$5,300 Championship NLH $10 Million Guaranteed (Re-Entry)Level 26: Blinds 15k/30k/5k ante 492s19

Mike Leah’s stack has been riding a rollercoaster all day and it’s on the way back up. Leah began the day with 759,000 and is now sitting over 2,000,000.

Moshe Tarich moved all-in for 460,000 with the board reading and Leah called after some consideration. Sergey Rybachenko also had a thought about making a move before folding and showing an Ace. Leah was ahead with and holding one of Tarich’s outs with . The river blanked and Leah moved over average stack size for the first time today.

$5,300 Championship NLH $10 Million Guaranteed (Re-Entry)
Level 26: Blinds 15k/30k/5k ante

Aditya Agarwal has his opponent Keith Wagner all-in, and the cards are turned face up:

Agarwal:
Wagner:

The board brings , and Agarwal makes 2 pair Aces and Jacks to eliminate Wagner in 34th place from the Championship Main Event, good for $39,910.

Craig Morande is also eliminated, by Daniel Colman, and he gets $39,910 as well for 35th place.

$5,300 Championship NLH $10 Million Guaranteed (Re-Entry)
End of Level 25: Blinds 12k/24k/4k ante

Players are off on their second break of the day with 35 players remaining and the structure set to stop play when we hit 18 players.

Three big stacks keep moving higher as John Dolan (3,400,000), Shawn Cunix (3,200,000) and Martin Hanowski (3,100,000) continue to dominate.

With the elimination of Joelle Guarino late in the level, Natasha Barbour is now the woman standing in the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open.

$5,300 Championship NLH $10 Million Guaranteed (Re-Entry)
Level 24: Blinds 10k/20k/3k ante

37th place – Serock

We see Joe Serock shove all-in for about 460K. Brian Hawkins shoves over the top and the remaining player folds.

Serock:
Hawkins:

The board rolls out and Hawkins gets his pair of Queens right in the window to eliminate Serock out in 37th place out of the tournament, good for $34,921

35 players are left after Hans Winzeler was just eliminated 36th ($39,910), and we’re down to 4 tables.

Players are now on a 15 minute break.

$5,300 Championship NLH $10 Million Guaranteed (Re-Entry)
Level 25: Blinds 12k/24k/4k ante

Doug Polk was relaxed all day at the table, talking his way through play while getting a massage. He dropped beneath 500,000 and open-shoved for 447,000 from under the gun. Action folded around to Jared Jaffee in the big blind and he joked, “I wonder if it’s worth a chip dump” before looking at his cards.

Jaffee called but was behind with against . The dealer kept it clean on the flop but Jaffee added a flush draw to his overcard with the turn. It was the river to end the high-roller’s day in the Championship.

$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

Level 1:  Blinds 25/50

Bounty hunters are on the felt today hunting for Purple Chips worth $500 for each player they eliminate from the tournament.

Players began with 12,000 tournament chips and levels are  60 minutes long.

Late registration and re-entry are available until the start of level 5 (about 7:30pm).

They will play until about 3am, then bag up for the night.  Day 2 is set for 3pm Tuesday.

Let the bounty hunting begin!

$5,300 Championship NLH $10 Million Guaranteed (Re-Entry)
Level 25: Blinds 12k/24k/4k ante

The pace has slowed down since the elimination of James Collopy.

Shawn Cunix knocked out Jonathan Kamhazi Aghai when his Jacks were good on a Nine-high board to John Dolan and Martin Hanowski in the 3,000,000 chip club. Just 40 remain midway through the second level of the day.

$5,300 Championship NLH $10 Million Guaranteed (Re-Entry)
Level 24: Blinds 12k/24k/4k ante

James Collopy began Day 3 in the middle of the pack but was gone shortly after the second level of the day.

Collopy was all-in racing with against Ty Reiman’s and fell behind immediately on the flop. No help on the turn or river to send the 2013 WSOP APAC bracelet winner out in 43rd while Reiman moved over 750,000.

$100,000 Super High Roller Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
Level 1:  Blinds 200/400

There are currently seven players in the the Super High Roller with Ryan Fee and Jason Mo expected shortly.

Seat 1: Jason Mercier
Seat 2: Empty
Seat 3: Mark Fisher
Seat 4: Dan Smith
Seat 5: Josh Arieh
Seat 6: Daniel Perper
Seat 7: Scott Seiver
Seat 8: Jacob Schindler

Hopped in this 100k tourney @SHRPO 7 players so far but should get some stragglers soon. What better way to spend Labor Day than a 100k?

— Jason Mercier (@JasonMercier) September 1, 2014