Turbo Flight 1i Ends with Jose Nadal Leading 17 Survivors

Turbo Flight 1i comes to an end with Jose Nadal (pictured) as the chipleader with 1,063,000 in chips. Here are the official chip counts for the 17 players who survived Turbo Flight 1i:

1.  Jose Nadal  –  1,063,000
2.  Mohamed Mamouni  –  824,000
3.  Alisson Piekazewicz  –  656,000
4.  Vedat Deviren  –  620,000
5.  Bobby Poe  –  557,000
6.  Nick Moriwaki  –  457,000
7.  Xianbang Yang  –  425,000
8.  Francois Tosques  –  422,000
9.  Steven Daoud  –  348,000
10.  Sai Pulugurtha  –  302,000
11.  Garrett Dansereau  –  271,000
12.  Jasven Saigal  –  270,000
13.  Michael Senter  –  264,000
14.  Hossein Malekabadi  –  143,000
15.  Morgan Klein  –  124,000
16.  Paul Gatens  –  119,000
17.  Noam Yahav  –  56,000

And here are the 27 players who were eliminated, but finished in the money today:

18th:  Raj Ramakrishnan  –  Day 2 Min-Cash
19th:  David Short  –  $1,200
20th:  James Little  –  $1,200
21st:  Roy Peters  –  $1,200
22nd:  Bradley White  –  $1,200
23rd:  Aron Barak  –  $1,200
24th:  Mickael Athias  –  $1,200
25th:  Jason Potter  –  $1,200
26th:  Steve Ross  –  $1,200
27th:  Montana Heirman  –  $1,200
28th:  Salehi Mojtaba  –  $1,200
29th:  John Herod, Jr.  –  $1,200
30th:  Tim Anders  –  $1,200
31st:  Evan Lukowski  –  $900
32nd:  Nghia Tran  –  $900
33rd:  Wonjun Jeong  –  $900
34th:  Michael Dolan  –  $900
35th:  Lynn Gilmartin  –  $900
36th:  Yoshiya Agata – $900
37th:  John Morgan – $900
38th:  Samuel Welbourne – $900
39th:  Jean Albert Calonnec – $900
40th:  Marco Bianco – $900
41st:  Dor Lan – $900
42nd:  Angel Guillen – $900
43rd:  Sean Yu – $900
44th:  Shawn Fakhimi – $900

With 346 entries in this final flight, the total field size for the Zynga Poker WPT500 Las Vegas is 2,983 entries, and 144 players have advanced to Day 2. The total prizepool is worth $1,491,500, and the official payouts will be posted soon.

Turbo Flight 1i ended with 3:36 remaining in Level 23, with blinds at 10,000-20,000 and a big-blind ante of 20,000. When Day 2 begins, the blinds will roll back to the earliest finish of all nine starting flights, which was about 14 minutes remaining with blinds at 4,000-8,000, and a big-blind ante of 8,000.

Day 2 begins tomorrow (Monday) at 1:00 pm PT. Return to WPT.com for continuing coverage of the Zynga Poker WPT500 Las Vegas.