Event 1: AJ Gambino Leads Flight E, Erik Cajelais in the Mix

Event 1 Day 1E – $580 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 15: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Flight E Players Remaining: 59 of 398

AJ Gambino

The clock shows 25:27 remaining in Level 15 of Flight E and Saturday’s morning play is now over. There are an unofficial 59 players remaining and it’s AJ Gambino who will sleep on the overnight chip lead.

Gambino put together 232,100 chips and topped his flight easily. The stack will put him in the top five overall through five starting days and he’s likely to remain toward the top even after tonight’s play.

Joining Gambino as a Flight E Day 2 qualifier will be Erik Cajelais. The tournament standout with more than $3,300,000 in earnings bagged healthy holdings of 177,000.

Top ten Flight E stacks:

  1. AJ Gambino – 232,100
  2. Stephen Allen – 180,000
  3. Erik Cajelais – 177,000
  4. Wes Lasher – 150,100
  5. Yue Wang – 145,000
  6. Howard Becks – 142,900
  7. Vitor Coelho – 138,000
  8. Bruce Snell – 136,600
  9. Abbey Daniels – 135,300
  10. Chris Brown – 134,000
Erik Cajelais

Complete Day 2 chip counts through Flight E will be posted within the hour.