$600 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 11: 800/1,600 with a 1,600 ante
Flight C Players Remaining: 144 of 484

The last break of the day for Flight C is in progress as tournament staff use this opportunity to pull the black chips out of play. There are 16 tables remaining and we expect to nearly cut that in half before the end of Level 14.

$600 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 11: 800/1,600 with a 1,600 ante
Flight C Players Remaining: 180 of 484

We previously mentioned former SHRPO winner Dan Suied earlier after he tussled with Michael Newman. That bullet did not go well but the second might be the charm.

Suied built his new 20,000 stack up as registration closed to come back to 59,000. Now it’s a bit more.

We caught the action after his big hand was complete but the table gave a rundown. Suied was in a three-way pot with the flop reading and all the chips went in with Suied owning the biggest stack.

He flopped top pair with a flush draw holding but the hearts were no good against one opponent’s . The other player had his top pair beat with for two pair and Suied needed to catch.

The turn changed nothing but Suied found a better two pair on the river for the double knockout.

“Thank god the heart didn’t come,” Suied joked.

It was a huge pot and he is up to 265,000 with only a few levels remaining in the day.

$600 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10: 600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Flight C Entries: 484 (Total Entries: 1,153)

The math is complete and Flight C officially drew 484 entries to push the combined total for Event 1 up to 1,153. That leaves the field on 734 entries away from crossing the $1,000,000 prize pool with three full flights remaining.

It should get there early tomorrow afternoon and they will start piling it higher.

Chip counts through Flight B

$600 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight C Entries: 484 (Total Entries: 1,153)

Action is back underway with an unofficial 484 entries showing for Flight C creating the biggest session so far. We will post the numbers once the accounting is complete and see where we are in relation to the $1,000,000 Guarantee.

The big stack we saw on break belongs to none other than Craig Varnell. He’s up to 183,900 more than halfway through the day with first break leader Noel Atherley sitting in second at 158,000.

Varnell has six titles to his credit and they are solid gold. He won a WSOP Circuit ring in 2014, followed that up with a WPT500 Las Vegas title in 2015, and added an EPT $5K Six-Max win later that year.

He won a Deep Stack Extravaganza event in 2016, took a year off trophies in 2017, then won his first WSOP bracelet in 2018.  Capping off a Triple Crown/Grand Slam kind of thing in his young career, Varnell put his name on the WPT Champions Cup for the first time this summer.

$600 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8: 400/800 with a 800 ante
Flight C Entries: 477 (Total Entries: 1,146)

The second break is underway leaving less than 15 minutes for players to jump into Flight C. We should pick up a few more along the way to push our total up at the halfway point.

A short walk through the field found one massive stack but we’ll have to wait until they return to identify out leader.

$600 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8: 400/800 with a 800 ante
Flight C Entries: 460 (Total Entries: 1,129)

Two former SHRP champions went heads-up with the clock ticking down to the close of registration. With the board reading , Dan Suied bet 3,000 and Michael Newman shoved over the top for 20,000. Suied dropped the hand but stayed in the game with 18,000 while Newman moved up to 35,000.

Suied picked up his first trophy here during the 2014 SHRPO opening tournament, a nice score for someone who primarily plays in the cash room.

Newman owns five SHRP trophies, tied for second for all-time wins, including the 2017 RRPO Championship title. On top of the Hollywood wins, he also picked up a WSOP Circuit ring a few miles up the road with our friends in Coconut Creek.

$600 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7: 300/600 with a 600 ante
Flight C Entries: 436 (Total Entries: 1,105)

It’s been a great summer for South Florida poker players, with many returning home from Las Vegas with some new jewelry plus a nice bankroll boost, and they aren’t done yet.

Yesterday, we mentioned Phil Hui and his WSOP Poker Players Championship title but he was not the only one wrapped in glory at the series.

Two weeks into June, Howard Mash joined nearly 6,000 other players in the $1,000 WSOP Seniors Championship and four days later was posing for pictures with a bracelet before collecting his $660K score. He was already known us in the Sunshine State with four wins at our sister property in Coconut Creek, now a lot more people know Mash as a WSOP champion.

$600 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 200/400 with a 400 ante
Flight C Entries: 386 (Total Entries: 1,055)

Unlike yesterday, it was pretty easy to find our early leader in Flight C. Noel Atherley is far away the frontrunner after four levels and his 103,000 is the first to clear six figures.

Other notable stacks include Aaron Rosenthal (63,500), Harvey Freedman (55,000), Adam Zoltser (55,000), Darnell White (46,500), Lou Stadler (46,500), and Michael Newman (45,600).

$600 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4: 200/300 with a 300 ante
Flight C Entries: 355 (Total Entries: 1,024)

Four levels are in the books for Flight C and players took a walk away from the Event Center for the first break. The combined entry count climbed over 1,000 a little while ago and we’re cruising towards the $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool.

$600 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 100/100
Flight C Entries: 226 (Total Entries: 895)

It didn’t take very long for Flight C to cross over 200 entries and they got there before the first level was complete. It will blast right past the previous two flights and it will be the biggest so far by the time registration closes at 3:30 pm.

Andre Rakusa was among the first 200 and he had a pretty good run in this tournament last year. Event 1 drew more than 3,000 entries during the 2018 SHRPO series and Rakusa outlasted all but three of them. He finished in fourth place for nearly $95K, the biggest cash of his career.