Welcome To Day 1a of the 2021 bestbet Jacksonville Spring Series $2,500 Main Event
The Main Event of the 2021 bestbet Jacksonville Spring Series has arrived!
Featuring a $2,500 buy-in, the Spring Series Main Event will run players $500 more per entry than the Winter Open's $2,000 Main Event held here just two months ago. In that edition, Scott Stewart won outright over a 510-entry field and earned $177,817 for his weekend's worth of work, doing so on the live-streamed final table for the world to see. Come Sunday night, eight more people will have the opportunity to do the same.
Other than the buy-in, all else remains the same as January's Main Event. Two starting flights will take place Friday and Saturday, each beginning at noon ET. Players receive starting stacks of 25,000 with blinds starting at 100/100 and increasing every 40 minutes throughout the tournament. Big-blind ante comes into play in Level 3 (100/200/200).
Fifteen-minute breaks will occur after every three levels (two hours of play) with a one-hour dinner break at the end of Level 9 (around 6:30 p.m.) Registration with unlimited entries will remain open through the dinner break until the beginning of Level 10 (1,000/1,500/1,500) at approximately 7:30 p.m.
Play will conclude for the night after 14 levels of play (2,000/4,000/4,000), and all remaining players at that time will receive bags for their chips and officially advance to Sunday's Day 2. Anyone that does bag and still wishes to come back for Saturday's Day 1b in an attempt at taking a larger stack into Day 2 may also do so without forfeiting their stack, as this tournament features a best-stack-forward format.
PokerNews will be bringing you updates on all the action in the tournament area from the time the first card is in the air until the last pot of the tournament is pushed to the champion. Hope you enjoy.
. The small blind checked to Andrew Brinkley in the big blind, who bet 1,500 and received a call from Scott Misterek in the cutoff. The small blind folded.
and Brinkley checked. Misterek bet 2,500 and Brinkley quickly called, bringing the river 
. Brinkley checked and Misterek checked behind, taking the hand to showdown.
and Misterek tabled 
for a turned straight, hitting his double gutshot to earn him the pot.
. Misterek bet 2,000 in the hijack and Brinkley called on the button, bringing the river 
for a flopped set of deuces and Brinkley threw his second-best 
onto the felt face up for the table to see his second big pair go down in short succession.
. On his way away from the table afterwards, he commented on his table draw, saying "it was a bad seat. I'll be back."
rolled onto the felt to give him a flush and score him the double.
and the big blind checked, putting action onto Derahn Sikes in the hijack. Sikes bet 2,000 and received calls behind from both Armando Figueroa in the cutoff and Andrew Brinkley, who was on the button. The big blind then folded.
and Figueroa fired out a bet of 6,000. Brinkley quickly folded and Sikes called, bringing the river 
for the turned flush, prompting Figueroa to shake his head for a moment before sending his cards to the muck.
left his opponent drawing dead by the turn. He now looks to have the largest stack in the room with more than a quarter-million.
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