Sunday, January 5th: Final Pair Of $200 No Limit Hold'em ($100,000 GTD) Flights Just Crush, As Players Return For Day 2 At 12:00PM!!!

ICYMI: Heading into Saturday's action, the final pair of $200 No Limit Hold'em ($100,000 GTD) flights needed just under (90) entries to reach the event's guarantee.  What occured over the course of the day, was something nobody could have predicted.  The final pair of flights attracted a combined (390) entries, and made up close to $50,000 of the tournament's official prize pool.  A total of (74) players were succesful in bagging chips from the flights, with (37) coming out of each Flight 1G, and Flight 1H as well.  Official chip counts (combined) from the final pair of flights, are listed below:

Danilo Parada - 441,500
Jamie Wiegreffe - 373,000
Martin Guner - 335,000
Michael Tait - 325,000
Rotem Halbani - 303,000
Irwin Block - 282,000
Jay Silver - 261,500
Engelbarth Valera - 260,000
Raminder Singh - 253,500
Linzell Borders - 252,500
Nagui Yassa - 250,000
Anthony Rogan - 242,000
Brandon Lalloo - 239,500
Bernard Schmidt - 230,000
Glenn Popkin - 224,500
Paul Smerdon - 222,500
Carl Piptonk - 220,000
David Lopez - 219,000
Lom Nguyen - 210,000
Fred Alesi - 208,000
Joseph Remlo - 206,000
Alan Greenstein - 204,500
Carlos Avabreu - 200,500
Alik Sitnyakovsky - 198,000
Matthew Dahl - 194,000
Mike Garhett - 190,500
Scott Efron - 188,000
Sean Shah - 176,500
David Clark - 171,500
Raul Jimenez - 171,000
Greg Spinder - 157,000
Stu Wilkser - 155,500
Raymond Winters - 154,000
Lawrence Grades - 153,000
Karay Pocosnon - 149,500
Scott Levitt - 140,000
Ben Robinson - 132,000
Tom Gity - 131,500
David Goldfarb - 130,000
Kevin McGillicuddy - 122,500
Robert Transue - 122,500
Zack Fish - 119,000
Demetrius Givern - 117,500
Greg Shain - 117,000
Eric Polirer - 114,500
David Oshry - 113,000
Bartolome Lino - 110,000
Juan Barbosa - 109,000
Brett Tarzy - 108,000
Mike Bonsignoire - 106,500
Olivia Katrych - 106,000
Alan Tefaud - 106,000
Brian Darrow - 105,000
Juan Quiroz - 103,500
Juan Mubarak - 101,500
Oleg Efremov - 101,000
Rob Dobbs - 98,000
Tamara Piderit - 98,000
Aaron Tolchinsky - 97,500
Matt Vitale - 97,000
Andrew Daire - 95,000
David Poces - 93,000
Saber Salum - 85,500
Keith Wagner - 85,000
George Fountoulakis - 83,500
Shawn Fagan - 80,500
Bobby Harris - 66,500
Javier Sarache - 64,500
Michael Goodman - 56,500
Matt Portus - 56,500
Brian Krincky - 55,000
Robert Aaronson - 50,000
Blaine McRae - 36,500
Verona Milk - 28,000

With all starting flights now completed, we have the official numbers for the event: (913) total entries, (162) players returning this afternoon for Day 2, playing for a piece of a prize pool that reaced $146,080.  Official Day 2 seating assignments can be found by CLICKING HERE.

Tournaments: The only tournament on today's schedule is Day 2 of the $200 No Limit Hold'em ($100,000 GTD).  As mentioed above, (162) players will be returning at 12:00pm, scheduled to play down to a winner.  There are no structual changes to make note of, as play will resume in Level 15, with (30) minute levels the rest of the way out.

Promotions: The "Turbo High Hands" were well received in December, and they have found a home in January as well.  Beginning at 9:00am (every day of the week), $100 high hands will be awarded every (10) minutes, with rollovers applying.  Because of those rollovers, we have seen the 9:00am-12:00pm period award prizes of $400...$700...even $1,000, over the past month.

The standard high hand promotion then takes over, and runs from 12:00pm-12:00am.  Qualifying high hands will be awarded $300, given away every (30) minutes (no rollovers).  During that period, if the winning high hand is made using one card, a $150 prize will be awarded.  For those players playing in a tournament, winning high hands will be paid out $100.

From 12:00am-3:00am, $50 high hands will be awarded every (60) minutes.

12:00pm: $200 No Limit Hold'em ($100,000 GTD) Day 2

- Players starting with 30,000 tournament chips
- Late and re-entries for the first (8) levels
- Alternates and late entries will sit down to full stacks
- Levels will last (30) minutes