Event 15 Flight A: Francois Gagne Leads the Field at the Break with 457,000

$600 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 15:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  77 of 506

Francois Gagne
Francois Gagne

The players return from break to begin Level 15, with increased blinds of 2,000-4,000 with a 4,000 ante.

A scan of the field during the break turned up five players with at least 250K each, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  Francois Gagne  –  457,000  (114 bb)
2.  Howard Mash  –  383,000  (96 bb)
3.  Michael Moskowitz  –  368,000  (92 bb)
4.  Ido Ashkenazi  –  303,000  (76 bb)
5.  Ricardo Velasco  –  269,000  (67 bb)

With 77 players remaining from a field of 506 entries, the average stack is around 131,000 (33 big blinds). Action will continue this evening until there are 51 players remaining, and everyone who bags chips will finish in the money and advance to Day 2, which begins Sunday at 1:00 pm.