Level: 14
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 3,000
Level: 14
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 3,000
Day 1A Entries: 405
Day 1A Players Remaining: 65
Day 1A Chip Leader: Manny Gugliuzza (419,000)
Day 1B Entries: 558
Day 1B Players Remaining: 91
Day 1B Chip Leader: William Siegel (461,000)
Day 1C Entries: 475
Day 1C Players Remaining: 75
Day 1C Chip Leader: Rajasekar Govidan (456,000)
Day 1D Entries: 1,522
Day 1D Players Remaining: 291
Day 1D Chip Leader: Douglas Hamshaw (446,000)
Day 1E Entries: 1,415
Day 1E Players Remaining: TBD
The day 1e players are now on their last 15-minute break of the night.
When play resumes there will be there just one more level of play remaining before the bagging process begins.
Level: 15
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 4,000
The final flight of Event #1: $600 Deepstack Kick-Off in the Borgata Winter Poker Open drew a massive total of 1,415 entries. This brought the combined total to 4,375 entries creating a prize pool of over $2,200,000.
There are approximately 230 players from this flight moving on to day two. Joseph Rich bagged the overall chip lead with a staggering 528,000 and looks to be the only player returning with over half a million.
Some of the other players to bag big are Rob Calabrese (399,000), Matt Kennedy (390,000), Christopher Leveque (340,000), and Ron Birmingham (309,000).
Plenty of other familiar faces are moving on to day two including Fady Khabbaz (269,000), Zachary Gruneberg (214,000) Eric Siegel (206,000), Ryan Slowik (159,000), Dave Stefanski (140,000) and Soukha Kachittavong (101,000)
Approximately 750 day 1a-e survivors will return to the Event Center on Friday, January 17 at 11 a.m. local time to resume day two play and PokerNews will be picking right back up on the live tournament coverage.
Event #1: $600 Deepstack Kick-Off
Day 1e Completed