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Level 16 (complete): Blinds 4000/8000/8000 BB Ante
Entries: 356
Remaining: 80
Average: 445,000
Our 3rd flight is complete, and two stacks just below the top of the list squeaked ahead at the end.
George Abi-Zeid in action. He snuck ahead into the flight lead with 1,058,000.
Anthony Garolfalo took down 1,021,000.
Mr. J delivered all day, 962,000.
Fishberg finished with 912,000 after flirting with a million the final two levels.
Adam Agaev bagged 881,000, and Joseph Iannacone 843,000.
Outer table 9 featured a lot of interesting action, including a spot featuring Robert Pellegrino, who ended up with 695,000. He saved a quarter of his stack after he decided to go with a read, and let go of 
pre. 
was waiting for him.
Strong finish for Ricky Lee, 863,000, along with James Sharpe, 810,000, both at Pellegrino’s table, which the Pokermantis also somehow survived.
Full counts and seating for Day 2 will be posted when available.
Vinne Pahuja catches an unexpected gift at the end, helping him move past the average stack.
Chris Leong rose up very fast in the final levels after a long day of hanging on.
Day 2 players should gather at noon tomorrow.
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Level 16: Blinds 4000/8000/8000 BB Ante
Entries: 356
Remaining: 110
Average: 323,000
The final two levels of our flight are underway. So far, two players have cracked one million or are within a cbet of it.
Table 1’s Greg Fishberg has about 980,000.
Steady all day long, Michael Jablonksy has 1,120,000.
Meanwhile, a dangerous competitor has been been knocked out – Justin Leeds is the victim of a set against TPTK – as are two others in the same pot.
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End of Level 15: Blinds 3000/6000/6000 BB Ante
Entries: 356
Remaining: 130
Average: 273,000
With the stacks still hovering at 700,000 near the top. but players dropping quickly, we’re overdue for some explosive pots to round out the flight leaders.
Robert Pellegrino is up to the 700,000 mark. That’s the Pokermantis on his right, who has just been informed he’s the fifth player to take that seat so far.
Jablonsky, left, is still going strong with 700,000, but Anthony Garolfalo, in orange, has caught up, now with 735,000.
Short break next.
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Level 14: Blinds 2500/5000/5000 BB Ante
Entries: 356
Remaining: 170
Average: 209,000
Michael Jablonsky just reached 700,000 here in 14, now eclipsing the missing chip leader on table 1.
Meanwhile, Greg Fishberg, he of much Almighty success on that same table, has surpassed 700,000 as well.
Not far behind: “Lucky” Lee Kirsch has 600,000 on 12, thanks to a set of deuces holding over a draw for all the chips.
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Level 13: Blinds 2000/4000/4000 BB Ante
Entries: 356
Remaining: 211
Average: 168,720
A player (who is possibly Brandon Williams) has passed Baiocco and has over 660,000 heading into the middle period. He’s had to leave for a bit and we’ll see how deep his unattended stack takes him.
Dealing to the absent seat with enough blinds to go to bagging. Should create an interesting dynamic on table 1.
Our chip leader has taken down two big pots, including one where he felted 
, 
, and 
in an outrageous preflop spot. The winner’s 
fit in nicely on 
.
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Level 12: Blinds 1,500/3000/3000 BB Ante
Entries: 348
On outer table 19, with many new stacks, Neal Kalani was getting involved.
In the first hand, he opened from UTG1, picking up the next seat and Jackob Datashvili in the small blind.
The action went check bet fold call on 
. Neal pot controlled the river, concerned about a queen and possibly looking for value on the river after the blank 
turn.
Jackob Datashvili and Neal Kalani – check/call coming.
Again Jackob check called on the river 
, but Neal had it – 
.
Now UTG, Neal opened the next hand as well, this time getting only one caller. He put an easy cbet through on 
– no call.
Now in the blind, he found a different way to get involved, taking a price after an open and two calls.
Kalani flats the lead from James Hundt, left.
The action checked through on the flop, and Neal floated a turn lead from Hundt on 
, with Datashvili overcalling.
The river was the 
, and it checked through again. Hundt had been semibluffing with 
, but it turns out the flush was not ever going to be his – Datashvili had him near dead with the 
, and claimed the pot.
Soon after, Hundt, who was short stacked is busted, but returned to the same table, as can often happen in the high numbered tables.
We are near the registration break here in 12.
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Level 11: Blinds 1500/300/3000 BB Ante
Entries: 323
As we hit eleven, A.S., always an active and willing to battle, still is a big stack with over 400,000 on table 15.
Nearby on 10, Ken Roberts has almost exactly the same…
…but it’s Mike Baiocco, of the earlier cooler, who is still looking satisfied, now over 550,000 and the chip lead.
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Level 17 (complete): Blinds 5000/10000/10000 BB Ante
Entrants: 274
Remaining: 67
Average: 408,000
Always in the hand: McGuinness takes 1,421,000 to Day 2.
McGuinness creates interesting situations, one of which put him over the million mark in level 16.
Michael Rossitto had opened to 18,000 and been flatted by chip leader McGuinness. Now Asher Conniff raised to 65,000, but to complicate the pot, the short stack with 69,000 behind him shoved from the small blind. Folds through Rossitto to McGuinness, who now reflats, protected from being reraised while the pot ballooned by 240,000.
Mike, then Asher, call the extra from the short stack shove.
The board came 
, which McGuinness in the cutoff checked. Asher bet small as might be expected, 70,000, and Mike called.
The 
checked through, and the 
then arrived on the river. Mike now bet 100,000 into the 380,000, laying Asher a terrific price.
Conniff was amused by the situation, as he felt compelled to defend against the bet, knowing he’d mostly be paying off with what appeared to be ace high. He grimaced and squirmed in his chair, then eventually dropped in the chip, securing Mike and his 
a little more ammo. Asher dropped to around 300,000, from which he would in fact recover from.
Adam Hendrix, 662,000, and Po Ying, 750,000, finished strong. Ying was aided by aces full to pick up 200,000 in the final hands.
Soukha Kachittavong shot up the standings at the end, to 949,000.
Gabor Nagy, one time chip leader when Mike slipped on one of his swings, finished with 796,000.
Jon Neale lost a touch off his peak to finish 736,000.
Asher, who had battled with Mike on interesting table 7, filled with regs and winners, bagged 509,000.
Henry Pagliuca took 674,000, while Michael Malinconico, leader for all of the early levels, finished with a healthy 544,000.
Complete counts and seating assignments will be posted when available.
GL Day 2 players!
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Level 16: Blinds 3000/6000/6000 BB Ante
Entrants: 274
Remaining: 99
Average: 276,000
Chip Leader Mike McGuinness has just under a million.
We’re about to return to action for levels 16 and 17 as the players look to survive to day 2 of the Almighty.
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Level 15: Blinds 3000/6000/6000 BB Ante
Entrants: 274
Remaining: 110
Average: 250,000
Malinconico’s progress has leveled off, and Otto Dierkis’ heater is apparently over – 600,000 was the high zone for stacks as 15 started.
Nenad Cvetkovic puts it in a little uneasily against the volatile McGuinness. That’s Stephen Song on his right, who late registered and is above average in chips.
Down to a red zone stack, Nenad ships it on the flop from the field on 
with the all purpose 
, for gutter and overcards, BDFD, and some blocking value.
Mike, however, makes the read and calls him down good with 
. A fold, and then they run it out. The 
is a blank, and Nenad is one card from out…
…but it’s all giggles when the Tc hits the river.
However, Mike is not severely damaged. He busts another shortie out, over 
, takes one down on the turn, and is over 600,000 again.
Asher, meanwhile, now has nearly 600,000, aided by the preflop nuts. He busted Alberto Sabogali and another short stack, over 
and .
Nothing ever slows down the active McGuinness, however, certainly not the Borgata blog. As soon as this post was created, McGuiness got his revenge on Nenad, busting him. Soon he’s well past Nagy and pushing his stack towards 900,000.
We will take the final break of this flight next, then march toward the bagging.