"$175 NLH $100,000 GTD" (Flight 1E): Updated Chip Counts From The Flight 1E Field

$175 No Limit Hold'em
$100,000 Guaranteed
Level 10 (Blinds 500/1,000/200)
Total Flight 1E Entries: 159
Flight 1E Players Remaining: 62

Preecha Taepakdee (Boynton Beach, FL) is sitting with the second largest stack in the field, and would be a favorite to be involved in the final race for the chip lead.

Since her strong start, Michelle Roth has continued the upward trend, and sits as the flight's chip leader in Level 10 (145,000). Just a few thousand chips behind Roth is Preecha Taepakdee (Boynton Beach, FL), who is coming off his first cash in four months.  Preecha puts in solid tournament hours, but only selects particular tournaments to play throughout the year.  His most recent entry was in the $3,500 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship Event, in which he finished in 46th place ($14,536).  The result would bring Preecha's career earnings above $140,000, and clearly gave him the tournament bug, after the sizable gap between cashes.

A lap around the field yielded some of the top stacks from Level 10:

Michelle Roth - 145,000 (145bb)

Preecha Taepakdee - 140,000 (140bb)

Pasquale Caiazza - 130,000 (130bb)

Howard Newman - 100,000 (100bb)

Craig Witz - 90,000 (90bb)

Al Gomez - 85,000 (85bb)

Jake Embres - 81,000 (81bb)

Steven Bennett - 60,000 (60bb)