Ardavan Yadzi Leads the Final Flight of Colossus III

ElleSriracha

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

The final flight of the Colossus III is in the books, wrapping up six flights totaling 18,053 entries. Ardavan Yazdi bagged the lead with 588,000 chips, and leads the remaining 143 players who moved on to Day 2 from flight 1F. Sitting second in chips is WPT Legends of Poker Champion Harry Arutyunyan, sitting on 504,000, with Jordan Polk rounding out the top three with 487,000 chips.

Yazdi has amassed over $644,000 in live recorded cashes, with a single win in 2007 in the Los Angeles Legends of Poker $5,000 Main Event for $188,125. He bested the likes of Barry Greenstein and David Pham at the final table, and has several notable final tables on his resume.

Sunday's final flight attracted 3,923 entries, slightly less than the 3,966 entries from flight 1E earlier in the day, and more than any of the first four flights.

Interestingly enough, the top three from the evening flight also fall within the top five counts across all six flights.

Here is a look at the top five stacks going into Day 2 on Monday:

Place	Player Name	Chip Count
1	Ardavan Yazdi	588,000
2	Thomas Boivin	538,000
3	Harry Arutyunyan	504,000
4	Jordan Polk	487,000
5	Newton Deleon	433,000

Here is a look at the breakdown of entries across all six flights:

Flight	Entries
A	2,756
B	1,982
C	3,102
D	2,324
E	3,966
F	3,923

Total Entries: 18,053

Day 2 resumes Monday, June 5th at 2:00 p.m. local time. Play will last 10 levels with blinds increasing to 60 minutes in duration. There will be a break every two levels, with a scheduled 60-minute dinner break after the sixth level of the day. Day 3 is on Tuesday, June 6th at 2:00 p.m. followed by Day 4 on Wednesday, June 7th at 2:00 p.m. where a winner will be crowned.

The Colossus III is paying out a whopping $1,000,000 first-place prize, along with the coveted gold WSOP bracelet. Last year's winner was Ben Keeline, earning himself a million dollars and adding a bracelet to go alongside his WSOP circuit ring. Keeline bested a field of 21,613 entries after four days of play.

Notable players to make it through to Day from this flight included Darren Rabinowitz (393,000), Matt Affleck (272,000), Ralph Massey (219,000), Ryan Laplante (155,000), Cate Hall (138,000), and Jeff Gross (28,000).

With the field being so massive, many familiar faces fired this flight but didn't make it through, including Maria Ho, Kristen Bicknell, Joe Cada, Kenny Hallaert, Loni Harwood, Jessica Dawley, Jamie Kerstetter, William Kassouf, Upeshka De Silva, and Ben Zamani.

There are three more days to go before a millionaire is crowned, so keep following along as PokerNews continues to bring all of the action throughout the rest of this series.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ardavan Yazdi	588,000 588,000	588,000
Harry Arutyunyan	504,000 274,000	274,000
Jordan Polk	487,000 487,000	487,000

William Black	463,000 463,000	463,000
Maxwell Campbell	400,000 400,000	400,000
Darren Rabinowitz	393,000 143,000	143,000

Luke Vrabel	352,000 352,000	352,000
Armin Khachadourian	347,000 347,000	347,000
Randy Pfeifer	308,000 78,000	78,000
Mark Babekov	307,000 62,000	62,000
Alexander Gambino	298,000 298,000	298,000
Matt Affleck	297,000 217,000	217,000
Sejo Kasic	295,000 65,000	65,000
Artur Rudziankov	257,000 27,000	27,000
Chad Davis	256,000 256,000	256,000
John Hanna	252,000 252,000	252,000
Nicholas Power	240,000 240,000	240,000
Matthew Parry	239,000 239,000	239,000

James Broderick	228,000 228,000	228,000
Ian Steinman	228,000 113,000	113,000

Ralph Massey	219,000 174,000	174,000
Joshua Feiger	219,000 219,000	219,000
Michael Flesch	219,000 219,000	219,000
Bryan Munoz	219,000 219,000	219,000
Fraser Short	203,000 58,000	58,000
Miguel Use	198,000 -62,000	-62,000

John Delrossi	198,000 198,000	198,000
Matthew Yorra	196,000 196,000	196,000
Daniel Deveau	193,000 193,000	193,000
John Kim	192,000 192,000	192,000
Matthew Shultis	188,000 188,000	188,000
Dustin Bryan	187,000 -28,000	-28,000

Gregory Sanchez	183,000 183,000	183,000
Mike Chau	179,000 179,000	179,000
Pejman Kazemi	179,000 179,000	179,000
Anthony Marchese	178,000 178,000	178,000
Bahman Ataeianfar	177,000 177,000	177,000
Stefan Martin	173,000 173,000	173,000
Kunal Ashok Ranglani	173,000 173,000	173,000
Armando Figueroa	164,000 164,000	164,000
Mark Scacewater	163,000 163,000	163,000
Dmitry Savelyev	162,500 162,500	162,500
Ben Tang	160,000 160,000	160,000
Ron Black	159,000 159,000	159,000
Nam Le	156,000 156,000	156,000
William Johnson	155,000 155,000	155,000
Ryan Laplante	155,000

John Fontana	149,000 55,000	55,000
Aditya Agarwal	149,000 149,000	149,000

Jan Christoph Von Halle	147,000 147,000	147,000
Joey Weissman	144,000 144,000	144,000

Cate Hall	138,000 86,000	86,000
George Boyce	135,000
Binh Nguyen	134,000 134,000	134,000
Daniel Mcnanna	133,000 133,000	133,000
Dien Le	132,000 132,000	132,000
Randall Campbell	130,000 130,000	130,000
Ying Zhao	128,000 128,000	128,000
Benjamin Dobson	126,000 126,000	126,000
Bryce Burt	123,000 28,000	28,000
Richard Gagliano	123,000 123,000	123,000
Kelley Slay	122,000 122,000	122,000

Cody Pack	122,000 82,000	82,000
Safiya Umerova	121,000 -29,000	-29,000

Joshua Gingras	121,000 121,000	121,000
Khoi Phan	120,000 120,000	120,000
Federico Ottenio	119,000 119,000	119,000
Walter Treccarichi	118,000 -62,000	-62,000
Ravi Shanmugam	118,000 118,000	118,000
Emile Schiff	117,000 117,000	117,000
Christopher Herrin	115,000 115,000	115,000
Thomas Cuce	115,000 115,000	115,000
Troy Mclain	114,000 114,000	114,000
Gang Wang	112,000 112,000	112,000
Matthias Eibinger	110,000 110,000	110,000
Paul Cogliano	107,000 107,000	107,000
Josias Santos	107,000 107,000	107,000
Jason Sorichetti	106,000 106,000	106,000
David Johnson	105,000 105,000	105,000
Douglas Bounsall	103,000 103,000	103,000
Brett Shaffer	103,000 103,000	103,000

Tuan Vu	103,000 103,000	103,000
Eduardo Christ	101,000 101,000	101,000
Andrew Cook	100,000 100,000	100,000
Kenneth Jones	100,000 100,000	100,000
Rene Michael Mitsching	98,000 98,000	98,000
Charles Johnson Jr	95,000 95,000	95,000
Brian Pedersen	93,000 -6,500	-6,500
Adrian Fazakerley	92,000 92,000	92,000
Jacque Lavadour	90,000 90,000	90,000
Joseph Torres	89,000 89,000	89,000
Matthew Wolff	88,000 88,000	88,000
Tracie Osborne	88,000 88,000	88,000
Joshua Abady	86,000 86,000	86,000
Peter Zhmutski	86,000 86,000	86,000
Brandon Wong	84,000 84,000	84,000

Stanley Silverman	83,000 83,000	83,000
Florian Strasser	83,000 83,000	83,000
Amritaksha Basu	82,000 82,000	82,000
Derek Crooks	80,000 80,000	80,000
Patrick Chan	79,000 79,000	79,000
Tony Gargano	78,000 -62,000	-62,000
Brandon Cantu	78,000 33,000	33,000

Kane Lai	77,000 77,000	77,000
Justo Avalos	75,000 75,000	75,000
Cody Brinn	74,000 74,000	74,000
James Cho	74,000 74,000	74,000
Angel Pagan	74,000 74,000	74,000
Benjamin Bauer	73,000 73,000	73,000
Reza Yazdi	73,000 73,000	73,000
Sinisa Zimek	71,000 71,000	71,000
Scott Massimiano	70,000 70,000	70,000
Thomas Taylor	68,000 -37,000	-37,000
Yue Zhang	67,000 67,000	67,000
Rodrigo Portaleoni	67,000 67,000	67,000
Robert Roberts	67,000 67,000	67,000
Jesse Mills	67,000 67,000	67,000
Donald Landwirth	65,000 65,000	65,000
Stephen Brown	64,000 64,000	64,000
Troy Throop	56,000 56,000	56,000
David Woo	51,000 51,000	51,000
Petko Petkov	50,000 50,000	50,000
Gerald Lechner	49,000 49,000	49,000
Terry Zitzman	48,000 48,000	48,000
Sebastien Comel	48,000 48,000	48,000
Jason Abolsky	45,000 45,000	45,000
Gian Generosi	45,000 45,000	45,000
Matthew Schoenian	44,000 44,000	44,000
Francis Carandang	41,000 41,000	41,000
Kenneth Basmadjian	38,000 38,000	38,000
Michael Ciacciarelli	38,000 38,000	38,000
Johann Schafer	34,000 34,000	34,000
Brandon Harwood	32,000 32,000	32,000
Dale Kuklinski	28,000 28,000	28,000
Jeff Gross	28,000 4,000	4,000

Jeffrey Dewitt	28,000 28,000	28,000
Tony Hoang	28,000 -12,000	-12,000
Alysa Riddle	24,000 24,000	24,000
John Walker	21,880 21,880	21,880
Dwight Crisostomo	19,000 19,000	19,000
Mauricio Garcia	18,000 18,000	18,000
William Dai	18,000 18,000	18,000
Gene Rarangol	4,000 4,000	4,000