Registration is now closed in the fifth starting flight of the $250K GTD PLO Multi-Flight and Sihao Zhang is chip leading with 308,500.
21 players return from their 15-minute break to blinds of 1,000/2,000/2,000. While Sihao Zhang currently holds the chip lead, there is plenty of play left before eight players finish in the money and six players advance to Sunday's Day Two Restart.
Flight 5/8 added 59 entries ($30,090) to the $250,000 guaranteed prize pool. The PLO Multi-Flight event now has a total of 224 entries with three more starting flights to go. There is a current overlay of $135,760.
Friday night, Saturday morning, and Saturday evening starting flights are your last chance to jump in the action! Morning flights begin at 10:00 AM with registration closing at 2:30 PM and evening flights begin at 5:00 PM with registration closing at 9:30 PM.
Top 5 Stacks
Sihao Zhang - 308,500
Bahman Jahanguiri - 184,000
Christopher Smith - 168,500
Robert Gussoni - 132,000
Gene Allison - 130,500
Flight 5/8 Payouts
1st-6th: Day Two
7th-8th: $875
Updated Chip Counts (through Flight 4/8)
Total entries: 165; 16 advancing to Day Two
Total prize pool: $84,150 of $250,000 GTD
Average stack: 317,844
Lowest blind level: 2,500/5,000/5,000 20:20
| George Abi-Zeid | 600,000 | 3/8 |
| Abraham Araya | 511,000 | 1/8 |
| Andrew Dinger | 491,000 | 1/8 |
| Adeeb Al-Nazer | 481,000 | 2/8 |
| Ravi Patel | 444,000 | 4/8 |
| Pamela Stiehler | 399,500 | 4/8 |
| Simon Webster | 330,000 | 2/8 |
| Hunter Cichy | 324,000 | 2/8 |
| Nga Huynh | 297,000 | 3/8 |
| Andrew Pham | 271,500 | 4/8 |
| Cristobal | 211,000 | 3/8 |
| Ricardo Alvarado | 175,000 | 4/8 |
| Russell Despain | 167,500 | 3/8 |
| Chris Meza | 155,000 | 2/8 |
| Vu Dang | 132,000 | 1/8 |
| Jose Montes | 96,000 | 1/8 |