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.
, and Pupillo made a continuation-bet of 1,500. His opponent called.
and was called again. The river 
brought the final street of action, and Pupillo emptied the clip, firing a third barrel for 10,400. His opponent thought for a few moments, reaching for chips to call and putting them into the middle as he mumbled something to the effect of looking up what Pupillo had.
, and his opponent saw all he needed to in order to know his two cards were no good. The player mucked and Pupillo took down the pot, bringing him up over 40,000 before the first break of the day.
and the early-position player checked again. Izadi announced a bet of 4,500 and his opponent check-jammed for Izadi's effective stack of 10,500, which he immediately called. 
for the easy dub and now finds himself back over starting stack.
completed. With the pot, Holladay now finds himself over 100,000, becoming the first player in the room to be spotted having reached that figure.
all but sealed the deal for McNulty to scoop, needing to only fade running hearts to do so. The turn 
completed the runout to send two players to the rail before the pot of roughly 50,000 was shipped to McNulty, and he now has 120,000.
, shoving all in to put Eyzaguirre to a decision for his stack. Ten seconds later, Eyzaguirre's tossed his cards towards the center of the table, where they landed flush to the felt to result in the dealer shipping the pot Laieta's way. 
was clean to give Zaki a full house and score him the double and then some. 
