Welcome To Day 1b of the 2021 bestbet Jacksonville Spring Series $2,500 Main Event
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.
after the big blind check-raised Turvin and called off his remaining chips when Turvin three-bet jammed.
and he scored the early knockout.
and another 5,000 on 
. Both players then checked through the river 
for a better two pair than what was on the board and Sewell turned over 
for a flopped straight, good to earn him the pot. Sewell is off to a hot start and now has over three starting stacks before the first break of the afternoon.
and Palma checked to his opponent. The player bet 3,000, which Palma called.
and Palma checked again. His opponent put in another 5,000 and Palma check-jammed on him for around 20,000 more effective. His opponent called.
. David Jackson had checked his big blind and action was back on him. He called.
and Jackson checked again. Sikes bet 5,300 and Jackson check-raised to 14,300. Sikes found a call and the river came 
. Jackson shoved for 22,000 more and Sikes called.
and Sikes threw his hand down onto the felt in a frustrated manner. The dealer immediately reached across to scoop up the no-good hand and send it into the muck before making the pot right to ship Jackson's way.
face up.