Escalator VII Series Event 3
$400 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 11:  800/1,600 with a 1,600 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  52 of 171

In a battle of the blinds, Bill Gazes was all in for 55,200 from the small blind with against his opponent in the big blind holding .

The final board read , giving Gazes a set of jacks on the river to double through his opponent.

Bill Gazes  –  112,000  (70 bb)

Escalator VII Series Event 3
$400 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10:  600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  62 of 171

Joel Gola opened to 3,000 from early position, the player on the button called and Marc Sacheli three-bet all in for 17,400 from the small blind. Gola isolated the pot with a shove of his own.

Gola: 
Sacheli: 

The board ran out , further improving Gola to aces full of tens to eliminate Sacheli.

Joel Gola  –  53,000  (44 bb)
Marc Sacheli  –  Eliminated

Escalator VII Series Event 3
$400 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  75 of 171

On the river of a board with roughly 40,000 in the pot, Raffaello Locatelli was all in from the cutoff for 17,700. Matt Zarcadoolas thought for a while from under the gun before he called.

Locatelli showed , while Zarcadoolas tabled for jacks and tens to eliminate Locatelli.

Matt Zaradoolas  –  78,000  (78 bb)
Raffaello Locatelli  –  Eliminated

Escalator VII Series Event 3
$400 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  85 of 171

Neal Corcoran  –  210,000  (210 bb)
Ricardo Velasco  –  120,000  (120 bb)
James Anderson  –  102,000  (102 bb)
David Vurgait  –  94,000  (94 bb)
Raminder Singh  –  83,000  (83 bb)
Joseph Duchman  –  74,000  (74 bb)
Marc Sacheli  –  60,000  (60 bb)
Ory Hen  –  58,000  (58 bb)
Raul Hernandez  –  58,000  (58 bb)
Matt Zarcadoolas  –  46,000  (46 bb)
Joel Gola  –  45,000  (45 bb)
Stuart Greenbaum  –  44,000  (44 bb)
Quan Phui  –  40,000  (40 bb)
Bill Gazes  –  38,000  (38 bb)
Raffaello Locatelli  –  37,000  (37 bb)
Philip Consolo  –  33,000  (33 bb)
Donny Rubinstein  –  25,000  (25 bb)
Scott Zakheim  –  23,000  (23 bb)
Al Norman  –  22,000  (22 bb)
Claudio Piedrabuena  –  20,000  (20 bb)
Rob Brown  –  19,000  (19 bb)
Scott Baumstein  –  18,000  (18 bb)

Escalator VII Series Event 3
$400 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight A Entries:  171

Flight A of Event 3 of the Escalator VII Series drew 171 entries, well on the way to exceeding the $300,000 guarantee.

Play in Flight A will continue 22 players remain. As a reminder, players must bag chips in order to cash and advance to Day 2.