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Event 5 Day 1F: Carlos Loving Drops One

$150 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry
Level 12: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Flight 1F Entries: 458
Players Remaining: 72

Carlos Loving raises to 3,500 from middle position and the cutoff moves all in for 14,200. Loving quickly calls and the cards are tabled.

Loving shows AhQs and is dominated by his opponent’s AsKd. The board runs out Ac10d10hJh7h and Loving can’t improve to send his opponent home.

Loving loses the small pot, but is still healthy on chips and is looking to play two consecutive days of tournament poker without being eliminated. Loving won the $350 No Limit Hold’em Black Chip Bounty last night for $8,120 and is trying to ride the heater to a deep run in this event.

Carlos Loving – 83,000

Event 5 Day 1F: Stosh Gepp Flops a Straight, Takes Chip Lead

$150 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry
Level 11: 600/1,200 with a 200 ante
Flight 1F Entries: 458
Players Remaining: 90

Stosh Gepp
Stosh Gepp

With the board reading Js8d7hAcQs, Stosh Gepp is on the button and gets his opponent in middle position all in for about 80,000.

Gepp shows 10d9d, good for the second nut straight and bested his opponent’s set. Gepp drags the pot and takes a massive chip lead.

“When I moved in on the river, I was just hoping he didn’t snap-call,” said Gepp after the hand. “Once he didn’t snap-call, I knew I was good and he didn’t have king-ten.”

Stosh Gepp – 210,000

Event 5 Day 1F: Payouts Released

$150 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry
Level 10: 500/1,000
Flight 1F Entries: 458
Players Remaining: 108

With the field size finalized and the prizepool calculated, the payouts have been released for the fifth event of the series.

The top 108 spots will be paid and cashing is worth at least a min-cash of $346. Payouts gradually increase to the top prize of $49,957 and the title.

Here is a look at the payouts:

1: $49,957
2: $29,372
3: $20,146
4: $13,638
5: $9,417
6: $7,252
7: $5,520
8: $4,048
9: $2,901
10-12: $2,078
13-15: $1,624
16-18: $1,364
19-27: $1,147
28-36: $974
37-45: $823
46-54: $714
55-63: $628
64-72: $563
73-81: $498
82-90: $455
91-99: $411
100-108: $346

Event 5 Day 1E: Ty Akbasli Leads 33 Survivors

$150 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry
Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Flight 1E Entries: 383
Players Remaining: 33

Ty Akbasli
Ty Akbasli

The fifth flight of the $150 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry event was, until the sixth flight kicked off, the biggest of any starting flight. It only makes sense that the biggest stack of the tournament thus far would come from it.

Ty Akbasli couldn’t seem to lose a single pot of any significance in the late stages of Day 1E and bagged the chip lead of both his flight and of the overall tournament with 405,000.

After 14 levels of play, the 383 players that entered this flight were trimmed down to just 33 players, with the aforementioned Akbasli leading the way.

Joining Akbasli at the top of the 1E chip counts are Olvenso Savoie, Sebastian Toro and John Palace with 290,500, 206,500 and 204,000, respectively.

The 33 survivors bring the total number of Day 2 entrants thus far to 135. They will all come back on Wednesday at 1 p.m. to play down to a winner.

Event 5 Day 1F: Michael Nasserazad Doubles Through Zoltan Czinkota

$150 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry
Level 9: 400/800 with a 100 ante
Flight 1F Entries: 458
Players Remaining: 128

There is about 30,000 already in the middle on the river with a completed board of Jc10s5h2sKc.

Zoltan Czinkota is in the small blind and inquires about what Michael Nasserazad has left in his stack. After getting a rough count of what is left, he moves all in for effectively Nasserazad’s last 9,500.

Nasserazad snap-calls and shows AhAd. Czinkota tries to muck his hand, but it must be exposed since it is an all in situation. The dealer exposes Czinkota’s 5d4s and Nasserazad doubles up.

Michael Nasserazad – 44,000
Zoltan Czinkota – 17,000

Event 5 Day 1F: Registration Closes with 458 Players

$150 No Limit hold’em
Level 7: 250/500 with a 50 ante
Flight 1F Entries: 458

With the start of level 7, late registration and re-entry for this flight is closed. This is the largest of the six starting flights with 458 entries in Day 1F.

That brings the total field size to 1,804 and generates a prizepool of $216,480.

There are 135 players who have secured seats for Day 2 on Wednesday and the survivors from 1F will join them to play down to a winner.

Event 5 Day 1E: Akbasli Continues Heater

$150 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry
Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Flight 1E Entries: 381
Players Remaining: 38

On a flop of Ad5h4h, the big blind gets all in for about 110,000 against Ty Akbasli on the button. Akbasli shows AsKd, but needs to fade a lot of cards against the big blind’s Ah8h.

The turn is the 10d and the river is the Qd to keep Akbasli’s hand in the lead and eliminate the big blind. Akbasli nears 400,000 and has a massive chip lead with only a few minutes left in this flight.

Ty Akbasli – 385,000

Event 5 Day 1E: Ty Akbasli Leading the Way

$150 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry
Level 12: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Flight 1E Entries: 381
Players Remaining: 53

Ty Akbasli
Ty Akbasli

On a flop of 8c4c2d, the big blind checks and Ory Hen bets 7,500 from middle position. Ty Akbasli calls from the cutoff and the big blind calls as well.

The turn is the Ac and action checks to Akbasli, who bets 12,500. The big blind calls and Hen folds. The river is the 3s and the big blind bets 25,000. Akbasli bets enough to put the big blind all in and the big blind quickly calls, he is all in for about 40,000 total.

Akbasli tables Kc3c, good for the nut flush and he drags the pot against the big blind’s 7s5h, giving him a straight.

Akbasli eliminates a player just as they head on their last break of the night. He is the chip leader of the flight with about an hour left of play.

Ty Akbasli – 268,000

Event 5 Day 1F: Zo Karim Off to a Good Start

$150 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry
Level 4: 100/200 with a 25 ante
Players Registered: 360

Zo Karim
Zo Karim

Zo Karim is on the button and gets into a preflop battle against the player in the cutoff. After a few raises, the cutoff moves all in for about 4,000 and Karim calls.

Karim shows AhQc and has his opponent’s As3s dominated. The Qd comes on the flop and leaves his opponent drawing thin. Karim has him drawing dead on the turn and sends him home with about 15 minutes before their first break of the day.

Karim takes the pot and has more than tripled his starting stack in the first two hours of the day.

Zo Karim – 31,500

Event 5 Day 1E: Ory Hen Can’t Top King-High, Still a Big Stack

$150 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry
Level 9: 400/800 with a 100 ante
Flight 1E Entries: 381
Players Remaining: 117

Ory Hen
Ory Hen

There is a limp under-the-gun and Ory Hen limps in from the cutoff. The button raises to 2,800. The first limper and Hen both call and they are three-handed to a flop of 6s4d3c.

Action checks to the button, who bets 3,500. Under-the-gun folds and Hen calls. The turn is the 9c and both players check.

The river is the 3s and both players check again. The button shows KsQs, good for king-high, and drags the pot against Hen’s 8d7s.

“I knew you didn’t have anything,” said Hen after the hand.

Hen loses the pot, but is still very healthy in chips. He is fresh off of a final table appearance in the $1,100 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max, where he was part of a four-way chop. He took home a third place finish and $17,000.

Ory Hen – 79,000