Event 15 Flight C: Niovel Chirino Leads the Field at the Break with 180,000

$600 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight C Entries:  628

Niovel Chirino
Chipleader Niovel Chirino

The players return from break to begin Level 9, with increased blinds of 500-1,000 and a big blind ante of 1,000.

Registration has closed, and as soon as we receive official numbers from the tournament staff, we will post them here in the updates. The final 12.5% of each starting flight will advance to Day 2 and finish in the money. (Players must bag chips at the end of Day 1 to finish in the money.)

A scan of the field during the break turned up three players with at least 140K in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  Niovel Chirino  –  180,000  (180 bb)
2.  Richard Smith  –  174,600  (175 bb)
3.  Casey Hatmaker  –  145,600  (146 bb)

Richard Smith
Richard Smith