Event 1 Flight D: Daniyal Gheba Sends the Remaining 55 Players Into the Money

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 18:  4,000/8,000 with an 8,000 ante
Flight D Players Remaining:  55 of 543

With about 45,000 in the pot and the board reading 9h4d8c3d, the player in the big blind checked to Daniyal Gheba in middle position who bet 18,000. The big blind check-raised all in for about 55,000 and Gheba called with 9s8d for nines and eights, leading his opponent’s Jc9d for a pair of nines.

The river was the 6c, safe for Gheba to score the elimination and send the remaining 55 players to Day 2.

Daniyal Gheba  –  384,000  (48 bb)