Event 1D: "Manin" Up with Aces

$500 + $60 Deep Stack No Limit Hold'em (Re-Entry)

Level 15: Blinds 1,500/3,000/400 ante

On the Marc with Pocket Rockets

With less than one hour of play we catch one of the biggest pots of the flight.  Marc Manin (Cherry Hill, NJ) and Dominic Colonna (Wilmington, DE) get it all in preflop.

Manin: AA
Colonna: KK

Manin's Aces hold and he gets a double-up to 240k, which knocks Colonna down to less than 20k.

On the next hand, Colonna is all in on a Queen-high flop with a pair of Queens against pocket Jacks, but a Jack on the river gives his opponent the winning set of Jacks.

"I don't mind losing Kings into Aces, but those Jacks are ridiculous," says Colonna as he heads out the Signature Room door.

Also in the 240k range is Leonidas Fotakos (Wilmington, DE) as 250 players remain (of 877 1D entries) with an average stack of 88k (30 bb).