$600 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Flight C Players Remaining:  144 of 628

A player was all in from middle position with , and needed to improve to stay alive against the of Ricardo Tavares in the small blind.

The board came , and the pocket eights held up for Tavares to win the pot and eliminate his opponent.

Ricardo Tavares  –  293,000  (147 bb)

Tavares took a small pot the following hand after the flop with to cross the 300K mark.

Ricardo Tavares  –  306,000  (153 bb)

With about 144 players remaining from a Flight C field of 628, the average chip stack is about 87,000 (44 big blinds). Action will continue today until there are 79 players remaining, and the survivors will finish in the money and advance to Day 2, which begins Sunday at 1:00 pm.

Note:  Players must bag chips at the end of their starting flight to finish in the money.