$250 Big Stack (re-entry) Flight A
$50,000 Guarantee | Structure
Level 14: 1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 BB Ante
Players Remaining: 29/258

A player in early position raised all in for 35,500 and Ido Ashkenazi called from the small blind with , racing with his opponent’s .

The board fell , giving Ashkenazi a pair of queens to add to his chip lead and eliminate his opponent.

Iso Ashkenazi – 435,000 (145 bb)

$250 Big Stack (re-entry) Flight A
$50,000 Guarantee | Structure
Level 14: 1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 BB Ante
Players Remaining: 32/258

There are 32 players remaining in Flight A, and Ido Ashkenazi is the chip leader with about 415,000 entering the final level of the flight.

$250 Big Stack (re-entry) Flight A
$50,000 Guarantee | Structure
Level 13: 1,500/2,500 with a 2,500 BB Ante
Players Remaining: 36/258

A player in middle position opened to 6,500, the player in the hijack called and Nick Yunis three-bet shoved from the big blind for 42,000. The initial raiser isolated the pot with a shove his own, showing . Yunis tabled .

The board ran out , safe for Yunis to double up with eights and fours.

Nick Yunis – 93,000 (37 bb)

$250 Big Stack (re-entry) Flight A
$50,000 Guarantee | Structure
Level 12: 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 BB Ante
Players Remaining: 43/258

Raminder Singh raised to 5,500 from under the gun, Ory Hen reraised all in from the hijack for 10,000 and Singh called.

Singh:
Hen:

The board came down , not enough help to Hen, locking up the pot for Singh with aces and queens.

Raminder Singh – 170,000 (85 bb)
Ory Hen – Eliminated

$250 Big Stack (re-entry) Flight A
$50,000 Guarantee | Structure
Level 10: 600/1,200 with a 1,200 BB Ante
Players Remaining: 72/258

Ido Ashkenazi – 165,000
Howard Mash – 70,000
Larry Klur – 49,000
Raminder Singh – 39,000
Dimitry Agrachov – 33,000
Nick Yunis – 23,000
Ory Hen – 20,000
Matthew Zarcadoolas – 11,000

$250 Big Stack (re-entry) Flight A
$50,000 Guarantee | Structure
Level 9: 500/1,000 with a 1,000 BB Ante
Players Remaining: 90/258

Registration has closed for Flight A of Event 1.  With 258 entries, the $50,000 guarantee has already been surpassed.

Flight A action will continue until the end of Level 14, where the remaining players will bag and return for Day 2 tomorrow at 2 PM.