$250 Big Stack (re-entry) Flight A
$50,000 Guarantee | Structure
Upcoming Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 34/231

Day 2 begins at 2 p.m. on Wednesday. Table and seat assignments will be posted following the completion of Flight B at about 3 a.m.

$250 Big Stack (re-entry) Flight B
$50,000 Guarantee | Structure
Level 1: 25/50
Flight B Entries: 97

The cards are in the air for Flight B of the $250 Big Stack (re-entry). There are 97 entries thus far and combined with the 231 Flight A entries, the $50,000 guarantee has easily been surpassed. Registration is open until the beginning of Level 9 (about 11:30 p.m.).

More frequent updates of Flight B will begin following the first break.

$250 Big Stack (re-entry) Flight A
$50,000 Guarantee | Structure
Upcoming Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 34/231

The remaining 34 players from Flight A have bagged and tagged for the night. Leading the way with a commanding chip lead is Haim Toorgean with 379,000.

We’ll have full chip counts of the remaining players within the hour.

$250 Big Stack (re-entry) Flight A
$50,000 Guarantee | Structure
Level 14: 1,200/2,400 with a 400 ante
Players Remaining: 37/231

Matt Axelrod opened to 5,200 from the button, Anthony Abdo called from the small blind, the player in the big blind three-bet shoved for roughly 78,000, Axelrod folded, and Abdo called after a few moments with , leading the big blind’s .

The board came down , safe for Abdo to score the elimination.

Anthony Abdo – 187,000 (78 bb)

$250 Big Stack (re-entry) Flight A
$50,000 Guarantee | Structure
Level 13: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante
Players Remaining: 42/231

Anthony Abdo raised to 6,500 from the cutoff, the player on the button three-bet shoved for 25,300, and Abdo called with , leading his opponent’s .

The board came down , safe for Abdo to score the elimination.

Anthony Abdo – 116,000 (58 bb)

$250 Big Stack (re-entry) Flight A
$50,000 Guarantee | Structure
Level 12: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Players Remaining: 54/231

Haim Toorgeman – 170,000 (106 bb)
Jacquelyn Scott – 127,000 (79 bb)
Joel Harwood – 124,000 (77 bb)
Jeffrey Silverstein – 108,000 (67 bb)
Matt Yorra – 100,000 (62 bb)
Anthony Abdo – 96,000 (60 bb)
Dmitry Agrachov – 85,000 (53 bb)
Matt Axelrod – 76,000 (47 bb)
Ory Hen – 65,000 (41 bb)
Jorge Gomez – 46,000 (29 bb)
Yigal Hen – 34,000 (21 bb)
Neil Blumenfield – 23,000 (14 bb)

$250 Big Stack (re-entry) Flight A
$50,000 Guarantee | Structure
Level 11: 600/1,200 with a 200 ante
Players Remaining: 63/231

Nancy Thomas raised all in from early position for about 16,000, the player in the hijack called, George Boyadjian reraised all in with a covering stack from the cutoff, and the player in the hijack called all in for about 45,000 with . Boyadjian showed a leading , while Thomas trailed with .

The board came down , giving the hijack aces and queens to double through Boyadjian and eliminate Thomas.

Down to just a few thousand, Boyadjian was eliminated a few hands later.

$250 Big Stack (re-entry) Flight A
$50,000 Guarantee | Structure
Level 10: 500/1,000 with a 100 ante
Players Remaining: 81/231

The player in the cutoff rasied to 3,000, and Matt Yorra called from the big blind.

The flop came down , Yorra checked, his opponent continued for 3,500, and Yorra check-raised to 7,500. His opponent reraised all in with a covering stack, and Yorra called all in for 19,000 with for a pair of kings, leading his opponent’s for a pair of jacks.

The turn gave Yorra’s opponent an open-ended straight draw, but the river was safe for Yorra to double up.

Matt Yorra – 45,400 (45 bb)

$250 Big Stack (re-entry) Flight A
$50,000 Guarantee | Structure
Level 9: 400/800 with a 100 ante
Players Remaining: 99/231

Michael Newman raised to 2,000 from the button, the player in the small blind reraised all in with a covering stack, and Newman called all in for about 15,000 with , trailing his opponent’s .

The board came down , no help to Newman, ending his Flight A.

$250 Big Stack (re-entry) Flight A
$50,000 Guarantee | Structure
Level 9: 400/800 with a 100 ante
Players Remaining: 108/231

Registration for Flight A of Event 1 has closed with 231 entries. Here were the top five stacks at the second break:

Anthony Abdo – 108,000 (135 bb)
Dmitry Agrachov – 101,500 (127 bb)
Jonathan Gold – 91,000 (114 bb)
Joel Harwood – 86,000 (107 bb)
Jorge Gomez – 83,500 (104 bb)