Nettles Crushes Day 1A

He was pretty talkative early on, pretty active in the middle stages and the overwhelming chipleader the final three levels of the night. Kevin Nettles is not just the Day 1A chipleader, he ended the night 53 BB ahead of the second stack.

Nettles gained most of his chips when then-chipleader Damon Huff melted down by calling off about 100,000 chips while holding T6 on a 6-2-3 flop. Nettles moved all-in on the flop holding Aces and Poker Christmas came early for Nettles, who bagged 349,500 at the end of the night.

Huff never recovered from that misstep and was eliminated in Level 14. Among the others who came out for Day 1A but did not advance included Joe Fernandez, Terry Harper, Caleb Meyer, Bruce Carter and Selani Flores.

Luke Vrabel was unusually quiet for him, chipped up consistently throughout Day 1A, bagging a 93k Day 2 stack. Others advancing include Svetlana Martie (137,000) and Luanne Uligian (191,500 ). Samuel Spiwak made the biggest comeback of those who bagged. He came back from dinner with 8BB and bagged 161,500.

Here are the official chipcounts for all players - from a starting field of 76 entries - who advance to Sunday's Day 2.

Kevin	Nettles	n/a	349,000
Luanne	Uligian	Floyds Knobs, IN	191,500
Jerome	Moon	Houston, TX.	176,500
Samuel	Spiwak	Denver, CO.	161,500
Nezar	Aweida	Englewood, CO.	160,000
Steve	Le Peau	Lone Tree CO.	146,500
Svetlana	Martie	Lakewood, CO.	137,000
Brian	Leitch	Golden, CO.	129,500
Max	Young	n/a	114,500
Thomas	Lee	Colo. Springs, CO.	100,000
Luke	Vrabel	xx, Connecticut	93,000
Brandon	McCormick	Denver, CO	92,000
Daniel	Burke	Denver, CO	90,500
Jordan	Turoff	Denver, CO	87,500
Gary	Schneider	Castle Pines, CO.	84,500
Andy	Smolan	Boulder, CO.	83,500
Matt	Greenwald	Erle, CO.	58,500
Hans	Sorensen	Woodland Park, CO.	35,500

-- Dan Ross - Hold'em Live Updates