$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
The remaining 27 players redraw for new seats. Three of the top five stacks Stuart Prieto, Osama Ismail and James Brinkley were all on Table 4 which has now out of play.
Blinds 5k/10k/1k ante
27 Players Remaining, 224k avg (22 bb)
Big Stacks
Grant Missonis 612k
Randy Coffman 426k
Stuart Prieto 396k
Osama Ismail 371k
James Brinkley 331k
Thomas Osmum 305k
John Scarsdale 270k
Adam Santos 253k
$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Blinds 5k/10k/1k ante
27 Players Remaining, 224k avg (22 bb)
Earning $302
Place-Name
28 Vi Ly
29 Juan Martell-Salinas
30 Nicholas Carter
32 Jason Henrikson
32 Shannon McPherson
33 Thomas Tomaski
34 Karen Jung
35 Vincent Lodrini
36 Travis Jackson
Earning $272
Place-Name
37 Maleta Brown
38 Victor Lopez
39 Ronald Hollis
40 Jean Miccio
41 Jacob Naumann
42 Gustavo Moscon
43 John Pappas
44 Brandon Peterson
45 Stephanie Behanic
Earning $241
Place-Name
46 Avika Pearlman
47 Robert Hanley
48 Vernie Cravey
49 Joseph Cox
50 Brenda Lane-Worley
51 Anthony Newman
52 Robert Thies
53 Kelvin Perez
54 John Simcox
46-54: $241
$3,500 Championship No Limit Hold’em
Blinds 250/500/50 ante
Entries: 152
Players are back from dinner break and the cage closes with 152 entries.
The field will play four more levels with bag and tag set for just before midnight.
The next chance to take a seat in the $1 Million Guaranteed Championship is 12 pm Friday.
$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Blinds 3k/6k/500 ante
35 Players Remaining, 172k avg (29 bb)
They’re calling it the hand of the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Poker Open as four players are all in preflop. We’re calling it the Hard Rock, Hard Play of the Day.
Joshua Tucker: Q3
Jerry Argento: AA
Stephen McPherson: KK
Victor Lopez: QQ
The best hands are good until the turn 
and river give Tucker the winner with trip 3s.
Tucker quadruples 48k as the short stack and takes the main pot. Argento wins the side pot and knocks out Lopez in 38th place.
Argento breaks even in the deal, while McPherson is left nursing a short stack.
Terri Crawford 3-bet preflop before all the all-in action and was forced to fold.
Seminole Hard Rock, Hard Play of the Day – Q3
$3,500 Championship No Limit Hold’em
Dinner Break, Next Blinds: Blinds 250/500/50 ante
Play Resumes: 7:38 pm
Entries: 151
$3,500 Championship No Limit Hold’em
Dinner Break, Next Blinds: Blinds 250/500/50 ante
Play Resumes: 7:38 pm
Entries: 151
Big Stacks
Barry Wiedemann 186k
Nigel Murray 156k
Jim Dowda 120k
Vincent Fiorenza 118k
Ian O’Hara 117k
Ray Prieto 101k
Timothy Miles 94k
Joe Squires 92k
Paul Stanechewski 82k
$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Blinds 2,500/5k/500 ante
48 Players Remaining, 126 avg (25 bb)
Chip Leaders
Terri Crawford 290k (58 bb)
Adam Santos 250k
Thomas Osmun 277k
Matthew Donald 230k
Paul Disciullo 173k
Stuart Prieto 171k
$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Blinds 2k/4k/400 ante
54 Players Remaining, 112k avg (28 bb)
After just a few deals of hand-for-hand play, 54 players are in the money.
Look for a steady stream of bustouts over the next few levels.
$3,500 Championship No Limit Hold’em
Level 6: Blinds 150/300/25 ante
Entries: 151
Level 6 is underway, giving players two more hours to register as the cage is open until the conclusion of the dinner break at ~7:35 pm.
After tonight there are still two more days to enter the $1 Million Guaranteed Championship.
Flight 1B: 12 pm Friday
Flight 1C: 12 pm Saturday
Day 2: 12 pm Sunday, June 15
Day 3: 12 pm Monday, June 16
Day 4: 12 pm Tuesday, June 17
Day 5: 12 pm Wednesday, June 18
$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Blinds 1,200/2,400/300 ante
72 Players Remaining, 84k average (35 bb)
Players are back in action looking to win the next trophy here at the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Summer Poker Open.
We’re just 18 spots from the money as the top 54 earn a min cash of $241 and first place taking home $15,026. Not too bad for a $150 buy-in.