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Britton Bags Chip Lead in 5th Flight of PLO Multi-Flight

Players were recently joking about how James Carroll was being the table bully as the short stack. Carroll found another opportunity to choose aggression.

On blinds of 3,000/6,000/6,000, Joe Firova opened to 16,000 on the button. Simon Britton and James Carroll defended the small and big blind respectively.

The flop brought K♥J♥9♦. Britton checked. Carroll led out for 50,000. Firova asked to see how much Carroll was playing but folded to Carroll's bet. Britton didn't fold. He declared pot, which would force Carroll all-in to call. Carroll said he couldn't fold now as he slid his chips forward.

Britton: Q♥T♥6♣5♣
Carroll: K♠J♣7♣3♠
Flop: K♥J♥9♦

Britton had flopped the straight with an open-ended straight flush draw. Carroll needed a board-pairing king or jack. The A♠ turn upgraded Britton from the king-high straight to the ace-high straight. The 6♦ completed the board and eliminated Carroll in seventh place for $875.

The remaining six players began to verify their chip counts and bag up for Sunday's Day Two Restart.

Flight 6/8 is already underway with registration closing at 9:30 PM. You still have a chance to jump in the action with two more starting flights on Saturday at 10:00 AM and 5:00 PM. Don't miss out!

Flight 5/8 Chip Counts

Simon Britton 465,000
Sihao Zhang 360,000
Christopher Smith 329,000
Robert Gussoni 264,000
Charlie Keisling 216,000
Joe Firova 136,000

Flight 5/8 Payouts
1st-6th: Day Two
7th: $875 - James Carroll
8th: $875 - Bahman Jahanguiri

Updated Chip Counts (through Flight 5/8)
Total entries: 224; 22 advancing to Day Two
Total prize pool: $114,240 of $250,000 GTD

Average stack: 311,614
Lowest blind level: 2,500/5,000/5,000 20:20

Name Chips Flight
Simon Britton 465,000 5/8
Sihao Zhang 360,000 5/8
Christopher Smith 329,000 5/8
Robert Gussoni 264,000 5/8
Charlie Keisling 216,000 5/8
Joe Firova 136,000 5/8
Ravi Patel 444,000 4/8
Pamela Stiehler 399,500 4/8
Andrew Pham 271,500 4/8
Ricardo Alvarado 175,000 4/8
George Abi-Zeid 600,000 3/8
Nga Huynh 297,000 3/8
Cristobal 211,000 3/8
Russell Despain 167,500 3/8
Adeeb Al- Nazer 481,000 2/8
Simon Webster 330,000 2/8
Hunter Cichy 324,000 2/8
Chris Meza 155,000 2/8
Abraham Araya 511,000 1/8
Andrew Dinger 491,000 1/8
Vu Dang 132,000 1/8
Jose Montes 96,000 1/8

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