$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Day 1B Entries:  269 (Total: 595)

Day 1B slid into the last level before the dinner break and there’s another big stack in the room that we missed earlier.

Rick Kalgstein is up among the leaders with 116,000 at the midpoint of the day. He has past success in Deep Stack tournaments including a $32K win on the other side of the state at our sister room in Tampa.

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7:  300/600 with a 600 ante
Day 1B Entries:  256 (Total: 582)

Players returned from break and we have a new leader in the room. It looks like Paul Chang jumped to the top of the counts with 118,900 while Jim Kirvin slid back to the rest of the field. SHRP favorite Thomas Gari also sports a big stack as they near the halfway point of the day.

Day 1B will play two more levels before players are sent on a 40-minute dinner break.

A few random stacks from around the room:

Paul Chang – 118,900 (198 bb)
Thomas Gari – 92,000 (153 bb)
Oniel McCalla – 74,400 (124 bb)
Zoltan Czinkota – 67,000 (112 bb)
Howard Mash – 58,000 (97 bb)
Steven Bennett – 57,000 (95 bb)
Solange Lucas – 33,600 (56 bb)
Matthew Yorra – 33,500 (56 bb)
Michael Newman – 26,900 (45 bb)
Ricardo Eyzaguirre – 26,500 (44 bb)
Richard Whitebrook – 23,000 (38 bb)
Michael Tait – 23,000 (38 bb)
Gili Prizament – 9,000 (15 bb)

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6:  300/500 with a 500 ante
Day 1B Entries:  253 (Total: 579)

Tournament staff sent Day 1B players on their second break with 253 entries pushing the combined total up to 579 for a prize pool worth nearly $194,000.

$200,000 is coming up soon.

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6:  300/500 with a 500 ante
Day 1B Entries:  250 (Total: 576)

With the deep stacks and slow levels, it’s a steady march to build up the entry count this afternoon but it did reach an even 250 for Day 1B. That puts it well in line to triple up the guarantee sometime on Saturday.

SHRP regular Ricardo Eyzaguirre made his return to South Florida after a successful run in Las Vegas. The former Hollywood champ picked up his first Vegas trophy when he was the Venetian $400 Monster Stack at the beginning of the month for nearly $30,000.

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5:  200/400 with a 400 ante
Day 1B Entries:  240 (Total: 566)

Friday afternoon is moving right along and Event 1 is nearing the magic mark to double up the $100,000 guarantee. Another 30 (and change) are needed and the tournament prize pool with cross over $200,000 with a lot of time to register.

Former SHRP champ Oniel McCalla is among the new faces today and trying to add another trophy to his collection.

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4:  200/300 with a 300 ante
Day 1B Entries:  216 (Total: 542)

Players returned from the first break and no one is running away with a big lead, unlike Day 1A leader Anto Slisko yesterday. Jim Kirvin has the biggest stack after three levels with his 90,500 out front of second-place Paul Chang’s 82,000.

Day 1B players will move through three more levels before another break and their 40-minute dinner break will hit at 3:50 pm.

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3:  100/200 with a 200 ante
Day 1B Entries:  205 (Total: 531)

Level 3 came to an end and players were sent on their first break of the day. The Day 1B count moved over 200 and the field is nearing a $200,000 prize pool. They should get there before the dinner break and spin it up from there.

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3:  100/200 with a 200 ante
Day 1B Entries:  187 (Total: 513)

The entry count continued to click up as Day 1B moved into the third level of the day and they now have more than 500 in the game. The prize pool surpassed $170,000 with plenty of room to grow.

We have new faces in the room today including Gili Prizament. The last time we saw her run deep was a couple of weeks ago when she made the last two tables of the big $150 Showdown Big Stack multi-flight tournament.

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2:  100/100 with a 100 ante
Day 1B Entries:  170 (Total: 496)

“Look at this lineup!” Eric Piderit joked.

“You have the loudest donkey (pointing at Michael Newman in the 1-seat), the second loudest donkey (pointing at himself), and the quiet assassin (David Shmuel to his left).”

“Who’s the quiet assassin?” Newman asked before looking up.

“Oh,” he responded after realizing Shmuel fit that bill.

Those three players in the lineup make up a lot of success in our events. Newman, Shmuel, and Piderit have a combined 10 major SHRP Hollywood titles with $1.85 million in combined earnings. Newman tops the trio with the biggest win; taking down the 2017 RRPO Championship for $374,240.

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1:  100/100
Day 1B Entries:  140 (Total: 466)

Action kicked off for Day 1B of Event 1 at the top of the hour with 140 entries at the start. That number will continue to grow throughout the day into the evening.

Players will cruise through the first three 40-minute levels before taking a break.