$1,700 WSOPC Main Event (Single Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  400/800 with an 800 ante
Flight B Entries:  639

A short while later, there is a three-way preflop all-in situation at Table 45, with Dane Cass covering two shorter stacks with about 20-25K each.

Dane Cass:  
UTG:  
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The board came , and Cass flopped quad kings to leave both of his opponents drawing dead. Cass knocked out both players to build his stack up to about 152,000.

Dane Cass  –  152,000  (190 bb)

James Salmon raised UTG+1 to 1,300, Shanmukha Meruga reraised from the button to 4,100, and Salmon moved all in for 32,800.

Meruga tanked for a while before folding face up, and Salmon took the pot.

James Salmon  –  38,900  (49 bb)
Shanmukha Meruga  –  115,000  (144 bb)

$1,700 WSOPC Main Event (Single Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  400/800 with an 800 ante
Flight B Entries:  635

We tracked down two interesting new players in the game, both working on a little something in the Main Event.

David Nathaniel Jr is the current front-runner for the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year award and trying to increase his lead this weekend. He finished tenth in the October Coconut Creek WSOP Circuit Main Event for a nice start to his year then continued it with a win here in the Tampa Pinktober Main Event to take the lead.

On the other end of the table, Thomas Johnson looks like the current chip leader in the Main Event. He’s up to 196,000 as the field gets ready to go on the 60-minute dinner break.

$1,700 WSOPC Main Event (Single Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  400/800 with an 800 ante
Flight B Entries:  625

Stephanie Hubbard raised under the gun to 1,700, Shanmukha Meruga reraised from the small blind to 5,800, and Hubbard reraised to 14,200.

Meruga went into the tank, asking Hubbard how many chips she had behind — there’s about 57,000 remaining in her stack, and Meruga has her covered. Meruga eventually five-bet it to 25,800.

Hubbard thought for a bit before she folded face up, and then Meruga confirmed she made the right decision by showing his . Meruga took the pot.

Shanmukha Meruga  –  120,000  (150 bb)
Stephanie Hubbard  –  57,000  (71 bb)

The field is up to 625 entries here on Day 1B, with registration open until 8:45 pm.

$1,700 WSOPC Main Event (Single Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8:  300/600 with a 600 ante
Flight B Entries:  600

Flight B hit 600 entries with the new level and only a handful away from the next milestone prize pool at $1.6 million.

Al Krux is the latest player to push his stack higher as the WSOP bracelet winner moved up to 110,000 after the break.

For those who like odd numeric coincidences, Tampa regular Cheri Beatty’s seat draw this morning was for Table 66 Seat 6 and now she sits with right around 66,000.

$1,700 WSOPC Main Event (Single Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7:  300/500 with a 500 ante
Flight B Entries:  571

Players are back in their seats with another 30 entries jumping in the game. This is getting big.

A few bigger stacks have emerged with Iman Dan, two-time WPT LHPO Hollywood champ Brian Altman, and 2019 WSOP Main Event final table Zhen Cai all over 100,000.

$1,700 WSOPC Main Event (Single Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6:  200/400 with a 400 ante
Flight B Entries:  541

Flight B is taking their second break of the day a few minutes after the Main Event prize pool crossed over $1.5 million with more than four hours to push it higher.

$1,700 WSOPC Main Event (Single Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6:  200/400 with a 400 ante
Flight B Entries:  512

We have nine WSOP Circuit events in the bag with nine different winners. But some are running better than others and David Tuthill’s first week earned him enough points to put him atop the WSOP Casino Championship Leaderboard.

Tuthill cashed in four of those nine events with a win in the Event 3 Turbo and sixth place final table finish in $1,125 PLO. Those results are good enough for a three-point lead over Event 5 champion Arkadiy Tsinis.

If Tuthill holds onto the top spot, he will earn a seat into the WSOP Global Casino Championship coming up in August.

$1,700 WSOPC Main Event (Single Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5:  200/300 with a 300 ante
Flight B Entries:  493

A few days ago, David Prociak solidified his Seminole Hard Rock Poker credentials when he won his second WSOP Circuit ring at his second SHRP property. He ran over the $1,125 Pot Limit Omaha final table to earn the win and put himself in third place on the Casino Championship leaderboard.

Then he lost a bet on Valentine’s Day.

We don’t know what his bet with Melisa Singh was over but the end result was Prociak was required to wear all of his WSOP bling today; those two WSOP Circuit rings along with his WSOP $1,500 Seven Card Stud 8 bracelet from 2016.

First time ever wearing my bracelet.

— David Prociak (@DavidProciakPok) February 15, 2020

$1,700 WSOPC Main Event (Single Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4:  200/300 with a 300 ante
Flight B Entries:  444

In addition to the great poker this weekend, Seminole Hard Rock Tampa also offers something else to entice visitors. Warm weather with pool and (nearby) beach weather in the month of February.

Those factors have attracted plenty of folks from around the country including a good number of our friends from the frigid, foggy Northeast. Eric Siegel, Renata Colache, and Stephanie Hubbard are a few from the Garden State we found in the field today but they won’t be the last.

$1,700 WSOPC Main Event (Single Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3:  100/200 with a 200 ante
Flight B Entries:  423

The first break is complete and a lot more players joined during that time. The Flight B number sits at 423 in Level 4 to push the prize pool over $1.3 million for the biggest number in Tampa poker history.

While they were gone, we took a walk among the tables and it seems David Moses holds the biggest stack in the room. His 79,500 is best so far but there’s a lot of time remaining in the day.