Event 10, Day 1F: The Biggest First-Break Chipleaders Yet

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 150/300/25 Ante

At the first break, the Day 1F field has increased to 482 entries, which means this event has eclipsed last year’s field size with time to spare.

And the chips appear to be flying much more than they have in the earlier flights, because there were so many players with at least 50,000 in chips (our usual leaderboard cutoff) that we had to restrict it to players with at least 60,000 in chips (or knocking on the door of 60K). That still gives us a full leaderboard of 13 players, including one — Said Omar — that somehow more than quintupled his stack in the first four levels of play.

1. Said Omar – 108,275 (361 bb)
2. Dan Ishaki – 86,675 (289 bb)
3. Cody Ferguson – 83,475 (278 bb)
4. Daniel Clemente – 75,325 (251 bb)
5. Liridon Ramadani – 71,525 (238 bb)
6. Aaron Flamand – 64,725 (216 bb)
7. Mohammed Takmani – 64,000 (213 bb)
8. Michael Merisier – 60,600 (202 bb)
9. Guellermo Santos – 60,575 (202 bb)
10. Dustin Nelson – 60,500 (202 bb)
11. Giorgio Medici – 60,425 (201 bb)
12. Vinny Trinh – 59,800 (199 bb)
13. Willie Wiggins – 59,775 (199 bb)

In most of these starting flights, Cody Ferguson would have been the first-break chipleader with 83,475. But today it’s only good enough for third place.

The field will play 14 levels today, with action ending around 1:45 am. Registration remains open until the end of the second break (about 10:30 pm), when we’ll finally learn how large this field can get — and how big the prizepool can get.