Event 26 Flight C: Terrence Sullivan Doubles Up

$600 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Remaining Flight C Players: 126 of 443

Terrence Sullivan

Terrence Sullivan was all in on the small blind preflop short for 22,000 with pocket queens in the hole, and UTG had him covered holding AsKd.

The final board read 7s6h6c2d5s, and Sullivan doubled to survive with 49,000 after collecting the pot.

Terrence Sullivan – 49,000 (24 bb)

Event 26 Flight C: Art Peacock Leads Late

$600 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Flight C Players Remaining:  126 of 443

Art Peacock

Another break down and Flight C is down to 126 players with 56 advancing and Art Peacock is the new big stack in the room. He is up to 250,000 on the dot and sitting nicely for a late run into the evening.

There will probably be another break before the money bubble but it will be close.

Event 26 Flight C: Registration Closed with 443 Entries

$600 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight C Players Remaining:  267 of 443

Registration closed for Flight C of Showdown Event 26, and 443 more entries put the combined total at 1,193 for the tournament. With five more flights to go, they’ve put $620,360 toward the $2,000,000 guarantee.

Flight C will continue until 56 players remain and survivors will move on to Day 2 on Sunday at 1 pm in the money. Players must bag chips to cash in the tournament.

Day/TimeFlightEntriesAdvanced
Weds at 10 a.m.A34544
Weds at 5 p.m.B40550
Thursday at 10 a.m.C443TBD
Thursday at 5 p.m.D
Friday at 10 a.m.E
Friday at 5 p.m.F
Saturday at 10 a.m.G
Saturday at 5 p.m.H
Total1,19394

Event 26 Flight C: Ike Nlemchi Still Up Top

$600 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight C Entries: 443

Ike Nlemchi

The second break ended and we locked in the Flight C field with an unofficial 443 entries. Tournament staff are running the math, and we will report the numbers when they are available.

Ike Nlemchi led at the first break and he’s still up there with 135,600. Behind him, we have a handful all in the same zip code; Hao Tang has 115,500, Silvan Barbura has 115,100, and Adam Agaev has 114,100.

A virtual dead heat for second with Tang and Agaev only separated by two seats at the same table.

Event 26 Flight C: Last Level to Register

$600 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Flight C Entries: 410

Darryll Fish (left) and James Kerr (right)

Level 8 is here and we only have 30 minutes left with registration open for Flight C. We have a great number so far and our players have put more than $600,000 toward the $2,000,000 guarantee with some huge weekend fields to go.

More friends in the crowd include Darryll Fish, James Kerr, Eric Tarikis, Frankie Flowers, Nadya Magnus, Scott Levitt, Kevin Blewitt, James Calderaro, and Jacquelyn Scott.

Eric Tarikis
Frankie Flowers
Nadya Magnus
Scott Levitt

Event 26 Flight C: Ike Nlemchi Leads Early

$600 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5:  200/400 with a 400 ante
Flight C Entries: 312

Ike Nlemchi

The first break ended and players returned to their seats with more entries while they were gone pushing us over 300. They have two hours to run it up and get us closer to the $2,000,000 guarantee.

Ike Nlemchi is the early chip leader in the room with 90,400 followed by Ricardo Alves with 84,600. There are another handful in the 60K neighborhood with a lot of time to build a stack.

Event 26 Flight C: Early Friends

$600 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3:  100/200 with a 200 ante
Flight C Entries: 162

Jay Romano

The Flight C field is filling in nicely with 162 entries so far and more expected when we get past the morning hours. They’ve put nearly a quarter of the $2,000,000 guarantee into the pot and we are cruising along.

Some early friends in the field include Jay Romano, Caleb Piderit, Steve Buckner, Wagner Wysotchanski, Marshall Morris, Alessio Isaia, Elana Kerbel, Art Peacock, and Forest Raleigh.

Caleb Piderit
Steve Buckner
Wagner Wysotchanski

Event 26 Flight C: Getting Bigger

$600 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1:  100/100

We are moving toward the second weekend of the series and today we build on the great start to the $600 Deep Stack. The $2,000,000 guarantee tournament drew exactly 750 entries over the first two starting flights and we have two more today to spin it up starting with Flight C at 10 am.

Players sit down to 20,000 in their stacks and all Day 1 levels last 30 minutes, increasing to 40 minutes on Day 2 and 60 in Level 24. Late registration is available until 2:30 pm and players may refire as often as they wish during that time.

Flight C will play down to the last 12.5% of the field and survivors will bag up their chips for a Day 2 return on Sunday at 1 pm in the money.

  • $2,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
  • Players begin with 20,000 in chips
  • Day 1 levels last 30 minutes; Day 2 levels last 40 minutes
  • Levels 24+ last 60 minutes
  • Late registration until start of Level 9 (2:30pm)
  • Day 1 will end when field reaches 12.5%
  • Event 26 Structure Sheet

Chip counts through Flight B