$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
Level 20: 4,000/8,000/1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 169
Average Stack: 249,000 (31 bb)

It was a money bubble as smooth as you’ll see. The Main Event quickly played down to a few players from the money when tournament staff asked dealers to hold up on the bubble.

There was one table still going and they hit the money without a single round of hand-for-hand action. Michael Foley found himself at risk and drawing very thin, all his chips were in the middle with and the board reading against Josh Beckley’s .

Foley had two outs to stay alive but blanked the river to go out in 170th while the 2015 November Niner jumped to 785,000 and the rest of the field was in the money.

$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
Level 19: 3,000/6,000/1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 178
Average Stack: 237,000 (39 bb)

Half an hour after the first break and we’re one table break away from making the money. Play will slow down from here through the money bubble paying 169, then it will ramp right back up.

Some of the recent eliminations include Andrew Bedecker, Victor Figueroa, Stephanie Hubbard, and Seminole Hard Rock pro Sheddy Siddiqui.

$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
Level 19: 3,000/6,000/1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 216
Average Stack: 195,000 (32 bb)

We did indeed find a stack bigger than Harrison Gimbel or Loni Harwood, two of them as a matter of fact.

Vincent Fiorenza has moved up from his 341,000 returning stack and went on break with 582,000 out front. On the other side of the room, former WPT DeepStacks Edmonton champion Mike Smith is leading the way as they approach the money bubble. He’s the first over 600,000 and is in good shape for a long day.

$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
Returning to Level 19: 3,000/6,000/1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 225
Average Stack: 187,000 (31 bb)

Players are on the first break of the day and 56 eliminations away from the money. We’ll take another walk around the room and see if anyone has caught up to Loni Harwood and Harrison Gimbel.

$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
Level 18: 2,500/5,000/500 Ante
Players Remaining: 234
Average Stack: 187,000 (37 bb)

Harrison Gimble and Loni Harwood are two of the biggest stacks in the room and one of them is leading the way. Stacks are fluctuating with the action but Harwood’s ~575,000 is outpacing Gimbel by a few grey chips.

There are 15 minutes left until the first break and we’ll have an idea how close we are to making the money when 169 remain.

$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
Level 18: 2,500/5,000/500 Ante
Players Remaining: 243
Average Stack: 173,000 (35 bb)

Seminole Hard Rock Poker pro Matt Affleck has two things on his mind today. Running late in the Main Event and watching his beloved Seattle Seahawks in the NFL playoffs. One is going well, the other not so much.

Affleck began Day 2 with 223,000 then added more than 100,000 to his stack in the first few levels. His 335,000 will be in the top part of the counts while his Seahawks are currently losing their game.

$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
Level 17: 2,000/4,000/500 Ante
Players Remaining: 270
Average Stack: 156,000 (39 bb)

T.K. Miles is grinding his stack in the middle of the room and trying to extend his current Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year lead while picking up some cash. With two qualifying events complete, Miles went deep in the Coco Poker Open and finished fifth in the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Winter Poker Open.

Miles began the day a few chips shy of 80,000 and continues to hover around that point.

$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
Level 17: 2,000/4,000/500 Ante
Players Remaining: 306
Average Stack: 138,000 (34 bb)

Day 2 has leveled up as the field gets ready to drop under 300 players remaining. Perry Shaio, former South Florida poker and dealer and 2015 WSOP Monster Stack champ, took his leave in a tough hand.

Probably thought his would be the way he would double his 57,000 but he ran into the of Bruce Snell. Shaio had a brief glimpse of saving glory when the dealer put the in the window but it was followed by the .

Perry Shaio: Eliminated
Bruce Snell: 365,000 (91 bb)

$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
Level 16: 1,500/3,000/500 Ante
Players Remaining: 324
Average Stack: 130,000 (43 bb)

We’re losing players at a steady clip in the early going, more than 20 players were eliminated in the opening hands of Day 2. Former Lucky Hearts Poker Open final table member Abbey Daniels was one of the victims after a rough end to her Day 1.

Daniels caught a bad beat on the last hand of play last night and returned today with only 4,000. She had a chance to a quintuple up when she put his tiny stack in with a half-table full of callers.

She flopped top pair with on the board but Nick Yunis paired the turn and tripped up on the river to send her out in the first level back.

Last hand before bagging @SHRPO I jam 52k with AQ and get called by equal stack with KQ. K came and I’m down to 4k. Do I even come back?

— Abbey Daniels (@abbeydaniels1) January 17, 2016

$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
Level 16: 1,500/3,000/500 Ante
Players Remaining: 346
Average Stack: 121,500 (41 bb)

Yesterday was a big one as the last flight of the Main Event drew a big crowd to the $1,000,000 Guarantee tournament. Saturday saw 718 entrants get in the game to push the total count to 1,684 for the showcase event.

They created a prize pool to easily surpass the guarantee and put $1,633,480 out there for grabs. After 15 levels, there were 346 players still around to put chips in a bag and they are getting ready to kick off Day 2.

Kelly Minkin is the only final table member still around from last year’s Championship final table. Not only is she still in the game, she’s sporting a top 20 stack. Some other big stack names include John Dolan, Matt Affleck, Ryan D’Angelo, Ory Hen, and Sean Shah.

Viktor Lavi leads the way with 353,500 but there are plenty of people capable of tracking him down with Edward Mallon only one big blind behind.

The first step is getting the field into the money, sometime between the first and second breaks, then play down to the final table. It will be a long day but they’ll be happy to get that far. The top three players will all earn more than $100,000 with the winner set to take home $344,420.

Players are taking their seats and unbagging their chips before we get underway. Nine people in the room will book their seat to the WPT DeepStacks live-streamed final table tomorrow afternoon.

• Main Event Day 2 Table and Seat Assignments
• Main Event Day 2 Chip Counts
• Main Event Payouts