$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10:  600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Flight E Players Remaining:  295 of 780

Shawn Lucas briefly took over the chip lead, but McNealy reclaimed it a short while later. Here are some updated chip counts from around the field:

Greg McNealy  –  185,000  (154 bb)
Shawn Lucas  –  177,000  (148 bb)
Eric Schaeffer  –  150,000  (125 bb)
Eric Afriat  –  103,000  (86 bb)
Phil Hernz  –  90,000  (75 bb)
Tim Kegel  –  88,000  (73 bb)
Scott Robbins  –  80,000  (677 bb)
Howard Mash  –  75,000  (63 bb)
Paul Balzano  –  68,000  (57 bb)
Hector Pacheco  –  56,000  (47 bb)
A.J. Kelsall  –  55,000  (46 bb)
Raffaello Locatelli  –  43,000  (36 bb)
Bob Mather  –  36,000  (30 bb)
Kenny Nguyen  –  34,000  (28 bb)
Vitor Coelho  –  17,000  (14 bb)

Hector Pacheco was among the chipleaders at the last break, but he lost a 150K pot against Eric Schaeffer to drop down to about an average stack.

After a flop of , Pacheco checked the small blind, Schaeffer bet 7,000 from the hijack, and Pacheco check-raised to 15,000. Schaeffer called.

The turn card was the , Pacheco bet 22,000, and Schaeffer called.

The river card was the , Pacheco moved all in, and Schaeffer snap-called all in for 34,000 with for two pair, jacks and threes. Pacheco turned over for the same two pair with a lower kicker, and Schaeffer won the pot to double up in chips.

Eric Schaeffer  –  150,000  (125 bb)
Hector Pacheco  –  56,000  (47 bb)

With about 295 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 52,900 (44 big blinds).

This flight will continue playing until there are 98 players left, and the survivors will make the money and advance to Day 2, which begins tomorrow (Sunday) at 1:00 pm. You must bag chips at the end of Day 1 to finish in the money.