$500 Double Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 17: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante Flight G Players Remaining: 125 of 993
Rafael Pena was second in chips with 480K when the Money Bubble began.
The players returned from their break to begin Level 17, with increased blinds of 3,000-6,000 and a 6,000 ante. Action immediately began with hand-for-hand play on the Money Bubble.
It took three hands for the field to lose a player, and now the remaining 125 are in the money and guaranteed at least $800 each.
Action will continue tonight until the field is down to the final 70 players (7% of this field), and those players will bag up their chips as they advance to Day 2, which begins tomorrow at 2:00 pm.
The Day 2 seat draw and the official prizepool will be posted on Sunday morning. The prizepool will be over $2 million, more than doubling the $1 million guarantee.
Ashley Spring was third in chips with 400K when the Money Bubble began.
$500 Double Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 17: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante Flight G Players Remaining: 126 of 993
Chipleader David Shaw
The field hits the Money Bubble with 126 players remaining just as time is running out in Level 16, so they take a 15-minute break before starting hand-for-hand play on the Money Bubble.
A scan of the field turned up three players with at least 400K in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard. For the second break in a row, David Shaw has a sizable lead at the top of the counts.
1. David Shaw – 718,000 (120 bb) 2. Rafael Pena – 480,000 (80 bb) 3. Ashley Spring – 400,000 (67 bb)
The final 125 players from this flight (12.5%) will finish in the money, and the final 70 players (7%) will advance to Day 2, which begins tomorrow at 2:00 pm.
The Day 2 seat draw and the official prizepool will be posted on Sunday morning, and the prizepool will be over $2 million, more than doubling the $1 million guarantee.
$500 Double Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 16: 2,500/5,000 with a 5,000 ante Flight G Players Remaining: 160 of 993
The remaining tables for Flight G fill the back corner of the ballroom, leaving most of it empty.
Level 16 begins with increased blinds of 2,500-5,000 and a 5,000 ante. With about 160 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 124,000 (25 big blinds).
The final 125 players from this flight (12.5%) will finish in the money, so the Money Bubble is quickly approaching.
The final 70 players (7%) will advance to Day 2, which begins tomorrow at 2:00 pm. The Day 2 seat draw and the official prizepool will be posted on Sunday morning, and the prizepool will be over $2 million, more than doubling the $1 million guarantee.
$500 Double Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 13: 1,500/2,500 with a 2,500 ante Flight G Players Remaining: 260 of 993
Chipleader David Shaw
The players return from break to begin Level 13, with increased blinds of 1,500-2,500 with a 2,500 ante. With about 260 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 76,500 (31 big blinds).
A scan of the field during the break turned up three players with at least 220K in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:
The final 125 players from this flight (12.5%) will finish in the money, and the final 70 (7%) will advance to Day 2, which begins tomorrow at 2:00 pm.
The Day 2 seat draw and the official prizepool will be posted on Sunday morning, and the prizepool will be over $2 million, more than doubling the $1 million guarantee.
$500 Double Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 11: 800/1,600 with a 1,600 ante Flight G Players Remaining: 365 of 993
Flight G Field
Registration closed for Flight G about an hour ago while we were processing all of the end-of-day information for Flight F, and here are the official numbers.
This final flight attracted 993 entries, making it the second largest flight for Event 1. The final 125 players will finish in the money, guaranteed to earn at least $800 each, and the final 70 will advance to Day 2 (which begins tomorrow at 2:00 pm).
The total field size across all seven flights is a whopping 4,852, which more than doubled the $1 million guarantee. The official prizepool will be posted before play begins on Day 2, but it should be worth more than $2.08 million.
As Level 11 begins with increased blinds of 800-1,600 with a 1,600 ante, most of the field is packed into one half of the tournament room, with one additional table waiting to break. So with about 365 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 54,400 (34 big blinds).
$500 Double Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 20: 6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante Flight F Players Remaining: 75 of 1,081
John Dolan
Flight F came to an end near the start of Level 20, with blinds at 6,000-12,000 and a 12,000 ante. However, since one of the earlier flights ended near the start of Level 19, Day 2 will begin no later than that, when the blinds were 5,000-10,000 with a 10,000 ante.
Action was scheduled to end when the field reached 76 players, but when that happened, another player was eliminated from a hand that was already in progress. So this flight ended with 75 survivors.
The Flight F chipleader is John Dolan, who bagged up 950,000 in chips. (The overall chipleader is still Simeon Knafo, who survived Flight C with 1,050,000.) The full list of official chip counts for Flight F can be found below.
Day 2 begins tomorrow (Sunday) at 2:00 pm, and the seat draw will be posted in the morning.
$500 Double Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 20: 6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante Flight F Players Remaining: 75 of 1,081
Here are the rest of the players who finished in the money from Flight F:
76th: Kevin Maingot – $800 77th: Alfredo Guevara – $800 78th: Jacob Ferro – $800 79th: Jarod Waters – $800 80th: Gregory Liss – $800 81st: Brandon Duvdivani – $800 82nd: Lucas Braga – $800 83rd: Matthew Duffy – $800 84th: A. Fields – $800 85th: Hung Quach – $800 86th: James Dickson – $800 87th: Rafael Lima – $800 88th: Terri-Anne Crawford – $800 89th: William Parker – $800 90th: Edgar Munivez – $800
Action was scheduled to end when the field reached 76 players, but when Alfredo Guevara was eliminated in 77th place, a hand was already in progress that led to the elimination of Kevin Maingot in 76th place. Like everyone else who was eliminated on Day 1, Maingot received a payout of $800.
$500 Double Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 19: 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante Flight F Players Remaining: 90 of 1,081
Here are the players who have finished in the money so far from Flight F:
91st: Michael Traficante – $800 92nd: Jose Hernandez Figueroa – $800 93rd: Timothy Duecker – $800 94th: Antonio Graham – $800 95th: Jason Lux – $800 96th: Jon Peartree – $800 97th: John Ingold – $800 98th: Walid Maddah – $800 99th: Michael Mestey – $800 100th: Joshua Garber – $800 101st: Andre Bryan – $800 102nd: Sean Turow – $800 103rd: Matthew Ewert – $800 104th: Jonmikel MacNichols – $800 105th: Giancarlo DiSalvo – $800 106th: Vitor Coelho – $800 107th: Ashira Lavine – $800 108th: William Watson – $800 109th: Anthony Goodwyn – $800 110th: Bryan Nunes Alencar – $800 111th: Jamey Avila – $800 112th: Steven Berry – $800 113th: Hung Tran – $800 114th: Greg Himmelbrand – $800 115th: Phi Hong – $800 116th: Phillip Galiano – $800 117th: Ramon Gonzalez – $800 118th: Charles Gudaitis – $800 119th: Thomas Fort – $800 120th: Robert Reel – $800 121st: David Shaw – $800 122nd: Sheng Han – $800 123rd: William Pisano, Jr. – $800 124th: name to come – $800 125th: Neal Stewart – $800 126th: Manny Rendon – $800 127th: Kevin Falls – $800 128th: Maled Tajalli – $800 129th: Christopher O’Rourke – $800 130th: Mario Romano – $800 131st: Nashaat Antonious – $800 132nd: Alejandro Posso – $800 133rd: John Esser – $800 134th: Justin Donnelly – $800 135th: Joe Alcala – $800 136th: Grant Missonis – $800
$500 Double Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 6: 300/500 with a 500 ante Flight G Entries: 846 (4,705 overall)
Flight G Field
With 846 entries in Flight G (and registration open for another hour and a half), the total field size is up to 4,705, which means the total prizepool has more than doubled the $1 million guarantee, currently worth a little more than $2.02 million.
Registration remains open until the end of the second break, around 9:30 pm. This is the final flight for Event 1, so if you want to take your shot at this $2 million prizepool, you’d better hurry!
$500 Double Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 16: 2,500/5,000 with a 5,000 ante Flight F Players Remaining: 134 of 1,081
There’s nothing like a four-way all-in situation to attract a lot of attention on the Money Bubble. Collins Delpercio is in seat 1 on the other side of the dealer, Joe Alcala is standing in seat 2, Grant Missonis is standing on the far right, and Anthony Goodwyn is in seat 6, sitting down near the bottom center of the photo.
As the Money Bubble was about to begin, there was a hand already in progress where three players were all in and a fourth was tanking about whether or not to call.
Joe Alcala moved all in under the gun for about 60,000, and Grant Missonis moved all in over the top from middle position for about 150,000. Anthony Goodwyn called from the hijack and prematurely revealed his cards — — before quickly flipping them back over.
Collins Delpercio moved all in from the big blind for about 230,000, and a couple of players say they are pretty sure he didn’t see the cards that were revealed.
So three players were all in, and action was back on Goodwyn, who had about 153,000 behind, and needed to call an additional 80,000 or so to stay in the pot.
At this point, there were 137 players remaining in the field, and the tournament clock was paused as the other tables played their in-progress hands to conclusion. Understandably, a crowd started to build around this table.
Eventually, Goodwyn called, and all four players turned over their cards. Here they are in descending order of chip counts:
Anthony Goodwyn: Collins Delpercio: Grant Missonis: Joe Alcala:
The board came — Missonis paired his queen on the flop for additional outs, but nobody improved any further. The pocket kings held up for Delpercio to scoop the entire pot, doubling thru Goodwyn and eliminating Missonis and Alcala.
As it turned out, there had been two eliminations almost simultaneously as they were reaching the Money Bubble, so the field was already down to the 136 players who would finish in the money. The tournament staff double-checked by counting the field, and everyone was in the money, including the two players (Missonis and Alcala) who were eliminated on this hand.
Collins Delpercio – 671,500 (134 bb) Anthony Goodwyn – 75,000 (15 bb) Grant Missonis – Eliminated in 135th Place ($800) Joe Alcala – Eliminated in 136th Place ($800)
Collins Delpercio
With 134 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 161,000 (32 big blinds). The remaining players are in the money, guaranteed at least $800 each, and the final 76 (7%) will advance to Day 2, which begins tomorrow at 2:00 pm.
— before quickly flipping them back over.
— Missonis paired his queen on the flop for additional outs, but nobody improved any further. The pocket kings held up for Delpercio to scoop the entire pot, doubling thru Goodwyn and eliminating Missonis and Alcala.