$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

Flight A of Event 1 came to an end with 4:58 remaining in Level 17. There were 53 survivors, and the chipleader from this flight is Kevin Payton with 550,000 (92 big blinds). Here are the top five chip counts from this first flight:

1.  Kevin Payton  –  550,000  (92 bb)
2.  Clyde Maliauka  –  506,000  (84 bb)
3.  Craig Pollak  –  429,000  (72 bb)
4.  Amin Akhlaghi  –  426,000  (71 bb)
5.  Ravi Mahtani  –  387,000  (65 bb)

A full list of official chip counts will be posted soon.

There are still five more flights to go (two per day), with Flight B already underway. Day 2 begins Sunday at 1:00 pm, and every player who bags up chips for Day 2 will finish in the money. The prizepool won’t be determined until registration has completed for the final flight on Saturday night.