$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 150/300/25 ante
After four levels, Flight 1B takes its first break of the night. A scan of the field revealed five players with at least 50,000 in chips, creating the first leaderboard of the flight:
1. Dmitry Savelyev – 89,000 (297 bb)
2. Maroun Akiki – 73,875 (246 bb)
3. Evan Teitelbaum – 54,500 (182 bb)
4. John Holley – 52,250 (174 bb)
5. David Maddox – 52,225 (174 bb)
And here are some of the notable players further back in the pack:
Carolyn Zegeer – 31,675 (106 bb)
Luis Santoni – 29,075 (97 bb)
Kane Kalas – 28,450 (95 bb)
Hunter Cichy – 24,100 (80 bb)
Kevin Curran – 23,425 (78 bb)
Sheddy Siddiqui – 21,000 (70 bb)
Greg Marcus – 20,000 (67 bb)
Steve Bennett – 16,850 (56 bb)
David Jackson – 16,100 (54 bb)
Scott Zakheim – 12,225 (41 bb)
Marcus Stein – 5,950 (20 bb)
Zoltan Czinkota – 5,550 (19 bb)
In the first hand after the break, a player raised from middle position to 1,050, the cutoff called, and Marcus Stein moved all in from the button for 5,925. The original raiser folded, and the cutoff called with . Stein turned over , and he needed to improve to stay alive.
The board came — Stein flopped a gutshot straight draw and paired his eight on the river to win the pot and double up in chips.
Marcus Stein – 14,625 (49 bb)
There are currently 146 entries in the field, and registration remains open until the beginning of Level 9 (about 10:30 pm).