Escalator VI Series Event #3
$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Prize Pool:  $403,240
Level 10:  600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Flight F Entries:  256

Flight F of Escalator VI Event #3 drew 256 entries, setting the total field size through all six starting flights at 1,186 entries. The prize pool is also set at $403,240. Payout information will be available before the start of Day 2 on Sunday.

Play in Flight F will continue until 32 players remain. Players must bag a stack in order to make the money, and those who do will return for Day 2 on Sunday at noon.

Chip counts through Flight E

Escalator VI Series Event #3
$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight F Entries:  247

The last of the alternates are still being seated, but with the 247th entry today the prize pool cracked the $400,000 mark.

Escalator VI Series Event #3
$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8:  400/800 with an 800 ante
Flight F Entries:  198

Following a flop of , Barrington Bowen bet 4,000 from the big blind. Matt Bretzfield called from middle position and the player in the cutoff folded.

The turn was the , Bowen bet 6,000 and Bretzfield called.

The river was the , Bowen checked, Bretzfield bet 25,000 and Bowen thought for a bit before he showed the and folded.

Bretzfield showed as he collected the pot.

Matt Bretzfield  –  125,000  (156 bb)
Barrington Bowen  –  97,000  (121 bb)

Escalator VI Series Event #3
$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6:  300/500 with a 500 ante
Flight F Entries:  169

Following a flop of , a player was all in from middle position for about 14,000 with against Steve Caplan on the button holding .

The turn and completed the board, further improving Caplan to jacks and nines to eliminate his opponent.

Steve Caplan  –  41,000  (82 bb)

Escalator VI Series Event #3
$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6:  300/500 with a 500 ante
Flight F Entries:  163

Barrington Bowen  –  96,000  (192 bb)
Yigal Hen  –  60,000  (120 bb)
Steve Cohen  –  53,000  (106 bb)
Matt Bretzfield  –  47,000  (94 bb)
Luckenson Pericles  –  42,000  (84 bb)
Jonathan Marcu  –  30,000  (60 bb)
Alik Sitnyakovsky  –  25,000  (50 bb)
Michael Tait  –  24,000  (48 bb)
Jairo Velasquez  –  22,000  (44 bb)
Mike Beasley  –  20,000  (40 bb)
Steve Caplan  –  19,000  (38 bb)
Frank Russo  –  13,000  (26 bb)
Jaime Wiegrefe  –  8,000  (16 bb)

Escalator VI Series Event #3
$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5:  200/400 with a 400 ante
Flight F Entries:  153

Following a flop of , two shorter stacks got their chips into the middle with and , respectively, while Barrington Bowen had them each covered holding .

The turn and river completed the board, safe for Bowen to score the double elimination.

Barrington Bowen  –  90,000  (225 bb)

Escalator VI Series Event #3
$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Return to Level 15:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining:  118 of 930

Flight A:  160 Entries; 20 Advanced
Flight B:  187 Entries; 24 Advanced
Flight C:  169 Entries; 22 Advanced
Flight D:  221 Entries; 28 Advanced
Flight E:  193 Entries; 24 Advanced
Flight F:  Saturday at 10 a.m.
Day 2:  Sunday at 12 p.m.

Escalator VI Series Event #3
$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 16:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Flight E Players Remaining:  24 of 193

Vladimir Florent raised all in for about 36,000 from early position, Zoltan Czinkota reraised all in on the button with a covering stack and Anwar Mohamed thought for a little while in the big blind before he called all in for roughly 90,000.

Florent: 
Czinkota: 
Mohamed: 

The board ran out , clean for Czinkota to score the double elimination.

Zoltan Czinkota  –  284,000  (57 bb)
Anwar Mohamed  –  Eliminated
Vladimir Florent  –  Eliminated

Combined with a bustout apiece from each of the other three tables in a two-minute span, the field dropped from 29 to 24, locking up Day 2 seats for the remaining players.

Chip counts through Flight E will be posted later tonight.

Escalator VI Series Event #3
$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 15:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Flight E Players Remaining:  29 of 193

Juan Perez raised all in for 43,000 from early position and Rafay Asrar called on the button with , racing with Perez’s .

The board ran out , giving Perez aces and nines to double throgh Asrar.

Juan Perez  –  96,000  (24 bb)
Rafay Asrar  –  84,000  (21 bb)

Escalator VI Series Event #3
$400 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 15:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Flight E Players Remaining:  30 of 193

Manfred Rosenow limped from middle position, Rafay Asrar raised to 10,500 from the button, and Solange Lucas three-bet all in for 44,000 from the small blind. Brian Malik four-bet all in for 85,500 from the big blind and isolated the pot.

Lucas: 
Malik: 

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

Solange Lucas  –  106,500  (27 bb)
Brian Malik  –  41,500,  (10 bb)