Main Event Day 1A: Nathan Grow Bags Up 730K to Lead 86 Survivors

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Main Event
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 16: 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 86 of 444

Nathan Grow
Nathan Grow

Day 1A of the $1,100 WPTDeepStacks Main Event came to an end with 86 players remaining, and the big stack belongs to Nathan Grow who bagged up 730,000 (183 big blinds). Ilan Shachar is the only other player to bag at least 500K, and Shachar bagged exactly 500,000 (125 big blinds).

Here are the top five chip stacks to survive Day 1A:

1.  Nathan Grow  –  730,000  (183 bb)
2.  Ilan Shachr  –  500,000  (125 bb)
3.  Jacobo Milhem  –  384,000  (96 bb)
4.  Roberto Schmeda  –  351,000  (88 bb)
5.  Joshua Hillock  –  347,000  (87 bb)

Grow’s key pot shortly after the last break of the night, when he and William Jordan had two of the top three stacks in the field. Jordan raised, Grow reraised, and Jordan four-bet shoved for about 300K. Grow called with KxKx, and Jordan turned over QxQx. The best hand held up, and that catapulted Grow to about 600K.

The full list of official chip counts will be posted later tonight, and Day 1B begins tomorrow (Friday) at 12:00 noon.

Ilan Shachar
Ilan Shachar