$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 4: 100/200 with a 25 ante
Total Entries: 260
Flight C players are on their first break of the day with 260 entrants showing on the clock and more than two hours left to get in on the action.
That also means it’s time for the first look at the early leaders and biggest stacks while they are out of the room.
$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 4: 100/200 with a 25 ante
Total Entries: 240
Bill Gazes is old school poker, first tournament cash in 1993 old school. We’ve had him pop up over the last few series and he’s back with us today.
Gazes is still looking for his first major tournament victory though there were some very close calls. In his career, he’s made seven WSOP final tables, finished second in the 2007 WSOP H.O.R.S.E. event, and went to two WPT televised final tables.
Today it looks like Gazes has two priorities. Playing in the $1 Million GTD Event 10 while spending his time behind hands concentrating hard on the monitor behind him showing the US Women’s National Team Olympic soccer match versus New Zealand. Multi-tasking at its best.
$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 3: 75/150 with a 25 ante
Total Entries: 220
Sheddy Siddiqui and Darryll Fish aren’t the only two SHRP team members in action today, we caught up with Cate Hall in the middle of the room for some of her first action of the series.
Hall is having a nice run over the past few months. She finished in ninth place during the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship in April, followed that up with a deep run in the $10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale, then went to Las Vegas and cashed six times during the World Series of Poker.
Beat long odds & am at the right airport at the right time w/a valid ticket. Next stop @shrpo for 2 weeks of great weather, fun & the Big 4.
— Cate Hall (@catehall) August 3, 2016
$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 2: 50/100
Total Entries: 180
Flight C is quickly growing and should hit 200 entrants before noon rolls around, but it’s oddly quiet in here for a ballroom full of players. It’s usually a little louder on a Friday morning but there’s only murmurs, chip shuffling, and the occasion outburst so far.
All business today.
We found two SHRP team members in early action today. Sheddy Siddiqui and Daryll Fish jumped in before lunchtime, grinding away trying to put chips in a bag.
$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50
Total Entries: 110
Cards are in the air for Flight C of Event 10 with over 100 entrants at the start including Bradley Young. And he’s having a very fine week.
Young finished in second place during the $570 Double Black Chip Bounty NLH/PLO Event 7 and followed that up with his first SHRPO title by winning the $360 Pot Limit Omah/8 Event 9 two days ago.
$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: 25/50
The first two flights of Event 1 are wrapped up and it’s time for the middle two flights to get rolling, starting off with Flight C at 11am. The big $570 buy-in Event 10 is well on pace to surpass its $1,000,000 Guarantee and we’ll get closer this afternoon.
Two Matts sit atop the leaderboard after yesterday’s action. Matthew Yorra bagged up 332,500 in the opening flight while SHRP team member Matt Affleck put 310,500 in his bag early this morning. The tournament drew a combined 725 entrants yesterday with 134 moving on.
The next session is set to run at the top of the hour and players will sit down to 20,000 starting stacks. Levels will run 30 minutes today with late registration and re-entry available until the start of Level 9 at 3:30pm. Play will conclude at the end of Level 14 and those with chips will return on Sunday for Day 2.
The 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open is hitting its stride and some of the bigger events are about ready to get under way.
Thursday’s action was all about the $570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry event, which carries a $1 million guaranteed prizepool.
Day 1A kicked off at 11 a.m. and Day 1B got cards in the air at 6 p.m. Between the two flights, there were 725 entries, which generated a prizepool of $362,500.
70 players advanced from Day 1A and 64 survived the second flight. Matthew Yorra bagged 332,500 and the chip lead in 1A, while Matt Affleck finished 1B with 310,500, good for the biggest stack of his flight.
The survivors of all six flights will be back on Sunday at 1 p.m. to play down to a winner.
Here is a look at Friday’s schedule:
$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
End of Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Players Remaining: 134 of 725
Flight A: 369 Entries, 70 Advanced
Flight B: 356 Entries, 64 Advanced
Flight C: Friday at 11am
Flight D: Friday at 6pm
Flight E: Saturday at 11am
Flight F: Saturday at 6pm
Day 2: Sunday at 1pm
| Rank | First Name | Last Name | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matthew | Yorra | 332,500 |
| 2 | Matt | Affleck | 310,500 |
| 3 | David | Lithgow | 304,000 |
| 4 | William | Pappas | 296,000 |
| 5 | David | Schmuel | 238,500 |
| 6 | Brian | Hastings | 226,000 |
| 7 | Ryan | Van Sanford | 226,000 |
| 8 | Samuel | Zalmanov | 225,500 |
| 9 | Nagui | Yassa | 221,000 |
| 10 | David | Quiroz | 220,000 |
| 11 | Alexander | Daranyi | 212,500 |
| 12 | Michael | Newman | 207,500 |
| 13 | Gabriel | Sack | 203,000 |
| 14 | Ari | Engel | 200,000 |
| 15 | Charlemagne | Benjamin | 190,000 |
| 16 | Luis | Zedau | 185,000 |
| 17 | Josias | Santos | 181,500 |
| 18 | Nancy | Birnbaum | 174,500 |
| 19 | Eva | Frajlich | 169,500 |
| 20 | Jesus | Cabrera | 165,500 |
| 21 | David | Poces | 159,500 |
| 22 | Philip | Consolo | 158,000 |
| 23 | Austin | Peck | 154,500 |
| 24 | Paul | Balzano | 151,500 |
| 25 | Jewook | Oh | 151,000 |
| 26 | David | Shaw | 147,000 |
| 27 | Tony | Pendl | 145,500 |
| 28 | Yves | Fequiere | 143,500 |
| 29 | Sebastian | Gallego | 137,000 |
| 30 | Martin | Robbins | 136,500 |
| 31 | Maurice | Millares | 136,000 |
| 32 | Jorge | Gomez | 134,000 |
| 33 | Raminder | Singh | 133,500 |
| 34 | Miguel | Capriles | 132,500 |
| 35 | Jonathan | Ferber | 130,000 |
| 36 | Eduardo | Christ | 129,500 |
| 37 | Richard | Eisaman | 128,000 |
| 38 | Derrick | Simon | 127,000 |
| 39 | Matthew | Lessor | 127,000 |
| 40 | Jeff | Morrison | 124,000 |
| 41 | Ron | Lexy | 123,000 |
| 42 | Matt | Waxman | 122,500 |
| 43 | Santana | Noronha | 120,500 |
| 44 | Marc | Levy | 117,500 |
| 45 | Ryan | Hulton | 116,500 |
| 46 | Ethiel | Garcia | 116,000 |
| 47 | Frederico | Camala | 115,500 |
| 48 | Nissim | Vaknin | 115,000 |
| 49 | Vontz | Burke | 115,000 |
| 50 | Mark | Dube | 114,000 |
| 51 | Matthew | Frank | 112,500 |
| 52 | Ricardo | Eyzaguirre | 112,500 |
| 53 | Antonio | Colon | 111,500 |
| 54 | Jake | Cody | 111,000 |
| 55 | Sean | Munjal | 109,000 |
| 56 | Ido | Ashkenazi | 109,000 |
| 57 | Brandon | Miller | 108,000 |
| 58 | Andres | Jara | 106,000 |
| 59 | Jason | Bral | 105,500 |
| 60 | Muzaffer | Yesilce | 105,500 |
| 61 | Luis | Chang | 105,000 |
| 62 | Johanssy | Joseph | 101,500 |
| 63 | Vinny | Pahuja | 100,500 |
| 64 | David | Wolff | 100,500 |
| 65 | Sean | Stevens | 100,500 |
| 66 | John | Cofhlin | 94,500 |
| 67 | Jake | Schwartz | 94,500 |
| 68 | Aaron | Rosenthal | 93,500 |
| 69 | Daniel | Linares | 93,000 |
| 70 | Bob | Mather | 92,500 |
| 71 | Tom | Pham | 91,500 |
| 72 | Craig | Kuhlmeier | 91,000 |
| 73 | Randy | Pfeifer | 90,000 |
| 74 | John | Grout | 89,500 |
| 75 | Gregg | Silverstein | 89,500 |
| 76 | Blake | Robbins | 88,000 |
| 77 | Timothy | Miles | 86,500 |
| 78 | Mike | Beasley | 86,000 |
| 79 | Alex | Foxen | 85,500 |
| 80 | William | Adkins | 85,500 |
| 81 | Arun | Dabad | 85,500 |
| 82 | Marc | Schiller | 85,000 |
| 83 | Chad | Vetstein | 84,500 |
| 84 | Felipe | Perez | 84,000 |
| 85 | Steven | Serle | 83,500 |
| 86 | James | Salmon | 83,000 |
| 87 | Steven | Morales | 82,500 |
| 88 | Albert | Destrade | 81,500 |
| 89 | Bernard | Cohen | 79,500 |
| 90 | Greg | Baird | 78,000 |
| 91 | Mark | Darner | 78,000 |
| 92 | Matthew | Zarcadoolas | 77,500 |
| 93 | Emerson | Ward | 76,500 |
| 94 | Juli | Bindelglass | 76,000 |
| 95 | Wayne | Lippman | 74,500 |
| 96 | Ken | Bruno | 74,000 |
| 97 | Avraham | Kalmis | 73,000 |
| 98 | Stephen | Ma | 72,000 |
| 99 | Lonnie | Heimowitz | 72,000 |
| 100 | Timothy | Franks | 68,500 |
| 101 | David | Hass | 66,500 |
| 102 | Oscar | Aguirre | 66,000 |
| 103 | Gary | Skolnick | 66,000 |
| 104 | John | Holley | 63,500 |
| 105 | Naoum | Zarcadoolas | 62,000 |
| 106 | Richard | Rice | 60,000 |
| 107 | Charles | Ryan | 60,000 |
| 108 | Anthony | Valiente | 59,000 |
| 109 | Truyen | Nguyen | 58,500 |
| 110 | Dejan | Petkovic | 57,500 |
| 111 | Rodger | Smith | 57,000 |
| 112 | Mark | Wahawn | 56,500 |
| 113 | Joel | Borden | 56,000 |
| 114 | Gary | Bolden | 56,000 |
| 115 | Peter | Bronstein | 53,500 |
| 116 | Wayne | Brown | 52,500 |
| 117 | Jessica | Dawley | 51,500 |
| 118 | Adam | Aloma | 50,500 |
| 119 | Vincent | Mollina | 46,500 |
| 120 | Sebastian | Sanchez | 44,500 |
| 121 | Jim | Diaz | 44,000 |
| 122 | Joe | Yselonia | 44,000 |
| 123 | Enrique | Roman | 43,500 |
| 124 | Bryan | Reisner | 42,000 |
| 125 | Almog | Biton | 41,000 |
| 126 | Ebony | Kenney | 38,500 |
| 127 | Mukul | Pahuja | 34,500 |
| 128 | Wally | Maddah | 27,500 |
| 129 | Maynor | Bardales | 27,000 |
| 130 | Michael | Kopjanski | 25,000 |
| 131 | Daniel | Henske | 24,000 |
| 132 | Ezekeil | Shelton | 22,000 |
| 133 | Alfonso | Diaz | 20,500 |
| 134 | Anton | Serkov | 14,500 |
$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
End Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Players Remaining: 64 of 356
After 14 levels of play, Day 1B of the $570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry has come to an end and it’s Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood Ambassador Matt Affleck who leads the final 64 players.
The second of six starting flights brought 356 entries to the Hard Rock ballroom, but by the day’s end only 64 remained.
Affleck finished the day with 310,500 and is the only player from the 1B flight with over 300,000 in chips. William Pappas is next on the 1B leaderboard with 296,000.
Other notables to survive the day include Brian Hastings, Jake Cody, Ryan Van Sanford, TK Miles, Ebony Kenney, Bob Mather, and Mike Beasley.
The survivors of today’s flight will come back on Sunday at 1 p.m. for Day 2. They will merge with the survivors of the other flights and are scheduled to play down to a winner. Combined chip counts for the first two flights will be posted later tonight.
$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
End Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Players Remaining: 64 of 356
The staff has brought out the bags and players are bagging and tagging their chips. Complete chip counts will be posted shortly.