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Level 7:  250/500/50 ante

Registration has closed with an unofficial entry count of 382.  Added to the 414 entries in Flight A, brings the total to 796 through the first two flights.

This event carries a $500,000 Guarantee on the prize pool and they’re nearly half way to that with four more starting flights to go.

Schedule for the final four starting flights:

Flight C:  Friday, 11am
Flight D:  Friday, 7pm
Flight E:  Saturday, 11am
Flight F:  Saturday, 7pm

The survivors of all six starting flights will come together for Day 2 on Sunday at 1pm.

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Level 6:  200/400/50 ante

About ten minutes remain in this level and this is the last chance for players to re-enter this flight.  They can forfeit their chips and enter another flight, but if they bag chips, they cannot play another flight (there is no ‘best stack’ option as there has been in the past).

Two-time Seminole Hard Rock Poker titleist John Holley (Destin, FL) is still in the hunt.  He’s down to about 12k from the 20k starting stack (~30 big blinds)

John won two events here during this series last year.   He claimed both the 2013 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Seniors event title and the Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo title.  He also owns two WSOP Circuit rings and has lifetime tournament earnings over $849,000.

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Level 5:  150/300/25 ante

Players are back in action following the break.  Some big stacks are turning up in the field:

Joseph Ingrassia 98,275
Hany Ayoub 72,050
Naga Haim 67,800
Joe Pozos 61,025
Robert ‘Carwash’ Williams 59,500
Yechezka Wells 53,450
Rostant Ramlal 51,600
Pasquale Carazza 50,850
Kobi Ribak 50,600
Nancy Birnbaum 50,400

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End of Level 4:  100/200

Level 4 is done and players are on their first break of Flight B.

Just before the end of level 4, Robert ‘Carwash’ Williams (bb) got all-in on the river for his last 14,425.  The board showed .  Terri Anne Crawford was on the button and tanked for a couple of minutes.

“You trying to send me back to Tampa?” Terri asked, rhetorically.  These two players are both from Tampa and have run into each other back there on the felt at the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa.

She finally opted to call, leaving herself with less than 10k.  Carwash rolled over [9h7d] for two pair and Terri mucked.

Carwash chipped up to over 50k and must be among the early chip leaders.

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Level 4:  100/200

Some decorated poker players have turned up in Flight B.

Nancy Birnbaum is one of the most decorated women on the WSOP Circuit.  She’s won 3 Circuit gold rings, a Ladies event Pendant and has over $417,000 in lifetime tournament earnings.

She’s fired her first bullet in Flight B and should be a fixture here over the next three weeks of tournaments.

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Level 15: 1,500/3k/500 ante

Here is a look at some of the chip leaders among the Day 1A survivors for Event 1 at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open.

Jordan Peralta

Matthew Goldman

Kai Young

Taragaturi Draueen

Edgardo La Torre

Dallas Perry

Luis Cristobol

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Level 3: 75/150

Blinds continue to rise here in the Seminole Hard Rock.  Level 3 is underway with 270 entries so far.  Late registration is available until the start of level 7.

Semi-pro poker player Michael Johnson (N Miami, FL) has fired his first bullet in Flight B.  He’s a regular here at the Seminole Hard Rock when not working his other job.  During the previous level, Michael was up to ~28k.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 15: 1.5k/3k/500 ante

Play is done for Day 1A of the first event of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open. They paused the clock and played seven more hands, during which the field lost eight players. Only 58 of the starting 414 players will return for Day 2 with everyone bagging instead of taking the option of surrendering their stacks.

Bradley Moxson finished the day with 331,500 and earned a $500 bonus for finishing his flight as the chipleader. Joseph Dipascale and Dimas Martinz are not far behind and they will all return on Sunday in good shape for the title.

Official end of Day 1A counts will be released shortly.

Bradley Moxson – 331,500
Joseph Dipascale – 327,000
Dimas Martinez – 326,500
Kat Yamamoto – 286,500
Julio Sanchez – 260,000

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Level 15: 1,500/3k/500 ante

Daniel Kerr was all in preflop on the cutoff and Gui Soccaras had him more than covered on the hijack. The two players then flipped over their cards.

Soccaras:
Kerr:

Board:

Soccaras won the hand to grow his stack above 250,000 just before the end of play. Kerr was eliminated from the tournament on the hand.

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Level 2: 50/100

Flight B is rocking with lots of repeat entries from Flight A.  Blinds have just increased for the start of level 2.

Jeff “Short Stack” Silverstein is one of those unfortunate Flight A bustouts.  “I satellited in” he said about the 11am flight, which cost him only $85.

The local ginder from Del Ray Beach, FL has now fired his second bullet, for which he paid full fare.  He’s up to about 22k from the 20k starting stack.