$250 Big Stack (re-entry) Flight A
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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.

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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)

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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)

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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
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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.

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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)

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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
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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)

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Level 8: 300/600 with a 75 ante
Entries: 219

In a battle of the blinds following a flop of , Jacquelyn Scott (small blind) and her opponent in the big blind go back and forth before Scott’s opponent winds up all in for about 24,000 with for bottom pair against Scott’s for top pair.

The turn and river completed the board, safe for Scott to score the elimination.

Jacquelyn Scott – 53,000 (88 bb)

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Level 7: 250/500 with a 50 ante
Entries: 206

Ory Hen – 58,000 (116 bb)
Jorge Gomez – 39,000 (78 bb)
Dmitry Agrachov – 32,500 (65 bb)
Abbey Daniels – 32,000 (64 bb)
Matt Yorra – 29,000 (58 bb)
Matt Axelrod – 21,000 (42 bb)
Nancy Thomas – 17,500 (35 bb)
Jacquelyn Scott – 16,000 (32 bb)
Neil Blumenfield – 15,000 (30 bb)
Michael Newman – 15,000 (30 bb)