$350 Big Stack Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 22: 6,000/12,000/2,000 Ante

How big was the move of Robert Melo off of his table to join Jorge Gomez shortly after Gomez’s massive hand?

With the 800,000+ chip stack of Melo gone, the biggest stack on that table is now Mark Gaudino with only 300,000 – around 25 big blinds – followed by Sanjid Acharya with 256,000 and then working its way down.  That table also is currently the one that has seven players while Melo and Gomez are getting the chance to grind down the six-handed table.

Anthony Pena, Habib Nahra, Sergio Gomez and Antonio Velazquez are dealing with our dynamic big-stack duo.  On the other table are Frank DeGeorge, John Utley, Acharya, Gaudino, Yousri “Chicago” Ali, Wally Maddah and James Dickson.

$350 Big Stack Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 21: 5,000/10,000/1,000 Ante

Jorge Gomez and Robert Melo are feeling pretty good right now to say the least.

Gomez just knocked out Jose Lidvak in a huge collision.  On a board of with around 400,000 chips already in the pot, the rest of the two heavyweights chips ended up in the middle with Gomez having hit the straight on the turn with against Lidvak’s .

In the meantime, Robert Melo made a huge run on the other table and then was promptly moved to next to Gomez.

Gomez stands at 1,062,000 chips while Melo is holding onto 829,000 as we close out this level with 14 players left.

$350 Big Stack Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 20: 4,000/8,000/1,000 Ante

Here are the players left on the remaining two tables here in Event 11:

Table 60:
Seat 1: Wally Maddah
Seat 2: Antonio Pena
Seat 3: Nahra Habib
Seat 4: Sergio Gomez
Seat 5: Steve Gore
Seat 6: Patrick Alexander
Seat 7: Jorge Gomez
Seat 8: Antonio Velazquez
Seat 9: Jose Lidvak

Table 68:
Seat 1: Frank DeGeorge
Seat 2: Anton Tonkoy
Seat 3: John Utley
Seat 4: Sanjid Acharya
Seat 5: Wanlop Phonphornwithan
Seat 6: Mark Gaudino
Seat 7: Yousri Ali
Seat 8: Robert Melo
Seat 9: James Dickson

$350 Big Stack Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 20: 4,000/8,000/1,000 Ante

Jorge Gomez is a legitimate contender to pick up a second title in this year’s Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open.  Gomez is out in front of the field with 450,000 and still going strong.  Jose Lidvak is trying to catch up as he now stands at 343,000.

After Wanlop Phonphornwithan just sent Anthony Ocampo to the rail, we’re now down to 18 players taking us to two tables remaining in the tournament.

$350 Big Stack Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 18: 2,500/5,000/500 Ante

As we near the next break for our players, a few of them have opened up some space between them and the rest of the pack.

John Utley is up to 342,000 with Jorge Gomez hot on his trail at 329,000.  James Dickson is not far back at 310,000.  The three of them are leading the way with 23 player left here in Event 11.

$350 Big Stack Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 15: 1,200/2,400/400 Ante

While Event 10 is on dinner break, we got to take a look in on Event 11.  42 players are still standing and 27 of them will cash tonight.  Right now, Jordan Meltzer is hanging onto the chip lead as he currently stands at 240,000 chips.  We’ll see if he can keep things rolling as we close in on the Event 11 money bubble.

$350 Big Stack Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 13: 800/1,600/200 Ante

Event 11 is on a 40-minute dinner break with 63 of the 276 starting entrants around to enjoy it. Wanlop Phonphornwithoon leads the way with 245,300 with 14 players in six-digit territory.

Wanlop Phonphornwithoon – 245,300 (153 bb)
Jordan Meltzer – 191,100 (119 bb)
Anton Tonkoy – 189,600 (119 bb)
Jose Litvak – 171,200 (107 bb)
Oscar Guzman – 155,000 (97 bb)
Dan Heimiller – 145,000 (91 bb)
Sanjib Acharya – 134,900 (84 bb)
Jorge Gomez – 126,500 (79 bb)
Mark Gaudino – 120,500 (75 bb)
Frank DeGeorge – 114,600 (72 bb)
Julie Phung Ngo – 113,800 (71 bb)
Robert Melo – 112,500 (70 bb)
James Dickson – 111,200 (70 bb)
Joseph Duchman – 104,100 (65 bb)

2015 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open
$350 Big Stack Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$30,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool

August 9, 2015

Total Entries:  276
Total Prize Pool:  $55,200

1st: $15,454
2nd: $9,108
3rd: $5,244
4th: $4,250
5th: $3,312
6th: $2,760
7th: $2,208
8th: $1,656
9th: $1,104
10-12th: $718
13-15th: $607
16-18th: $552
19-27th: $497

$350 Big Stack Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 150/300/25 Ante

Most of the room is dealing with the Event 10 play down but Event 11 has built itself a nice field. They just came back from their first break and over 200 entrants in the field so far with two more hours to get in.

We have a big anonymous stack at the top of the leader board followed by Dan Heimiller and Sergio Amato.

When asked how many bounties he’d collected so far, Heimiller started counting on his fingers then joked.

“Zero”

Anonymous – 82,075 (274 bb)
Dan Heimiller – 55,550 (185 bb)
Sergio Amato – 53,575 (179 bb)
Jill Fiorentino – 49,525 (165 bb)
Carlos Paredes – 40,250 (134 bb)
Oktay Altinbas – 36,325 (121 bb)
Joel Harwood – 24,700 (82 bb)
David Levi – 20,925 (70 bb)
Edina Pantichin – 14,700 (49 bb)
Marty Robbins – 14,200 (47 bb)

$350 Big Stack Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 2: 50/100

It didn’t take long to get our 100th entrant in Event 11, he/she fired off before the start of the second level to put us over $30,000.

Two-time WSOP bracelet winner Dan Heimiller is one of those getting in the game early as the field continues to grow.