$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 6 : Blinds 200/400/50 ante
These players had more than doubled their starting stacks by the first break:
David Jackson 100,300
J Toutol 97,800
Jonathan Ouijian 86,025
Gregg Jaffy 73,100
Alexis Sterner 68,700
N Ruiz 66,775
Anthony Cesare 62,875
Thong Tran 62,275
Shimon Buhadana 62,075
Francis Margaglione 60,300
Frank von Matt 60,225
$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5 : Blinds 150/300/25 ante
Players are back from break and the chips are chirping again.
The twitter world is buzzing about stacks bagged during Flight A. A complete list will be posted when available, but here are some “chip chirps”:
Bagged 226k on one bullet of Hard Rock $1m and even bluffed a guy off a set! #HSH Time for some Tap42 with @kingbrody!
— Brian Hastings (@brianchastings) August 21, 2014
Bagged 51,500 chips for day 2 in the @shrpo 1 Million guarantee. #1 bullet
— Greg M (@Gregm305) August 22, 2014
Bagged 115k. #SHRPO 560. #onebulletwonder
— Herbert woodbery (@HWoodbery) August 22, 2014
Bagged 133k in this @shrpo 1M gt comeback Sunday to 4k bb. #5StarGeneral
— Cord Garcia (@CordGarcia) August 21, 2014
Bagged 197K on first bullet of @shrpo Milly coming back to 4KBB. Will be significantly above average stack for restart.
— EC (@MiamiErikC) August 21, 2014
$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
End of Level 4: Blinds 100/200
Four levels are done and the players are filing out of the Ballroom on their first break of the flight. There are 263 entries in this flight already with two more levels for late registration and re-entry.
Rex Clinkscales was one of the players to see an early exit. On the river with a board of K 5 4 8 9 three players were all-in. Rex had K8 suited for two pair. Another unfortunate player had 54 suited for two pair as well, but David Jackson (Atlanta, GA) had 76 suited for the turned straight to bust them both.
David, who has already booked his $5,300 seat in the $10 Million Guaranteed Championship via a $575 satellite, chipped up to ~65k.
$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 4: Blinds 100/200
We have a WSOP Main Event Champion in Flight B today. Greg ‘Fossilman’ Raymer is playing this flight and sharing the felt with Matt Stout and local regular Joe Williams.
$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
More of the faces in Flight A, some of whom survived the day and some of whom did not.
$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 15: Blinds 1.5k/3k/500 ante
Flight 1A has come to a close in Event 8 at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open and 99 players have advanced from the 377 that entered. The far and away chip leader for the flight is Brian Hawkins (pictured above), who stacked up 451,500, and he takes home the $1,000 chip leader bonus for the flight.
Here is a look at the chip leaders and notable stacks from the bag and tag. Action is now running for Flight 1B in this event on the other side of the tournament room and you can stay tuned for updates from that flight throughout the evening.
Flight 1A Notable Chip Counts
Brian Hawkins – 451,500
David Freece – 260,500
Tae Ho Lee – 246,000
Brian Hastings – 226,000
Greg Levine – 225,000
Ronald Katz – 199,500
Erik Christensen – 197,000
Robert Hancock – 196,000
Rogelio Padilla – 195,000
Philip Voerner – 181,500
Sean Posner – 138,500
Michael Johnson – 77,000
Dimas Martinez – 54,000
$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 15: Blinds 1,500/3,000/500 ante
Wendy Freedman got her last chips in holding pocket 2s and was called by a player holding AK. It was a classic race situation.
The board fell J 5 4 Q 8 and was a good runout for Wendy. She doubled up to about 100k near the end of the night.
$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 15: Blinds 1.5k/3k/500 ante
The cutoff was all in preflop and Brian Hawkins had him covered on the big blind. The two players then flipped over their cards.
Hawkins: 
Cutoff: 
Board: 
The cutoff was eliminated on the hand and Hawkins grew his stack to 250,000. He is now among the chip leaders in the tournament.
$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 1: Blinds 25/50
The second of six starting flights has just begun here at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open. This event carries a $1 Million Guarantee on the total prize pool, so the players will be coming out in droves over the next two days.
Players began with 25,000 chips and all levels are 30 minutes long today. They’ll play 15 levels, then bag up for the night.
Late registration and re-entry are available until the start of Level 7 (about 10:15pm). Anyone bagging chips at the end of the flight will return at 1pm on Sunday for Day 2.
Cards are in the air!
$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 14: Blinds 1.2k/2.4k/400 ante
UTG+1 raised to 12,000 preflop and Alan Ramkhalawan reraised all in for 33,800 on the hijack. UTG+1 called and they flipped over their cards.
Alan: 
UTG+1: 
Board: 
Alan doubled up on the hand to survive with 70,000.