Quinzzy Pratt Bags the Lead in the Final Starting Flight of Event #4
Day 1f of Event #4: $400 NLH $500,000 Guaranteed has now come to an end here at The Lodge Poker Club in Round Rock, Texas after seven and a half hours of play. Day 1f attracted 360 entries and ended with 44 players remaining (12% of the field).
Quinzzy Pratt of Washington DC ended up as the chip leader with 441,000. He was spotted with a large stack toward the last few levels of the night and rode that momentum to the end of day chip lead.
Top 10 Chip Counts of Day 1f
| Place | Player | Hometown | Chip Count |
| 1 | Quinzzy Pratt | Washington DC | 441,000 |
| 2 | John Whitemarsh | Harrisburg,TX | 401,000 |
| 3 | Jimmy Lujan | San Antonio,TX | 355,000 |
| 4 | Michael Reisman | Austin,TX | 332,000 |
| 5 | Benjamin Thomas | Baton Rouga,LA | 326,000 |
| 6 | Hector Rivera | Las Vegas,NV | 286,000 |
| 7 | Stephen Decker | Denver,CO | 258,000 |
| 8 | Alejandro Armas | ------ | 258,000 |
| 9 | John Clancy | Austin,TX | 253,000 |
| 10 | Se Pak | Austin,TX | 250,000 |
Right on his heels in second was John Whitemarsh with 401,000. Jimmy Lujan won a big all in in the final few hands of the night when he flopped an ace to crack kings which catapulted him to third in chips to end the night with 355,000.
The Lodge Poker Club’s own Michael Reisman, finished the night with a fourth place stack of 332,000 and Benjamin Thomas rounded out the top five stacks with 326,000.
One notable to bag was Lorenzo Adams, who is a local youtuber in the Austin area who has started playing poker regularly recently. He bagged 142,000.
The 44 players who remained alive at the end of the night will now join those from previous flights who survived to create 190 total players advancing to Day 2, which is on Sunday at 2 p.m. local time.
Final official prizepool information will be released early in the morning before Day 2.
PokerNews will be back at it tomorrow with Day 2 starting at 2 p.m. local time where a winner will be played down to.
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