$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 26:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  108 of 6,196

109th:  Ronald Levy  –  $2,454
110th:  William Gentile  –  $2,454
111th:  Jeffrey Poole  –  $2,454
112th:  Vadim Ivankov  –  $2,454
113th:  Tyler Bentz  –  $2,454
114th:  Michael Kuntz  –  $2,454
115th:  Brandon Marks  –  $2,454
116th:  Gert Zumkehr  –  $2,454
117th:  John Restrepo  –  $2,454

118th:  Benson Tang  –  $2,249
119th:  Sean McCoggle  –  $2,249
120th:  Vontz Burke  –  $2,249
121st:  Mark Nimirovsky  –  $2,249
122nd:  Joseph Villacci  –  $2,249
123rd:  Farid Jattin  –  $2,249
124th:  Chad Starker  –  $2,249
125th:  Perla Ojeda  –  $2,249
126th:  Guillermo Hamilton  –  $2,249

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 25:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  112 of 6,196

With 622 players finishing in the money, most of them won’t be posted here to the website until late tonight after the day’s action comes to an end. But we’ll start posting all of the money finishers who finish in the top 150, starting with this batch:

127th:  Franklin Rojas  –  $1,942
128th:  Jorge Bermudez  –  $1,942
129th:  Phil Hui  –  $1,942
130th:  Kevin Rodriguez  –  $1,942
131st:  Louis Rothenberg  –  $1,942
132nd:  Nathan Willis  –  $1,942
133rd:  Michael Garcia  –  $1,942
134th:  Jonathan Sanchez  –  $1,942
135th:  John Ypma  –  $1,942
136th:  Jimmy Maheux  –  $1,942
137th:  Dante Collier  –  $1,942
138th:  Daniel Couzens  –  $1,942
140th:  Marsha Wolak  –  $1,942
141st:  Eduardo Vargas Pacheco  –  $1,942
142nd:  Bill Oderat  –  $1,942
143rd:  Ziad Matta  –  $1,942
144th:  Fanilkumar Patel  –  $1,942

145th:  Jose Silva  –  $1,636
146th:  Paul Prager  –  $1,636
147th:  Jonathan Grasso  –  $1,636
148th:  Michael Decesare  –  $1,636
149th:  Barbaro Diaz  –  $1,636
150th:  Rafael Perez Guerrero  –  $1,636

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 25:  20,000/40,000 with an 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  114 of 6,196

Moving right along, Event 1 is down to 114 players with a shot at the title. The pace slowed after the second break with less players, more chips, and pay jumps.

SHRP Hollywood regular Jeff Silverstein is the latest to make a move up the counts and sits with 1,900,000 as we head into the evening.

With 114 players remaining, everyone is guaranteed at least $2,454. Blinds are up to 20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante and the average stack is about 1,085,000 (27 bb).

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 24:  15,000/30,000 with an 30,000 ante
Players Remaining:  139 of 6,196

Players returned from break and they are chasing a new leader. Adelsinei Da Silva jumped his stack up to 3,075,000 for the clear lead with no one else over 2 million.

Zoltan Czinkota is up to 1,975,000 in the middle of the day followed by Athanasios Polychronopoulos’s 1,775,000 and Ariel Williams’s 1,760,000.

With 139 players remaining, everyone is guaranteed at least $1,942. Blinds are up to 15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante and the average stack is about 890,000 (30 bb).

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23:  15,000/25,000 with an 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  139 of 6,196

Level 23 came to an end and tournament staff sent the 139 remaining players on another break. They will return to play three more levels before taking a 40-minute dinner break.

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23:  15,000/25,000 with an 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  187 of 6,196

We’re starting to see more big stacks and the million-chip club is picking up more members. Ronald Levy looks like the new leader in  of a very fluid day and he’s up to 1,800,000. Flight H big stack Yin Lee is also up for the day with 1,325,000 and Athanasios Polychronopoulos is between the two with 1,570,000.

With 187 players remaining, everyone is guaranteed at least $1,227. Blinds are up to 15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante and the average stack is about 665,000 (27 bb).

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 22:  10,000/20,000 with an 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  222 of 6,196

We noticed one unattended stack over the first few levels of the day but did not peek to see who was taking their time getting to the Grand Ballroom.

“Yo cuz!” Steve Buckner yelled, “My alarm didn’t go off!”

The jovial Buckner had a technical malfunction and did not get to his seat until they were ready for the first break. He had 243,000 in his bag for Day 2, lost nearly half of that before he got here, but doubled back up to 250,000 now that he can attend to his stack.

Event 1 is down to 222 players and every one of them is guaranteed $1,227. The blinds are up to 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante and the average stack is about 560,000 (28 bb).

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 21:  10,000/15,000 with an 15,000 ante
Players Remaining:  326 of 6,196

The extended break came to an end and players returned to the action. We found three stacks that topped seven digits including Athanasios Polychronopoulos. The two-time WSOP bracelet winner (and longest name in poker) is up to 1,360,000 from his returning 505,000 to lead the field.

Jayson Jones sits in second with 1,255,000 and Brandon Marks next with 1,140,000. It’s an impressive run by Jones who returned for Day 2 with 155,000.

The blinds are up to 10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante and the average stack is about 380,000 (25 bb) with 326 players remaining.

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20:  6,000/12,000 with an 12,000 ante
Players Remaining:  326 of 6,196

Level 20 came to an end and tournament staff sent Event 1 players on an extended 20-minute break. It will take a little extra time to color off the mass of 1K chips on the tables but it will keep the action moving when they return.

There are approximately 326 players remaining meaning the restart lost nearly 2.5 players per minute. Get it in, get paid, get to the next tournament.

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 20:  6,000/12,000 with an 12,000 ante
Players Remaining:  390 of 6,196

Players continue to drop at an impressive rate with tables breaking and payouts being summoned. While those are dropping all around, we found a group at Table 26 we’re used to seeing elsewhere.

Walter Rossi, Jeremy Becker, Steve Blackmon, and Kevin Bagin all hail from the west coast of Florida and are regulars at our sister property in Tampa. In a room full of randoms, they have familiars in their orbit.