Main Event
Day 1b Completed
Main Event
Day 1b Completed
Flight B in Day 1b of Event 11: $3,300 Main Event is in the books drawing a large field of 180 entrants. When the dust settled after over 13 hours of play, 50 players remained with chips.
Jordan Fisch and Rich Weinhold ended the day as joint chip leaders as they both coincidentally finished with exactly 398,000. Weinhold was spotted late in the day with a big stack. He gained a good amount of chips when his opponent called his river raise after he had rivered kings full. Fisch’s rise in chips was spotted even later as it was almost at the end of the final level when his large stack became apparent.
Rounding out the top five stacks, all clustered close together in chips, to end the day were Phil Vera (360,000), who took a significant amount from Stephen Song late in the day, Laura Moore (360,000) who is continuing her hot week and who won a number of big hands in the last few levels and Jeff Esterling (354,500).
A few more notable players to survive the Flight include; Christian Harder with 278,500, Nicholas Pham who finished with 233,000, and Adam Hendrix who tallied 199,500 chips.
Despite the large number of entries, Flight B was a slightly more tepid affair than Flight A as many chip stacks remained static, a fewer % of the players were eliminated and many stacks in the final couple of levels were very close, with nobody really pulling away with a lead.
The 50 who survived the day will join the 27 survivors from Flight A as well as the small few who will make it through Flight C, which will wrap up tomorrow. All will converge to compete in an exciting Day 2, which will begin at 3 p.m. local time.
PokerNews will pick up coverage at the end of Flight C tomorrow and cover Day 2 wire to wire.
The tournament clock shows that Flight C has 50 entries so far with registration nearly over with only a few minutes remaining in level 8. The small number of players will play one more play level before finishing for tonight and returning for levels 10-13 tomorrow at 11 a.m.
Pokernews coverage will resume toward the end of Flight C tomorrow for chip counts at the end of the flight before Day 2 kicks off in full at 3 p.m.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jordan Fisch |
398,000
398,000
|
398,000 |
|
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Rich Weinhold |
398,000
73,000
|
73,000 |
|
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Phil Vera |
360,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
Laura Moore |
360,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Jeff Esterling |
354,500
-15,500
|
-15,500 |
Anthony Williams |
305,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
Matt Ezrol |
281,500
281,500
|
281,500 |
Christian Harder |
278,500
18,500
|
18,500 |
Matthew Marafioti |
262,500
262,500
|
262,500 |
Matt Sesso |
261,500
-78,500
|
-78,500 |
Ryan Freeman |
245,000
245,000
|
245,000 |
James Carroll |
234,500
234,500
|
234,500 |
|
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Nicholas Pham |
233,000
128,000
|
128,000 |
Daniel Lee |
226,000
226,000
|
226,000 |
Aziz Qarghah
|
215,500
215,500
|
215,500 |
Adam Hendrix |
199,500
199,500
|
199,500 |
Rajasekar Govindan |
196,500
196,500
|
196,500 |
Christrian Risco
|
185,000
185,000
|
185,000 |
Christopher Caruso |
181,500
181,500
|
181,500 |
Farid Jattin
|
180,000
180,000
|
180,000 |
James McPherson |
174,500
174,500
|
174,500 |
Paul Chang |
174,000
-41,000
|
-41,000 |
John Kostelac |
172,000
172,000
|
172,000 |
Yaser Al-Keliddar |
165,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
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Farhad Jassor
|
163,000
163,000
|
163,000 |
The floor has announced three more hands before the night of play is complete.
Full chip counts will be posted momentarily once play is complete and the counts are complied.
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Phil Vera relayed action that had happened after he took a bunch of chips from Stephen Song.
As he told it, he did it with pocket aces against Song's ace-king and Song was eliminated shortly afterward as he was seen missing from the table.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Phil Vera |
350,000
350,000
|
350,000 |
Stephen Song | Busted | |
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In a preflop all in Yaser Al-Keliddar held pocket tens against of Mehmet Burakgazi.
The board would stay safe for the tens even though a Broadway draw was picked up for the ace-jack on the flop.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Yaser Al-Keliddar |
150,000
-60,000
|
-60,000 |
|
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Mehmet Burakgazi
|
Busted |
The rate of eliminations has slowed down in the last couple of levels.
Approximately 33% of the starting field remains with under a level to play.
By comparison, only 23% of the Flight A starting field survived until the end of the day.