The first of five Live WPTDeepStacks flights has officially come to a close with 41 players qualifying for Day 2 action. Today’s Day 1A chip leader was Douglas James with 250,000 chips. He is followed closely behind by Yuan Li with 241,500.

Through 9 levels of late registration, there were 157 entries (including 27 re-entries). The players that remain after the full 12 levels of play are the first qualifiers for Day 2 action. There are still three more “regular” Day 1 flights remaining including Day 1B, on now, plus one Turbo Day 1.

Today’s qualifiers will return for Day 2 action at 12:00pm on Saturday.

View the WPTDeepStacks Day 1 Combined Results page.

After winning an enormous pot just a few hands earlier, and simultaneously whittling away at the WTPDeepStacks Day 1A stack leader, Joseph Sullivan’s chip count, Daniel McLaren went on to win three of the next four hands.

In this particular case, Ajay Gnanasambanthan raised to 2,500, preflop. Daniel and Nabil Karass both called. The flop came down . Having won more than 70,000 chips only moments earlier, Daniel was in a position to throw his weight around and raised to 4,500.

Neither Nabil nor Ajay were interested in calling, and both tossed their cards back to the dealer.

The players have just returned from a 15 minute break following the completion of level 9. During a pause in the action we counted the stacks and discovered that Joseph Sullivan has jumped out into the lead with 187,000 chips. He is followed closely behind by Lynn Phan with 185,000.

Low stack at table 84, Pierre-Anthony Langlois just risked it all.  From an early position Krzysztot Chmielowski raised 1,600, preflop. Joseph Lupoi, and the table’s big stack, Yuan Li, both called. Pierre-Anthony, who had just joked about a series of bad beats that had drastically reduced his chip count, raised to 7,500.

Krzysztot and Joseph both called, and Yuan folded. The flop came down . Krzysztot and Joseph checked and Pierre-Anthony pushed all of his remaining 9,500 chips into the pot. Krzysztot folded and Joseph called.

When the players turned over their cards, Pierre-Anthony showed . But when he saw Joseph’s , Pierre-Anthony moaned, “Oh-nh, he has an out.”

But the dealer flipped the on the turn and immediately revealed the river . Pierre-Anthony sighed, happy to see another hand.

Here is a quick recount of a hand just played at table 95 that was won by the big stack at the table, David Quang. Preflop, Xuan Liu raised to 1,200, and both David and James Elliot Husain called.

The flop came down , and Liu wagered 1,500. David and James called. When the dealer revealed the turn , all three players tapped the top of the table once again. David showed his . His pair of aces was superior to the results of Liu and James. Both of them shook their heads, and returned their hole cards to the dealer.

Players are just wrapping up their 15 minute break after level 6, and during a pause in the action, we walked around and assessed the leaders’ stack sizes. During the count it was determined that Stephane McGraw is out in front with 166,000 chips. His next closest competitor trails him by 60,000.