Monday, September 18th: Satellite Action Starts For Friday's Single-Day Series

ICYMI: Last night's $130 No Limit Hold'em "Hard Stop, ICM Chop" attracted a field of (32) entries, equating to a prize pool of $3,264.  While the tournament's structure sees the ICM calculator broken out after Level 16 (and the hand-for hand process, which lasts ten hands), last night's installment agreed to a deal before that point was reached.  Kevin Hammer (Heyworth, IL) would end up declared the tournament's winner, taking home $1,046 for his efforts.

1. Kevin Hammer (Heyworth, IL) $1,046
2. Edgard Mendes (Deerfield Beach, FL) $723
3. Hosney Boutros (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) $658
4. Jose Tacher (Sunny Isles, FL) $437
5. Jason Morrison (Bloomington, IN) $400

Tournaments: The first tournament on the Monday schedule is a special one, as the first of two (this week) satellites gets underway at 11:00am, for Friday's $2,500 No Limit Hold'em "Single Day Series."  The $275 buy-in satellite guarantees (1) seat into the weekend's prestigious event, and is structured with 14,000 unit starting stacks (along with 20 minute levels).

The satellite is followed at 6:00pm, by one of the largest guaranteed tournaments of the month.  The $130 No Limit Hold'em event carries with it a $25,000 guaranteed prize pool...one that is surpassed on a consistent basis.  The tournament's structure sees players sitting down to starting stacks of 16,000 units, with levels lasting (20) minutes throughout the event. 

Promotions: The "bonus high hand promotion" for the day runs from 10:00am-7:00pm, and offers up $500 to the qualifying high hand every (20) minutes.  This same promotion ran just two days ago, and drew a full house in the poker room, so it's likely that things will get busier earlier than normal.  Outside of the 10:00am-7:00pm time period, standard high hands will be in place, with $200 awarded to the qualifying high hand (every 30 minutes).

11:00am - $275 No Limit Hold'em Satellite Into $2,500 NLH "Single-Day Series" (1 Seat GTD)

- Players will begin with a 14,000 starting stack

- Late and re-entries for the first (8) levels

- Alternates and late entries will receive full stacks

- Levels are (20) minutes in length throughout

- (1) in every (10) players will win a seat into Friday's (Sept. 22nd) $2,500 NLH Single-Day Series

6:00pm - $130 No Limit Hold'em ($25,000 GTD)

- Players will begin with a 16,000 starting stack

- Late and re-entries for the first (8) levels

- Alternates and late entries will receive full stacks

- Levels are (20) minutes in length throughout