$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Flight G Entries:  886

Registration closed with 886 entries, officially putting the Event 1 prize pool over the $1,000,000 guarantee. There’s one more flight to go at 5 pm and they will aim to crush that number before they shut the doors on the tournament at 9:30 pm.

Flight G will continue until 89 players remain and survivors will advance to Day 2 tomorrow at 1 pm in the money. Players must bag chips to make the money.

Chip counts through Flight F

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Flight G Entries:  887

Players returned from the second break, and registration closed for the penultimate flight of Event 1. The tournament officially topped the $1,000,000 guarantee over the last few minutes of Level 8 and the break, but not exactly sure by how much yet.

We needed 883 to surpass the guarantee, and we have 887 on the clock. Tournament staff are double-checking the numbers, and we will post the official count when it is available.

But that leaves Flight H with one job; push the prize pool even higher.

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8:  600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Flight G Entries:  820

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Flight G Entries:  713

Another milestone for the tournament as the Flight G field quickly topped 700 after the break, and we’ll tease hitting the $1,000,000 guarantee before the last flight tonight at 5 pm.

More friends in the crowd include Tony March, Johnny Bromberg, Rafael Reis, Nicole Diaz, Nancy Birnbaum, Bryce McVay, Rodney Turvin, and Charlemagne Benjamin.

Bromberg and Reis have some experience winning huge opening events. Both in Hollywood, Reis topped a 5,018-entry field in the opening event of the Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open in 2016 and Bromberg won Event 1 of the recent SHRPO series over 6,253 entrants. Both are two of the biggest fields in state history.

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5:  300/600 with a 600 ante
Flight G Entries:  665

We quickly walked around the empty tables in the Event Center while players were on break and found two stacks above the rest.

Our chip leader looks like Herbert Nairn with 163,000. We cannot confirm that because he has so many chips, he is in no rush to return from break. But he saw him there earlier and think it’s him.

Harmeet Singh is the other big stack we found and he sits in second with 157,800 with a lot of time to go.

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4:  300/500 with a 500 ante
Flight G Entries:  611

Level 4 is about to end and the packed Event Center will be sent on the first break. More than 600 entries so far with late registration and re-entries available until 2:30 pm.

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4:  300/500 with a 500 ante
Flight G Entries:  541

There’s a steady line at the registration desk but the wait is short and the seats are available. There are more than 500 entries at the 90-minute mark of the flight and we have plenty of space to fit more.

More friendly faces in today’s crowd include mother/daughter pair Ok and Jennifer Haselton, Mitch Mitchell, Scott Woodring, and Mansoor Kader.

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2:  200/300 with a 300 ante
Flight G Entries:  405

The entry count climbed over 400 less than half an hour into the day, and the combined field is over 2,500. The $1,000,000 guarantee will be locked up later today; now we wait to see how far it goes over.

Whenever we have a big series, there are friends from across the state who make their way into the Event Center. Michael Newman and Willie Wiggins are here today, and they each have success with our friends in Hollywood.

Michael Newman owns nine major Hollywood titles, second all-time behind only Raminder Singh (who already bagged for tomorrow’s Day 2).

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1:  100/200 with a 200 ante
Flight G Entries:  228

Cards are in the air for Flight G of the Tampa Signature Poker Series opening event, with another 228 at the start. The $400 Deep Stack will reach its $1,000,000 later today, if not during Flight G, for sure in the last flight at 5 pm.

It will be a busy day in the Event Center; get here early and enjoy a day at the tournament tables.

• $1,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 30,000 in chips
• Day 1 levels last 30 minutes; Day 2 levels last 40 minutes
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9 (2:30pm)
• Day 1 will end when 10% of field remains
• Event 1 Structure Sheet

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 17:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  213 of 2,148

Flight A: 248 Entries; 23 Advanced
Flight B: 296 Entries; 30 Advanced
Flight C: 271 Entries; 27 Advanced
Flight D: 331 Entries; 32 Advanced
Flight E: 477 Entries; 48 Advanced
Flight F: 525 Entries; 53 Advanced
Flight G: Saturday at 10 am
Flight H: Saturday at 5 pm
Day 2: Sunday at 1 pm