Friday, November 24, 2017 12:14 AM Local Time
Day 1A Concludes With 11 Left
Near the end of Level 19, the field is reduced to 11 players, signaling the end of Day 1A.
Fikret Kovac is a restauranteur from Atlanta, and he's become a familiar face at Harrah's Cherokee over the past few years. Kovac ended the day atop the leaderboard, and his count of 390,000 represents the number to beat for the rest of the starting flights.
Here are the chip counts for the survivors:
1. Fikret Kovac - 390,000
2. Scott Billiot - 337,000
3. David Sorensen - 257,000
4. Charles Creech - 188,000
5. William Wallace Jr. - 183,000
6. Zhengbin Lu - 182,000
7. David Lee - 168,000
8. Richard Maranville - 104,000
9. Keith Campbell - 103,000
10. Michael Weeks - 93,000
11. Jerry Curtis - 12,000
Those 11 have earned themselves a couple days off, set to return Sunday for the combined Day 2.
In addition to those who advanced, 10 more players earned payouts this evening:
12th: Derrick Corpening - $1,150
13th: Stephen Coble - $947
14th: Chad J. Brown - $947
15th: Steve Glubetich - $947
16th: Fuong Lee - $791
17th: Shawn Lynch - $791
18th: Thomas Zarning - $791
19th: Jerrell Groover - $671
20th: Laura Shelley - $671
21st: Matthew Andrews - $671
They and anyone else without chips in a bag are eligible to play the subsequent flights, beginning with tomorrow's Day 1B.