Event 9: Flight 9D In The Books, Hixson With Top Chip Count

$570 Deeper Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 14:  Blinds 1200/2400/400 ante

Flight 9D is all over and 49 players survived to advance to Day 2.

It was a competitve race all night to see who would end up on top this flight and only one managed to eek out a stack over 200,000 – David Hixson. Hixson managed a small surge to close out the evening with 208,500. A group of six players ended up between 150,000 and 170,000 chips to set themselves up for a title run on Sunday.

Top Stacks for Flight 9D:

David Hixson – 208,000
Svi Soudai – 169,500
Bryan Morton – 162,000
Dani Dayan – 160,000
Steve Olek – 155,000
Qasem Jamhour – 153,000
Troy Bercot – 151,500

Jamie Gold, Bob Bounahra and Derrick Simon were among the notables who also got through to Day 2.

We have two more flights tomorrow at 11 AM and 6 PM leading into Sunday’s Day 2 for the Event 9 championship. Congratulations to everyone that advanced!

David Hixson
David Hixson