$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed
Level 13: 1,500/3,000/400 Ante
Flight E Players Remaining: 29 of 159

Players just returned from what will likely be their final break of the night. The clock shows 29 remaining with action scheduled to play down to the final 15.

Those still among the field include:

Steven McKoy – 132,100
Zoltan Czinkota – 125,800
Reginald Bautista – 110,700
Lawrence Gradus – 81,600
Herbert Woodbery – 65,800
Ethiel Garcia – 57,300
Elliott Zaydman – 47,100
Stuart Greenbaum – 48,700

$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed
Level 1: 25/50
Flight E Players: 47

Event 13 has put five flights in the books and the last one is ready to go. The first five starting runs drew a combined 540 entrants and the tournament needs a nice showing tonight to reach the $250,000 guaranteed prize pool.

This should be the biggest session of the six and we’ll be monitoring the approach to the guarantee.

The $350 buy-in tournament gives each entrant a 16,000 starting stack and they’ll play 30-minute levels throughout the day. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 9 around 10:30pm and they’ll continue to play until only 9% of the field remains. Those players still around will bag up their chips and return tomorrow at 1pm for Day 2.

The tournament is about to get underway and we’ll be tracking until the entire Day 2 roster is set.

$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed
Level 12: 1,000/2,000/300 Ante
Flight E Players Remaining: 37 of 159

Last year’s World Series of Poker Main Event runner up Josh Beckley has been eliminated from Flight E of the Coco Poker Open $350. He late registered during Level 8 and hung around for a few hours without ever getting much going. He was down to his last few thousand chips when he busted about 10 minutes ago.

Beckley made his Coco Poker Open debut during last night’s Flight D and it’s likely we’ll see him again for tonight’s sixth and final starting day.

Josh Beckley – Eliminated

$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed
Level 10: 600/1,200/200 Ante
Flight E Players Remaining: 54 of 159

Never one to shy away from a re-entry, Zoltan Czinkota is a regular on the Seminole Hard Rock Poker felt. He’s based in South Florida, but can often be found at each of the four Seminole properties which host tournament festivals — Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood and Tampa, Seminole Casino Coconut Creek and Seminole Casino Hotel Immokalee. He’s coming off a great year of poker that saw him place 3rd in the 2016 Player of the Year race. Czinkota earned a package worth $12,000 and there’s no doubt he’ll parlay that into some more entries into this year’s events.

While the $350 at the Coco Poker Open isn’t included in that package, it’s no surprise to see Czinkota among the field. He’s not on his first entry, but he’s finding some success nonetheless. He’s turned his most recent buy-in into more than 100,000 chips and is towards the top of the counts midway through Level 10.

Zoltan Czinkota – 115,000

$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed
Level 9: 500/1,000/100 Ante
Flight E Players Remaining: 72 of 159

Level 9 is underway and the registration period is over. Flight E of the Coco Poker Open $350 buy-in, $250,000 guaranteed event marked the largest starting field yet. With 159 entries, the combined field sits at 540. That means tonight’s Flight F needs to draw 294 entries to meet the $250,000 guarantee.

Flight-by-flight breakdown:

Chip Counts through Flight D

The plan for Flight E is to play down to the final 15 before wrapping the action.

$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed
Level 7: 300/600/75 Ante
Flight E Players: 151

Regardless of their finish in Event 13, Leonard St. Germain and Elliott Zaydman have had a successful Coco Poker Open. The pair makes up two of the 12 primary event champions that have been crowned to this point. St. Germain outlasted 56 entries in a $240 Omaha Hi/Low for $2,805 while Zaydman beat 52 in the $350 Heads Up good for $8,000.

Zaydman has the edge over St. Germain (and much of the rest of the field) here in Event 13 with a stack of 45,000. St. Germain, meanwhile, claims just 10,000.

Elliott Zaydman – 45,000
Leonard St. Germain – 10,000

$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed
Level 5: 150/300/25 Ante
Flight E Players: 123

Cards are freshly in the air following the first break of the day and the clock reads a stout field of 123 entries to this point.

Leading the way in the largest flight yet is none other than Marsha Wolak. Wolak kicked off the 2016 Coco Poker Open with a 4th-place finish and $70,000 score in the $2,500 Championship. Her stack here in Flight E sits at just over 81,000 and she’s comfortably in front of the rest of the field.

80k first break @STAX_Poker $350 250k guarantee. Please don’t wake me up! @Epicpokertr @jiffylubeFL #yearofDennis

— Marsha Wolak (@marshawolak) October 1, 2016

Here’s a look at some of the notable stacks:

Marsha Wolak – 81,400
Elliott Zaydman – 22,400
Charlemagne Benjamin – 22,175
Yves Fequire – 21,275
Herbert Woodbery – 16,000
Scott Zakheim – 12,175
Sheddy Siddiqui – 10,500

$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed
Level 4: 100/200
Flight E Players: 108

Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Sheddy Siddiqui took a shot during  yesterday’s 11am and 6pm flights, but busted shy of a Day 2 berth. He’s now in the midst of his third entry and among the early field here in Flight E.

Take 3 @STAX_Poker $250k gty…#SHRPO

— SharpSheddy (@Sheddy88) October 1, 2016

The South Florida pro placed 6th in a Seminole Casino Coconut Creek $350 in April of last year. With a strong field of 1,039 entries, he earned just south of $18,000 for the deep run and final table appearance.

$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed
Level 3: 75/150
Flight E Players: 96

The Event 13 structure sheet follows the “best stack forward” format. That means, players who bag are permitted to play subsequent flights and assume their largest stack on Day 2. Additionally, players who qualify for Day 2 multiple times will earn a min-cash for each time they bag after their first.

Traveling tournament supervisor Shawn Lytle is among those who bagged in an early flight. He’s back today for Flight E and eyes a second bag. After advancing 59,500 chips, he looks to improve his holding but is off to a tough start with just a few thousand chips remaining from 16,000 starting.

$350 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $250,000 Guaranteed
Level 1: 25/50
Flight E Players: 64

With 64 entries toward the end of Level 1, Flight E is way ahead of pace of its predecessors and is sure to mark the largest of the start days to this point. Registration and re-entry are available until about 3:30pm and the entry count is expected to settle somewhere in the 130 range between now and then.