$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Blinds 500/1K Ante 100

90 players remain as Level 10 gets underway. The average stack is 41K (41 big blinds) and now is the time of the night where players will start dropping faster and chip accumulation becomes crucial in order to survive to the end of the night.

Among those who will have to try again tomorrow as a result of being eliminated tonight are Alex Bolotin, Stephen Diamantas, Oktay Altinbas, Chris Bolek, Ian O’Hara, Luis Santoni, and Angelo Miele

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Blinds 400/800 Ante 100

The remaining 99 players are on a 15-minute break while they color up the T25 chips. They’ll play for six more levels after they return or whenever 23 players remain, whichever comes first.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Blinds 300/600 Ante 75

The first flight has managed to bring in quite a few familiar faces. Some of which we’ve already mentioned and a few more that we recently noted including recent World Series of Poker bracelet winner Alex Bolotin. Bolotin has nearly $2.5  million in lifetime tournament earnings.

Joining him on the felt is Oktay Altinbas who recently took 49th in the Hard Rock Poker Open Main Event for $29,933. Many other successful tournament regulars including the likes of Ruslan Dykshteyn, Matt Elsarelli, Matt Elsby, Jarod Ludemann, Ian O’Hara, Evan Teitelbaum, and Scott Zakheim also took part in the action tonight.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Blinds 250/500 Ante 50

Level 7 has just started and there are 126 players remaining out of the original 185 entrants.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Blinds 150/300 Ante 25

Registration has officially closed for the Day 1A and the total number of entrants was 185. The early chip leader is Jay Romano with 97,075. Here’s a quick look at the unofficial top ten:

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Blinds 100/200

With a little more than 15,000 already in the pot and the board showing , Christopher Bolek’s lone opponent in the hand moved all in for 18,450.

Bolek wasted little time in calling prompting an “oh sh**” from his opponent as he figured Bolek had him beat. He was correct in that assumption as Bolek had for flopped trip fours. His opponent held for a flopped flush draw and a turned pair of nines. The river was the to give Bolek’s opponent a flush and double up. Bolek still had chips after the loss – approximately 17,500.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Blinds 100/200

The fourth level has started which is the last level to register or re-enter before registration closes for this flight. There are currently 160 entrants.

Local tournament grinder Chris Bolek is one of those in the field. Bolek has nearly half a million in career tournament earnings and cashed three times at this years World Series of Poker. He also cashed in two events at the recently concluded Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Blinds 75/150

Two more levels to register if you want to get in on the Day 1A action. There are currently 145 entrants.

Recent additions to the tournament include Jason Bartholomew who won the first event at the Lucky Hearts Poker Open here back in January for $81,823 and joining him is the colorful Angelo Miele who took third in that same event for $31,311.