Zhang Bags 234 Big Blinds
Larmar Blue eliminated Bassel Asi on the Day Two bubble of Flight J.
On blinds of 6,000/12,000/12,000, Asi went all-in from the hijack. Blue iso-jammed and action folded out behind.
Asi: 9♦9♣
Blue: T♥T♠
Board: A♦K♠3♠J♠9♠
Asi went unimproved on the runout until he hit the 9s river. Unfortunately for Asi, his rivered set also improved Blue to a flush. Asi was eliminated in 20th place for $360.
The remaining 19 players began to verify their chip counts and celebrate advancing to Day Two.
Richard Zhang is the first player north of the one million mark as he bags the new overall chip lead with 1,402,000 (234 bb). Curtis Cavazos also becomes the fifth player to earn a double bag bonus of $1,000.
Turbo Flight K is wrapping up and many players are anticipating the 9:00 AM turbo flight will take the prize pool over $200,000!
Updated Chip Counts (through Flight J)
Prize pool: $177,280
Average stack: 360,000
Lowest blind level: 3,000/6,000/6,000 14:53
| Name | Chips | Big Blinds |
| Richard Zhang | 1,402,000 | 234 |
| Hersh Mahajan | 910,000 | 152 |
| Zanvyl Morrow | 870,000 | 145 |
| Dan Anderson | 750,000 | 125 |
| Lawrence Wayne | 741,000 | 124 |
| Phu Vo | 685,000 | 114 |
| Curtis Cavazos | 646,000 | 108 |
| Erin Parisien | 639,000 | 107 |
| Isaac Eliason | 635,000 | 106 |
| Mark Hennessy | 620,000 | 103 |
| Ravee Sundara | 571,000 | 95 |
| Andrew Hoechstetter | 568,000 | 95 |
| David Vu | 565,000 | 94 |
| Brian Joseph Gaspard | 522,000 | 87 |
| Matt Bandini | 514,000 | 86 |
| Rabih Kassab | 507,000 | 85 |
| William Wyler | 505,000 | 84 |
| Rahil Gaulani | 504,000 | 84 |
| David Shaw | 497,000 | 83 |
| Derek Normand | 496,000 | 83 |
| David Medlin | 482,000 | 80 |
| Sara Gann | 480,000 | 80 |
| Pat Amesur | 469,000 | 78 |
| Jeff Nowling | 466,000 | 78 |
| Larmar Blue | 466,000 | 78 |
| Christian Aguilar | 463,000 | 77 |
| Rahul Batra | 462,000 | 77 |
| Andre Maurice Owens | 455,000 | 76 |
| Kris Burchfield | 453,000 | 76 |
| Dara Taherpour | 447,000 | 75 |
| Ethan Doan | 439,000 | 73 |
| Mark White | 405,000 | 68 |
| Gregory Bessemer | 392,000 | 65 |
| Wayne Xia | 381,000 | 64 |
| John Montgomery | 380,000 | 63 |
| Juan Hernandez | 375,000 | 63 |
| Ming Liang | 364,000 | 61 |
| Sean Earley | 353,000 | 59 |
| Burgess Sparacino | 350,000 | 58 |
| William Bradshaw | 326,000 | 54 |
| Leobardo Zamora | 326,000 | 54 |
| Keegan Dannheiser | 325,000 | 54 |
| Phillip Flores | 324,000 | 54 |
| James Martin | 317,000 | 53 |
| Benoit Vallieres | 310,000 | 52 |
| Jason Serrano | 305,000 | 51 |
| Thuan Lam | 301,000 | 50 |
| Richard Estep | 300,000 | 50 |
| Jonathan Park | 292,000 | 49 |
| Naafay Nadim | 275,000 | 46 |
| Babatunde Onimole | 275,000 | 46 |
| Arnold Alaniz | 273,000 | 46 |
| Juan Campbell | 271,000 | 45 |
| Simon Tahtouh | 270,000 | 45 |
| Ike Nlemchi | 259,000 | 43 |
| Stephen Johnston | 254,000 | 42 |
| Ben Peleg | 250,000 | 42 |
| Flavio Palalon | 245,000 | 41 |
| Brandon Lloyd | 243,000 | 41 |
| Sang Ngo | 241,000 | 40 |
| Hongying Shen | 238,000 | 40 |
| David Hayes | 238,000 | 40 |
| Charles Bera | 237,000 | 40 |
| John Hinrichs | 230,000 | 38 |
| Tishome Persaud | 230,000 | 38 |
| Derris Edwards | 222,000 | 37 |
| Floyd Fernandes | 217,000 | 36 |
| Afshin Edwards | 214,000 | 36 |
| Eunice Choung | 208,000 | 35 |
| Jianbu Shi | 205,000 | 34 |
| Kathy Trinh | 200,000 | 33 |
| Zvi Eisenberg | 190,000 | 32 |
| Vlad Shovkovyi | 183,000 | 31 |
| Vivek Shingala | 182,000 | 30 |
| Samuel Adamo | 176,000 | 29 |
| David Graff | 171,000 | 29 |
| Samuel Beard | 167,000 | 28 |
| Jason Faircloth | 165,000 | 28 |
| Karia Yeung | 156,000 | 26 |
| Dedric Williams | 141,000 | 24 |
| Vanessa Grossman | 132,000 | 22 |
| Alex Robin | 131,000 | 22 |
| Steve Mrozinski | 120,000 | 20 |
| Sumit Verma | 114,000 | 19 |
| Lorraine Widener | 85,000 | 14 |
| Trey White | 85,000 | 14 |
| Abraham Aguilar | 61,000 | 10 |
| Raymund Padilla | 35,000 | 6 |
Upcoming Flights
| Flight | Day | Start | Late Reg. | Blind Lvls. |
| J | Sat. Oct. 18th | 5:00 AM | 8:50 PM | 25-min |
| K - Turbo | Sat. Oct. 18th | 9:00 PM | 11:15 PM | 15-min |
| L | Sun. Oct. 19th | 9:00 AM | 11:15 AM | |
| DAY TWO | Sun. Oct. 19th | 2:30 PM | - |