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Event 1: Time Running Out 605s18

Event 1 Day 1F – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 8: 250/500 with a 75 ante Flight F Entries: 390 705h40

Spencer Champlin

There are only 30 minutes remaining for players to get down to the ballroom to be a part of our first huge WSOP Circuit event. The flight sits at 390 entries and it is only a handful away from pushing the $500,000 guaranteed prize pool over $800,000.

Spencer Champlin is back down south and hunting for his third career WSOP Circuit title. Not only does he own two rings, he won both of them a week apart back in February 2016 for a sweet heater. Champlin also picked up a chunk of change a few days ago when he won the Black Chip Bounty event closing out the Borgata Poker Open for more than $11,000.

Champlin does not have an easy table draw to run up his stack. He is bookended by fellow WSOP Circuit winner Steven Karp and TK Miles on each side but his table will be one of the first to break as the field shrinks.

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Event 1: John Utley Eliminated by David Moreno 4w6y6l

Event 1 Day 1F – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8: 250/500 with a 75 ante
Flight F Entries: 368

David Moreno

As SHRP team member Jessica Dawley was getting knocked out on Table 72, two SHRP regulars were mixing it up at Table 71. David Moreno had John Ultey at risk and facing a race to stay away from the re-entry desk.

Moreno: TsTc
Utley: AdQd

Utley needed some help but missed the 6d5h5c flop. The 9h turn was no help and he was sent out after the 7s river.

David Moreno – 31,000 (62 bb)
John Utley – Eliminated

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Event 1: Jessica Dawley Eliminated by AJ Santos a2f4a

Event 1 Day 1F – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7: 200/400 with a 50 ante
Flight F Entries: 350

Jessica Dawley

Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Jessica Dawley had a rough go of it in the earlier flight, losing late when her opponent rivered a gutshot straight, and her luck did not change this evening.

In a three-way pot with Andre Rakusa and AJ “Doc” Santos, she was all in for 9,200 after Santos bet 4,500 on the Qs6s4c flop. Rakusa considered coming along, asked for a specific count, then released his hand. Santos quickly called and Dawley needed to catch.

Santos: AsQd
Dawley: 8s7s

Santos was ahead with top/top but Dawley had 11 outs twice with the flush draw/gutshot draw. The 6d turn was a blank and the 7c river sent her to the rail.

AJ “Doc” Santos – 41,000 (103 bb)
Jessica Dawley – Eliminated

AJ “Doc” Santos
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Event 1: More Rings Enter 492w25

Event 1 Day 1F – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6: 150/300 with a 25 ante
Flight F Entries: 340

Eric Rivkin

We’re used to seeing some pretty talented players in any of our major series with plenty of titles to their name. Add in a WSOP Circuit stop and the talent level goes up a little more.

Eric Rivkin is part of that talent on the WSOPC tour but he’s also a regular down here whenever we run the big events. He won his first WSOP Circuit ring two summers ago in Baltimore, earned his biggest WSOP Circuit cash earlier this year with a High Roller final table in Wisconsin, and had his biggest career score last summer when he made the WPT final table in Choctaw.

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Event 1: Kovalchuck Scores Early 6nn30

Event 1 Day 1F – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 100/200 with a 25 ante
Flight F Entries: 321

Vladimir Kovalchuk

Flight F players returned to their seats with no one running away with the chip lead in the early levels. Vladimir Kovalchuk sits atop the leaderboard with 47,000 with Roberto Alberro in second with 41,000.

There are plenty of tough players remaining and more coming in every minute. So it’s unlikely the leaderboard will look the same in two hours at the next break.

Top ten stacks:

  1. Vladimir Kovalchuk – 47,000 (235 bb)
  2. Roberto Alberro – 41,000 (205 bb)
  3. Mahendran Ramanathan – 40,000 (200 bb)
  4. Tyree Johnson – 38,000 (190 bb)
  5. Qasem Jamhour – 35,900 (180 bb)
  6. Myles German – 34,700 (174 bb)
  7. Robyn Marshman – 30,700 (154 bb)
  8. Melody Murphy – 30,000 (150 bb)
  9. Ido Ashkenazi – 28,550 (143 bb)
  10. David Moreno – 26,375 (132 bb)

Random notables:

Jason Gooch – 23,100 (116 bb)
Spencer Champlin – 22,025 (110 bb)
Dylan Drazen – 21,800 (109 bb)
Paul Balzano – 20,000 (100 bb)
Perry Shiao – 17,600 (88 bb)
Jessica Dawley – 16,900 (85 bb)
Paula Barros – 14,825 (74 bb)
Joel Harwood – 13,800 (69 bb)
Charlemagne Benjamin – 12,000 (60 bb)
Manny Minaya – 8,700 (44 bb)
Kurt Jewell – 7,000 (35 bb)

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Event 1: First Breather 451e40

Event 1 Day 1F – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4: 100/200
Flight F Entries: 288

Final flight players are heading off on their first break of the day with a healthy 288 entries in the game and more expect with 180 minutes left to registration the big event.

We’ll take a walk around the empty ballroom to check for the early big stacks.

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Event 1: Chip Counts Through Flight E g5g5r

$580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Returning to Level 15: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Players Remaining: 160 of 1,202

Flight A: 160 Entries, 19 Advanced
Flight B: 144 Entries, 18 Advanced
Flight C: 232 Entries, 29 Advanced
Flight D: 268 Entries, 36 Advanced
Flight E: 398 Entries, 58 Advanced
Flight F: Late registration till 10:30pm
Day 2: Sunday at 1pm

Rank First Name Last Name Chip Count Table Seat
1 Luiz De Farias Guimaraes 319,600 77 1
2 Vytautas Semaska 247,200 79 8
3 Maxwell Campbell 244,800 62 9
4 AJ Gambino 232,100 69 2
5 Nathan Pitts 206,700 62 5
6 Joseph Gotlieb 199,900 55 6
7 Cameron Glendenning 194,300 78 2
8 Stephen Brown 180,100 77 3
9 Stephen Allen 180,000 60 5
10 Erik Cajelais 177,000 62 1
11 Stuart Krasney 173,000 71 4
12 Ethiel Garcia 169,500 72 6
13 Nicholas Suarez 165,000 72 5
14 John D'Alessio 160,400 54 5
15 Fredrik Wannius 158,300 53 9
16 Michael Curtis 156,100 56 5
17 Russell Sullivan 151,000 70 3
18 Wes Lasher 150,100 79 1
19 Michael LaRocca 150,000 72 9
20 Christopher Blanco 145,500 55 7
21 Yue Wang 145,000 60 6
22 Howard Becks 142,900 52 9
23 Jose Delacruz 142,400 47 7
24 Mario Hudson 141,400 53 2
25 Francis Margaglione 140,300 79 2
26 Vitor Coelho 138,000 47 8
27 Bruce Snell 136,600 52 4
28 Nagui Yassa 136,300 72 7
29 Mauricio Ameller 135,700 56 1
30 Abbey Daniels 135,300 76 5
31 Chris Brown 134,000 76 9
32 Dmitry Savelyev 133,000 53 1
33 Song Kun 131,600 62 3
34 Don Iyenuar 131,500 71 8
35 Tony Ruberto 131,400 69 6
36 Robert Transue 130,300 47 6
37 Chad Freedman 130,000 53 5
38 Giuseppe Ruvolo 128,800 75 9
39 Kevin Scarola 128,500 48 7
40 Ryan Miller 126,900 45 9
41 Ruslan Dykshteyn 126,000 62 6
42 Harry D Johnson IV 125,800 70 6
43 Lester Trimino 125,200 72 8
44 Julio Ruiz 124,200 45 5
45 Elizabeth Rainer 124,000 71 1
46 Rob Tannenbaum 123,900 75 6
47 Gil Aboodi 122,000 63 2
48 Sean Perry 121,200 48 3
49 David Gelley 119,600 76 4
50 Hagai Stein 119,300 54 2
51 Steven Kasimov 117,400 46 5
52 Jack Shen 116,300 55 8
53 Daren Stabinski 113,100 70 9
54 Hyndi Khomutetsky 112,700 77 7
55 John Brown 112,300 46 8
56 Stewart Newman 110,500 78 5
57 Vigorn Dancharnjitt 106,300 77 9
58 Mark Ellerbe 105,400 56 2
59 Michael Goldfarb 105,000 68 6
60 Shaundra Seay 104,500 77 2
61 David Plotkin 103,100 54 3
62 Michael Gomez-Cortes 103,000 70 1
63 Audrius Stakelis 102,700 46 4
64 Wendy Lu 102,700 79 4
65 Bruce Kahn 100,200 72 4
66 Chris Perkins 97,700 70 8
67 Phil Rigby 96,200 63 4
68 Ory Hen 94,700 47 4
69 Julian Altieri 91,900 78 1
70 Krzysztof Stybaniewicz 91,200 61 1
71 Teddy Conner 90,400 64 6
72 Greg Barba 90,000 63 1
73 Luis Torres 90,000 55 9
74 Andras Morales 88,600 77 5
75 Russell Williams 87,000 78 3
76 Marcus Stein 85,500 45 4
77 Joseph Ross 85,300 64 2
78 Heitor Saraiva 84,700 48 6
79 John Miller 81,700 76 2
80 Kevin Chan 81,400 56 7
81 Ryan D'Angelo 81,300 46 9
82 Israel de la Cerda 80,000 60 1
83 Jonah Miller 79,400 45 7
84 Brian Hastings 78,800 47 3
85 Ray Nalbandian 77,200 70 7
86 Angelo Miele 75,000 55 1
87 Shea Smith 73,400 54 8
88 Roberto Bendeck 72,800 45 6
89 Manuel Rivera 71,700 71 9
90 Renaldo Troconis 70,000 46 2
91 Avery Bass 70,000 71 7
92 Vinny Moscati 68,500 78 4
93 Jorge Ribeiro 67,800 47 2
94 Ariel Rosello 67,700 77 8
95 Jorie Damiani 67,000 71 3
96 Brian Kicklighter 66,400 56 6
97 Denien Costa 66,200 61 9
98 Jack Kolnitzky 65,900 55 3
99 Tark Abboud 65,400 54 6
100 Peter Jacobson 64,400 61 5
101 Jeff Sager 62,900 52 5
102 James Lillis 62,200 68 4
103 Karolis Sereika 61,600 62 4
104 Todd Jacobson 61,300 64 5
105 Dimitry Agrachov 61,200 62 2
106 Thomas Foley 60,000 53 6
107 Steven McKoy 59,600 78 7
108 Jonathan Hilton 58,500 68 9
109 Jordan Meltzer 57,500 56 8
110 Keith Borsdorf 57,200 77 6
111 Scott Sanders 54,400 48 9
112 John Maggnetta 53,700 63 5
113 Edward Brackston 53,100 79 3
114 Daryl Cahuasqui-Vega 53,000 75 1
115 Jason Appel 52,900 68 1
116 Daniel Mizrachi 52,600 64 8
117 Nicholas Mahabee 52,400 70 5
118 Josh Gibson 52,000 45 3
119 Lucas Braga 51,100 72 2
120 Stephen Ekin 50,800 48 4
121 Joevanny Duran 50,300 75 4
122 Jamil Dib 50,000 62 8
123 Elizabeth McKane 47,700 48 8
124 Bob Chow 47,600 46 7
125 Dolphus Powers 47,200 54 1
126 Gustavo Moscon 47,000 54 7
127 Joseph Patalano 45,900 60 8
128 John Cofhlin 44,300 46 6
129 Paula Alibrandi 43,700 78 9
130 Steven Rosen 41,200 63 6
131 Skip McDonough 39,000 56 9
132 Wally Maddah 38,800 55 4
133 Sheldon Gross 38,800 63 7
134 Chris Koulouvaris 37,200 72 1
135 Michael Newman 37,200 69 7
136 Carey Pickus 36,000 45 1
137 Scott Zakheim 34,500 47 9
138 Steve Pollack 33,600 56 4
139 Ken Bruno 33,400 64 9
140 Nancy Birnbaum 32,600 52 2
141 Steve Leahy 32,600 71 5
142 Kenneth Taffaro 32,100 79 5
143 Justin Harvell 31,000 71 6
144 Wilbur Allison 30,500 48 5
145 Camilo Manrique 30,300 78 8
146 Peter Pacifico 29,000 53 4
147 Michael Garraway 27,260 64 4
148 Francisco Pulido 23,800 70 2
149 Wayne Lovell 23,700 63 9
150 Jean Elie Joseph 22,500 64 3
151 Edward Siegel 21,000 61 7
152 Edward Mandel 19,500 48 1
153 Scott Zakian 19,000 69 4
154 Charlie Wells 18,700 45 2
155 Michael Amato 18,400 64 7
156 Ardit Bitincka 16,300 79 7
157 DNR 14,700 47 1
158 Jeffrey Morzella 11,300 63 8
159 Brandon Noe 9,900 79 6
160 Kindah Sakkal 8,000 55 2
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Event 1: Crossing $700,000 and Heading Higher 6i5n1w

Event 1 Day 1F – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3: 75/150
Flight F Entries: 220

Dylan Drazen

We’re seeing no slowdown to the steady pace of entrants into the last flight of the $500,000 Guarantee Kickoff with 220 in the game during the first hour. That pushed the prize pool over $700,000 and the next stop is $750,000.

Dylan Drazen is back trying to put together a bag but it will be tough to top his last result in a major SHRP event. He already owned a trophy from last year’s Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open” when he went deep in the huge Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship last month. Drazen came one spot away from the huge trophy but he was able to bank a very nice $528,000 for his runner-up finish.

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Event 1: AJ Gambino Leads Flight E, Erik Cajelais in the Mix 1v34f

Event 1 Day 1E – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 15: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Flight E Players Remaining: 59 of 398

AJ Gambino

The clock shows 25:27 remaining in Level 15 of Flight E and Saturday’s morning play is now over. There are an unofficial 59 players remaining and it’s AJ Gambino who will sleep on the overnight chip lead.

Gambino put together 232,100 chips and topped his flight easily. The stack will put him in the top five overall through five starting days and he’s likely to remain toward the top even after tonight’s play.

ing Gambino as a Flight E Day 2 qualifier will be Erik Cajelais. The tournament standout with more than $3,300,000 in earnings bagged healthy holdings of 177,000.

Top ten Flight E stacks:

  1. AJ Gambino – 232,100
  2. Stephen Allen – 180,000
  3. Erik Cajelais – 177,000
  4. Wes Lasher – 150,100
  5. Yue Wang – 145,000
  6. Howard Becks – 142,900
  7. Vitor Coelho – 138,000
  8. Bruce Snell – 136,600
  9. Abbey Daniels – 135,300
  10. Chris Brown – 134,000
Erik Cajelais

Complete Day 2 chip counts through Flight E will be posted within the hour.

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Event 1: Huge Start 4e6e23

Event 1 Day 1F – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2: 50/100
Flight F Entries: 151

Jason Young, getting the John Holley stare down

Flight F is off a huge start and could very well challenge this morning’s field for the biggest of the tournament. There were more than 150 entries in the game before the first level was complete and we have a steady parade coming in the door.

WSOP shoot-out winner Jason Young is making his first appearance this series. He’s had a few deep runs on property but still waiting for his first SHRP win, for a ring to go along with his bracelet. Young won’t have an easy go of it with six-time WSOP Circuit ring winner John Holley sitting to his right.