$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 12: 800/1,600 with a 200 Ante
Flight E Players Remaining: 216 of 676

As we near the end of the flights, we like to begin eyeballing stacks to track the end-of-day leaders. Ariel Williams was an obvious choice when we walked around during the break.

She ran her 20,000 starting stack over 200,000 before the final break and then picked up some more to push it up to 229,500 with a few more levels to run.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 12: 800/1,600 with a 200 Ante
Flight E Players Remaining: 234 of 676

Players are back at the tables after a quick 10-minute break leaving them only three more levels to run up a stack or get ready for the 6pm final flight.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 10: 500/1,000 with a 100 Ante
Flight E Players Remaining: 288 of 676

Steve Karp opened to 2,400 under the gun, and a player in position called. The big blind three-bet shoved for 14,000, Karp re-shoved for more than 50,000, and the third player folded out of the way to leave the big blind heads-up and at risk.

Karp:
Big blind:

The board ran out , and Karp won the pot with tens full to shrink the field by one.

Steve Karp – 70,000 (70 bb)

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 9: 400/800 with a 100 Ante
Flight E Players Remaining: 351 of 676

The accounts are settled and Flight E officially drew 676 entries to created the biggest of the tournament while pushing the prize pool over $1,000,000.

One more flight to go, we’ll see tonight how high Flight F can expand the huge field and prize pool.

Chip counts through Flight D

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 9: 400/800 with a 100 Ante
Flight E Players Remaining: 351 of 676

Ryan Van Sanford opened to 1,800 under the gun, Alfredo Fernandez called a couple seats over, and both blinds joined to create four-way action.

The flop was . It checked to Fernandez, who bet 3,800. The blinds folded, but Van Sanford check-raised all in for 17,900 total. Fernandez called, having Van Sanford covered by just 100 chips. Both players were drawing.

Van Sanford: (straight draw)
Fernandez: (combo draw)

The turn filled Fernandez’s flush, locking up the pot one card early. Van Sanford was already drawing dead to the river, and he was eliminated. “See you in a few hours,” he said as he left the table.

The final starting flight for this event, Day 1F, begins at 6 p.m., and Van Sanford has plans to be in attendance.

Alfredo Fernandez – 44,000 (55 bb)
Ryan Van Sanford – Eliminated

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 9: 400/800 with a 100 Ante
Flight E Entries: 676

Flight E players returned from break with 676 entries showing on the clock. We’re waiting for the smart people to run the official numbers, once they are done we will post them and see where we stand with one more flight to fly.

Of those still around, Alan Wentz returned to the biggest stack. His 158,000 is well clear of the rest and we’ll see if he can hold on to the top spot.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 8: 300/600 with a 75 Ante
Flight E Entries: 653

Jake Schwartz opened to 1,400 in early position, and Charlemagne Benjamin three-bet to 4,000 on the button. Schwartz four-bet shoved for 22,050 effective, and Benjamin called all in for that amount to put himself at risk.

Schwartz:
Benjamin:

“Well, I got an over,” Schwartz tried to find the silver lining. He had much more than that after the flop, picking up straight and flush draws with two cards to come. That’s as close as he’d get, though. The turn and river completed the board safely for Benjamin, and he doubled up with his pair of queens.

Schwartz was left with just 1,450 chips after paying off the debt, and he was eliminated one hand later.

Charlemagne Benjamin – 45,600 (76 bb)
Jake Schwartz – Eliminated

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 8: 300/600 with a 75 Ante
Flight E Entries: 633

Time is running out if players want to hop into the penultimate flight of the +$1,000,000 prize pool Event 9. They’ll play through this level, take a 15-minute break, then shut down registration leaving only tonight’s flight left to go.

Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Stewart Newman is in today’s field along with other notables such as Chino Rheem, Brian Hastings, Steve Karp, Lily Kiletto, Jonathan Hilton, and Ryan Van Sanford.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 7: 250/500 with a 75 Ante
Flight E Entries: 603

We’re seeing more and more big names come to town for the big money prelim and get ready for the big WPT events on the horizon.

WPT Champions Club member Olivier Busquet jumped into early action and we caught him putting his last ~6,000 in the middle from early position. The big blind opponent called and Busquet needed to catch an over.

Big Blind:
Busquet:

It started well for Busquet when he hit a part of the flop but he blanked the turn and river to exit. But have no fear Busquet fans, “livb112” hit the registration desk to use a re-entry option.

$570 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 5: 150/300 with a 50 Ante
Flight E Entries: 537

Players returned to their seats and they are ready to grind four more levels before we start shutting down registration. They added another 120 entries since breaking the $1,000,000 guarantee and they are still hitting the tables at a regular pace.

David Stanford had the best opening four levels of anyone else in the room and his 85,000 is setting the current pace. John Ryan topped 70,000 and Eric Silevitch isn’t far behind with plenty of time for others to catch them.

Top stacks and some notables:

David Stanford – 85,000 (283 bb)
John Ryan – 70,000 (233 bb)
Eric Silevitch – 69,225 (231 bb)
Jonathan Stabb – 55,500 (185 bb)
David Gillespie – 55,000 (183 bb)
Manny Minaya – 55,000 (183 bb)
Jean “Prince” Gaspard – 54,000 (180 bb)
Raymond Stephens – 52,000 (173 bb)
David Singh – 51,700 (172 bb)
Aftab Saakoor – 50,000 (167 bb)
Ira Schwartz – 50,000 (167 bb)
Nigel Murray – 49,000 (163 bb)
Daren Stabinski – 42,200 (141 bb)
John DePersio – 39,300 (131 bb)
Evan Teitelbaum – 37,775 (126 bb)
David Poces – 29,900 (100 bb)
Jeff Kessler – 29,200 (97 bb)
Sorel Mizzi – 27,250 (91 bb)
Ruslan Dykshteyn – 25,800 (86 bb)
Mike Graffeo – 24,000 (80 bb)
Joe Reddick – 21,400 (71 bb)
Charlemagne Benjamin – 20,000 (67 bb)
Eric Piderit – 18,000 (60 bb)
Tony March – 17,250 (58 bb)
Harrison Gimbel – 13,400 (45 bb)