Event #16B ($2,200 NLH Main Event) - Flight B Advancing Players (By Chip Count)

Chris Orme - Chip Leader of Flight B

The final starting flight (Flight B) of the $2,200 No-Limit Hold'em Championship drew a total of 174 entries. After nine levels of play, 73 players are advancing to Day 2.  Those 73 players will join with the 18 players advancing from Flight A (and any that choose to direct-buy into Day 2), and will return to play Day 2 on Sunday at 11 am.  Because players are allowed to enter up until the start of play on Day 2, the prizepool has not yet been calculated. The prizepool will be tabulated and posted as soon as it's available sometime after 11 am on Sunday.

Chris Orme ended as the Flight B chip leader with 233,500. Orme started building early in the day and took the chip lead in Level 3 after sending a player home holding a set of jacks against his opponent's two pair. Orme then went on to eliminate Galen Hall shortly after, pushing him to the head of the pack.  Orme was always one of the top three to four biggest stacks throughout the day.

Coming in second from Flight B is Benny Bianco, with 207,100. Julian Sacks rounds out the top three, ending the night with 195,800.

Over the course of the day many notables fell including Michael Dobbs, Vanessa Selbst, Joe Heinzmann, John Caputo, and Laurie Hilton. All of these players still have the option to buy in directly to Day 2 on Sunday at 11 am if they so choose.

James Frangoulidis was the only player to bag in both flights. He bagged 21,400 in Flight A, and then bagged 37,600 in today's Flight B. Since this is a best stack forward event, he will carry only his higher stack forward to Day 2.

Here is a look at the 73 players advancing from Flight B (by chip count):

Name:	Chip Count:
Orme, Chris	233,500
Bianco, Benny	207,100
Sacks, Julian	195,800
Rawlinson, Kenneth	182,500
Donovan, Zach	182,200
Lucci, Gary	168,600
Yiovanakos, John	132,400
Wong, She Lok	131,500
Kue, Tou	129,800
Neto, Aristoteles	126,500
Kachittavong, Soukha	122,000
Lee, Seunghwan	122,000
Himpele, Don	119,800
Sciannameo, Carlo	116,600
Scannell, Jim	114,600
Mock, David	113,000
Albay, Albert	110,900
Drory, Joseph	106,700
Owera, Rami	103,000
St. Vincent, Brad	101,500
Mobark, Scott	90,900
Panetti, Ivano	87,100
Meaney, Frank	85,700
Thoren, Eric	84,000
Al-Shurieki, Samer	83,300
Israelashvili, Roland	81,700
Berlin, Nachman	77,000
McConnell, Patrick	77,000
Mangiafico, Sal	75,300
Hukmani, Rohit	73,700
McKenna, Jeremiah	72,800
Ritchie, Jason	67,600
Costa, Zac	63,500
Pessolano, Nick	61,500
Allen, Larry	61,100
Smith, Guy	55,800
Hall, Galen	54,800
Leka, Endi	54,200
Franklin, Edward	52,300
Andrews, John	52,200
Waaland, Cory	51,800
Masi, Vito	50,600
Himmelbrand, Greg	47,900
Avery, Corbin	47,600
Bak, Daniel	47,100
Patel, Bhavin	45,500
Smith, Aaron	43,000
Gulati, Tarun	42,100
Dang, Vinny	41,000
Frangoulidis, James	37,600
Pelli, Dominick	36,700
Eyzaguirre, Ricardo	35,500
Brackesy, Steven	35,000
Harris, Anthony	35,000
Macht, Timothy	34,700
Oh, Jewook	32,900
Tong, Jiqiang	32,800
Montes, Jose	31,100
Grandieri, David	30,000
Bonita, Michael	28,800
Shetty, Sirish	28,800
Ticktin, Rob	28,200
Driscoll, Ted	27,700
Studentsov, Yevgeniy	27,500
Palma, Nicholas	26,600
Reyes, Jose	24,800
Leskowitz, Bryan	23,000
Devore, Sundiata	22,800
Martin, Dan	19,700
Monosson, Lauren	19,600
Espinola, David	19,100
Aiello, Gerald	18,000
Dentale, Mike	9,200