$3,500 Championship No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$2 Million Guaranteed
Level 7: Blinds 250/500/75 ante
Players are off on their dinner break leaving just 90 minutes for anyone to get themselves down the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood for some action.
The desk will close when they return for Level 7 and we’ll know the official number not long afterwards.
Dinner break counts to come shortly.
$3,500 Championship No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$2 Million Guaranteed
Level 6: Blinds 200/400/50 ante
The tournament board moved over 300 for the last flight of the Championship and is now sitting at 315. That brings the combined field so far up to 564 with 97 already advancing to Day 2.
Vanessa Selbst added another entry to the prize pool as she took another seat after the break. She’s joined by another re-entry in Keven Stammen a few seats around.
There are still two hours to get in the game and get a piece of the $2,000,000 guaranteed prize pool. The registration desk will close for the Championship at 8pm after the dinner break.
$3,500 Championship No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$2 Million Guaranteed
Level 5: Blinds 150/300/50 ante
$3,500 Championship No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$2 Million Guaranteed
Level 5: Blinds 150/300/50 ante
Players returned to Level 5 and moving right along as the tournament information board gets just a little closer to 300 entrants for the day.
Players can late register or re-enter over the next two levels plus the 90-minute dinner break.
Jason Helder is the early leader after more than tripling his 30,000 starting stack with Preecha Taepakdee and Luke Brereton not far behind.
Top ten:
Jason Helder – 96,175
Preecha Taepakdee – 91,050
Luke Brereton – 90,525
Zachary Haas – 83,225
Tyler Thren – 81,000
Jeff Gilbralter – 79,100
Kevin Holder – 76,350
Dani Dayan – 75,525
Cliff Gladstone – 75,450
Sean Winter – 75,200
Other notables:
Michael Chiapetta – 61,400
Darryll Fish – 60,875
Jean Gaspard – 60,250
Jonathan Borenstein – 60,225
Ory Hen – 53,400
Steven Karp – 47,725
Joe Gibbons – 45,875
Allen Kessler – 43,425
Ari Engel – 41,450
Matt Glantz – 41,125
Nick Yunis – 40,275
Dennis Phillips – 38,650
Tristan Wade – 37,575
Arkadiy Tsinis – 34,825
Matt Affleck – 34,000
Angela Prada-Moed – 31,850
Victor Figuero – 28,250
Brian Hastings – 25,925
Mike Leah – 25,400
Ronnie Bardah – 23,075
Micah Raskin – 20,225
Chance Kornuth – 16,350
$3,500 Championship No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$2 Million Guaranteed
Level 5: Blinds 100/200/25 ante
Players have returned from their second break and there is a ridiculous amount of poker talent in the room today.
Here are the previously unmentioned familiar faces, in no particular order:
Andrew Graham
Carlos Loving
Moe Maghraoui
Steven Bennett
Ralph Massey
Jared Jaffee
Robert Campbell
Debra Dorcy
Luke Brereton
Abbey Daniels
Brian Hastings
Mike Linster
Steven Levy
Angela Prada-Moed
Michael Moed
Ronnie Bardah
Mike Dentale
Rafael Reis
Raminder Singh
Russ Dykshteyn
Ramon Watson
Richard Clayton
Dani Dayan
Victor Figueroa
Cord Garcia
Jacobo Fernandez
Robert Wiercinski
Joseph McKeehen
DJ MacKinnon
David Farber
John Pappas
Tom Nguyen
Tristan Wade
Jarrod Ludemann
Manny Minaya
Michael Tait
Whew!
$3,500 Championship No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$2 Million Guaranteed
Level 5: Blinds 150/300/50 ante
The second break of the day has rolled around as the field closes in on 290 entrants. Vanessa Selbst is no longer among the crowd but she may be taking her time for firing away once again.
We’ll have the first round of chip counts shortly.
$3,500 Championship No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$2 Million Guaranteed
Level 4: Blinds 100/200/25 ante
Jean ‘Prince’ Gaspard has made his Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ’N’ Roll Poker Open” debut, late registering this event and more than doubling his starting stack in the first level he played.
“You know me, I work fast,” Jean said. He won the WPT Regional event at the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa during the 2014 Spring Open for over $109,000. He also has a WSOP Circuit ring and over $1.5 million in career earnings.
$3,500 Championship No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$2 Million Guaranteed
Level 4: Blinds 100/200/25 ante
Scott Efron has busted out, again, for the third time. He’s got a fourth bullet and he’s fired it, returning with a fresh stack.
Scott went deep in Event 9, the $500k Guaranteed $570 NLH event, going into Day 2 as the chip leader. He busted out of that event in 35th place, earning $2,406.
$3,500 Championship No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$2 Million Guaranteed
Level 3: Blinds 75/150/25 ante
There are few easy tables in an event like this, but some are just crazy hard. Table 9 has turned into one of those with some late registrants.
Sharing that patch of green felt are
Errol Massey
David Inselberg
Ory Hen
Joe Gibbons
Zachary ‘Redlocks’ Kessler
Dennis Phillips
$3,500 Championship No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$2 Million Guaranteed
Level 3: Blinds 75/150/25 ante
Players returned from their first break and the Tweets are starting to flow. Don’t forget the #SHRPO!
Here are some Chip Chirps:
Jarrod Ludemann 45k
MiamiErikC 44,600
Natasha Barbour 34k
Andrew Graham 28,200
Jeff Trudeau 26k
Matthew Elsarelli 25k