$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 15: 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining: 23 of 165
There were 165 entries for Day 1A of the $150 No Limit Hold’em event, and after 14 levels, only 23 remained at the end of the day.
In the final minutes of the night, the two chipleaders — Frankie Flowers and Ignas Jasinevicius — were at the same table, and they played a big pot.
After a flop of 
, Jasinevicius (big blind) and Flowers (under the gun) put in 60,000 each. The turn card paired the board with the 
, Jasinevicius checked, Flowers bet 30,000, and Jasinevicius called. The river card was the 
, and both players checked.
Jasinevicius turned over 
to win the pot with an overpair, and Flowers mucked. That hand catapuled Jasinevicius up over 400K, and he finished with a massive chip lead, more than double anyone else in the field. As for Flowers, even after losing this pot he still finished the day third in chips, less than a big blind from second.
Here are the official chip counts for the 23 survivors from Day 1A:
1. Ignas Jasinevicius – 449,500 (112 bb)
2. Irwin Cohen – 185,000 (46 bb)
3. Frankie Flowers – 182,000 (46 bb)
4. Stephen Krackomberger – 176,000 (44 bb)
5. Paul Prager – 124,500 (31 bb)
6. Gregory Anda – 121,500 (30 bb)
7. Ian Holt – 118,000 (30 bb)
8. Alan Gold – 113,000 (28 bb)
9. Arkadiy Tsinis – 109,000 (27 bb)
10. Jose Nigaglioni – 101,000 (25 bb)
11. Ariel Rosello Quintana – 93,500 (23 bb)
12. Cory Petruny – 75,500 (19 bb)
13. Scott Harwood – 66,000 (17 bb)
14. David Shmuel – 63,000 (16 bb)
15. Redouane Abed – 60,000 (15 bb)
16. Willian Baldera – 59,500 (15 bb)
17. Leyla Rogers – 59,000 (15 bb)
18. Carlos Torres Vazquez – 58,500 (15 bb)
19. John Bolde – 54,500 (14 bb)
20. Julien Durity – 46,500 (12 bb)
21. Jeffrey Dana – 44,500 (11 bb)
22. Mikhail Prokopchuk – 39,500 (10 bb)
23. Javier Guerra – 10,500 (3 bb)
Day 1B begins tomorrow (Monday) at 5:00 pm, and the fields will combine on Tuesday at 5:00 pm to play Day 2 down to a winner.