$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed Level 11: 800/1,600/200 Ante Flight F Players Remaining: 72 of 229
Sean Shah
Players are wasting no time getting their chips mixed up on a Saturday evening. They’ve quickly dropped down to eight tables remaining and it looks like that one might break at any minute.
We’ve seen some friends exit the building but there are still a few around including Josh Beckley, Mukul Pahuja, Damien Simon, and Sean Shah.
Shah is coming off a nice run last week when he finished in sixth place at the Coco Poker Open Championship for $40,500.
$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed Level 9: 500/1,000/100 Ante Flight F Players Remaining: 108 of 229
Registration has officially closed on Event 13 and the tournament drew a combined 769 entrants over the six starting flights. The prize pool will stick at $250,000 with a total of 73 players taking home a piece.
With 229 entries in Flight F, play will continue until 21 remain and they will bag up for a return tomorrow at 1pm for Day 2.
Payout information will be posted as soon as it is released.
$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed Level 8: 400/800/75 Ante Flight F Entrants: 217
Mukul Pahuja
Flight F has reached the last level for players to get down to The Pavilion for a chance at the $250,000 guaranteed prize pool, or for players to re-enter should they go bust.
A few more familiar faces popped up in the crowd including Seminole Hard Rock Poker Team Members Mukul Pahuja and Jessica Dawley.
$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed Level 7: 300/600/75 Ante Flight F Entrants: 207
Rafael Indriago Salazar
Flight F moved over 200 entrants and the count continues to climb at an exponential rate as more players bust, then re-enter. We expect more than a few more players to fire once again.
Rafael Indriago is back in The Pavilion and looking to extend his big lead on the Coco Poker Open Leaderboard. He sits at the top courtesy of a win in Event 4 followed by second and eighth place finishes later in the week.
$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed Level 5: 200/400/50 Ante Flight E Entrants: 195
Josh Beckley
Josh Beckley has been in the coverage often lately but the 2015 WSOP Main Event runner-up hasn’t been able to put a stack in a bag yet this tournament. He’s back tonight and sitting atop the counts after the first break.
Beckley’s 55,450 is a bit better than Michael Merisier’s 54,000 and SHRP Team Member Mukul Pahuja is among the leaders as well.
Josh Beckley – 55,450 (139 bb) Michael Merisier – 54,000 (135 bb) Mukul Pahuja – 49,200 (123 bb) Ivan Martin – 47,800 (120 bb) Yue Wang – 46,800 (117 bb) Jonathan Ounjian – 40,625 (102 bb) Karl Manouchakian – 38,375 (96 bb) Marsha Wolak – 34,525 (86 bb) Yves Fequiere – 34,000 (85 bb) Scott Zakheim – 32,125 (80 bb) Herbert Woodbury – 23,800 (60 bb) Marcus Stein – 16,000 (40 bb) Damien Simon – 12,275 (31 bb)
$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed Level 17: 4,000/8,000/1,000 Ante Flight E Players Remaining: 15 of 159
Phil Hernz
The fifth flight of Event 13 has wrapped up for the evening when they hit 15 players remaining. They got there when Kevin Curran called a short-stack shove from the big blind with . It took his a few minutes to make the decision but it was correct when he saw his opponent’s . The dealer spread to lock up the hand and pause the clock for the night.
Phil Hernz ended the day with the flight lead as well as the overall lead with 388,000. Also advancing were SHRP regulars Charlemagne Benjamin and Elliott Zaydman.
$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed Level 16: 3,000/6,000/1,000 Ante Flight E Players Remaining: 18 of 159
While the final flight continues to build its field higher, Flight E is down to its last two tables. There are only 18 players remaining and they will stop play when they hit 15. Those players will be in the money and bag up their chips for a return tomorrow afternoon.
$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed Level 3: 75/150 Flight E Entrants: 132
James Salmon
The final flight of Event 13 is quickly growing and easily on pace to be our biggest starting group of the tournament. We should hit 150 entrants before the first break and continue to move north.
James Salmon is one of our players back and looking for another SHRP title. He has several titles on Seminole properties but his biggest cash came with a second-place finish in the $350 buy-in tournament during the 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown.