$600 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 15:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  85 of 580

Chris Laieta was all in from the hijack for 127,000 with , but he needed to improve to stay alive against the of Barry Roth, who was UTG+1.

The board came , and Laieta flopped a set of queens to win the pot and double up in chips.

Chris Laieta  –  264,000  (66 bb)
Barry Roth  –  28,000  (7 bb)

The next hand, Roth moved all in under the gun for 28,000, Laieta reraised from middle position to 56,000, and everyone else folded.

Roth turned over , and needed his hand to hold to stay alive against Laieta’s .

The board came , and Roth flopped a set of nines to win the pot and double up in chips.

Barry Roth  –  66,000  (17 bb)
Chris Laieta  –  236,000  (59 bb)

Roth shoved the next hand from the small blind to pick up some more chips to reach 20 big blinds.

Barry Roth  –  80,000  (20 bb)

With about 83 players remaining from a Flight A field of 580, the average chip stack is about 140,000 (35 big blinds). Action will continue today until there are 73 players remaining, and the survivors will finish in the money and advance to Day 2, which begins Sunday at 1:00 pm.