2021 GG Spring Festival

GGSF Super MILLION$ ME-H: $10,300, $10M GTD
Day: 1a
Event Info

2021 GG Spring Festival

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k2
Prize
$1,537,605
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,300
Prize Pool
$10,890,000
Entries
1,089
Level Info
Level
43
Blinds
500,000 / 1,000,000
Ante
125,000
Players Info - Day 1a
Entries
329
Players Left
41

Day 1a is Complete in Super MILLION$ ME-H

Level 22 : 7,000/14,000, 1,750 ante
Mike Watson
Mike Watson

GGSF Super MILLION$ ME-H: $10,300, $10M GTD Day 1a is now complete, with 22 Levels in the books, and Canadian Mike Watson leads the way in a field of 41 remaining players out of 329 entries. Watson bagged nearly 2 million chips to end the day, but there are a dozen players with more than 1 million.

Jean-Noel "OscarBrown" Thorel bagged the next biggest stack to end the day, but he more than 500K behind leader Watson. Also in the Day 2 mix with more than 1 million will be Ole Schemion, Arsenii Malinov, and Connor Drinan, among others.

Top Ten Chips

PlacePlayerCountryChips
1Mike WatsonCanada1,921,636
2Jean-Noel "OscarBrown" ThorelFrance1,379,469
3Mark "Chasseneige" DemirjianLebanon1,351,772
4Ole SchemionGermany1,209,389
5Arsenii MalinovRussia1,190,625
6Fabrizio GonzalezUruguay1,150,702
7Julian StuerAustria1,142,883
8Luigi CurcioItaly1,065,348
9Luuk GielesNetherlands1,031,546
10Sean "BB164" RobertsUnited States1,030,652

Day 1a Action

Action for Day 1a of GGSF Super MILLION$ ME-H: $10,300, $10M GTD got going at 2:05 p.m. eastern time as the first of five starting flights.

There was a full 17 levels of registration, and when they finished registering, 329 entries were on the board, with just over 100 players still in the game. End of day leader Watson was already showing strength with a fifth place stack.

Jean-Noel Thorel, 2nd In Chips
Jean-Noel Thorel, 2nd In Chips

Over the course of the next two hours, they played down to 41 players left in the game. Watson was chip leader going into the final level, but Malinov might not even have made the final day if not for his fours holding in a huge race for his life against ace-queen early in the 2nd last level.

There are four more chances for players to bag a stack for Day 2, which runs on April 18th. Day 1b goes ahead on the 13th, with 1c on the 15th, 1d on the 17th, and 1e early on the 18th. Stay tuned here at PokerNews for all action from 2021 GG Spring Festival.