$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 7: Blinds 300/600/75 ante
Entries: 114
Flight B registration closes with 114 entries and sets the total through two flights at 290 (Flight A: 176).
Tonight’s field will play through 14 levels with bag and tag at ~3:15 am.
Chip Leaders
Jacob Naumann 106k
Luqman Alghanim 97k
Paul Joiner 83k
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: Blinds 150/300/25 ante
Entries: 106
Jacob Naumann (St. Petersburg, FL) is no stranger to Seminole Hard Rock Poker.
Naumann had back-to-back final tables at the 2013 Seminole Hard Rock Showdown, Hollywood, which included his first career win for $5,000. Tonight he’s off to another good start and is now the chip leader with ~80k.
After Naumann 3-bets to 2,600, he gets one caller and sees original raiser Manny Minaya (Tampa, FL) move all in for ~20k. Naumann tank-calls and after the third player folds is in great shape.
Naumann: 
Minaya: 
The board runs clean for Naumann and sends Minaya to the rail.
“It’s not that good of a call,” said Naumann, who had ~50k to start the hand, “but it’s a rebuy, I’m not folding Ace-King there.”
Minaya, who has $1.3 million in career earnings, takes advantage of the structure and quickly jumps back into the field.
Minaya was part of a chop here in December’s opening event of the Winter Poker Open, good for $11,000. His son Dominick won the event.
Going deep into the archives we found this Tweet as Naumann looks to add to his trophy case:
Trophies are nice 😉 pic.twitter.com/Jety4eSC1f
— Jacob Naumann (@jakenaumann) April 13, 2013
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 4: 100/200
Entries: 101
Players are back from their first break of tonight’s Flight B. Registration is open for three more levels and closes after break number 2 (~10:40 pm).
Chip Leaders
Ricardo Rodriguez 59k
Jacob Naumann 53k
Adam Davis 51k
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
In addition to the 17 Main Events, the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Summer Poker Open features 27 side events.
Event 18 kicked off the satellite schedule and two players have punched their tickets into Event 9.
Doc Kane (Plant City, FL) and Rod Rodrigue (Longwood, FL) outlasted the field and earned the two guaranteed seats into Event 9, the $1,100 NL tournament with a $75,000 Guaranteed prize pool (June 9-10).
The next Satty for the $1k is Friday 3pm, a $135 entry for a shot at two more guaranteed seats.
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
End of Level 14: Blinds 1,400/3,000/400 ante
Flight A Chip Leader Robert Rosetta with 264,000
One huge hand lasted after all the other tables were done. The flop read 
and Richard Hope (sb) checked. Garrett Topping (bb) fired 20k. Adam Agosto called, then Richard jammed for 97,300 straight.
Garrett tanked for a few minutes, then folded. Adam gave it some thought, then called.
Richard had 
and was ahead of Adam’s 
(no pair, just a flush draw).
The last two peeled off 
giving Adam one useless pair. He was busted. (Garrett says he folded the winner.)
Richard chipped up to 261,800 and after folding the last two hands of the night, he bagged 261,000.
The chip leader, however, is Robert Rosetta of Tampa, FL . He bagged 264,000, just 3k more than Richard Hope. Robert will receive an $1,100 seat in Event 9, which takes place on Sunday, June 8th at 2pm.
There were 40 players left out of the 176 entries in this flight. They will return at 1pm Sunday for day 2.
Average stack at the end of this flight was 110k.
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Flight 1A: Bagging & Tagging
Flight 1B: Underway
While players in the 11 am flight are bagging and tagging looking for the end of day big stack, the 7 pm field is underway.
After 8 hours of play the Flight A chip leader is north of 250k, while Flight B is off and running with each player beginning with 25k stacks.
Half the tournament area is glad the grind is over, while the other half comes alive in pursuit of the $300,000 Guaranteed prize pool.
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 14: Blinds 1,400/3,000/400 ante
On a flop of 
, the player in seat 1 was all-in for about 60k. Adam Agosto was in the tank.
After a couple of minutes, Adam made a tough laydown, folding his AJ face up. The player in seat 1 showed him AQ, meaning Adam’s fold was good. He preserved his stack at about 160k heading into the last minutes of the night.
That’s the Hard Rock – Hard Laydown of the Day!
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 14: Blinds 1,400/3,000/400 ante
Wilmar Gil (Tampa, FL) is in the field today, despite a scary situation earlier. His son Brandon was under lockdown at Wharton High School most of the day today when someone reported seeing a gun.
The lockdown was eventually lifted and everyone went home safely. No gun was found but police are still investigating.
Meanwhile here at the Hard Rock, the remaining players are watching the clock as the last level of the day ticks away.
54 players remain. Average stack is 81k.
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 13: Blinds 1,200/2,400/300 ante
The break-time chip counts have revealed a new chip leader. Troy Bercot is up to 198,000.
He’s pulled ahead of Richard Hope, who is second with 172,200.
There’s more at stake here than just having a big stack going into day 2. The chip leader at the end of level 14, when they bag up for the night, gets an $1,100 seat in Event 9.
$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
End of Level 12: Blinds 1,000/2,000/300 ante
Time for the last break of the day. After this break, they’ll play two more levels, then bag their chips for the night.
Shortly before the end of the level, Richard Hope reclaimed the chip lead. Richard was the leader at the first break of the day.
He’s now up to ~177k and leading the remaining 63 players. Average stack is about 70k.
The chip leader at the end of each flight will receive a $1,100 seat in Event 9, which has a $75,000 Guarantee on the prize pool and which begins at 2pm Sunday June 8th.