$570 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
Level 20: 6,000/12,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 171 of 3,064

Brian Gelrod began his day near the bottom of the counts, returning to only 32,500 after starting the tournament with a 20,000 stack. But now he’s deep into the money and getting more chips.

He open-shoved for 101,000 from the cutoff and found a call in the small blind. Gelrod’s was in good shape against and stayed that way on the run out.

In other stack news, the lead switched one more time and it looks like Jay Romano is now on top with 1,460,000 followed by Tom Nguyen’s 1,335,000. Raman Afanasenka continues to climb and sits with 1,200,000.

$570 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
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Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 230 of 3,064

Catching up on the fast-moving payout action, we are down to 230 players (or less depending on the current timing of typing) with some notables making a trip to the payout desk. Loni Harwood, Ian Casey, Ryan Welsh, Marc Sachelli, Joshua Wasserman, and Nancy Birnbaum were a few of those cashing but falling short of the big money up top.

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$570 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 230 of 3,064

Raman Afanasenka was the big stack in the room for only a few minutes. SHR Tampa regular Tom Nguyen took a big leap forward when he sent Matthew Kuba and Michael Lipman out on the same hand.

Nguyen jumped over a million and now sits with 1,241,000 as the chip leader.

$570 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
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Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 250 of 3,064

The blue 100K chips are now in play, making the stacks more manageable and big stacks are much easier to spot.

The biggest at the break belonged to Raman Afanasenka who began the day with 184,000 but now sits with 860,000 after two hours. That is good enough for the chip lead with Jay Romano’s 725,000 putting him in second place. Frederic Norman is also sitting nicely with 701,000 as post-money play continues.

$570 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
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Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 250 of 3,064

The first break is complete after tournament staff pulled the purple 500 denom out of play. We are tracking down our leaders and will see how’s in a good position to go deep.

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Level 17: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining: 270 of 3,064

Shortly before the first break, Dan Heimiller was in a battle of the blinds against David Pain for a pot worth approximately 500,000. The money was in preflop and Heimiller was dominated.

Pain:
Heimiller:

Heimiller ran into a monster but quickly turned it around when he flopped the nut flush on the board. The turn and river finished the hand, Pain was eliminated, and Heimiller built a huge castle.

Dan Heimiller – 546,000
David Pain – Eliminated

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Level 17: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining: 300 of 3,064

With the money bubble approaching, tournament staff instructed dealers to shout it out if they lost a player and to hold up the action when their hand was complete. With 34 tables in action, we lost a player in the middle of the room during that time.

After a quick double check, they announced that 300 players were remaining and all were in the money without the process of going into hand-for-hand mode.

We did not see the standard slowdown near the money bubble and we expect the pace to continue moving into the early stages of payouts.

Event 1 Payouts

$570 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
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Level 17: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining: 311 of 3,064

Frederic Norman opened the action and Jeff Kessler three-bet shoved for his last 60,000. Stephen Ma thought about coming along in the big blind but mucked before Norman called.

Norman:
Kessler:

It was a cooler for the former SHRP Seniors Event champ and he couldn’t find a comeback on the board to exit short of the money.

Frederic Norman – 355,000
Jeff Kessler – Eliminated

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Level 16: 2,500/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 351 of 3,064

Josh Beckley open-shoved for 35,000 and Michael Kopjanski moved all in from the cutoff for approximately 142,000. Anna Antimony folded her button and Toby Boas called in the small blind for the three-way all in pot.

Beckley:
Kopjanski:
Boas:

Beckley, the former November Niner, was in trouble and his paired deuce on the flop meant little compared to Kopjanski’s set. Beckley and Boas were drawing thin and then drawing dead after the turn.

Beckley was eliminated and Kopjanski pulled a full double through Boas.

Michael Kopjanski – 309,000
Josh Beckley – Eliminated

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Level 15: 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining: 468 of 3,064

In a battle of the blinds, Howard Mash four-bet shoved from the small blind and Adam Levy called at risk in the big blind for 47,000.

Mash:
Levy:

Mash was ahead for the knockout but Levy paired the flop. Levy’s glimpse at a double up was short-lived when Mash hit the turn to take the lead. The river was no help to Levy and he was an early exit on Day 2.

Howard Mash – 115,500
Adam Levy – Eliminated