$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Level 13: Blinds 1,200/2,400/300 ante
57 players remaining, 92k (38 bb)

The Seminole Hard Rock, Hard Play of the Day, is a no brainer after seeing the top three chip stacks all on Table 2.

Joel Schmidt (St. Augustine, FL) is the new chip leader with 304k, while former chip leader Mike Goodwin (211k) is on Schmidt’s direct left. Also on the table is Christopher Forist who has 194k, third overall.

The entire table has 1.1 million of the 5.23 million in play (21%), making this a hard place to play.

Hard Rock, Hard Play of the Day – Table 2

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

End of Level 12: Blinds  1k/2k/300 ante
63 players remaining, 83k avg (41 bb)

Players are back from their last break of the night and have two levels (60 minutes) before bagging and tagging.

Chip Leaders

Joel Schmidt 304k
Mike Goodwin 211k
Christopher Forist 194k
Jean Cacomanolis 193k
Joseph Abdo 163k
Michael Lydon 136k
Derek Chambers 134k
John Papas 130k
Anthony Lee 128k
Mark Lowe 126k
Lana Nester 121k

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Level 11: Blinds 800/1,600/200 ante
90 players remaining, 58k avg (36 bb)

We didn’t see the action, but when we get to Table 5 we see the pot heading towards Lana Nester (Tampa, FL) who flops a set of Jacks on a board of .

Nester gets a triple-up to 51k while one of her opponents takes a hit while holding AK.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Level 10: Blinds 600/1,200/200 ante
103 players remaining, 51k avg (42 bb)

Big Stacks

Michael Goodwin 161k
Jean Cacomanolis 121k
Derek Chambers 119k
Joel Schmidt 111k
Christopher Forist 109k
Gediminas Garmus 104k
Michael Dittas 98k
Brian Arbaugh 98k

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

End of Level 9: Blinds  500/1k/100 ante
117 players remaining, 45k avg (45 bb)

While players are on their third of four breaks of the night, the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa poker staff remove the green chips from the tournament.

The group is a well oiled machine that keeps the tournament running smoothly.

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Level 8: Blinds 400/800/75 ante
145 players remaining, 36k avg (45 bb)

After taking the chip lead, Michael Goodwin (Indian Trail, NC) says, “not now, it’s early. I haven’t done anything yet, if I make it to tomorrow we’ll talk.”

Goodwin is part of a 90k pot on the last hand before the previous break where Patrick Hoben (Palm Harbor, FL) makes a crying call because of a bloated pot.

On a board of Goodwin bets 19,075 (with 5k behind) and Hoben is in the tank. “Do you have the Queen,” he asks.

A third player was all in on the turn which pushed the pot to 50k and with another 19k on top, Hoben feels he has to make the crying call.

Goodwin flips over for trip Queens and lets out a single celebratory clap when Hoben flashes into the muck.

Goodwin takes the chip lead with 94k, while Hoben is left with a healthy 51k stack. Hoben also earns a Hard Rock, Hard Play of the Day nomination for his hard fold.

Hard Rock, Hard Play of the Day Nominee

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Level 7: Blinds 300/600/75 ante
Entries: 209

Registration closes with 209 entries in Flight F  and puts the six flight total at 1,155.

The total is unofficial as the cage verifies the numbers.

Big Stacks

Mike Goodwin 94k
Christopher Forist 91k
James Brown 86k
Junior Gay 80k
Jeffrey Trudeau 77k
Jonathan Haynes 72k
Joseph Crogan 67k

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Level 6: Blinds 200/400/50 ante
Entries: 193

Short stacks are getting itchy as this is the last level to late register and re-enter the event.

Once the break following this level concludes there will be no more entry into the $300,000 Guaranteed opening event of the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Summer Poker Open.

Registration closes just after 10:30 pm

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Level 5: Blinds 150/300/25 ante
Entries: 188

Twitter is starting to buzz with the announcement of the June High Hand Promotion where 80 Championship Event seats will be handed out in the Poker Room.

Plus, players are taking notice that the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Summer Poker Open is off to a great start and are using #summerpokeropen

Impressed with tampa hard rocks new poker set up and blogs all looking great loved the table felt and Org looking great #summerpokeropen

— PokerLifeGear (@pokerlifestkr) May 31, 2014

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Like @pokerlifestkr; I'm also impressed w/ the improvements @SHRTPoker; The new tournament chips, tables, fresh location, all are very nice

— BoldaChips (@BoldaChips) June 1, 2014

— Jeff Metajan (@JMetajanPoker) June 1, 2014

Like @pokerlifestkr; I'm also impressed w/ the improvements @SHRTPoker; The new tournament chips, tables, fresh location, all are very nice

— BoldaChips (@BoldaChips) June 1, 2014

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— EC (@MiamiErikC) June 1, 2014

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Level 4: Blinds 100/200
Entries: 172

Coming back from the first break of the day Gediminas Garmus (St. Petersburg, FL) is the chip leader.

Big Stacks

Gediminas Garmus 77k
Thang Nguyen 69k
David Farber 62k
Jordan Holt 62k
Michael Pittas 65k
Jin Chen 59k
Sheldon Persad 51k
John Pappas 48k
Martin Zmani 47k