$1,700 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14:  2,000/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Day 1A Players Remaining:  22 of 82

Action came to an end for Flight A of May Deep Stack Poker Series with 22 of 82 advancing to Day 2 and Danny Fried bagged the overall lead with 496,000 with Howard Mash in second with 407,000.

Flight B gets underway tomorrow at 10 am with Flight C on Saturday at the same time.

We will post the full chip count list as soon as it is available.

Top five Flight A stacks:

Danny Fried – 496,000
Howard Mash – 407,000
Jason Rocha – 306,000
Joseph Rossi – 296,000
Michael Wadlow – 277,000

$1,700 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14:  2,000/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Day 1A Entries:  82

Level 14 is here and players are in their last level of the evening. We show 82 entries on the clock and the field is nearly halfway to the $300,000 guarantee with two big flights on Friday and Saturday.

We will keep an eye out for the chip leaders and post all the info once the night has come to an end.

$1,700 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 13:  1,500/2,500 with a 2,500 ante
Day 1A Entries:  76

Event 3 was a long affair with a marathon Day 2 yesterday that did not come to an end until 3 am. They were set to return today for some bonus poker but the last six agreed to a deal to adjust the payouts.

Zachary Eichenbaum was one of those here in the early morning and he’s back today trying to add to the $22,235 he collected for fifth place yesterday at the Event 3 final table.

$1,700 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Day 1A Entries:  76

The last break of the day has come and gone and players returned to their seats to play out the last three levels of the night. We are looking at 76 entries so far and there are right around 36 players remaining.

Mike Wadlow is back at the top of the counts after he climbed to 328,000 and Frank Russo took a little dip down to 190,000. We will keep an eye for our late leaders and see who bags the early lead going into Day 2.

$1,700 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 11:  1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Day 1A Entries:  76

The entry count is up to 76 for Flight A and we’re nearing the halfway point to the $300,000 guarantee with two more big flights to go.

Cesar Fuentes is cruising right along this afternoon. He’s up to 196,000 to sit among the leaders with the final break coming up. Fuentes caught a lot of those when he flopped a steel wheel, the five-high straight flush, against a rivered nut flush for a nice chunk.

$1,700 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10:  500/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Day 1A Entries:  71

An early position player open-shoved for 8,500 and picked up three callers including Solange Lucas in the small blind and Roni Zelichonok in the big. The flop came and Lucas moved all in for 17,000. Zelichonok and the other player folded and the cards were tabled.

Lucas:
Opponent:

The short-stacked player was ahead before the flop but Lucas paired her queen plus a bonus heart draw. The board finished with the turn and river to send Lucas the pot.

Solange Lucas – 51,000 (34 bb)

$1,700 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Day 1A Entries:  70

Players returned to their seats after the dinner break, ready to make their way through the last six levels of the day.

The top three stacks still belong to the same three players but they’ve switched up the order a little. Frank Russo leads with 290,000 followed by Mike Wadlow’s 240,000 and Danny Fried’s 159,500.

Here’s a look at some random counts from around the room on dinner break:

Frank Russo – 290,000 (290 bb)
Mike Wadlow – 240,000 (240 bb)
Danny Fried – 159,500 (160 bb)
Cesar Fuentes – 154,000 (154 bb)
Nick Yunis – 152,500 (153 bb)
Howard Mash – 121,500 (122 bb)
Larry Klur – 79,000 (79 bb)
Juan Endara – 72,000 (72 bb)
James Calderaro – 71,500 (72 bb)
Pasquale Caiazza – 66,500 (67 bb)
Roni Zelichonok – 43,500 (44 bb)
Charlemagne Benjamin – 37,500 (38 bb)
Ido Ashkenazi – 36,000 (36 bb)
Solange Lucas – 24,000 (24 bb)

$1,700 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Day 1A Entries:  67

Level 8 has come to an end and tournament staff sent players on a 40-minute dinner break. There are 67 entries in the tournament so far and we will get a few more before the end of the night.

They will return to play six more levels before bagging their chips for Day 2.

$1,700 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Day 1A Entries:  66

Table 26 has a couple of tough players in the rotation with WSOP bracelet winners James Calderaro and Howard Mash.

Calderaro won the $25,000 Pot Limit Omaha bracelet in 2017 and Mash won the WSOP Seniors Championship in 2019.

As usual, “Caldo” is keeping the table loose and having fun. Or as Mash said, “What is this? A comedy club or a poker game?”.

$1,700 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7:  300/600 with a 600 ante
Day 1A Entries:  60

Players returned to action after the second break with 60 entries getting the field closer to the $300,000 guarantee.

We found three big stacks at three tables and each trying to take control. Mike Wadlow leads the way with 195,800 and he holds a healthy lead over the rest including second-place Danny Fried with 167,700. Frank Russo is always having a good time and even more so when he has 163,100 sitting in front of his seat.