$175 NLH $100,000 GTD (Flight 1E): With The Weekend Here, The Final Four Flights Expected To Bring Some Large Numbers

$175 No Limit Hold'em
$100,000 Guaranteed
Level 1 (Blinds 25/50)
Total Flight 1E Entries: N/A

The halfway point of the $175 No Limit Hold'em ($100,000 GTD) has been reached, with a total of (195) entries, of which (24) players have bagged chips for Day 2 (Sunday).  The current prize pool sits at $25,740, which is just over a quarter of the way towards the posted guarantee of $100,000.  Big numbers are going to be needed to reach the guarantee...but big numbers have been a trend during the weekends of these multis.  

The cards are about to get in the air for Flight 1E, which is the fifth of eight total starting flights for the event.  Players will be sitting down to the 15,000 unit starting stacks, with levels of (25) minutes over the course of the day.  Registration is open through Level 8 (and the break that follows), with those that reach that point, trying to match the overall leading stack of Richard Wetter (312,500).  There are only seven players scheduled to return with a stack over the 122,000 chip average (for Day 2), and eleven players to have eclipsed the century mark.

As the field sizes increase this weekend, we can expect to see some larger stacks packed into bags, and the landscape of the leaderboard change dramatically.  We will keep you updated on the action this afternoon, as a new group of players try to book their tickets to Sunday's Day 2.