Event 1 Flight A: Tuan Pham Leads the Field at the Break with 168,100

$500 Double Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry)
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Level 9:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight A Entries:  463

Tuan Pham
Chipleader Tuan Pham

A scan of the field during the break turned up four players with at least 130K in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  Tuan Pham  –  168,100  (168 bb)
2.  Nathaniel Galliford  –  146,300  (146 bb)
3.  Guoan Pan  –  135,000  (135 bb)
4.  Mark Donly  –  133,100  (133 bb)

Tuan Pham picked up a lot of his chips in a key hand where he got it all in with QxQx after a flop of Jx9x5x, and they held up against his opponent’s AxJx to give Pham a big double-up — and the chip lead.

Registration has closed, and as soon as official numbers are released for this flight, we will post them here in the updates.

The final 12.5% of the players in each starting flight will finish in the money, earning $800. The final 7% of each starting flight will advance to Day 2, which begins Sunday at 2:00 pm.