Event 1: Million Chip Pot

$400 + $50 No Limit Hold'em (Re-Entry)

Born to be Alive

Dan Pignataro (Fairfield, NJ) begins the day as the chip leader, but loses half his stack to Jimmy Born (Clarksville, MD) in a one million chip pot.

Blinds: 10k/20k/3k ante

Pignataro opens from the cutoff to 38k
Born puts 100k on top
Pignataro reraises all in
Born calls ~500k total and is at risk.

Pignataro: AK
Born: AQ

Born has one foot out the door and until a queen hits the board and he doubles to more than one million chips. Pignataro is cut to ~500k.

58 players remain with an average stack of 418k (21 BB).