Welcome To Day 1a of the 2021 bestbet Jacksonville Winter Open $2,000 Main Event
A week's worth of prelims in the 2021 bestbet Jacksonville Winter have played to their completion and the stage has been set for this weekend's $2,000 Main Event.
Play begins Friday at noon ET with Day 1a, the first of two starting flights. Upon the completion of both Day 1a and Saturday's Day 1b, the field will then combine for the first time under one roof on Sunday's Day 2 to play down to a winner.
Starting stacks are 25,000 apiece with blinds beginning at 100/100, and levels will increase every 40 minutes for the duration of the tournament. Big-blind ante will come into play in Level 3 (100/200/200), with Day 1 play continuing until the end of Level 14 (2,000/4,000/4,000), at which point all remaining players will advance and put their chips into bags for Day 2. 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 (approximately 6:30 p.m.)
Registration is open with unlimited re-entries until the beginning of Level 10 at the end of the dinner break (approximately 7:30 p.m). This tournament also features a best-stack forward format, meaning even players who advance in Day 1a may re-enter on Saturday and try to take a bigger stack into Day 2 if they choose to do so.
Who will be the one on top of the counts when the action is done for the night? PokerNews will be bringing you updates live from the floor (from a safe distance, of course) every step of the way, so be sure to stick around.