Saturday, February 25th: Focus On Final Pair Of Event 8 Flights

With (623) Event 8 entries to this point, the tournament is only $10,000 away from the $200,000 posted guarantee...with two more flights on the schedule today!  Yesterday's flight's drew a total of (308) entries, with (66) players finding themselves bags for Sunday's Day 2 (bringing the overall Day 2 total to 127).  The afternoon flight (Flight 1C) saw one of the closest "races" for the chip lead bonus, with Tom Cuce (Boca Raton, FL) winning a crucial pot in the final hands to steal the lead away from Antonio Albanes (Key Largo, FL).  George Cseke (Tamarac, FL) bagged the Flight 1D chip lead (302,000), becoming the fourth of six eventual $1,500 Main Event seat winners.

There are two more Event 8 flights on today's schedule, with the potential for this prize pool to reach $300,000 a real thing.  Registration is open all day for both flights, with numerous players taking advantage of super late entries.  Asher Conniff (Queens, NY) fired a second bullet during Level 15 of Flight 1A, and turned the 25,000 starting stack into a 155,000 Day 2 stack.  Marc Levy (Boynton Beach, FL) then took things a step further, entering Flight 1C during the final level of play, eventually spinning up the starting stack to 199,500.

For those players that can't make it to the poker room today, but still want to try and grab a piece of this massive prize pool, you can still enter before the cards get in the air tomorrow (Sunday).

11:00am - Event 8 (Battles At The Beach) Flight 1E $360 No Limit Hold'em Deep Stack $200,000 GTD 

- Players receive 25,000 in tournament chips
- All late registrants and re-entries receive a full stack
- Levels 1-14 will be (30) minutes, Levels 15+ will be (50) minutes
- Late registration and re-entries for the first (14) levels, to include before the first card on Day 2
- The chip leader from each flight will win a $1,500 BATB Main Event seat (for any Day 1)

6:00pm - Event 8 (Battles At The Beach) Flight 1F $360 No Limit Hold'em Deep Stack $200,000 GTD

- Players receive 25,000 in tournament chips
- All late registrants and re-entries receive a full stack
- Levels 1-14 will be (30) minutes, Levels 15+ will be (50) minutes
- Late registration and re-entries for the first (14) levels, to include before the first card on Day 2
- The chip leader from each flight will win a $1,500 BATB Main Event seat (for any Day 1)