$600 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14:  1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  100 of 580

The UTG player moved all in for 16,500, the UTG+1 player moved all in over the top for 42,500, and Michael Darcy called all in from the cutoff for 13,500.

These were their cards in descending order of chip counts:

UTG+1:  
UTG:  
Michael Darcy:  

The board came , and the pocket kings held up for Darcy to win the main pot and triple up in chips. The UTG player won the much smaller side pot with a pair of eights to finish the hand with just 6,000.

Michael Darcy  –  48,000  (16 bb)

The next hand, that UTG player was forced all in, with half his stack going toward the big blind ante, and the rest for his big blind. Fred Goldberg raised from middle position to 6,500, and everyone else folded.

The short stack turned over , and he needed to improve to stay alive against Goldberg’s .

The board came , and Goldberg flopped trip aces and rivered a full house to win the pot and eliminate his opponent from Flight A

Fred Goldberg  –  70,000  (23 bb)

With about 105 players remaining from a Flight A field of 580, the average chip stack is about 116,000 (39 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.