$600 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 17:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante Flight A Players Remaining:  55 of 506 5uo2q

This first starting flight is now four spots away from the money, which is also the end of their day. There are 55 players left, but only 51 can advance to Day 2.

The current chipleader is Jason Young, who is sitting with a stack of 450,000.

Back in January of 2019, Young outlasted a field of 1,634 to win the WPTDeepStacks Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship, earning a whopping $263,205. Young is also a WSOP bracelet winner in $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout, where he won $335,565.

Jason Young  –  450,000  (75 bb)

With 55 players remaining from a field of 506 entries, the average stack is around 184,000 (31 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.