$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 27: 25,000/50,000/5,000 Ante

With 42 players remaining in Event 1, the average chip stack is about 1.44 million (29 big blinds). These players are all guaranteed at least $2,493, and the next pay jump is $2,946 for 45th place.

Big pots are starting to fly left and right, and every time you turn around there’s another player with at least 2 million in their stack. Here’s a quick look at the chipleaders:

1.  Fabian Foster  –  4,400,000  (88 bb)
2.  Lou Ojeda  –  3,400,000  (68 bb)
3.  Von Ward  –  3,150,000  (63 bb)
4.  David Albertson  –  3,000,000  (60 bb)
5.  Pedro Palacio  –  2,800,000  (56 bb)
6.  Rocco Vito  –  2,675,000  (54 bb)
7.  Thomas Collazo  –  2,600,000  (52 bb)
8.  T.J. Shulman  –  2,600,000  (52 bb)
9.  Sam Panzica  –  2,535,000  (51 bb)
10.  Joe Reddick  –  2,200,000  (44 bb)
11.  Mike Ferneman  –  2,000,000  (40 bb)
12.  Travis Holloway  –  2,000,000  (40 bb)

Thomas Collazo moved back up the leaderboard when he cracked the kings of Hayden Fortini. They got it all in preflop with Fortini’s against Collazo’s . The board came , and Collazo flopped a full house to send Fortini to the rail in about 45th place.

Action is scheduled to continue tonight until a winner is reached or 3:00 am, whichever happens first. The tournament math tells us that the field should at least get down to the final two tables, and possibly the final table.