Marc Weinstein Leads the 12 Survivors From Turbo Flight 1L

Turbo Flight 1L comes to an end with 12 players remaining, and the chipleader is Marc Weinstein (pictured) with 314,000 in chips (39 big blinds).

With 333 entries in Day 1K, and another 147 in Turbo Flight 1L, the total for the tournament so far is 2,518. The prizepool is up to $1,259,000, easily exceeding the $1 million guarantee, and there are still two more starting flights to be played tomorrow.

The final 12% of each starting field finishes in the money, guaranteed at least $800 each, and the final 8% advance to Day 2. Today that happened at 11:46 pm with 9:31 remaining in Level 19, with blinds at 4,000-8,000 and a 1,000 ante.

Here are the official chip counts for the 12 survivors from Turbo Flight 1L:

1.  Marc Weinstein  –  314,000  (52 bb)
2.  Ed Abbas Alikhani  –  311,000  (52 bb)
3.  Ravi Shanmugam  –  301,000  (50 bb)
4.  Mike Eskandari  –  270,000  (45 bb)
5.  Stuart Rabin  –  189,000  (32 bb)
6.  Nick Shkolnik  –  177,000  (30 bb)
7.  Ilya Shpiner  –  175,000  (29 bb)
8.  Valentin Ciriaco  –  132,000  (22 bb)
9.  Xiaohong Hong  –  118,000  (20 bb)
10.  Peter Dang  –  102,000  (17 bb)
11.  Jason Nguyen  –  60,000  (10 bb)
12.  Marshall Travis  –  46,000  (8 bb)

And here are the six players who were eliminated inside the money:

13th.  Mike Wang  –  $1,000
14th.  Matthew Ara  –  $1,000
15th.  Dana Kellstrom  –  $1,000
16th.  Peter Treglia  –  $800
17th.  Kenny Nguyen  –  $800
18th.  Helio Nueves  –  $800

Day 1M begins tomorrow at 11:00 am, with Turbo Flight 1N beginning at 5:00 pm — the final two starting flights. The official prizepool won’t be available until after registration closes in the final flight.

Day 2 begins Tuesday, May 30th at 1:00 pm. The nine-handed final table (which will be live-streamed at WPT.com) begins at 3:00 pm on Wednesday, May 31st.

Photography by Antonio Abrego