$500 Double Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 17:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Flight E Players Remaining:  80 of 696

The players return from break to begin Level 17, with increased blinds of 3,000-6,000 and a 6,000 ante. With 80 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 174,000 (29 big blinds).

A scan of the field during the break turned up three players with at least 400K in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  Margarete Stanechewski  –  527,000  (88 bb)
2.  Austin Sullivan  –  470,000  (78 bb)
3.  Lu Yu  –  410,000  (68 bb)

In the first hand back from break, a player moved all in under the gun for 58,000, and chipleader Margarete Stanechewski called from the small blind with . Her opponent turned over .

Stanechewski led the entire way — until the river — on a board of . Her opponent spiked an ace on the river to win the pot and double up.

“I think I’ve lost the chip lead,” said Stanechewski, who finished the hand with 469,000 — a single chip lower than Austin Sullivan, assuming Sullivan hadn’t lost any chips from his 470,000 at the break.

Action will continue tonight until there are 49 players remaining, and they will bag up their chips for Day 2, which begins Sunday at 2:00 pm.