Event 1 Day 1B – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6: 150/300 with a 25 ante
Flight B Entries: 136

With the WSOP Circuit in town, we expect to see a lot of their regular faces mixing it up with our local gang of grinders. They have a very dedicated group of players on their circuit and Vinny Moscati is one of the more successful.

Moscati owns six WSOP Circuit rings, good enough to put him a tie for tenth place overall with SHRP regular John Holley. He’s earned rings in Las Vegas, San Diego, Baltimore, and Tunica and now he’s looking to pick up his first in Florida.

Event 1 Day 1B – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 100/200 with a 25 ante
Flight B Entries: 130

Players returned from their break and everyone in Flight B is chasing SHR poker regular Qasem Jamhour. He pushed his 12,000 starting stack up to 68,000 in the first two hours and returns to a very nice 340 big blinds at this point.

Top stacks:
Qasem Jamhour – 68,000 (340 bb)
Carey Pickus – 53,150 (266 bb)
Andrew Blake – 46,200 (231 bb)
Ivan Suarez – 44,700 (224 bb)
Gabriel Marsh – 37,000 (185 bb)
Gregory Spinder – 35,000 (175 bb)
Shaundra Seay – 30,000 (150 bb)

Event 1 Day 1B – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4: 100/200
Flight B Entries: 120

Flight B players are ready to head off on their first break of the day with 120 entries in the mix and more expected with two and a half hours remaining in registration.

Event 1 Day 1A – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Returning to Level 15: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Players Remaining: 19 of 160

Flight A: 160 Entries, 19 Advanced
Flight B: In Progress
Flight C: Friday at 11am
Flight D: Friday at 6pm
Flight E: Saturday at 11am
Flight F: Saturday at 6pm
Day 2: Sunday at 1pm

Event 1 Day 1B – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2: 50/100
Flight B Entries: 90

Flight B is on the verge of pushing over triple digits and we’re seeing even more big names hit the felt. We’re on a pace to top the morning flight and push closer to the $500,000 guaranteed prize pool.

Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Sheddy Siddiqui jumped into the action near the start and grinding his way in our first WSOPC event. Most of his WSOP work is done during the main series in Las Vegas and he’s seeking his fourth career Circuit cash. Siddiqui’s biggest career score came two summer’s ago when he finished fifth out of 7,275 players in the Millionaire Maker for $333,000.

Event 1 Day 1A – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 15: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 19/160

With just over 25 minutes left in Flight A, the field narrowed to 19 remaining hitting the tournament’s 12-percent hard stop. Tournament staff stopped the clock, brought out the bags and players are now in the midst of the end-of-night processes.

Out in front of the first flight is Max Campbell with a stack of roughly 250,000. Complete Flight A chip counts will be posted within the hour.

Event 1 Day 1B – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2: 50/100
Flight B Entries: 82

Flight B kicked off right on the nose of 6 pm and we have a nice, tough crowd in early action including three-time WSOP bracelet winner Brian Hastings.

He owns his three WSOP titles in three different games, only one of which was in a No Limit Hold’em variation. Hastings won his first in 2012 by conquering the $10,000 Heads Up No Limit Hold’em event and he followed that up with two bracelets in 2015. One of those was a $10,000 Seven-Card Stud win and the other in $1,500 Ten-Game Mix.

Event 1 Day 1A – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 13: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 22/160

In a raised pot, there was heads-up action between Fredrik Wannius and Alan Saltzman on a board of . Saltzman was first to act and shoved having Wannius covered. Wannius called off his last 71,800 and the hands were up.

Wannius: for top pair
Saltzman: for a pair of sixes

Turn and River:

Wannius’ pair improved to trips and he earned the full double. The hand grew Wannius’ stack to better than 150,000 with just a few minutes left in the day.

Event 1 Day 1B – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 25/50

The kickoff event of the WSOP Circuit series got off to a great start this morning and closed down registration with 160 entries in the opening flight. That’s a fine way to get things going and we expect another nice crowd this evening for the second flight.

Event 1 is the first multi-day event on the schedule and this is the second of six flights in the $580 buy-in tournament. It has a $500,000 gauranteed prize pool attached and we’re on pace to clear that number this weekend.

Each player sits down to a  12,000 starting stack and levels that last 30 minutes for all starting flights. Late registration is open until the start of Level 9 at 10:30 pm with unlimited re-entries during that time. Play is scheduled to continue through 15 full levels with survivors bagging up their chips for a Day 2 return on Sunday.

Players are taking their seats and cards will fly at the top of the hour and move us closer to the big numbers.

• $500,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 12,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
• Day 1 will end after Level 15 or Tournament Director discretion
• Event 1 Structure Sheet

Event 1 Day 1A – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 13: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 28/160

The day’s final break wrapped moments ago and Julio Ruiz is king of the hill. Ruiz has hefty holdings of 156,000 chips with just three levels remaining in the night.

Here’s a look at some of the other stacks hovering around 100,000:

• Julio Ruiz – 156,000
• Gregory Barba – 140,000
• Maxwell Campbell – 120,000
• Alan Saltzman – 108,000
• Stuart Krasney – 95,000
• Raymond Nalbandian – 95,000