ICYMI: After Sunday evening's opening flight of Event #19 ($100 No Limit Hold'em $50,000 GTD), yesterday's Isle Classic schedule hosted two more flights, for players to try and bag chips for tomorrow's Day 2. Flight 1B started at 11:00am, and after eight levels of registration, the flight would officially close with (119) entries. Eight more completed levels would see the bagging process begin, with (18) players bagging up chips. The group was led by Kareem Bernardo (Ft. Lauderdale, FL), who packed up 220,300 for Day 2. Some other notables to bag from Flight 1B included Paula Holder (193,500), Pedro Palacio (139,500), Zaki Lichaa (94,000), and Daniel Genachte (83,000).
The evening flight (Flight 1C) began at 6:00pm, and ended up attracted the largest field of the three starting flights to have been played. There was a total of (183) entries, with (20) players successfully reaching the bagging process. Ilan Hadida (Boca Raton, FL) bagged up the flight's chip lead, heading to Day 2 with 273,000. Francis Margaglione (Davie, FL) bagged the second largest stack (269,000), and was joined by Steve Zukowski (216,500), Barry Chazen (134,000), Robert Transue (130,000), and Yigal Hen (83,000).
Tournaments: The final pair of Event #19 flights are on today's Isle Classic schedule, the first of which begins at 11:00am (Flight 1D), followed by Flight 1E at 6:00pm. The tournament is structured with 15,000 unit starting stacks, and levels that last (20) minutes over the course of the event. Registration for each flight is open until the end of Level 8 (and the break that follows), with action scheduled to play a full sixteen levels (or until 10% of the field remains, whichever comes first). Players that remain will then bag chips for Wednesday's Day 2 (12:00pm).
Promotions: From (9:00am-10:00am), the high hand will award $150 every (30) minutes. The high hands will then transition from 10:00am-12:00am (midnight), with the opportunity to win $400 every (30) minutes. During that period, the promotion sees tournament players eligible (Isle Open events not eligible for high hand) each half-hour for $100 high hands, 2/2 limit hold'em players eligible for $200 high hands, 2/4 limit hold'em players eligible for $300 high hands, and all other raked games (1/2-5/10 NLH, 4/8 Omaha 8B, 6/12 O.E., etc.) eligible for $400 high hands. From 12:00am-9:00am, players are eligible for $100 high hands every hour.
It should also be noted that started back on November 1st, players are able to win the high hand using only one card in their hand!!! The payouts for those that use one card are different than the standard numbers listed above, and can be found (full listing of one-card payouts on flyers in the poker room).
11:00am - 2017 Isle Classic Event #18 (Flight 1D) | $100 No Limit Hold'em ($50,000 GTD)
- Players start with 15,000 in tournament chips
- Late and re-entries for the first (8) levels
- Alternates and late entries will start with a full stack
- Levels will last (20) minutes
- All Day 1's will play (16) complete levels or until 10% of the field remains (whichever comes first)
6:00pm - 2017 Isle Classic Event #18 (Flight 1E) | $100 No Limit Hold'em ($50,000 GTD)
- Players start with 15,000 in tournament chips
- Late and re-entries for the first (8) levels
- Alternates and late entries will start with a full stack
- Levels will last (20) minutes
- All Day 1's will play (16) complete levels or until 10% of the field remains (whichever comes first)
