$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 16:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  66 of 517

At Table 14, there was a three-way all-in situation with aces vs. aces vs. kings.

Jorge Cuesta was the short stack, all in from middle position for 101,000 with , while the other two players had identical stacks of 148,000 each — Brandon Schaefer (UTG+1) with , and the player on the button with .

Brandon Schaefer:  
Jorge Cuesta:  
Button:  

The board came , and the pocket aces held up for Schaefer and Cuesta to chop the main pot of 316,000, and Schaefer won the side pot of 94,000 to eliminate the player on the button from Flight A.

Brandon Schaefer  –  252,000  (50 bb)
Jorge Cuesta  –  158,000  (32 bb)

That hand happened with about 68 players remaining, but the field is currently on the end-of-day Money bubble with 66 players left, and an average chip stack around 157,000 (31 big blinds).

As soon as there is one more elimination, the surviving players will bag up their chips for Day 2, which begins Sunday at 1:00 pm. Everyone who survives to Day 2 will finish in the money.