5,000 in the pot already with Scott Zakheim in the big blind and heads-up with the player on the button.

Zakheim bets 2,150 and the button moves all in for about 12,000. Zakheim calls. Zakheim tables and needs to dodge a lot of cards against the button’s .

The turn is the and the river is the . Zakheim dodges everything and rivers a set to win the pot and send an opponent to the rail.

Scott Zakheim – 29,500

$570 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
End of Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 77 of 395

Play in Flight A has come to an end with 77 players remaining of the starting 395 entries. Tournament staff are coloring off the black chips and they will bag up for a Day 2 return on Sunday.

Three-time WSOP Circuit winner Janet Fitzgerald leads them all with 325,000 as Matt Stout, Jon Borenstein, Aaron Massey, Michael Wang, and Steven Bennett also advance.

Full Flight A counts will be posted as soon as they are available.

Top Ten Flight A stacks:

1. Janet Fitzgerald – 325,000
2. Michael Fryett – 219,500
3. Ido Ashkenazi – 218,500
4. Reynel Hernandez – 212,000
5. Henry Billese – 211,000
6. Alexander Daranyi – 208,000
7. Steven Bennett – 203,500
8. Donald Williams – 198,000
9. Justin Levy – 195,500
10. Marc Schiller – 184,500

$570 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 300 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 90 of 395

Aaron Massey gets all in preflop for his last 46,200 from the cutoff against the player in the small blind.

Massey shows  and is in the lead against the small blind’s .

The board runs out and Massey’s aces hold up to double the amount of chips he currently has.

“Nice hand, Aaron,” says Jon Borenstein.

“It was a very timely,” says Massey.

Aaron Massey – 100,400

$300 Seniors Event (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 13: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante
Players Remaining: 30 of 177

Seniors Event players took off on their 40-minute dinner break after Level 12 and they are on their way back to their seats. Only 30 players remain with 23 getting paid, it should move right along from this point forward.

Dennis Johnson leads the field with Harvey Freedman and Allan Coumel rounding out the stacks over 100,000.

1. Dennis Johnson – 135,000 (68 bb)
2. Harvey Freedman – 100,000 (50 bb)
3. Allan Coumel – 100,000 (50 bb)
4. Jacobo Fernandez – 87,000 (44 bb)
5. Steven Harnell – 86,400 (43 bb)
6. Boyd Rose – 84,000 (42 bb)
7. Jerald Welker – 80,000 (40 bb)
8. Greg McCann – 80,000 (40 bb)
9. Zoltan Czinkota – 77,000 (39 bb)
10. Vittario Iemolo – 75,000 (38 bb)

$570 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 13: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 117 of 395

The field continues to shrink and Aaron Massey helped get it shorter. He had a short stack player all in and his held against on the board.

That was a good hand for Massey but he missed a 70,000 pot a few hands earlier. As it was retold through story and pictures at the table, Massey had Scott Levitt all in with versus . The all spade flop reduced Levitt’s outs to one with Massey holding a spade. The turn filled Massey’s flush leaving Levitt with two outs on the river for a chop. The river was the deal to put a straight flush on the board to chop the pot.

$570 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 25/50

The first flight of the opening event on the 2018 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown schedule set a nice pace for the $1 Million Guarantee tournament and the evening flight will try to build on the success. Flight A drew 395 entries and we expect to see a similar crowd this evening.

Each entrant will start with a 20,000 deep stack and all opening flights will feature 30-minute levels. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 at 10:30 pm and they are scheduled to play 14 full levels. Those with chips at that point will bag them and return on Sunday for Day 2.

Cards go in the air at 6 pm and we’ll see how many can make it through.

• $1,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 20,000 in chips
• Day 1 levels last 30 minutes; Day 2 levels last 40 minutes
• Late registration available until start of Level 9
• Day 1 will end after Level 14 or Tournament Director discretion
• Event 1 Structure Sheet

$570 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 144 of 395

Players are back in their seats after the final break of the day with 144 still around with a chance to bag up this evening. They will grind through three more levels before Flight A comes to an end.

$570 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 11: 600/1,200 with a 200 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 153 of 395

The field is thining late in Flight A with a few big stacks moving to the front. Pro Jon Borenstein is among the leaders in the room as he climbed over 100,000 to sit with 115,000 with three levels and change remaining in the day.

Borenstein has some big results, including a WPT500 title last summer in Las Vegas, but he’s still waiting for his first SHRP title. He has a few close calls including a seventh-place finish in the inaugural $2,650 Freeze-Out Big 4 SHRPO event and a third-place finish in Event 1 during last year’s Showdown series but he’s still waiting on that SHRP winner’s photo.

$300 Seniors Event (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 10: 500/1,000 with a 10 ante
Players Remaining: 63 of 177

Registration closed on the Seniors Event after their second break and they returned to play for some nice money. The tournament drew 177 entries, besting the 160 from this tournament last year, and they created a prize pool worth $45,135.

The last 23 players will take home some money with a min-cash banking $428 while the winner will earn $11,693 plus the Showdown trophy and custom-framed winner’s photo courtesy of IMPDI.

2018 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino 
Hollywood, Florida
$300 Seniors Event (Re-Entry)
Entries: 177
Prize Pool: $45,135
April 5, 2018

1st: $11,693
2nd: $7,842
3rd: $4,626
4th: $2,814
5th: $2,173
6th: $1,801
7th: $1,535
8th: $1,350
9th: $1,169
10th – 12th: $993
13th – 15th: $835
16th – 18th: $700
19th – 21st: $564
22nd – 23rd: $428