Event 1 Flight E: Valentino Littieri Leads the Field at the Break with 743,000

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 18:  4,000/8,000 with an 8,000 ante
Flight E Players Remaining:  92 of 892

Valentino Lettieri
Chipleader Valentino Lettieri

The players return from break to begin Level 18, with increased blinds of 4,000-8,000 and an 8,000 ante. With 92 players remaining from a flight of 892 entries, the average chip stack is about 194,000 (24 big blinds).

This flight will end when the field is down to 90 players, and everyone who advances to Day 2 will be in the money.

A scan of the field during the break turned up three players with at least 500K in chips, and one more knocking on the door, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  Valentino Littieri  –  743,000  (93 bb)
2.  Mahmoud Hamed  –  576,000  (72 bb)
3.  Ryan Gianquitti  –  575,000  (72 bb)
4.  Ariel Williams  –  494,000  (62 bb)

Ryan Gianquitti
Ryan Gianquitti