$1,700 Pinktober Championship (Re-Entry)
$400,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8:  600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Day 1A Entries:  139

Blinds are up and we added a few more entries to the count, a great turnout on a Friday afternoon.

A few more familiar faces in today’s crown include Clyde Maliauka, Mike Dentale, Jose Reyes, Hal Rotholz, David Tuthill, and John Dolan.

$1,700 Pinktober Championship (Re-Entry)
$400,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Day 1A Entries:  135

Players returned to their seats after the second break, and we have a new leader. Fallon Weidner is playing the biggest stack in the room with her 192,000 easily the tops after six levels. Mike Hernandez is the closest with 153,000 and another handful right behind in the 100K range.

Flight A players will work through three more levels before going on a 60-minute dinner break.

$1,700 Pinktober Championship (Re-Entry)
$400,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Day 1A Entries:  130

Players are ready to take the second break of the afternoon with 130 entries putting the field nearly halfway to the $400,000 guarantee with registration open until 6:30 pm tomorrow evening.

$1,700 Pinktober Championship (Re-Entry)
$400,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Day 1A Entries:  117

Event 9 had a talented final table last night with seven tough players closing out the $2,200. We mentioned James Calderaro and Ken Fishman earlier, now we have four of the others sitting at one table.

Asif Mohammed (fourth place), Matias Chervin (fifth place), and Ryan Hogan (seventh place) are all seats next to each other and Michael Jagroo (sixth place) is sitting on the other end of the table.

$1,700 Pinktober Championship (Re-Entry)
$400,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5:  300/600 with a 600 ante
Day 1A Entries:  113

We mentioned Barbara Cardin earlier, one of our earlier PPO champs, and we found two more in the field.

Igor Tretyakov won the $1,100 buy-in Event 2 title to start the series and James Calderaro won the $2,200 late last night; both won their seats in today’s field as an added part of their prize.

Ken Fishman has also been booking some late nights but twice fell one spot short of the title after finishing runner-up to Tretyakov and Calderaro.

$1,700 Pinktober Championship (Re-Entry)
$400,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4:  300/500 with a 500 ante
Day 1A Entries:  97

Championship players returned to their seats and we picked up a few more entries during the break. They are very close to putting $150,000 into the prize pool already and a lot of time to go.

With the deep, slow structure, there weren’t a lot of huge stacks in the room yet but Patrick Lovely is up there. He sits with 91,200 for the early lead with David Meagher not far behind with 86,900. Ryan Luker is sitting nicely as well with 77,300 and Terri-Anne Crawford is comfy with 67,700.

$1,700 Pinktober Championship (Re-Entry)
$400,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3:  200/400 with a 400 ante
Day 1A Entries:  89

Three levels down in the Championship and players were sent on a 15-minute break. There’s still plenty of time to join the fun with late registration available until 6:30 pm.

$1,700 Pinktober Championship (Re-Entry)
$400,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3:  200/400 with a 400 ante
Day 1A Entries:  87

Flight A is cruising right along with 87 entries and the first break coming up. The first break is coming up and the tournament already has $130K towards the $400,000 guarantee and it’s looking good.

The Championship is bringing out old friends to the Poker Room and new friends as well. Steve Trizis is no stranger to grinding here and he’s our defending champion. Fallon Weidner traveled from Kansas just for the series and here in early action this afternoon.

$1,700 Pinktober Championship (Re-Entry)
$400,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2:  200/300 with a 300 ante
Day 1A Entries:  72

We have a great turnout to start the day with 72 entries already playing and many more expected before we close registration at 6:30 pm.

A few familiar faces in early action include Jeremy Becker, Karl Manouchakian, Wagner Wysotchanski, Mitch Mitchell, Bryce McVay, Kevin Blewitt, Kevin Ragusa, and Ryan Luker.

$1,700 Pinktober Championship (Re-Entry)
$400,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1:  100/200 with a 200 ante
Day 1A Entries:  54

We have a handful of players in today’s game that are running on a freeroll thanks to success earlier in the series. Barbara Cardin was the first to get one of those seats when she won the special Ladies Meet Up tournament at the start of the series. She won the tournament for $3,149 and booked a $1,700 seat in today’s flight.

Good luck Barbara!