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Return to Level 15:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining:  25 of 150

Flight A:  150 Entries; 25 Advanced
Flight B:  Friday at 11 am
Flight C:  Saturday at 11 am
Day 2:  Sunday at 11 am

Registration is open until the start of Day 2 on Sunday at 11 am

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Level 14:  2,000/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  25 of 150

Flight A of Event 1 ended with 25 players advancing to Day 2 and Trent Smith held off a late charge by Sean Phillippi to bag the early lead in the clubhouse with 409,000.

We will post the complete chip count list as soon as it is available.

Top five from Flight A:

Trent Smith – 409,000 (136 bb)
Jair Fajardo – 329,000 (110 bb)
Sean Phillippi – 317,000 (106 bb)
Hector Pacheco – 275,000 (92 bb)
Roni Zelichonok – 273,000 (91 bb)

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Level 14:  2,000/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  27 of 150

We’ve reached the last level of the evening with three tables in play and they are trying to spin up a stack for Day 2 on Sunday.

There are still some big names running deep including Raminder Singh, Steve Buckner, Sean Shah, Brand Schwartz, Paul Domb, Hector Pacheco, and Roberto Bendeck.

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Level 12:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  45 of 146

The last break ended, and the players returned to their seats to work through the last three levels of Flight A. The action will pick up during the next two hours with players trying to spin up a stack or come back tomorrow.

Brandon Schwartz is the late leader, up to 267,500 and eyeing up the overnight lead. Other big stacks include Jair Fajardo, Dylan Weiss, and Alex Tsiareshka.

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Level 11:  1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  63 of 143

Level 11 is running its course and players are about ready to take their final break of Flight A. They’ll step away for 15 minutes and return to play out the last three levels.

Survivors after Level 14 will bag up their chips and return on Sunday for Day 2 at 11 am.

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Level 10:  500/1,500 with a 1,500 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  63 of 140

Table 14 is having a great time this evening, non-stop chatter and even some poker. The table has TJ Shulman, Matthew Zarcadoolas, Sean Shah, and Luis Dominguez but Steve Buckner is the driving force in the good times.

The chips get in the middle often and it’s never dull. First, “Cuz” knocked a player out when his ace-five made a wheel on the river against ace-queen, and then he got the table loud soon after.

Shulman was all in and risk against Buckner but it looked like a chop was coming. Buckner had the bigger stack with and Shulman was holding .

Both were freerolling backdoor flush draws after the flop but Shulman had a shot when the turn came . The table erupted, as it’s apt to do with this fun gang, but it was a chopped pot after all when the dealer put out the river.

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Level 9:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  72 of 133

Players returned from their dinner break with 133 entries on the clock and a familiar face at the top of the counts. Hector Pacheco won this tournament in 2021, taking home $62K for the efforts, and now leads is an early chip leader in this one with 175,500.

Here’s a look at some of the counts in among the seven tables in action:

Hector Pacheco – 175,500 (176 bb)
Jair Fajardo – 147,500 (148 bb)
Scott Zakheim – 109,000 (109 bb)
Roni Zelichonok – 108,500 (109 bb)
Richard Saunders – 100,000 (100 bb)
TJ Shulman – 99,000 (99 bb)
Paul Domb – 94,000 (94 bb)
Pasquale Caiazza – 65,500 (66 bb)
Sean Shah – 64,500 (65 bb)
Raminder Singh – 63,000 (63 bb)
Luis Dominguez – 60,500 (61 bb)
Steve Buckner – 58,000 (58 bb)
Richard Whitebrook – 45,000 (45 bb)
Matthew Zarcadoolas – 37,000 (37 bb)
Roberto Bendeck – 30,000 (30 bb)
Sean Phillippi – 30,000 (30 bb)
Paul Balzano – 30,000 (30 bb)
Solange Lucas – 28,500 (29 bb)
Harrison Ruggiero – 28,000 (28 bb)
Julio Delgado – 27,000 (27 bb)
Al Norman – 18,000 (18 bb)

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Level 8:  400/800 with a 600 ante
Flight A Entries:  130

Flight A players were sent on a 40-minute dinner break and tournament staff will pull the black chips out of play. We have 130 entries in the field so far with late registration available until Sunday at 11 am.

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Level 7:  300/600 with a 600 ante
Flight A Entries:  116

Players are back in their seats after the second break with the dinner break only 80 minutes away. The entry count continues to climb as they get closer to the $100,000 guarantee.

Jair Fajardo is the early leader with just shy of 200K with Paul Domb, Scott Zakheim, Roni Zelichonok, and Richard Saunders also holding six digits in their stacks.

Here are some random counts from around the room:

Jair Fajardo – 199,100 (332 bb)
Paul Domb – 142,400 (237 bb)
Scott Zakheim – 133,400 (222 bb)
Roni Zelichonok – 131,000 (218 bb)
Richard Saunders – 104,200 (174 bb)
Luis Dominguez – 76,100 (127 bb)
Richard Whitebrook – 75,500 (126 bb)
Paul Balzano – 37,300 (62 bb)
Solange Lucas – 37,200 (62 bb)
Steve Buckner – 36,300 (61 bb)
Julio Delgado – 34,000 (57 bb)
Brandon Schwartz – 34,000 (57 bb)
Richard Leger – 30,300 (51 bb)
Raminder Singh – 28,000 (47 bb)
Carlos Bermudez – 27,000 (45 bb)
Rafael Lima – 16,000 (27 bb)
TJ Shulman – 15,100 (25 bb)
Harrison Ruggiero – 15,000 (25 bb)

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Level 6:  300/500 with a 500 ante
Flight A Entries:  102

The second break rolled around and players are taking another 15 minutes away from the action, refresh and maybe grab some good.

They will return and play two more levels before their 40-minute dinner break.