$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10:  600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Flight F Players Remaining:  280 of 748

James Calderaro teases some of us in the media (one of us?) for being bad luck, and as soon as we noted that he had a big chip lead at the last break, Calderaro said he was cursed to lose.

We just checked back in on Calderaro, and sure enough, he had lost some of his stack, but he was still in excellent shape. And, defying the media curse, Calderaro chose to enter a pot under the gun with a reporter watching.

Calderaro raised under the gun to 3,000, and the player in the small blind called.

The flop came , the small blind checked, Calderaro bet 5,000, and the small blind quickly called.

The turn card was the , the small blind checked, Calderaro bet 6,000, and the small blind quickly called.

The river card was the , the small blind checked, Calderaro bet 10,000, and the small blind quickly called.

Calderaro showed to win the pot with a seven-high straight, and the small blind mucked.

As he pulled in the pot, Calderaro said, “Hey, I won a pot with you watching!”

James Calderaro  –  195,000  (163 bb)

With about 280 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 53,400 (45 big blinds). This field is playing down to the final 75 players, and everyone who bags chips will finish in the money and advance to Day 2.