$570 Deep Stack NL Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 9: 400/800 with a 100 ante
Entries: 161

Joe Boulais has put a hurt on the Flight E field over the first eight levels of play and it seemed the whole tournament stopped to take a look at his stack over break. Boulais somehow managed to turned his 20,000-chip holdings into 175,000 over the early portions of play.

“Is that real?” one player joked walking by the table admiring Boulais’ tower of gray 5,000 chips.

Indeed, it was real. Through yesterday’s Flight D, a total of 62 players have bagged. Boulais’ Flight E stack at the beginning of Level 9 would be good enough to crack the top 10 of those have advanced thus far and he still has six levels to play.

Joining Boulais at the top of the counts is Hollywood regular Charlemagne Benjamin. Despite impressive holdings of 115,000 chips, Benjamin’s stack is 75 big blinds shy of Boulais whose stack is good for 218 big blinds.

Tournament staff is still finalizing the Flight E attendance sum and we’ll provide the official numbers as soon as they’re available.