Event 15 Flight E: Chuck Emmanuel Leads the Field at the Break with 371,000

$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 E Players Remaining:  145 of 955

Chuck Emmanuel
Chipleader Chuck Emmanuel

The players return from break to begin Level 15, with increased blinds of 2,000-4,000 and a big blind ante of 4,000.

A scan of the field during the break turned up only two players with at least 300K in chips:

1.  Chuck Emmanuel  –  371,000  (93 bb)
2.  Satish Surapaneni  –  355,000  (89 bb)

Satish Surapaneni
Satish Surapaneni

With about 145 players remaining from a Flight E field of 955, the average chip stack is about 132,000 (33 big blinds). Action will continue today until there are 120 players remaining, and the survivors will finish in the money and advance to Day 2, which begins tomorrow (Sunday) at 1:00 pm.

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