How Many Will Survive?
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How many players are we going to lose in the first level? How many will we lose today? Those questions have bounced around media row this morning, and without a precedent to fall back on, there's quite a range of answers being thrown out there. Last year in the $40,000 buy-in event, well over half the field didn't see day two action.
The players are kicking off with a massive 75,000-chip start bank, which sounds like a hell of a lot of chips. However our blinds are also kicking off at the 150/300 level, with antes introduced from the get go, which means there should be plenty of action from the first hand of the day.
We're playing ten levels today, and due to the unpredictable nature of no limit hold'em, we should still see plenty of bustouts today, despite the deep stacks.