"January $100,000" (Flight 1A): Landscape Of The Leaderboard Ever-Changing

"January $100,000"
$360 No Limit Hold'em | $100,000 GTD
Level 13 (Blinds 1,000/2,000/300)
Total Flight 1A Entries: 73
Flight 1A Players Remaining: 14

Mark Salerno (Woodbridge, Ontario) bought into the flight just moments before Level 12 ended, and has already turned his 15,000 starting stacks into 70,000.

Players have returned from the final break of the day, with the opening flight of this event officially attracting (73) entries.  That means that $21,900 will be going towards the overall prize pool, which already puts things on pace to crush the guarantee.  The flight is scheduled to end at the conclusion of Level 15, but that's only if the field doesn't reach the (8) player mark.  Listed below are the updated chip counts of players remaining at registration's close.

Table 1

1. Mark Salerno - 70,000
2. Mile Belan - 30,000
3. Justin Harvell - 54,000
4. Elliot Goldman - 60,000
5. Adam Koppell - 73,000
6. Kathy Sapp - 98,000
7. Danny Nucci - 35,000

Table 3

1. A. Nonymous - 220,000
2. Michael Fryett - 140,000
3. Greg Spinder - 155,000
4. Andre Rakusa - 136,000
5. Kenneth Bruno - 80,000
6. TJ Shulman - 60,000
7. Larry Rosen - 58,000