$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Hollywood
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 11:  600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  175 of 367

David Farber has taken the chip lead with 370,000 here in Level 11, easily surpassing former chipleader Shalom Elharar, who has about 225,000.

At the same table, after a flop of with a little more than 30K in the pot, Tom Gity got it all in from the small blind for 28,400 with . Gity needed his eights to hold to stay alive against the of Ryan Van Sanford in the big blind.

The turn card paired the board with the , the river card was the , and Gity won the pot with two pair, jacks and eights, to double up in chips.

Tom Gity  –  90,000  (75 bb)
Ryan Van Sanford  –  32,000  (27 bb)

Two hands later, there was a preflop all-in cooler situation between a middle-position player with and Kevin Buldo, who had him covered with in the hijack.

The board came , and Buldo flopped a set of kings to win the pot and eliminate his opponent from Day 1A.

Kevin Buldo  –  155,000  (129 bb)

With about 175 players remaining from a Day 1A field of 367, the average chip stack is about 62,900 (52 big blinds). Action is scheduled to continue tonight until the end of Level 15, around 10:50 pm.