$2,200 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freezeout)
Level 11: 500/1,000/100 Ante

There are only 23 players remaining of the starting 94 in Event 15 and they are scheduled to play down to a winner today. It would appears to be a short day but look are deceiving. The hour-long levels and deep structure will give them plenty of room to make moves.

Average stacks is ~50 big blinds at the start of Day 2 with all but seven players below that mark. Shannon Shorr finished with the lead after 10 levels yesterday with Kevin Schulz and Scott Efron not far behind.

They still have some work to do to make into the money with just 12 of them getting a piece of the $200,000 prize pool. A min-cash will earn them $5,500 while the winner will cash out for $53,920.

Most of the players have taken their seats and we are about to get underway.

Table 1
Seat 1: Brian Hastings – 16,500
Seat 2: Jake Schwartz – 17,900
Seat 3: Ory Hen – 59,400
Seat 4: Darryll Fish – 34,50
Seat 5: Kevin Schulz – 107,900
Seat 6: Jared Jaffee – 87,400

Table 2
Seat 1: Uri Kadoosh – 45,500
Seat 2: Scott Efron – 103,700
Seat 3: David Bell – 36,100
Seat 4: Empty
Seat 5: Stephen Pinta – 83,900
Seat 6: Shannon Shorr – 109,600

Table 3
Seat 1: Matt Stout – 92,500
Seat 2: Zack Goodman – 20,400
Seat 3: Chance Kornuth – 52,800
Seat 4: Jason Mercier – 27,300
Seat 5: Nissin Vaknin – 49,200
Seat 6: Corey Burbick – 44,900

Table 4
Seat 1: Cliff Goldkind – 32,900
Seat 2: Daniel Rashbaum – 11,600
Seat 3: Carter Gill – 21,600
Seat 4: Stephen Diamantas – 23,500
Seat 5: Matt Waxman – 23,900
Seat 6: Noah Schwartz – 42,000

$2,200 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freezeout)
Level 11: 500/1,000/100 Ante

Table 1
Seat 1: Brian Hastings – 16,500
Seat 2: Jake Schwartz – 17,900
Seat 3: Ory Hen – 59,400
Seat 4: Darryll Fish – 34,50
Seat 5: Kevin Schulz – 107,900
Seat 6: Jared Jaffee – 87,400

Table 2
Seat 1: Uri Kadoosh – 45,500
Seat 2: Scott Efron – 103,700
Seat 3: David Bell – 36,100
Seat 4: Empty
Seat 5: Stephen Pinta – 83,900
Seat 6: Shannon Shorr – 109,600

Table 3
Seat 1: Matt Stout – 92,500
Seat 2: Zack Goodman – 20,400
Seat 3: Chance Kornuth – 52,800
Seat 4: Jason Mercier – 27,300
Seat 5: Nissin Vaknin – 49,200
Seat 6: Corey Burbick – 44,900

Table 4
Seat 1: Cliff Goldkind – 32,900
Seat 2: Daniel Rashbaum – 11,600
Seat 3: Carter Gill – 21,600
Seat 4: Stephen Diamantas – 23,500
Seat 5: Matt Waxman – 23,900
Seat 6: Noah Schwartz – 42,000

$2,200 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freezeout)
Level 10: 400/800/100 Ante

After a long grind, 23 players are headed to Day 2 tomorrow.  An all-star field will take to the felt tomorrow to play for the $53,920 top prize.

Shannon Shorr held off 2015 PCA Main Event Champion Kevin Schulz and Scott Efron to lead the way with all of them over 100,000 chips.  But a win won’t be easy for any of them as the deepest pool of talent coming back for a Day 2 so far this series will be back at 3 PM tomorrow.

Here are the chips counts for all the players who bagged up tonight:

Shannon Shorr – 109,600
Kevin Schulz – 107,900
Scott Efron – 103,700
Matt Stout – 92,500
Jared Jaffee – 87,400
Stephen Pinta – 83,900
Chance Kornuth – 52,800
Nissin Vankin – 49,200
Uri Kadosh – 45,500
Cory Burbick – 44,900
Noah Schwartz – 42,000
Ory Hen – 39,400
David Bell – 36,100
Darryll Fish – 34,500
Cliff Goldkind – 32,900
Jason Mercier – 27,300
Matt Waxman – 23,900
Stephen Diamantas – 23,500
Carter Gill – 21,600
Zack Goodman – 20,400
Jake Schwartz – 17,900
Brian Hastings – 16,500
Daniel Rashbaum – 11,600

Best of luck to everyone coming back for Day 2 tomorrow!

$2,200 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freezeout)
Level 10: 400/800/100 Ante

A controversial hand and some time in the tank resulted in the elimination taking us down to four tables.

Joe Kuether made a raise for half his stack on a board and Uri Kadosh put his stack all-in – or did he?

The dealer was facing away from Kuether but said he heard Kadosh say “all in” and threw the all-in button.  Kuether called the floor saying that chips were put in by Kadosh before he said all-in thus making it just a call.

After a long discussion, the floor staff eventually ruled that Kadosh had indeed gone all-in and Kuether then went into the tank for about five minutes.  Kuether eventually made the call for the rest of his chips and Kadosh quickly flipped over for the full house.  Kuether mucked his hand and bowed out in 24th.

Raquel Abut was also eliminated shortly after and the field went down to 23.  At this point around 20 mintues remain before play ends for the night.

$2,200 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freezeout)
Level 10: 400/800/100 Ante

We’ve hit the final level of the night and we’re still at 26 players left.

A quick sweep around the room shows Matt Stout, Scott Efron, Shannon Shorr and Chance Kornuth as the largest stacks in the room. Of course, a lot can change on an end-of-night level and hopefully the excitement level will pick up as we close out play for the night.

$2,200 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freezeout)
Level 9: 300/600/100 Ante

Earlier to either kill some time or for personal amusement, Matt Waxman made a vow at his table that Brian Hastings would “have his soul crushed” by him.  It’s been a lot of fun at the table but it actually became all business soon after between the two.

On a board of , Hastings checked and Waxman fired out 9,500 putting Hastings in the tank.  Waxman, who has been very vocal all night, went into lockdown not moving a muscle or saying a word.

Hastings finally relented and folded the hand giving Waxman the pot.  Despite the hand win, Waxman still cannot eliminate Hastings as Waxman finished the hand around 43,000 and Hastings still held 50,000 chips.

Expect a lot more confrontations from top players as the night goes on.  26 players remain as we’re about two-thirds of the way through Level 9.

$2,200 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freezeout)
Level 8: 250/500/75 Ante

Level 8 has been completed and the players are on their final break of the night.  30 players are still alive and the roster of players is like a who’s who in poker.

Barry Hutter, Jared Jaffee, Jason Mercier, Darryll Fish, Joe Kuether, Noah Schwartz, Jake Schwartz, Ory Hen, Shannon Shorr, Brian Hastings, Carter Gill, Ravi Raghavan, Chance Kornuth, Matt Stout, Cliff Goldkind, Kevin Schulz, Scott Efron, Matt Waxman and Jacob Bazeley all have chips in front of them heading into the last two hours of play.

This field has quite a wow factor and we’ll see who can get to Day 2 in a little while.

$2,200 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freezeout)
Level 8: 250/500/75 Ante

Players have just hit Level 8 as we now have three hours remaining to play tonight.  34 players remain as these players battle it out for the chance to return tomorrow for Day 2 and the top prize of $53,920.

$2,200 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freezeout)
Level 7: 200/400/50 Ante

Tournaments here at Seminole Hard Rock-Hollywood tend to have a very large amount of women playing in them as opposed to other areas of the country.  But tonight’s Event 15 was the exception.

The last woman standing, Raquel Abut, was actually the first one too as she was only one who entered out of the entire field of players.

Abut is in great shape right now sitting at 41,500 chips as she looks to advance to Day 2 and outplay the boys here in Event 15.