$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 16:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Flight B Players Remaining:  68 of 547

Chris Conrad raised to 10,000 from middle position, Chris Mo three-bet to 27,000 from the small blind, Conrad four-bet all in for 138,000 and Mo thought for a few moments before he called.

Conrad:
Mo:

Just prior to the runout, a short-stacked player from another table was already all in with ten-nine suited against an opponent’s kings. The short-stacked player failed to improve on the ensuing runout, meaning at least one elimination was guaranteed.

The Conrad vs. Mo hand then finished up, with the board running out clean for Mo, eliminating Conrad on the money bubble as well.

Chris Mo – 368,000 (74 bb)
Chris Conrad – Eliminated on the Money Bubble

The remaining 68 players are in the money and will return on Sunday at 1 p.m. for Day 2.

Jimmy Corrales is the Flight B chip leader with 470,000, good for second overall through two flights.

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 16:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Flight B Players Remaining:  71 of 547

The player under the gun limped in, Jimmy Corrales limped from middle position and Gabe Ramos raised to 20,000 from the button.  Chris Mo called from the big blind, the UTG player called and Corrales called.

The flop was and Mo checked to the UTG player who shoved for 64,000. Corrales raised all in for 107,000, Ramos called and Mo thought for a while before he called as well.

The turn was the , Mo shoved for effectively 150,000-ish and Ramos thought for a little while before he folded.

Mo:
UTG:
Corrales:

Corrales was in the lead with the nut flush, Mo was drawing dead and the UTG player had outs to a full house.

The river was the , safe for Corrales to eliminate the UTG player while also doubling through Mo and Ramos.

Jimmy Corrales – 485,000 (97 bb)
Chris Mo – 240,000 (48 bb)
Gabe Ramos – 150,000 (30 bb)

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
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Level 9:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight B Entries:  547

Registration has closed for the second flight of Event 1. With another 547 entries, the total field size is at 1,064 entries and the prize pool is more than 70% to the guarantee through two flights.

Tonight’s action will continue until only 69 players remain. Players must bag a stack in order to make the money and advance to Day 2, which is Sunday at 1 p.m.

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7:  300/600 with a 600 ante
Flight B Entries:  498

A player was all in from the big blind for about 15,000 with , and needed to improve to stay alive against the of Chad Varnas in middle position.

The board came , and Varnas flopped a set of sevens and turned quads to win the pot and eliminate his opponent.

Chad Varnas  –  40,000  (67 bb)

A few minutes later at the same table, Howard Mash got it all in from middle position with , and he needed them to hold to stay alive against his opponent’s .

The board came , and Mash’s pocket queens held up for him to win the pot and double up in chips.

Howard Mash  –  35,000  (58 bb)

This flight is up to 498 entries (1,015 overall), and registration remains open with a single re-entry option until 10:30 pm.

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
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Level 6:  300/500 with a 500 ante
Flight B Entries:  514

Jim Sullivan – 85,000 (170 bb)
Mark Dube – 78,000 (156 bb)
Herbert Nairn – 68,000 (136 bb)
Ido Ashkenazi – 68,000 (136 bb)
Mike Chiappetta – 65,000 (130 bb)
Gabe Ramos – 63,000 (126 bb)
Sean Shah – 44,000 (88 bb)
Steve Karp – 38,000 (76 bb)
Mike Beasley – 37,000 (74 bb)
Howard Mash – 35,000 (70 bb)
Chris Conrad – 32,000 (64 bb)
Joseph Duchman- 29,000 (58 bb)
Steven McKoy – 28,000 (56 bb)
Michael Johnson – 26,000 (52 bb)
Neil Blumenfield – 25,000 (50 bb)
Jorie Damiani – 23,000 (46 bb)
Jerry Wong – 21,000 (42 bb)
Robert Transue – 20,000 (40 bb)
Victor Figueroa – 19,000 (38 bb)
Marcus Stein – 18,000 (36 bb)
Nancy Birnbaum – 14,500 (29 bb)
Raminder Singh – 13,000 (26 bb)

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5:  200/400 with a 400 ante
Flight B Entries:  475

The players returned from break to begin Level 5, with increased blinds of 200-400 with a big blind ante of 400.

A scan of the field during the break turned up five players with at least 70K, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  Herbert Nairn  –  91,100  (228 bb)
2.  Jim Sullivan  –  90,500  (226 bb)
3.  Ido Ashkenazi  –  79,600  (199 bb)
4.  Steven Dockswell  –  75,800  (190 bb)
5.  Mark Dube  –  74,200  (186 bb)

This flight is up to 475 entries (992 overall), and registration remains open with a single re-entry option until 10:30 pm.

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Return to Level 16:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 65 of 517

Flight A: 517 Entries; 65 Advanced
Flight B: Underway
Flight C: Friday at 10 a.m.
Flight D: Friday at 6 p.m.
Flight E: Saturday at 10 a.m.
Flight F: Saturday at 6 p.m.
Day 2: Sunday at 1 p.m.

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 16:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  65 of 517

Flight A of Event 1 came to an end with 65 players advancing to Day 2, and the big stack belonged to Aaron Rosenthal, who bagged up 485,000.

Action ended with 1:24 remaining in Level 16, with blinds at 3,000-5,000 with a 5,000 ante. Day 2 will begin with the blinds rolled back to the earliest finish among the starting flights.

The full list of official chip counts will be posted a little later tonight, but Flight B is already underway.

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 16:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 65 of 517

On the first hand of the money bubble, Carlos Velasco raised all in for 71,000 from the cutoff and Matt Zarcadoolas called from the button.

Velasco:
Zarcadoolas:

The board ran out , safe for Velasco to double up.

Carlos Velasco – 155,000 (31 bb)
Matt Zarcadoolas – 144,000 (29 bb)

Meanwhile, at another table, Matthew Reed eliminated an opponent to send the rest of the field into the money.

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 16:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  66 of 517

At Table 14, there was a three-way all-in situation with aces vs. aces vs. kings.

Jorge Cuesta was the short stack, all in from middle position for 101,000 with , while the other two players had identical stacks of 148,000 each — Brandon Schaefer (UTG+1) with , and the player on the button with .

Brandon Schaefer:  
Jorge Cuesta:  
Button:  

The board came , and the pocket aces held up for Schaefer and Cuesta to chop the main pot of 316,000, and Schaefer won the side pot of 94,000 to eliminate the player on the button from Flight A.

Brandon Schaefer  –  252,000  (50 bb)
Jorge Cuesta  –  158,000  (32 bb)

That hand happened with about 68 players remaining, but the field is currently on the end-of-day Money bubble with 66 players left, and an average chip stack around 157,000 (31 big blinds).

As soon as there is one more elimination, the surviving players will bag up their chips for Day 2, which begins Sunday at 1:00 pm. Everyone who survives to Day 2 will finish in the money.