$570 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Re-Entry
Level 17: 2,500/5,000 with a 500 Ante
Players Remaining: 342 of 2,923
Average Stack: 171,000 (34 big blinds)

Mike Dentale had a fast start to his opening flight and bagged up 234,000 for today. The heater continues and we found the east coast grinder with over 750,000 in his stack after 90-minutes of play. That should be good enough for a healthy lead as we continue to track the pre-bubble crowd.

Staying with the east coast theme, WPT World Champion Asher Conniff is also off to a nice start. He returned with 177,000 but more than doubled it before the first break.

Mike Dentale – 757,000 (151 bb)
Asher Conniff – 361,000 (72 bb)

$570 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Re-Entry
Level 16: 2,000/4,000 with a 500 Ante
Players Remaining: 504 of 2,923
Average Stack: 147,000 (37 big blinds)

There’s a quick parade to the rail and less than 400 of the returning 567 are still around with a shot at the title.

Seminole Hard Rock Poker regular Zoltan Czinkota is making a move towards the top of the counts over coming into Day 2 slightly under the chip average. He recently sent another out and was happy to do it with ten-high.

Czinkota had his opponent dominated with against when the chips went in and the was clean for the knockout.

Czinkota is a two-time Seminole Hard Rock Poker champion and a third will look pretty nice in the bank account.

Zoltan Czinkota – 310,000 (78 bb)

$570 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Re-Entry
Level 16: 2,000/4,000 with a 500 Ante
Players Remaining: 504 of 2,923
Average Stack: 116,000 (29 big blinds)

With the huge turnout for Event 9, the restart was expanded outside of the ballroom with some returning to play in the meeting room across the hall. This intimate space is usually reserved for the big high roller events and special tournaments but was put into use today.

They will be the first tables to break and soon the entire field will be in the ballroom. The Event 9 restart and big Event 11 field have combined to utilize every table in the ballroom.

$570 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Re-Entry
Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 Ante
Players Remaining: 531 of 2,923
Average Stack: 110,000 (37 big blinds)

There’s never really a bad time to pick up kings, but Scott Kateian found them on the first hand of the restart. When he was under the gun.

Making it even better for Kateian was seeing a short-stacked Marc Gardner three-bet with his queens. The chips went in the middle and Kateian locked down the hand on the king-high flop.

Marc Gardner – Eliminated
Scott Kateian – 120,000 (40 bb)

$570 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Re-Entry
Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 Ante
Players Remaining: 567 of 2,923
Average Stack: 103,000 (34 big blinds)

Play is underway for the Event 2 restart with Joshua Hood leading the 567-player field.

We expect a quick run of eliminations at the start that will slow as the approach the next break and the money bubble. A number of dealers already called out “seat open” in the first few hands to get things moving.

$570 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Re-Entry
Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 Ante
Players Remaining: 567 of 2,923
Average Stack: 103,000 (34 big blinds)

Event 9 started with a $1 million guaranteed prize pool but that number never stood a chance. We hit the guarantee early in the fifth starting flight, then they piled nearly $500,000 on top of it. The tournament drew 2,923 entrants to create a prize pool worth $1,461,500 and set aside more than $250,000 for the winner.

There are 567 players still alive with a chance to make the money but only 250 of them will take home a piece. Joshua Hood returns as the chip leader but there are plenty of great players trying to chase him down.

Other survivors include WPT World Champion Asher Conniff, reigning Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year Ory Hen, 2007 WSOP Main Event Champion Jerry Yang, and two of the Mizrachi brothers (Rob and The Grinder).

Bags are on the tables, dealers are standing by, and players are beginning to find their seats. Action will be underway shortly and we’ll start looking for our next big champion.

Top ten returning counts:

Joshua Hood – 389,500 (130 bb)
Julian Pineda – 375,500 (125 bb)
Jorie Damiani – 339,000 (113 bb)
Schneer Borenstein – 303,500 (101 bb)
David Battaglia – 301,000 (100 bb)
Aleksandr Shevelev – 290,000 (97 bb)
Nigel Murray – 288,000 (96 bb)
Danny Nguyen – 272,500 (91 bb)
Rich Meyer – 269,000 (90 bb)
Ruslan Dykshteyn – 256,500 (86 bb)

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$570 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Re-Entry

The $1 Million Guarantee Event 9 drew 2,923 entrants through the six starting flights with 567 making it through to Day 2.

$570 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Re-Entry

The $1 Million Guarantee Event 9 drew 2,923 entrants through the six starting flights with 567 making it through to Day 2.

$570 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Re-Entry
Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Flight 1F Entries: 610
Players Remaining: 122

At the completion of 14 levels of play, the 610 players who took their shot in the sixth and final flight of the $570 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Re-Entry has been trimmed down to just 122 and Julian Pineda is leading the field with 375,500 in chips.

Joining him at the top of the 1F counts are Schneer Borenstein, Aleksandr Shevelev and Yaron Genut with 303,500, 290,000 and 254,000 in chips, respectively. Other notables to survive the day include reigning WPT World Champion Asher Conniff, Luke Brereton, Seminole Hard Rock Poker Team Member Jessica Dawley, Michael Dentale, Robert Mizrachi, Safiya Umerova, Abbey Daniels, Ory Hen and Ryan D’Angelo.

When late registration and re-entry closed for 1F, the field size was finalized and the prizepool was calculated. The 610 entries in the final flight made 2,923 entries for the entire field and a prizepool of $1.461 million.

The top 250 finishers will get paid with a min-cash worth $1,228, but first place worth $254,205.

There are 567 players who will come back for Day 2 on Sunday at 1 p.m. The tournament is scheduled to play down to a winner on Sunday, but there is an extra day available to finish it if necessary.

$570 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Re-Entry
Level 12: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Flight 1F Entries: 610
Players Remaining: 144

A player in middle position moved all in for about 35,000 and Robert Mizrachi moved all in for about 70,000 from the hijack. Everybody else got out of the way and the cards were turned on their backs.

Mizrachi showed and had his opponent’s dominated. The board ran out and Mizrachi’s kings hold up to give him the pot and moves over the 100,000 chip mark with about 10 minutes left before the clock is paused and the staff draws for the number of hands left in the day.

Robert Mizrachi – 111,000