Flight A of the $2,200 PokerAtlas Championship Title Event has wrapped, and 11 players have secured their bags for Day 2.

It was a steady, tactical day of play inside the Venetian Poker Room, with the field grinding through the full schedule before the final hands were dealt and chips were counted.

The largest stack advancing from Flight A comes in at 678,000, while the shortest stack still in the hunt stands at 63,000, leaving plenty of room for movement when cards go back in the air on Day 2.

Flight B kicks off Dec 11 at 11:15a, giving players one more chance to punch their ticket to Friday's restart.

Click the chip count tab for a list of players chips and stay tuned for full chip counts and continued coverage from the PokerAtlas Championship Title Event.

Two big hands before the break…both provided directly from Jonathan Dull AKA: JD.  This post is slightly edited, but no major changes have been made to the text sent to me (the anonymous poster AKA Sharon Goldman):

Hand 1

• Middle position opens 2.5k
• Hijack calls
• I  (JD) call on the button 8s9s
• BB calls 

Flop T76dd. Original raiser bets 4.5k.  Hijack folds and I call.  BB folds.

Heads up to the turn which is 3h. He bets 8.5k I call.
River 5s. He jams 23k I obviously call.  

Note from the poster:  No hand was provided for all in raiser but with JD's straight - it really doesn't matter.

Hand 2 (and just before the break)

• Middle position makes it 2.6k
• I (yup, still JD) flat call two to his left w/ KK
• Sb (the only player who has me covered and might be overall chipleader with 200k+) makes it 12k
• Original raiser flats 12k
• I just go all in for 106k
• Sb tanks forever and folds
• Original raiser calls me with his ~50k stack with QQ

Board comes out Axxxx and we hold. Sb apparently showed his cards to the guy next to him and after the hand ended they all said he folded JJ.  

From the poster:

JD now has 176k - not a bad stack going into level 10.  JD comes directly from our last series at TCH Social Austin.  He won over $100k - outlasted 468 other players - and grabbed the PokerAtlas Title trophy (and a seat into the PokerAtlas Championship Title Event)

With blinds of 500/1000/1000, Robert Mitchell raised to 2,500 from early position and Jacob sherba shoved all-in for 26,500. Mitchell called and tabled AQs while Serba shoved AKs. A queen on the river sent Serba home and left Mitchell with a nice stack for this point in the tournament. Presented by The Venetian Resort Las Vegas and PokerAtlas.

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