Event 1 Flight C: Paul Balzano Bags up as the Overall Chip Leader to End the Day

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Flight C Remaining Players: 64 from 511 entries

Paul Balzano

Flight 1C has come to a close in the big NLH opener event with Paul Balzano bagging up 605,000 to become the first player to cross that threshold in the tournament. Depending on how things play out in the remaining flights he will be the overall chip leader when the field returns for Day 2. Stay tuned for full official chip counts from the flight a little later tonight. Here are all the players that bagged up more than 200,000 for now.

Paul Balzano – 605,000
James Carroll – 466,000
Stuart Greenbaum – 396,000
Adi Amit – 370,000
Cody Brinn – 315,000
Luke Brereton – 303,000
Emil Soffer – 291,000
Ron Katz – 284,000
Michael Lu – 282,000
Maan Thakur – 249,000
Ya Liu – 234,000
David Nathaniel – 230,000
Ira Horowitz – 226,000
Reinaldo Diaz – 218,000
Jeff Hood – 215,000
Christopher Bach – 211,000
Darin Utley – 204,000