ICYMI: Sunday hosted the final pair of starting flights for the $130 No Limit Hold'em ($100,000 GTD), with playing showing up strong, trying to find a bag for today's Day 2 (12:00pm). Flight 1G got underway at 11:00am, and after eight levels of open registration, the field would close with a total of (191) entries. Francois Gagne bagged the flight's chip lead (347,000), with an official list of Flight 1G chip counts posted below:
Francois Gagne - 347,000
Nasaire Cadet - 340,000
Debinder Deshmukh - 336,000
Zaki Lichaa - 333,000
Raul Cuervo - 278,000
JT Mendesse - 261,000
Alex Shafran - 241,000
Jairo Velazquez - 236,000
John Scigliano - 235,000
David Poces - 232,000
Juan Mubarak - 201,000
Kimberly Jones - 199,000
Alex Kashirin - 187,000
Scott Wyler - 178,000
Paulius Bikus - 156,000
Raymond Winters - 147,000
Tom Puccio - 143,000
Ron Levy - 135,000
Bob Peoples - 135,000
Steven Fassberg - 132,000
Mitchell Smith - 130,000
Damien Simon - 121,000
Brent Granda - 116,000
Magdiel Medina - 109,000
Jaime Wiegreffe - 106,000
Bruno Fortin - 99,000
Frank Velasquez - 93,000
Renee Touzlain - 90,000
Jorge Soto - 77,000
Shravan Kulshrestha - 72,000
Daniel Genachte - 62,000
Michael Goodman - 57,000
Francis Bouchard - 56,000
Todd Berman - 54,000
Nagui Yassa - 53,000
Flight 1H was the final flight of the tournament, and became the largest by the end of registration, as a total of (192) entries made up the field. After fourteen full levels of play, (36) players bagged chips for Day 2, led by Vadims Ivanous (468,000). An official list of Flight 1H chip counts are listed below:
Vadims Ivanous - 468,000
Reinaldo Troconis - 428,000
Mark Bernstein - 288,000
Ginold Rendel - 278,000
Robert Cox - 269,000
Kevin Helman - 231,000
Barry Weprin - 229,000
Denian Costa - 228,000
Glen Canelstein - 221,000
Luis Rivera - 209,000
Ameer Ibrahim - 207,000
Reginald Bonhomme - 185,000
Paul Smerdon - 183,000
Brian DeNight - 170,000
Miguel Chirino - 163,000
Jose Vazquez - 154,000
Sean Shah - 142,000
Christopher Matt - 140,000
Guillermo Hamilton - 139,000
Bobby Leff - 132,000
Archibald Barrant - 128,000
Liz Hagensick - 121,000
Sean Prince - 110,000
James Hamburger - 109,000
Edward Vojvonich - 109,000
Kyle Levasseur - 104,000
Ronald Campillo - 101,000
Michael Borelli - 94,000
Eugene Alkes - 84,000
Michael Sheinberg - 80,000
Danny Augustin - 69,000
Gene Hochman - 61,000
Antonio Campbell - 59,000
Jonathan Lasko - 59,000
Anthony Nassar - 29,000
Rick Cureau - 25,000
The official numbers for the tournament saw a total of (1,180) entries, of which (214) players are returning for action this afternoon (Day 2 begins at 12:00pm). The prize pool closed at $114,460, which will be spread across (113) pay spots, with first place scheduled to take home $20,015. Official seating assignments and payouts, will be posted here on the blog, just before the poker room opens (around 8:45am).
Tournaments: As mentioned above, the day's schedule sees action that begins at 12:00pm, as the (214) players who bagged chips in the $130 No Limit Hold'em ($100,000 GTD) return to play. There are no structural changes to mention, as play will resume in Level 15, with (30) minute levels the resrt of the way out.
At 3:00pm, we see the first of three $550 No Limit Hold'em Satellites, into the PartyPokerLive Millions South America event ($10,300 buy-in, with a $5,000,000 guarantee!!!). There is a (1) seat guarantee, which is actually a $13,000 package, in each of the satellites. The satellite is structured with 100,000 unit starting stacks, (20) minute levels, and has registration open through Level 8.
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, $100 high hands will be awarded every (60) minutes.
12:00pm: $130 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
3:00pm: $550 No Limit Hold'em Satellite Into PartyPokerLive Millions South America ($10,300 No Limit Hold'em $5,000,000 GTD) 1 Seat GTD
- Players starting with 100,000 tournament chips
- Late and re-entries for the first (8) levels
- Alternates and late entries will sit down to full stacks
- Levels will last (20) minutes