$1,700 TPC Championship
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 17:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Day 1C Players Remaining:  21 of 161

The last flight always takes longer to get into the money; they have no backup plan or way to re-enter if they bust. So they cruised halfway through Level 17 before making the money with 21 remaining.

Thien Nguyen put more than one million in his bag for the overall chip lead. We will post the complete chip count list and table draw as soon as it is available.

Flight C counts:

Thien Nguyen – 1,052,000 (105 bb)
William Criego – 713,000 (71 bb)
Mike Hernandez – 532,000 (53 bb)
Nathaniel Palombo – 485,000 (49 bb)
Lu Yu – 440,000 (44 bb)
Rafael Reis – 435,000 (44 bb)
Roberto Melo – 381,000 (38 bb)
Frank Menendez – 366,000 (37 bb)
Diego Uez – 340,000 (34 bb)
Carl Carlisle – 279,000 (28 bb)
Mike Ahmad – 233,000 (23 bb)
Dion Jagroo – 199,000 (20 bb)
Jeffrey Trudeau Jr – 194,000 (19 bb)
Joshua Morgan – 159,000 (16 bb)
Jeffrey Hong – 145,000 (15 bb)
Daniel Kasper – 126,000 (13 bb)
Jordan Lowery – 116,000 (12 bb)
William Davis – 108,000 (11 bb)
John Two-Bears – 108,000 (11 bb)
Kevin Blewitt – 59,000 (6 bb)
Kelley Slay – 41,000 (4 bb)