The 2021 bestbet Jacksonville Spring Series $2,500 Main Event continues Saturday with the second of two flights, beginning at noon local time.
Eighteen players have already advanced from Friday's Day 1a field of 143. A busy day is expected as this afternoon rolls around and a room full of more hopefuls take their shot at advancing to Day 2 on Sunday. They'll all be gunning for Nick Raio, whose stack of 448,000 was enough to make him the chip leader from the first flight of the event.
Once again, all players will get 25,000 to start with blinds beginning at 100/100 and increasing every 40 minutes. Fifteen-minute breaks will occur every two hours with a one-hour dinner break at the end of Level 9 (approximately 6:30 p.m.). Late registration will close at the end of the dinner break and the prize pool will become finalized at that time.
Plenty of worthy competition made their way through bestbet Jacksonville's doors yesterday and failed to advance. Players such as January 2021 Winter Open Main Event champion Scott Stewart, Timothy Miles, Andrew Brinkley, Michael Wang, and Wayne Harmon were among that group, and most or all are expected to be seen once more looking to take advantage of this final opportunity to advance.
Day 1a reached a hard stop with 10:11 remaining in Level 14, the final scheduled level of play for the day. As such, the Day 1b field will have a shorter day by a few minutes just the same. Who will be around when that time comes? Keep it at PokerNews to find out.
