Event 2 Flight B: Dropping and Climbing

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed
 | Structure
Level 14: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 Ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 45 of 203

Lou Stadler

Flight B is down to five tables in a snap and those 45 players are trying to be among the 25 who advance. That is the 12% number that will trigger an end to the flight.

While some are leaving, SHRP regular Lou Stadler is moving his stack in the right direction. He is over 100,000 as they near the end.

Event 2 Flight B: Registration Closed with 203 Entries

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed
 | Structure
Level 13: 800/1,600 with a 200 Ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 72 of 203

Players are back in their seats after the third break and registration closed on the second of four flights for Event 2. It drew 203 entries to put the combined total up to 450 with two more flight running tomorrow (plus two Event 2 turbo satellites).

They will continue playing until only 12% of the field remaining, that would be 25 players, or they will play out through Level 18.

FlightDay/TimeEntriesAdvanced
AFriday at 11am24728
BUnderway203TBD
CTomorrow at 11amTBDTBD
DTomorrow at 4pmTBDTBD
Day 2 Players—45028

Chip counts from Flight A

Event 2 Flight B: Last Level to Register

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed
 | Structure
Level 12: 600/1,200 with a 200 Ante
Flight B Entries: 201

Flight B is well into Level 12 and players are running out of time to come down to The Pavilion to join more than 200 in this session. We are close to hitting the halfway mark for the $300,000 guaranteed prize pool with two huge flights set for tomorrow at 11am and 4pm.

Event 2 Flight B: Nearing 200 Entries

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed
 | Structure
Level 9: 300/600 with a 100 Ante
Flight B Entries:193

Abbey Daniels

With Flight A all wrapped up, we can fully concentrate on the late flight of the day. The Flight B crew recently returned from their second break of the day and the entry count is moving closer to 200. A few more entries and the tournament will be more than halfway to its $300,000 guaranteed prize pool.

SHRP regular Abbey Daniels is among the late gang at the tables and she’s looking to add to her impressive list of accomplishments. She is just shy of $700,000 in career earnings including a televised fourth-place finish during the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship in 2011 and a WPTRegional win right here on property.

Event 2: Chip Counts Through Flight A

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed
 | Structure
End of Level 16: 2,000/4,000 with a 500 Ante
Players Remaining: 28 of 247

Flight A: 247 Entries; 28 Advanced
Flight B: Underway
Flight C: Saturday at 11am
Flight D: Saturday at 4pm
Day 2: Sunday at noon

RankFirst NameLast NameChip Count
1DennisRodriguez403,500
2HerbertWoodbery364,500
3ZoltanCzinkota325,000
4WalterKent229,000
5JulioFernandez215,000
6UriKadosh184,500
7RonaldLevy177,500
8HaimToorgeman137,000
9NataliyaIakovleva128,500
10PedroPalacio125,000
11MichaelSoroka122,500
12RobertSheets120,000
13ChrisStrammiello117,500
14DuaneDeKeyser108,000
15StevenBennett105,000
16JarrettVaughn89,000
17MarkWiser83,500
18RobertOrtiz81,500
19MichaelTomie80,500
20MichaelLaake79,000
21JacoboFernandez78,000
22AmirBaron74,500
23VeronaMills57,000
24TracyScala55,000
25RobinJacoway49,000
26JesseDelbene42,000
27NizarDajani42,000
28ThaoLe30,500

Event 2 Flight A: Dennis Rodriguez Leads Shortened Session

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed
 | Structure
Level 16: 2,000/4,000 with a 500 Ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 28 of 247

Flight A hit the special number of 28 entries remaining to leave 12% of the starting field. There were less than three minutes left in Level 16 and the remaining players will return on Sunday for Day 2.

Dennis Rodriguez stormed ahead late and will return to a stack worth 403,500. Herbert Woodbery bagged second biggest with 364,500 followed by Zoltan Czinkota with 325,000.

We will post the complete chip count list as soon as it is available.

Event 2 Flight A: Down to Four Tables

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed
 | Structure
Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 Ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 36 of 247

Herbert Woodbery

Flight A is creeping down towards a magic number that might end their day early. The structure says they will play through 18 levels or 12% of the field, whichever comes first. With 247 entries, that 12% number might hit before they reach the end of Level 18.

Herbert Woodbery looks like your current leader with a couple barrels of 5K chips and around 250,000 as Flight A nears the end.

Event 2 Flight A: Tristan Wade Cruising

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed
 | Structure
Level 14: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 Ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 45 of 247

Flight A is shrinking as they inch closer to their end-of-day play and Tristan Wade is making a bid for another deep run in only the second day of the series.

Wade is over 160,000 in the late stages of the day less than 24 hours after he finished 16th in Event 1 for a fine start to the trip.

Event 2 Flight A: Tristan Wade

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed
 | Structure
Level 9: 400/800 with a 100 Ante
Flight A Entries: 244

Tristan Wade

The Flight A entry count is continuing an upward tick and approaching the 250 mark. That puts the tournament well on pace to best the $300,000 guaranteed with a prize pool already in excess of $80,000. Registration is still open for Flight A and three additional flights remain to climb the entries higher.

One player standing above the rest here midway in the opening flight is Tristan Wade. Wade has about 100,000 chips and looks to add to accolades that include a WPTDeepStacks Player of the Year title and more than $1,700,000 in reported earnings.

Event 2 Flight A: Zoltan Czinkota Going Good in Level 9

$400 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed
 | Structure
Level 9: 300/600 with a 100 Ante
Flight A Entries: 240

Zoltan Czinkota

Another Florida regular is making waves here in the Flight A of the WSOP Circuit $400 re-entry. Zoltan Czinkota has been on a hot streak turning his 15,000 chips into about 90,000. That’s good for one of the big stacks and puts Czinkota on pace for a potential bag here in the series opener.

Czinkota has had some good success at Seminole events including a third-place finish in the 2016 Player of the Year race. That title won him entries in various events throughout the following season and he’s been chasing deep runs ever since.