Fisch and Weinhold Take Joint Chip Lead After Day 1b of the Main Event
Flight B in Day 1b of Event 11: $3,300 Main Event is in the books drawing a large field of 180 entrants. When the dust settled after over 13 hours of play, 50 players remained with chips.
Jordan Fisch and Rich Weinhold ended the day as joint chip leaders as they both coincidentally finished with exactly 398,000. Weinhold was spotted late in the day with a big stack. He gained a good amount of chips when his opponent called his river raise after he had rivered kings full. Fisch��s rise in chips was spotted even later as it was almost at the end of the final level when his large stack became apparent.
Rounding out the top five stacks, all clustered close together in chips, to end the day were Phil Vera (360,000), who took a significant amount from Stephen Song late in the day, Laura Moore (360,000) who is continuing her hot week and who won a number of big hands in the last few levels and Jeff Esterling (354,500).
A few more notable players to survive the Flight include; Christian Harder with 278,500, Nicholas Pham who finished with 233,000, and Adam Hendrix who tallied 199,500 chips.
Despite the large number of entries, Flight B was a slightly more tepid affair than Flight A as many chip stacks remained static, a fewer % of the players were eliminated and many stacks in the final couple of levels were very close, with nobody really pulling away with a lead.
The 50 who survived the day will join the 27 survivors from Flight A as well as the small few who will make it through Flight C, which will wrap up tomorrow. All will converge to compete in an exciting Day 2, which will begin at 3 p.m. local time.
PokerNews will pick up coverage at the end of Flight C tomorrow and cover Day 2 wire to wire.