Michael Stein Finds Biggest Stack on Day 1a of Main Event
The first flight of the $1,700 Main Event at the Rio All Suites and Casino has come to an end with a total of 290 entry slips sold during the ten levels that were played and just 57 remained by nights end.
Finding the biggest stack of the Day 1a flight was Michael Stein with a total of 387,000 going into his bag by night's end. Stein jumped to the top of the leaderboard early in the day and never really seemed to slow down, finding barely any hurdles along the way to bagging the lead.
Other noticeably big stacks that emerged from this flight include Leo Worthington-Leese (354,000), Kevin MacPhee (301,000), Gabriel Amolroude (297,000), Aram Zobian (284,500), Bradley Hinson (268,500), and Karapet Galstyan (237,000).
Some well-knowns to secure a seat on Day 2 are Peter Vitantonio (225,500), Craig Varnell (211,000), Matas Cimbolas (211,000), Ali Imsirovic (125,500), Adam Hendrix (117,500), Brock Wilson (116,000), and Sam Cosby (86,500).
The remaining players from this flight will combine with the survivors in Day 1b and will return on Monday, February 24, for Day 2. The prize poll and payout will be announced tomorrow after the late registration period has closed on the final flight of this event.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be bringing you all of the updates throughout the event so stay tuned as the action unfolds.
. Karapet Galstyan bet 1,200. His opponent raised to 3,000. Galstyan thought it out for a few moments before three-betting it to 9,000. His opponent came along for the ride.
for a set while his opponent simply had the 
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and Galstyan busted his opponent to move his stack even higher.
