$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining:  35 of 192

Justin Zaki went on a late day heater, built a castle, and he finished Flight A of the TPC Championship with the lead. He put together a huge bag with 630,000 and the clear leader by the time they wrapped up action this evening.

Romeo Mendoza bagged second with 572,000 followed by Cody Hernandez, Jason Block, Oleg Rutskin, Fernando Rodriguez, Ken Fishman, and Chris Meyers rounding out those who bagged at least 300K.

We will post the full list of chip counts as soon as they are available.

Top Flight A stacks:

Justin Zaki – 630,000
Romeo Mendoza – 572,000
Cody Hernandez – 429,000
Jason Block – 383,000
Oleg Rutskin – 345,000
Fernando Rodriguez – 327,000
Ken Fishman – 327,000
Chris Meyers – 302,000

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining:  45 of 192

Level 14 is underway, the last chance for players to spin up a stack for Day 2 on Sunday. We have 45 players left and should break another table before bagging up.

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 13:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining:  48 of 192

After a middle position open, Marie Harrell moved all in for 51,000 from the cutoff and Jesse Cohen reshipped from the small blind to get folds from the big blind and original raiser.

Cohen:
Harrell:

Harrell was dominated by the bigger pair and could not find a save on the board to exit Flight A late in the day.

Jesse Cohen – 192,000 (48 bb)

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 13:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining:  54 of 192

Cards are back in the air for the last two levels of the day with Nick Scholz the new leader in the room.

He is up to 303,000 with other big stacks including Cody Hernandez (295,000), Romeo Mendoza (256,000), Oleg Rutskin (252,000), and Kyle Dilschneider (228,000).

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12:  1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players Remaining:  55 of 192

The finished up Level 12 and tournament staff sent Flight A players on their final break of the day while they pulled the purple chips out of play. They will return to play two more levels before bagging up.

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12:  1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players Remaining:  62 of 192

Action folded to Toby Boas and he shipped all in for 33,500 while having a laugh with David Tuthill. Kyle Dilschneider laughed along and then called to put Boas at risk.

Boas:
Dilschneider:

“Classic flip,” they joked.

Boas needed a lot of help but only found a small sweat as the board ran .

Kyle Dilschneider – 217,000 (72 bb)

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining:  81 of 192

Registration closed for Flight A of the TPC Championship with an official 192 entries in the game. That puts $432,000 in the prize pool towards the $500,000 guarantee and only 31 entries needed for Flight B tomorrow to get it there.

Lock it up.

Flight A will continue into the evening and survivors at the end of Level 14 will bag their chips for a Day 2 return on Sunday at noon.

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Flight A Entries:  192

Players returned to Championship action after the dinner break with a new chip lead. Cody Hernandez sits with 254,000 followed by David Tuthill with 232,000 and Romeo Mendoza with 212,500.

The clock shows 192 entries for Flight A but we are waiting on tournament staff to lock in the official numbers.

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  800/1,600 with a 1,600 ante
Flight A Entries:  182

Level 9 came to an end and tournament staff sent Flight A players on a 60-minute dinner break while they take the black chips out of play.

They will return at 6:30 pm and registration will close for the day. Flight B runs tomorrow at 11 am with the same schedule of play.

$2,500 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9:  800/1,600 with a 1,600 ante
Flight A Entries:  180

Table 11 has been having fun most of the day and a lot of it comes at the expense of Jeremy Becker. Everyone keeps wishing him a happy birthday and he keeps shaking his head with the attention.

The latest bit came when he found a cooler against Doug Marro.

“I doubled up the birthday boy!” Marro laughed after his kings ran into Becker’s aces to move Becker up to 110,800.