Main Event, Flight A - Play Concludes, 30 Players Advance, David Grandieri Leads

At the conclusion of 12 levels of play, and 87 total entries, 30 players are advancing to Day 2 from Flight A of the $1,650 Main Event. 

David Grandieri ended the evening as the Flight A chip leader, with 243,500. Grandieri was the only player to cross over the 200k chip mark. He held a strong lead on the field for a large part of the day, and then really pushed ahead of the pack in the last level when he flopped a flush to send one of his opponents home.  He brushed the 300k chip mark at the end of the last level, but then doubled another player up and lost 60,000 in one of the very last hands of the night. His 243,500 chip stack is still far ahead of the second and third place stacks belonging to Konstantinos Mitsopoulos (171,200), and later registrant Johanssy Joseph (165,000). Joseph bought in just after the second break and consistently ran up his stack through the last six levels of play. 

The 30 players listed below all earned a night off, and are able to rest up before the start of Day 2 tomorrow (Friday May 12th) at noon Eastern time.  Any player that did not make it through in the first flight has a second chance in Flight B, currently running on the other side of the tournament room. Flight B registration is open until approx. 11:30pm.

Name:	Chip Count:
Grandieri, David	243,500
Mitsopoulos, Konstantinos	171,200
Joseph, Johanssy	165,000
Song, Stephen	152,000
Taylor, Sam	143,000
St. Vincent, Brad	131,600
Snead, Paul	126,100
Paulino, Victor	123,000
Lex, James	112,600
Pepper, Adam	102,200
Chin, Philip	99,400
Lee, Damon	88,600
Pardy, Jason	80,900
Wantman, Matthew	74,800
Liu, Jia	73,100
LeBlanc, Brian	73,000
Hou, Ernie	72,600
Spain, Randy	71,400
Macri, Ralph	67,200
Duong, Jack	59,500
Legendre, Rodney	57,500
Kachittavong, Soukha	55,200
Ricciuti, Bob	43,000
Clemente, Michael	35,100
Wyllie, Jason	35,000
Stefanski, David	34,600
Vrabel, Luke	33,000
Clarke, Caleb	32,000
Forca, Michael	31,000
Surapanenni, Satish	23,600