WPTDS Day 1A: Paul Grigsby Leads with 545K; Carlos Garcia and David Farber Score Some Knockouts

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Hollywood
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 15:  1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  80 of 367

Paul Grigsby
Paul Grigsby

There are about 80 players remaining as the field begins the final level of the night, with an average chip stack around 138,000 (46 big blinds). The chipleader appears to be Paul Grigsby, who is the only player who has surpassed the 500K mark.

Paul Grigsby  –  545,000  (182 bb)

Carlos Garcia Knocks Out a Player
Carlos Garcia (right) turned over queens, and the small blind was in worse shape than he had hoped.

At Table 23, there is a bit of action before it reaches Carlos Garcia in the big blind, and he reraised it to 24,000. A player folded, and the small blind reraised to 60,000.

Garcia moved all in for about 155,000, and the small blind tanked for a while before he called all in for about 140,000 with 7s4c. Garcia turned over QsQh.

The board came 8c4d2h8h6s — the small blind paired his four on the flop, but improved no further. Garcia won the pot with his pocket queens to eliminate his opponent from Day 1A.

Carlos Garcia  –  305,000  (102 bb)

Shortly after that, a player got it all in from the button for about 60,000 with AcKc, but he needed to improve to stay alive against the 5s5c of David Farber in middle position.

The board came Jd4s2dQs8s — the button turned a gutshot straight draw, but missed his outs on the river. Farber won the pot with his pocket fives to eliminate his opponent from Day 1A.

David Farber  –  335,000  (112 bb)