Saturday, May 13th: Registration Wrapping Up For The "May $100,000 GTD"

ICYMI: The second weekend in May started off with two more flights of the $150 No Limit Hold'em Deep Stack $100,000 GTD ("May $100,000 GTD"), with a combined (302) entries over the course of the day.  Flight 1C had a total of (125) entries, with (20) players managing to make their way to tomorrow's Day 2.  While Javier Sarache and Dennis Rodriguez led the way for most of the afternoon, it would be Gary Levinger (Wellington, FL) who bagged the flight's chip lead, with 231,000.  Levinger is coming off of his best year of tournament poker (with eight recorded cashes), but is still looking to notch his first 2017 score on his resume.

Flight 1D, which attracted the largest field size of the four flights to have been completed, saw a total of (177) entries.  Once the bagging process was completed to end the night, (22) players were left with "passes" to Day 2.  John Womack still holds the overall lead heading into Day 2 (380,000), but Flight 1D chip leader Dylan Drazen (New York, NY) made a solid run at eclipsing that number (371,000).  Some other notables that bagged chips for tomorrow were Edward Medoff, Sergio Amato, Harmeet Singh, Larry Stoddard, and Elliot Zaydman.

Tournaments: Players looking to join in on this great tournament have two final chances this afternoon/evening, as Flight 1E begins at 11:00am, followed by Flight 1F at 6:00pm.  There have been a total of (592) entries combined to this point, with $68,080 going towards the overall prize pool.

Promotions: The high hand promotions take another "breather" today, between yesterday's (11) hours worth of "turbo" high hands, tomorrow's (7) hours of $300 high hands (awarded every 15 minutes).  The "standard high hand" procedure is in place, awarded prizes to qualifying high hands every (30) minutes (with rollovers).

11:00am - $150 No Limit Hold'em Deep Stack $100,000 GTD (Flight 1E)

- Players will begin with a 20,000 unit starting stack

- Late registration and re-entry for the first (8) levels

- Levels 1-16 will be (25) minutes, transitioning to (30) minutes from Level 17+

- All late registrants and re-entries will receive a full stack

- All Day 1's will play 16 complete levels, or until 10% of the field remains (whichever comes first)

6:00pm - $150 No Limit Hold'em Deep Stack $100,000 GTD (Flight 1F)

- Players will begin with a 20,000 unit starting stack

- Late registration and re-entry for the first (8) levels

- Levels 1-16 will be (25) minutes, transitioning to (30) minutes from Level 17+

- All late registrants and re-entries will receive a full stack

- All Day 1's will play 16 complete levels, or until 10% of the field remains (whichever comes first)