$360 NLH $100,000 (Flight 1A): Action About To Get Underway In First Flight Of $360 NLH ($100,000 GTD)

$360 No Limit Hold'em ($100,000 GTD)

Level 1 (Blinds 100/100)
Total Flight 1A Entries: N/A
Flight 1A Players Remaining: N/A

Players are just starting to arrive for today's headlining event, Flight 1A of the $360 No Limit Hold'em ($100,000 GTD).  This is the month's second multi-flight tournament, and coming off a successful holiday weekend event ($175 No Limit Hold'em $50,000 GTD), great things are expected over the next five days.  

Today's flight (along with the five that will follow over the next four days) is structured with 20,000 unit starting stacks, and will be played with levels that last (30) minutes over the course of the event.  Registration for each flight is open through Level 8, and continues to stay open through the ten minute break that follows.  Each of the starting flights will play down to 8% of the field, with 12.5% making the money on Day 1.  That is the one change in this particular event, from prior tournaments that used the same structure, as those events played down to 5%.  Players were very vocal about the length of time that those flights took to get down to 5%, so that number was raised to 8%.  Things should not take entirely as long, making this tournament's structure more "player-friendly."

The cards will be in the air just moments from now, with all of the official numbers from the flight (and the following flights) to be updated here on the blog.