Event 1: Express Train to 18

$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 34: 125,000/250,000 with a 25,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 18 of 5,018

Rafael Reis runs up his chip lead
Rafael Reis runs up his chip lead

The pace of play has been nearly impossible to track over the first 90 minutes with chips and cards and chairs flying. Players are not dropping in singles, rather each table has something going.

That’s how Event 1 came to reach the last two tables in less than two levels.

The reached 18 players remaining when Rafael called a three-bet shove from Chris Laieta with AsTd. Laieta needed help with Js7s then found it on the Jc8h2c flop but his joy did not last long. Reis hit the Ac turn and Laieta was eliminated after the 9c river.

Tournament staff paused the clock to break Table 9.

19th: Chris Laieta – $5,118
20th: Damjan Radanov – $5,118
21st: Edward McNamara – $5,118
22nd: Reynaldo Baro – $5,118
23rd: Robert Zarzycki – $5,118
24th: Jonathan Sanchez – $5,118
25th: JD Jiang – $5,118
26th: Dustin Murphy – $5,118
27th: Eric Becks – $5,118