Event 1 Flight B: James Baune and Wanlop Phonphornwithoon Lead the Field at the First Break

$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5:  200/400 with a 400 ante
Flight B Entries:  243

James Baume
James Baume

A scan of the field during the break turned up four players with at least 65K in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard

T-1.  James Baune  –  71,000  (178 bb)
T-1.  Wanlop Phonphornwithoon  –  71,000  (178 bb)
T-3.  Rich Alati  –  69,000  (173 bb)
T-3.  Martin Ivanos  –  69,000  (173 bb)

There are 243 players in the field so far, with registration open with unlimited re-entries until the start of Level 9 (around 9:30 pm). There will be two flights a day (11:00 am and 5:00 pm) for the next three days.

Wanlop Phonphornwithoon
Wanlop Phonphornwithoon

One of the players who came close to the leaderboard is David Seager, who had 60,400 at the break. Seager scored a big double-up when his AxKx flopped trip kings against the AxAx of Richard Saunders. Saunders is still in with about 13,000 in chips.