Event 8: Play to a Winner

$560 Buy-In Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 16: 2k/4k/500 ante

Bret Beebe - Chip Leader
Bret Beebe – Chip Leader

Event 8 featured a $1 Million guaranteed prizepool and players came out in force to build it much higher. The tournament drew 2,767 entrants to create a prizepool worth $1,377,500 and paying out $239,585 to the winner, all for a $560 buy-in.

Only 532 of them were able to make it through 15 levels of play in their first flight and they all returned today with the intention of playing down to a winner. The first hurdle will be making it into the money with less than half of today’s field getting paid. The final 250 in the tournament will earn some money with a min-cash picking up $1,157.

Bret Beebe walked into the room as the player to chase as his leading stack of 694,000 is more than 200,000 better than second place Jordan Cutter. Players will have plenty of space to make moves as the average stack is over 32 big blinds and they will working with 40-minute levels all day long.

Players were eager to take their seats and they are now underway.

Top ten chip counts to start Day 2:

Bret Beebe – 694,000
Jordan Cutter – 491,000
Brian Hawkins – 451,000
Ricardo Rodriguez – 442,500
Jose Galvez – 382,000
Dipak Chaudhari – 360,000
Jong Kim – 359,000
Riley Fuller – 348,500
Anthony Cesare – 334,500
Robert Bourkney – 329,500

Payouts (Below):

1: $239,585
2: $155,382
3: $101,756
4: $86,507
5: $71,768
6: $57,166
7: $42,703
8: $28,928
9: $20,663
10-12: $13,775
13-15: $9,298
16-18: $7,094
19-27: $5,786
28-36: $4,890
37-45: $4,133
46-54: $3,444
55-63: $3,031
64-72: $2,755
73-81: $2,493
82-90: $2,287
91-100: $2,108
101-110: $1,942
111-120: $1,791
121-130: $1,653
131-140: $1,515
141-150: $1,378
151-160: $1,309
161-170: $1,254
171-180: $1,212
181-200: $1,185
201-250: $1,157