Event 1 (Flight A): Scott Swatscheno Leads the 28 Flight A Survivors

$300 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Flight A
$75,000 Guarantee | Structure
Returning to Level 15: 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining: 28 of 211

Scott Swatscheno
Flight A Chip Leader Scott Swatscheno

Flight A of the $300 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) has concluded with 28 players bagging from the initial 211 entries. Scott Swatscheno is the Flight A chip leader with 525,000, more than 200,000 ahead of his nearest competitor.

Flight A chip counts will be posted shortly, while the Day 2 table and seating assignments will be posted following the conclusion of Flight B.

Event 1 (Flight A): Scott Swatscheno Nearing 500K

$300 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Flight A
$75,000 Guarantee | Structure
Level 14: 1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players Remaining: 34 of 211

Scott Swatscheno raised to 7,000 from the cutoff, Alan Gold called from the button and Ido Ashkenazi called from the big blind.

They checked to the turn of a 2h2s9d7h board where Gold bet 10,000. Only Swatscheno called.

The river was the Qh and both checked.

Swatscheno showed KcQc for queens and deuces, Gold mucked and Swatscheno collected the pot.

Scott Swatscheno – 487,000
Alan Gold – 290,000

Event 1 (Flight A): Ido Ashkenazi Eliminated by John Owen

$300 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Flight A
$75,000 Guarantee | Structure
Level 14: 1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players Remaining: 30 of 211

Ido Ashkenazi raised all in for about 52,000 from the cutoff and John Owen isolated with a shove of his own from the button.

Ashkenazi: Ad6h
Owen: JsJc

The board ran out 8s9h5dQc9d, no help to Ashkenazi, locking up the pot for Owen.

John Owen – 185,000
Ido Ashkenazi – Eliminated

Event 1 (Flight A): Scott Swatscheno Takes Out Another

$300 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Flight A
$75,000 Guarantee | Structure
Level 14: 1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players Remaining: 34 of 211

The player on the button raised all in for about 35,000 and Scott Swatscheno called from the big blind with 6d6s, racing with his opponent’s Jh8s.

The board ran out 5s4c7d2c7s, safe for Swatscheno to score the elimination.

Scott Swatscheno – 380,000

Event 1 (Flight B): Play Underway

$300 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Flight B
$75,000 Guarantee | Structure
Level 1: 100/100
Entries: 71

Event 1 Flight B is underway. Among those in the field at the start include Michael Tait, Raminder Singh, Robert Transue, Carlos Rodriguez and Pasquale Caiazza.

Registration closes at the start of Level 9 (about 10:30 p.m.) and the day will conclude after the completion of Level 14 (about 1:45 a.m.)

Event 1 (Flight A): Aces Hold for Scott Swatscheno

$300 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Flight A
$75,000 Guarantee | Structure
Level 13: 1,500/2,500 with a 2,500 ante
Players Remaining: 36 of 211

Scott Swatscheno
Scott Swatscheno

Scott Swatscheno raised to 5,000 from early position, a player in middle position three-bet to 11,000, Swatscheno four-bet to 30,000, the middle-position player five-bet shoved for about 110,000 and Swatscheno called with AcAh, leading his opponent’s KcKd.

The board ran out 6d5s4sJsJh, safe for Swatscheno to score the elimination.

Scott Swatscheno – 348,000

Event 1 (Flight A): Aces Cracked in Two Spots

$300 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Flight A
$75,000 Guarantee | Structure
Level 11: 800/1,600 with a 1,600 ante
Players Remaining: 55 of 211

Following a flop of Ks9s2h, a player in middle position was all in for 26,800 with Kd10c for a pair of kings against Carlos Rodriguez on the button who held AhAd.

The Kc turn and Qh river completed the board, giving Rodriguez’s opponent trip kings to double up. Down to about 31,000, Rodriguez busted shortly thereafter.

At a nearby table, with a min-raise to 3,200 and a three-bet to 7,000 in front of him, Pasquale Caiazza four-bet all in for about 65,000 from the button. Scott Swatscheno, the initial raiser, isolated the pot with KcKh, trailing Caiazza’s AdAh.

The board came down Ks3dJs2s7s, giving Swatscheno a set of kings to score the elimination.

Scott Swatscheno – 205,000
Carlos Rodriguez – Eliminated
Pasquale Caiazza – Eliminated

Event 1 (Flight A): Chip Counts From Around the Room

$300 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Flight A
$75,000 Guarantee | Structure
Level 10: 600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Players Remaining: 81 of 211

Ido Ashkenazi – 155,000
David Moreno – 99,000
Georges Boyadjian – 95,000
Marc Sacheli – 94,000
Dave Inselberg – 83,000
Eli Levy – 36,000
Scott Zakheim – 35,000
James Salmon – 35,000
Carlos Rodriguez – 35,000
Marsha Wolak – 33,000
Scott Baumstein – 24,500
Paul Domb – 18,500
James Hamburger – 9,000