Buffalo local Pierre Gautreau cracked aces making a set of deuces.
Several hero calls later and he now has a contending stack.
In the meantime, Eric Thibodeau scored a double knockout, getting two players with an ace in against his kings. Kings held and he moved into a dead heat for the lead with Maria Parlotore.
She's chipped up and joins Thibodeau closing in on 200,000 heading into the flight's final break.
Tonawanda's Tyler Seibert is making some kind of name for himself here now after pushing up into the Level 10 chip lead.
He got up to 100,000 when one player shoved into his made straight and mucked. Then another ran an ace-high bluff into his top pair kings.
Fast forward a few orbits and Seibert moved into chip boss position pushing Kristan Mackiewicz off a big hand. He four-bet semi-bluffed all-in on the turn of a king-high board with a pair of sixes and a gutshot. She folded and is now starting to wonder why.
With registration and re-entry closed for this fourth and final flight, we can tell you it drew a whopping 192 total entries.
Add that to the 444 from the first three flights and the grand total of entries in this event is officially an impressive 636.
Of course, it murdered the $100,000 guarantee in cold blood, creating an estimated prize pool of somewhere near $160,000. We will get the exact prize pool numbers and all the payouts up before play begins on Day 2 Sunday.
For now, 92 remain in this final flight pushing through Level 9.
Maria Parlatore's chip stack has suddenly ballooned up over 150,000 and she''ll take the chip lead into the second break of the day.
Parlatore has had aces twice, kings twice. She made a flush, she rivered a straight. There isn't a hand she can't win with right now.
We'd normally insert a joke or some kind of backhanded compliment about Parlatore in this space, but she's running so smoking hot right now, all that negativity is liable to bounce of her and stick to us. So, we'll pass. Good luck Maria!
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