Event 10, Day 1F: Giorgio Medici Tops the Final Flight

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 15: 1,500/3,000/500 Ante

The final starting flight of Event 10 is complete, and Day 2 begins tomorrow (Sunday) at 1:00 pm. There will be 552 players returning, with the following number making it from each starting flight:

Day 1A:  68 survivors
Day 1B:  60 survivors
Day 1C:  74 survivors
Day 1D:  94 survivors
Day 1E:  134 survivors
Day 1F:  122 survivors

With 552 players remaining from a total field of 2,928, the average chip stack is about 106,000 (35 big blinds). This year’s field is 161 entries larger than last year’s, a 5.8% increase. The official prizepool hasn’t been released yet, but it should be worth more than $1.4 million.

Here is the unofficial leaderboard from the end of Day 1F:

1.  Giorgio Medici  –  318,000  (106 bb)
2.  Dusty Nelson  –  295,500  (99 bb)
3.  John Restrepo  –  262,000  (87 bb)
4.  Robert Absler  –  222,000  (74 bb)
5.  Carroll Handy  –  216,000  (72 bb)
6.  Cord Garcia  –  215,000  (72 bb)
7.  John Holley  –  205,500  (69 bb)
8.  Cong Pham  –  199,500  (67 bb)

Giorgio Medici
Day 1F chipleader Giorgio Medici
Dusty Nelson
Dusty Nelson, 2nd in chips for Day 1F

Official chip counts and seating positions for the remaining 552 players will be posted when they are released by the tournament staff, and Day 2 begins tomorrow (Sunday) at 1:00 pm.