Event 1 (Day 1E)
$540+$60 Deep Stack NLH
$2 Million Guaranteed
End Level 17: Blinds 2,500/5,000/500 ante
Total A-E Entries: 3,095
1E Entries: 1,446
Players Remaining: 240
Average Stack: 150,625
Josh Lassiter leads the pack with 1,052,000
Steve Dannenmann still in the hunt with 126,000
Oscar Herrera made a great late push to finish with 596,000.
Tommy Leonard was solid throughout the flight and closed at 392,000.
Early chip leader and hero caller Andrew Kim has 245,000, the man with aces, Joe Baccigalupi finished at 392,000.
Notables to advance on to Day 2:
David Jackson – 318,000
Kathy Liebert – 272,000
John Allan Hinds – 186,000
Ralph Massey – 158,500
Will Failla – 152,000
Steve Dannenmann – 126,000
DJ MacKinnon – 120,000
Joey Galazzo – 87,000
Josh Lasstier bagged the top stack with 1,052,000
Day 2 starts tomorrow, Friday January 19th in the event center at 12 PM.
Meanwhile, our final flight continues, with registration still available.
Good luck!
$540+$60 Deep Stack NLH
$2,000,000 Guaranteed
Level 16: 2,000/4,000/400 ante
Total A-E Entries: 3,095
Day 1E Entries: 1,446
Day 1E Players Remaining: 330
David Jackson
Rob Abrahyan opens to 8,500 from late position, David Jackson makes it 27,000 from the button, and Abrahyan moves all in for 54,400. Jackson calls with 
and is racing against Abrahyan’s 
.
The board comes 
and Abrahyan spikes a king on the turn to stay alive in this morning flight.
Rob Abrahyan – 118,000
David Jackson – 260,000
$540+$60 Deep Stack NLH
$2 Million Guaranteed
End of Level 16: Blinds 2,000/4,000/400 ante
Total A-E Entries: 3,095
1E Entries: 1,446
Players Remaining: 330
Average Stack: 88,170
The clear chip leader, at now broken table 13: over a million in tourney disks.
We now head to our last break of the day for a color up, followed by the final level.
Day 2 and bagging await for our flight.
Nearby, Jackie Liu’s opens are getting pressed. Here she calls a short shove from Judah Balin after a light HJ open of A7o. Balin fades her ace with two tens.
…then K3 decides to lay the pressure, but Liu will make the call, turn over nines and hold.
$540+$60 Deep Stack NLH
$2 Million Guaranteed
Level 16: Blinds 2,000/4,000/400 ante
Total A-E Entries: 3,095
1E Entries: 1,446
Players Remaining: 410
Average Stack: 88,170
Baccigalupi leaps into contention for the lead.
Joe Baccigalupi cooled off and felted two opponents in one massive hand, tripling his stack to 450,000.
Dealt 
, he got action on a king high flop from both 
and 
, leaving him in great shape for the final levels of flight 1E.
Meanwhile, Josh Lassiter continues to cruise, holding 525,000. Here is gets involved and has to show down 3c4c with a short stack all in. A ham on his right joins the show.
Out on 94 with big stack Andrew Kim, left, Aldo Luis has spun a few blinds back up to an average stack. Here he makes a8 work against aq – living dangerously.
Meanwhile, lurking a little quietly today on 2, Will Failla.
$540+$60 Deep Stack NLH
$2,000,000 Guaranteed
Level 13: 1,000/2,000/300 ante
Total A-E Entries: 3,095
1E Entries: 1,446
Will “The Thrill” Failla
A player opens to 5,500 from the hijack and Will Failla, who boasts over $5,000,000 in earnings, makes it 25,000 from the button. His opponent calls.
The flop comes 
and the hijack checks. Failla moves all in for around 100,000, winning himself the pot.
Will Failla – 155,000
$540+$60 Deep Stack NLH
$2 Million Guaranteed
Level 13: Blinds 1,000/2,000/300 ante
Total A-E Entries: 3,095
1E Entries: 1,446
Players Remaining: 410
Sean Cameron, an early big stack, is still surviving, despite a negative encounter with the aces.
Tommy Leonard, also an early leader, has continued to climb and is pushing 400,000.
Another hand among hundreds of thousands: Andrew Hannah, Borgata super reg, ponders after a check fold against the button.
Getting the survival shove through: Nick Soulis on 86.
Stacks in search of players on 41.
$540+$60 Deep Stack NLH
$2 Million Guaranteed
Level 13: Blinds 1,000/2,000/300 ante
Total A-E Entries: 3,095
1E Entries: 1,446
We were scratching our heads over the last-minute entries into this flight. During the break, the entry count increased by eight and we were wondering who would register for Flight E with Flight F starting in a few minutes.
Those 8 players sat down with 25,000 chips, giving them only 12.5 big blinds to work with. My question was answered by none other than Tom Dobrilovic, who sat down to his fresh stack on table 14, two seats to the right of Johannes Mueller’s big stack.
“Why?” was the question and Tom responded that he didn’t want to be here playing until 2:30am (when Flight F will wrap up) after playing all day. He’s got his work cut out for him if he’s going to get chips in a bag in Flight E.
Tom Dobrilovic
$540+$60 Deep Stack NLH
$2 Million Guaranteed
Level 13: Blinds 1,000/2,000/300 ante
Entries: 1,446
Play has resumed and registration is closed for Flight E. The unofficial count is 1,446 for this flight, bringing the overall total to 3,095.
As of the break, Josh Lassiter was still the chip leader with 375,000. Andrew Kim is second with ~300,000.
Johannes Mueller is sitting behind about 265,000, good for third in the chip-count race.
Johannes Mueller
$540+$60 Deep Stack NLH
$2 Million Guaranteed
End of Level 12: Blinds 800/1,600/200 ante
Entries: 1,438
Level 12 is done and Flight E players are off on another break. When play resumes with level 13, registration will close.
With more than 1,400 players already, this flight will be the largest of them all.
Flight F takes off in the back of the Event Center at 5pm, so we’ll do this all over again, one last time.
$540+$60 Deep Stack NLH
$2 Million Guaranteed
End of Level 12: Blinds 800/1600/200 ante
Entries: 1,440
On lucky table 13, Josh Lassiter has surpassed Andrew Kim, with just about 400,000.
Kevin Grabel, a strong Borgata tournament reg, is also at Lassiter’s table. He has his work cut out for him, and dragging this pot is a good start.