Event 1 Flight A: Kevin Payton Leads the Field at the Break with 490,000

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 15:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining:  83 of 522

Kevin Payton
Chipleader Kevin Payton

A scan of the field during the break turned up three players with at least 300K in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  Kevin Payton  –  490,000  (123 bb)
2.  Rodolfo Guaigua  –  362,000  (91 bb)
3.  Clyde Maliauka  –  357,000  (89 bb)

With about 83 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 126,000 (32 big blinds). Action will continue this evening until there are 53 players remaining, and everyone who survives this flight will make the money and advance to Day 2, which begins Sunday at 1:00 pm.