Event 1 Day 1A and 1B: Recap

$100 + $25 No Limit Hold’Em Deep Stack

A total of 427 entrants put down $125 today in hopes of making it through the day to come back on Sunday with a shot at a huge prize pool. Players started out with high hopes but it wasn’t long before “Seat Opens” were being yelled and players made the long walk out of the tournament area. By the time play ended at just a little after 3 a.m. a total of 52 players had made the cut. Max Jones was our end of day chip leader with a staggering 284,200 in chips. The top 10 in chips at the end of the day were:

1Max Jones284,200
2Jose Galvez198,600
3Efthimios Piperakis179,700
4Steve Yagudaev156,400
5Syed Shah147,400
6Luis Arguello147,300
7Jorman Guigui147,100
8Alper Unsoy132,000
9David Miller129,600
10Michael Belkin120,000

In addition to fighting it out for Event One honors, players are looking to win our Leaderboard Promotion. There will be three more days of flights for Event One with start times of 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. each day.