Event 1 Flight A: Damaso Benalcazar Sends the Remaining 53 Players Into the Money

$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 17:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining:  53 of 522

Damaso Benalcazar
Damaso Benalcazar

Moments after Steve Karp’s elimination, and before hand-for-hand play began, a short-stacked player was all in from the big blind for about 26,000 with 10h6d, trailing Damaso Benalcazar’s 8h8d on the button.

The board came 7h7dJc8c5d, giving Benalcazar eights full of sevens to score the elimination and send the remaining 53 players through to Day 2, which begins on Sunday at 1:00 pm. Every player who bags up chips for Day 2 will finish in the money.

Damaso Benalcazar  –  189,000  (32 bb)