$600 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  126 of 506

Flight A players were sent on another 15-minute break while tournament staff pulled the black chips out of play. There are still 126 still in hunt for Day 2 so there’s still a bit of work to get done.

Michael Moskowitz continues to lead the field by a lot and one purple chip shy of 300K with 299,500 out front. Jose Severino looks like the next biggest and he’s sitting with 198,500.

$600 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 11:  800/1,600 with a 1,600 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  162 of 506

Michael Moskowitz spent a few minutes not holding the top stack in the room but it didn’t last long. Two levels later and he’s up to 239,000 and a huge frontrunner at this point. Kyle Rignola is also making a move and has 121,000 moving into the middle part of the day.

There are still 162 players in Flight A and they need to lose two-thirds of them before looking up a Day 2 bag.

$600 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10:  600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Flight A Entries:  506

Registration closed for Flight A of Showdown Event 15 with 506 entries putting $263,120 towards the $1,000,000 guarantee. Flight B starts at 6 pm with late registration and re-entries available until 10:30 pm.

Flight A will play down to 51 players and survivors will bag up their chips for a Day 2 return on Sunday at 1 pm. Players must bag chips to advance and all Day 2 players will be in the money.

$600 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight A Entries:  506

Players returned to action after the second break and we have a common name stacked at the top. Willie Wiggins is used to spinning up big numbers in the Grand Ballroom and leads the field after nine levels with 192,700. Michael Moskowitz is still trending north with 125,000 and Jennifer David has right around 120,000.

The tournament clock shows 506 entries for Flight A for a great start to the tournament. Tournament staff are checking the numbers and we will report when it is official.

$600 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Flight A Entries:  475

You are running out of time if you want to join the big opening flight of Showdown Event 15. The entry count is clicking closer to 500 and on pace to crush the $1,000,000 guarantee.

A few more friendly faces in the crowd include Francis Margaglione, Mark Cannon, Jason Young, Fred Goldberg, and Sheddy Siddiqui.

$600 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7:  300/600 with a 600 ante
Flight A Entries:  449

Flight A continues building and has Event 15 nearly a quarter of the way to the $1,000,000 all by itself with a big weekend coming up.

We found Dimitry Vorbe back in the Grand Ballroom and he is among a very small, elite group of players. We’ve only crowned eight Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Champions in our history and Vorbe is the reigning champ. He outlasted the 1,180-entry field in the 2021 SHRPO Championship for the win and a huge $929,365 payout.

$600 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5:  200/400 with a 400 ante
Flight A Entries:  366

Players returned to their seats after the break and we added another 20+ entries while they were gone. This is going to be a huge weekend.

There were two big stacks after four levels and Michael Moskowitz leads with 88,400. Dejan Petkovic is running hot again and sits in second with 87,500.

$600 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4:  200/300 with a 300 ante
Flight A Entries:  340

Flight A players are just about ready to hit their first break of the day with 340 entries in the game and more expect before registration closes at 2:30 pm.

$600 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3:  100/200 with a 200 ante
Flight A Entries:  261

Flight A more than doubled its starting entry number and they are on a path to well more than 300 in this first of six flights.

Some early arrivals include Randy Sim, Jennifer David, Caleb and Eric Piderit, Nick Palma, Shawn Lucas, Michael Newman, and Michael Tait.

Jennifer made a deep run in the last multi-flight tournament when she finished 70th out of 1,462 in Event 7.

$600 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1:  100/100
Flight A Entries:  133

Tournament staff put cards in the air for Flight A of the $1,000,000 guarantee Event 15. There are 133 entries in the game at the start and many more expected over the six starting flights.

They will play the first four levels of the day before taking a 15-minute break.