$360 No Limit Hold'em ($100,000 GTD)
Level 1 (Blinds 100/100)Total Flight 1B Entries: N/A
Flight 1B Players Remaining: N/A
The $360 No Limit Hold'em ($100,000 GTD) may have gotten off to a slow start yesterday (28 total entries), but there is nothing to worry about, as the five weekend flights are sure to bring in the big numbers. Yesterday's Flight 1A saw four players "reach the money," three of which bagged chips for Monday's Day 2. Devon Marshall (Miami, FL) was the lone player to receive a Day 1 payout, walking away with $550. Engelberth Valera (Coral Springs, FL) bagged the flight's chip lead, and has set the mark for others to reach, at 275,000.
A new group of players have taken their seats in the tournament area, as Flight 1B saw it's first hand dealt just moments ago. Today's flight (along with the four that will follow over the next three days) is structured with 20,000 unit starting stacks, and will have 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." For example, yesterday's Flight 1A ended in Level 13, and lasted less than eight hours. Now the same thing shouldn't be expected from these larger weekend flights, but it's unlikely we will see any of the starting flights play longer than ten hours.
Just like yesterday, official numbers from both of today's flights will be posted on the blog, along with official Day 1 payouts (and end of day chip counts).
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