Lone Star Poker Series Champions Social

$1,300 Texas State $1M GTD Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

Lone Star Poker Series Champions Social

Event Info
Buy-in
$1,300
Prize Pool
$2,090,700
Entries
1,818
Players Left
3
Average Chip Stack
30,300,000
Total Chips
90,900,000
Level Info
Level
36
Blinds
400,000 / 800,000
Ante
800,000
Players Info - Day 1b
Entries
206
Players Left
25

Nobles Bags Slim Lead Over Hinton

Level 18 : 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante
Dmitri Nobles
Dmitri Nobles

Day 1b of the Lone Star 1 Million GTD Main Event has come to an end after nearly 14 hours of play with 26 players surviving to advance to Day 2 out of an original starting field of 206.

The largest baggers at the end of the day were Dmitri Nobles and Deborah Hinton, who both finished the night with with gargantuan stacks of over a million.

Both caught fire in the last levels of the night, taking out several opponents on the way the big stacks. Nobles brought the field to the end of the day as he eliminated the final three players on the bubble, including the bubble boy after just one hand of hand for hand play.

Also bagging big was Anthony "Stretch" Reynolds who finished with 719,000 who made a name for himself early in the day when he spiked a king on the turn to crack aces to launch himself to the chip lead.

WSOP Bracelet winner Michael Wang (645,000) and Braxton Dunaway who played several interesting hands on the feature table stream, (627,000), rounded out the top 5 chip stacks at the end of the night.

PokerNews will return to cover Day 1c tomorrow at 11 a.m which is bound to be the largest yet as the field just continues to grow and grow in this massive event.

Tags: Braxton DunawayDeborah HintonDmitri NoblesMichael Wang

Reynolds Spikes Dramatic King to Crack Aces

Level 13 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
Anthony Reynolds
Anthony Reynolds

A shout of celebration was heard at one of the tables from Anthony Reynolds as he was standing up celebrating a huge pot and accidentally knocking over a few drinks on the table behind him in his excitement.

The board was splayed out {7-}{6-}{4-}{k-}{6-}. Reynolds had the winning {k-Hearts}{k-Spades} displayed on the table.

The pocket aces of Mark Cortez had been discarded as the losing hand, showing that Reynolds had gone from nearly out the door to chip leader thanks to the king on the turn while Cortez was reduced to crumbs.

Player Chips Progress
Anthony Reynolds us
Anthony Reynolds
745,000 380,000
Mark Cortez us
Mark Cortez
6,000 -289,000

Tags: Anthony Reynolds

Moneymaker Busts For Second Time in the Day

Level 11 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante
Chris Moneymaker
Chris Moneymaker

Chris Moneymaker's next buy in was at stake preflop holding {9-}{9-} against the {j-}{j-} of Hiep Doan.

The board ran out {10-}{2-}{6-}{q-}{4-} and Moneymaker was left without chips for the second time in the day.

Also at the same table, Nathanael Kogel has chipped up to be one of the largest stacks in the room.

Player Chips Progress
Nathanael Kogel us
Nathanael Kogel
425,000 357,000
Hiep Doan us
Hiep Doan
232,000 -28,000
Chris Moneymaker us
Chris Moneymaker
WSOP Main Event Champion
WSOP 1X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
Busted

Tags: Chris MoneymakerHiep DoanNathanael Kogel

Day 1b of the Min Event Underway

Level 1 : 100/200, 200 ante
Main Event
Main Event

Shuffle up and deal has just been announced on Day 1b of the Main Event with 34 players at the start.

The format is the same as yesterday where Jimmy Tong bagged the chip lead with 803,000. Levels are 40 minutes, 50,000 starting stack for a $1,300 entry, Registration and re-entry is open until the start of Level 13, roughly 8:30 p.m. local time. There will be a 60-minute dinner break following level 9.