$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed
Level 13: 1,500/3,000/400 Ante
Flight F Players Remaining: 50 of 229

Players are back in their seats and we found some big stacks standing out including some SHRP regulars. Joseph Romeo is leading late with Lisa Teebagy and Michael Merisier not far behind.

There’s still plenty of time for player’s to book their seat in tomorrow’s return. More than half the field needs to disappear before action halts for the evening.

Top stacks and notable names:

Joseph Romeo – 193,300 (64 bb)
Lisa Teebagy – 176,400 (59 bb)
Michael Merisier – 172,200 (57 bb)
Michael Grabelslay – 151,400 (50 bb)
Andrew Bennis – 128,000 (43 bb)
Michael Moreno – 118,400 (39 bb)
David Shmuel – 112,500 (38 bb)
Marco Rodriguez – 103,800 (35 bb)
Herbert Woodbery – 90,400 (30 bb)
Debra Dorcy – 65,400 (22 bb)
Howard Mash – 64,900 (22 bb)
Scott Zakheim – 60,900 (20 bb)
Jonathan Hilton – 53,600 (18 bb)
Josh Beckley – 50,700 (17 bb)
John Depersio – 37,000 (12 bb)
Mukul Pahuja – 34,300 (11 bb)

$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed
Level 12: 1,000/2,000/300 Ante
Flight F Players Remaining: 50 of 229

Flight F players are on their third break of the day with 50 remaining and 29 eliminations away from making a little money.

With so many players still in the game, we’ll take another opportunity to scoop out some big stacks in the later stages while they are away.

$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed
Level 11: 800/1,600/200 Ante
Flight F Players Remaining: 72 of 229

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

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

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 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

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.

Full Flight E Counts:

1. Phil Hernz 388,000
2. Michael Mascitelli 258,000
3. Kevin Curran 244,000
4. Eilliott Zaydman 222,500
5. Reggie Bautista 216,500
6. Ethiel Garcia 189,000
7. Lawrence Gradus 185,000
8. Dolphus Powers 183,500
9. Jeff Morrison 166,500
10. Lawrence Kiang 152,500
11. Jeff Charlton 118,500
12. Sue Sanders 99,000
13. Charlemagne Benjamin 75,500
14. Thomas Gregory 57,500
15. Brian Sodre 36,500

$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed
Level 3: 75/150
Flight E Entrants: 132

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.

$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed
Level 14: 2,000/4,000/500 Ante
Flight E Players Remaining: 26 of 159

With just 26 players remaining, Flight E of the Coco Poker Open $350 is down to the final three tables.