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Level 16:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining:  22 of 133

The rich get richer as Yan Tin Jiang added to her huge towers of chips. She three-bet from the button, the big blind four-bet shipped for around 140,000 and the OG raiser folded. Jiang quickly called with a monster.

Jiang:
Big Blind:

Jiang was dominant and her queens held on the board to move up to 455,000.

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Level 15:  2,500/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining:  26 of 133

Flight B is close to dropping down to three tables and Yan Tin Jiang is moving her stack up during that time. As told to us second-hand, she just picked up a huge pot when she eliminated Wally Maddah with flush-over-flush.

Jiang is over 400,000 and among the late leaders.

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Level 14:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining:  31 of 133

Flight B dropped down to the last four tables as they moved into Level 13. We have 31 players still in contention for a Day 2 seat with 14 of them advancing in the money.

Jack Ranallo is the latest to run up a big stack; the Chicago-area native is up to 363,000 as we head toward end game.

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Level 13:  1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players Remaining:  40 of 133

Players returned from their third break and another table was broken down at the start of Level 13 to bring the remaining count to 40. The average stack is still 44 big blinds so they have a ways to go today.

Arman Navazi continues to lead the field after he increased his stack to 379,500. Mina “MT” Tawfik sits in second with 279,500 while Tampa Poker regular Wally Maddah is up to 231,500.

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Level 12:  1,200/2,400 with a 2,400 ante
Players Remaining:  43 of 133

The clock is ticking down for Level 12 and players are preparing for the next break. The field is down to 43 remaining and they still have some time to go before they hit the money bubble with 14 advancing to Day 2. Yesterday went into Level 20 and we expect a similar schedule today.

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Level 11:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining:  64 of 133

Ryan Hogan’s table was one of the first to break after registration closed and it seems to be a positive move. Soon after taking his new seat, he opened the action from the cutoff and the small blind put in a fourth bet.

Hogan put him all in, the small blind called for 62,500 and ran into bad news. The small blind player was in rough shape with against Hogan’s . The board ran out to send the small blind out and put Hogan’s stack at 190,000.

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Level 10:  800/1,600 with a 1,600 ante
Players Remaining:  80 of 133

With 40K starting stacks and a slow-building structure, it takes some time to build a castle. March Triple 30s winner Arman Navazi is one of the few to stack a couple barrels of 5K chips and came back from the second break with 219,000 for the lead.

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Level 9:  600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Day 1B Entries:  133

Players returned from the second break and registration closed for Flight B of Pinktober Poker Open Event 1 with 133 entries pushing the combined total up to 248. That is good enough for a prize pool worth $106,640 with a huge addition expected tomorrow for Flight C.

Flight B will continue into the evening until on 14 players remain and they will advance to Day 2 on Sunday at noon.

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Level 8:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Day 1B Entries:  121

Flight B reached the eighth level of the day which means time is running out if you want to join this nice Friday afternoon group. The prize pool is already over $100,000 and we’ll add a bit more before registration closes at 3:30 pm.

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Level 7:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Day 1B Entries:  118

With entry number 118 this afternoon, Pinktober Poker Open Event 1 officially pushed the prize pool over the $100,000 guarantee. That’s a great start and there’s plenty of time to run it up with registration open today until 3:30 pm and a big final flight expected tomorrow.