$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
Level 14: 1,200/2,400/400 Ante

We’ve hit the final level of Flight 5F.  126 player remain and the chip lead for the night is up for grabs with Nissin Vaknin, John Magnetta and Arthur Andrade among a large group of players near the top.  Other players such as Amanda Musumeci, Stewart Newman, Sebastien Girard and Robert “Car Wash” Williams are trying to hold on and play on tomorrow.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
Level 12: 800/1,600/200 Ante

We are closing on the final levels of Event 5’s Day 1.  Flight 5F is nearing its final break and 162 players are still on the felt trying to hang on for another hour and get their shot at this massive prize pool.

We’ll update the top chip stacks after the players’ break.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
Level 11: 600/1,200/200 Ante

Angel Vu is normally seen at the poker tables with her lucky golden frog.  But unfortunately it was left in the luggage, so she had go to the next best thing.

Taking a page out of the playbook of WSOP November Niner Billy Pappas who is known for his heavy use of the famous Nintendo character Yoshi for good luck, Vu has gone to pint-sized dragon as her temporary card protector of choice and even accesorized her fingernail polish to match.  We’ll see if Yoshi can help Vu save the day and make it to Day 2.

And apparently, Mr. Pappas approved of the decision on Twitter:

@shrpo @AngelVufl Genius! #TeamYoshi

— Billy Pappas (@MasTaPaPz) April 12, 2015

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
Level 10: 500/1,000/100 Ante

The magic in Greg Lehn’s backpack would even meet the high standards of Dora The Explorer.

With his granddaughter’s backpack keeping him company, Lehn faced down two all-in bets on a board and decided to roll the dice with .  Turned out he made the right call as his opponents showed K-10 offsuit and Q-10 offsuit.  The board ran out harmlessly with the and Lehn cleared out two obstacles to advancing to Day 2 tomorrow along with what may turn out be the family’s new lucky charm.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
Level 9: 400/800/100 Ante

Registration is closed in Flight 5F and with that Event 5 as well.

The flight tallied 487 entries and with the previous total of 1,987 we have a final total of 2,474 entries easily surpassing the $1,000,000 guarantee.  In the earlier flights, 379 players escaped to play on in Day 2 tomorrow and will be joined by tonight’s survivors.  Everyone coming back will be chasing current overall chip leader Michael “Turtle” Dunn’s and his stunning total of 684,500 he scored in Flight 1B.

270 players remain here in Flight 5F.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
Level 9: 400/800/100 Ante

As registration closes, the chipleader in this flight is Vivian Nguyen, who is pretty far out in front with 151,600. There are only three players with at least 100,000, and they form the top of the leaderboard:

1.  Vivian Nguyen  –  151,600  (189 bb)
2.  Aaron Klausman  –  120,300  (150 bb)
3.  Barrett Purvis  –  102,100  (127 bb)

With approximately 288 players remaining from a Flight 5F field of about 487 (unofficially), the average chip stack is about 33,800 (42 big blinds).

And here’s a tweet that chipleader Vivian Nguyen just sent to @SHRPO from the table:

@shrpo pic.twitter.com/Y1D9HNwq3R

— Viv (@Angryfish11) April 12, 2015

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
Level 8: 300/600/75 Ante

With 15 mintues remaining in the final level to re-enter, players are playing fast and loose to either re-build their short stacks or head to the registration desk to take a final shot in this flight.

Entries are piling up quickly in the last few minutes as the total has quickly zoomed to 460 here in Flight 5F.  One of those players just coming back into the field is Stewart Newman, one of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Embassabors.  Newman along with many others will be playing hard from here on out with the hope of advancing to Day 2 tomorrow.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
Level 8: 300/600/75 Ante

Flight 1F is up to 454 entries, which means the total field size is at 2,441, and the total prizepool is up to $1.22 million. Only 35 minutes left to register for this one!

David Diaz will need to re-enter at least one more time to have a shot at that prizepool. He just got it all in for about 10,000 with , but the small blind had him covered with . The board came , and Diaz was felted — at least temporarily.

Here are some of the notable chip stacks from around the room:

Lily Kiletto  –  53,000  (66 bb)
Joelle Guarino  –  38,000  (47 bb)
Blake Purvis  –  25,000  (31 bb)
Stewart Newman  –  23,000  (28 bb)
Zoltan Czinkota  –  22,000  (27 bb)
Robert Panitch  –  22,000  (27 bb)
James Salmon  –  20,000  (25 bb)
Amanda Musumeci  –  19,000  (23 bb)
Chance Kornuth  –  17,000  (21 bb)
Sebastien Girard  –  15,000  (18 bb)
Harrison Gimbel  –  11,000  (13 bb)

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
Level 7: 250/500/50 Ante

A few more faces in the crowd trying to take the next step to playing tomorrow include Event 1 Champion James Salmon, former champion Derrick Simon and the man who always stands out in the crowd Paul Prager.

Also seen in the field were David Diaz, Amanda Musumeci and “Uncle Krunk” Robert Panitch.

443 entries are on the board as we continue on here in Flight 5F being the total entries to 2430 for the event

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