$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 15:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  95 of 517

A player is all in from the hijack for 44,000 with , and needs to improve to stay alive against the of Brandon Schaefer, who is UTG+1.

The board came — the hijack paired his queen on the flop and turned a gutshot straight draw, but missed his outs on the river. Schaefer won the pot with his pocket kings to eliminate his opponent from Flight A.

Brandon Schaefer  –  110,000  (28 bb)

With 90 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 115,000 (29 big blinds), and this flight will play as long as it takes to reach the final 65 players. The survivors at the end of this flight will make the money and advance to Day 2, which begins Sunday at 1:00 pm.