Saturday, January 4th: $200 No Limit Hold'em ($100,000 GTD) Cruising Past The Guarantee, As Final Pair Of Flights Headline Schedule

ICYMI: Friday set the tone for the $200 No Limit Hold'em ($100,000 GTD), as the third pair of flights became the largest of the six to have been completed.  Flight 1E saw registration close with (99) entries, while Flight 1F followed with an even larger number, reaching the mark of (131) entries,  From those numbers, a total of (43) players would reach the bagging process, with the official list of Day 2 chip counts from Flight 1E and Flight 1F, listed below:

Manuel Amaro - 583,000
German Zaga - 567,000
Nathan Schwartz - 412,000
David Ward - 366,000
Scott Baumstein - 276,000
Christian Santos - 222,000
Leroy Jones - 221,000
Louis Lee - 220,000
Lee Schneider - 218,500
Rudy Vazquez - 202,000
Fred White - 200,000
Skip McDonough - 184,000
Tim Shane - 184,000
Atanael Thomas - 178,000
Jordan Shamah - 161,500
Daniel Cauzens - 160,000
Paul Grigsby - 158,000
Washington Gavilanes - 155,000
Zaki Lichaa - 143,500
Christopher Lim - 138,000
Shawn Vrenna - 134,000
Michale Jones - 128,000
Susan Krowitz - 124,500
Donald Semands - 124,000
Bobby Leff - 120,000
Diznian Losi - 118,000
Shachav Ginzberg - 116,000
Ivan Larrosa - 110,000
Christian Smith - 108,000
Dale Smith - 94,000
Maury Halperin - 90,000
Elias Nassif - 89,000
Richard Freedman - 89,000
Alfredo Geuvara - 86,000
Jamie Sequeira - 85,000
Richard Leger - 73,000
Richard Blum - 63,000
Michael Marks - 62,000
Danielle Bastarache - 49,000
Russell Marco - 40,000
Nick Visconti - 37,500
Kenny Kuhl - 20,000

With only two flights remaining, the $200 No Limit Hold'em ($100,000 GTD) has attracted a total of (523) entries, of which (88) players have reached tomorrow's Day 2.  The event only needs (102) entries to eclipse the $100,000 guarantee, which shoud be reached in today's afternoon flight.

Tournaments: The $200 No Limit Hold'em ($100,000 GTD) is already a great success, and if players haven't bagged chips for Day 2, they have two more opportunities.  Today's schedule hosts the final pair of flights (Flight 1G at 11:00am, and Flight 1H at 6:00pm), and the final satellite.  Each of the flights are structured with 30,000 unit starting stacks, (30) minute levels, and have registration open through Level 8 (and the break that follows).  Action is scheduled to play through Level 14, or if the field reaches the 10% mark, whichever comes first.  Those players that succesfully bag chips, will return for Day 2 on Sunday (January 5th), with action resuming at 12:00pm.

Those players that are interested in joining the action for a fraction of the price, have the opportunity to play in a $45 No Limit Hold'em Satellite, which gets underway at 2:00pm.  There is a satellite running each day, from Thursday through Saturday.

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 hands will be awarding $300 every (30) minutes (from 12:00pm-6:00pm).  Every jackpot game is eligible for the same amount, with the full $150 being rewarded to those that use one card to make the high hand.  For those players in tournaments, high hands are worth $100.

At 6:00pm, the high hands grow even larger, as $500 will be awarded every (30) minutes.  The winning high hands made with one card (during the 6:00pm-midnight period) will be awarded $250.

From 12:00am-9:00am, the high hand will be awarded $100 every (60) minutes.

11:00am: $200 No Limit Hold'em ($100,000 GTD) Flight 1G

- 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

2:00pm: $45 No Limit Hold'em Satellite Into $200 No Limit Hold'em ($100,000 GTD)

6:00pm: $200 No Limit Hold'em ($100,000 GTD) Flight 1H

- 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