Turbo Flight B of the $100K GTD Heatwave was down to its final 9 players. The next player out would collect $280 and the other 8 players would bag up for day 2.
Mahesh Rathi opened to 22,000 on 5,000/10,000/10,000. Everyone folded around to Terry Harman in the big blind and he defended.
The flop came T♠T♣9♥ and Harman went all in for 195,000. Rathi had 232,000 behind. If he called and lost, Rathi would be left with 37,000 and immediately have to pay 20,000 and then 5,000 in the blinds. Rathi made the call.
Cards on their backs
Harman: 5♣5♠
Rathi: K♦J♥
Board: T♠T♣9♥8♠9♣
Harman was ahead on flop and turn but the board pairing river counterfeited Harman who was left playing the board in the end. Rathi's king high ended the flight and Rathi bagged the chip lead.
Mahesh Rathi 486,000
Combined Chip Counts
| George | Karvounis | B | 968,000 |
| Steven | Sanchez | D | 738,000 |
| Daniel | Marin | F | 584,000 |
| Michael | Stephens | E | 538,000 |
| Matthew | Aubry | C | 505,000 |
| Agustin | Cabrera | D | 499,000 |
| Cameron | Mixson | A | 496,000 |
| Chat | Clussman | B | 493,000 |
| Mahesh | Rathi | T-B | 486,000 |
| Daniel | Anderson | D | 439,000 |
| Steve | Hwang | F | 425,000 |
| Santhoskumar | Subramanian | B | 420,000 |
| Flavio | Palalon | A | 411,000 |
| Joe | Williams | F | 382,000 |
| Isaac | Escobar | E | 370,000 |
| Samantha | Perryman | F | 349,000 |
| Harmeet | Chawla | T-B | 345,000 |
| Kevin | Perrydore | T-B | 343,000 |
| Ricardo | Castaneda | C | 327,000 |
| William | Cox | D | 324,000 |
| Matthew | Cosentino | E | 314,000 |
| Sergio | Rejas | D | 309,000 |
| James | Wise | F | 305,000 |
| Justin | Mauldin | T-A | 304,000 |
| James | Galloway | A | 302,000 |
| Robert | Paape | E | 298,000 |
| Kimberly | Stone | C | 298,000 |
| Daniel | Schochet | T-B | 298,000 |
| Jordan | Mandel | E | 296,000 |
| Satya | Datla | D | 294,000 |
| Michael | Feuer | D | 288,000 |
| Andrewchungong | Bonu | A | 283,000 |
| Brian | Ellison | F | 271,000 |
| Joe* | Firova | B | 267,000 |
| Japneet | Chawla | T-A | 265,000 |
| Yohannes | Derso | F | 263,000 |
| Timothy | Gilliam | F | 263,000 |
| Nicholas | Hudgins | F | 260,000 |
| Henry | Cohen | F | 252,000 |
| Vishwanath* | Pinnoju | T-A | 248,000 |
| Isaac | Freise | D | 246,000 |
| Jaime | Arce | C | 241,000 |
| Jeffrey | Nowling | E | 234,000 |
| Samuel | Burmeister | C | 233,000 |
| Tanner | Smith | T-A | 232,000 |
| James | Tsou | B | 229,000 |
| Pedro | Green | F | 223,000 |
| Daniel | Waldrep | C | 223,000 |
| Winston | Djonli | F | 222,000 |
| Kenneth | Adams | E | 217,000 |
| Rafael | Port | F | 205,000 |
| Eduardo | Salinas | F | 202,000 |
| Tarunpreet | Singh | D | 198,000 |
| Michael | Rudolph | A | 197,000 |
| Eric | Tang | C | 193,000 |
| William | Varner | A | 190,000 |
| Venkata | Volety | F | 184,000 |
| Ethan | Figueroa | D | 184,000 |
| Rex | Carlin | B | 178,000 |
| Adam | Garcia | C | 175,000 |
| Michael | Choyke | F | 168,000 |
| Nathaniel | Klaer | D | 157,000 |
| William | Ward | T-B | 155,000 |
| Ryan | Gerstenberg | A | 153,000 |
| Sai | Pothula | F | 152,000 |
| Julius | Cantu | B | 152,000 |
| Gerald | Reyelts | B | 147,000 |
| Samuel | Hsu | C | 139,000 |
| Roger | Franco | E | 138,000 |
| Sean | Spector | E | 135,000 |
| Tyler | Norris | E | 134,000 |
| Mandeep | Gyani | E | 132,000 |
| Michael | Paddack | D | 131,000 |
| William | Leon | C | 130,000 |
| Xinguo | Wang | D | 122,000 |
| Alexander | Goldberg | B | 121,000 |
| Russell | Kriewald | A | 118,000 |
| Phil | Sidari | F | 118,000 |
| Zeeshan* | Alam | B | 114,000 |
| Ryan | O'Leary | D | 112,000 |
| Nathan | Peel | F | 106,000 |
| Angelica | Rigby | D | 86,000 |
| Trey | Fell | B | 75,000 |
| Silvano | Vargas | T-B | 71,000 |
| Leslie | Urbanovsky | B | 70,000 |
| Xiotian | Zhang | D | 64,000 |
| James | Cardenas | E | 55,000 |
| Jesse | Pavia | F | 54,000 |
| Eric | Brown | B | 53,000 |
| Peter | Kim | D | 52,000 |
| John | Mintz | F | 36,000 |
| Satya | Vegi | D | 33,000 |
| Kishore | Ivatury | T-B | 25,000 |
| Carolyn | Hapgood | A | 0 |
*Indicates players that double bagged. Players take their best bag forward.