Day 1b of the PokerNews Cup Begins at 11 a.m.
Day 1b of Golden Nugget Grand Poker Series Event #55: 2022 PokerNews Cup $1,100 will get underway at 11 a.m. local time on what will be the second of three starting days in this $1 Million Guarantee event.
Day 1a collected 181 entries and ended with 23 players remaining with Shea Quintin and Daniel Hinh bagging the two biggest stacks. Day 1b is expected to be substantially larger in terms of number of entries as several Golden Nugget cash game qualifiers will be taking their seats today.
The $1 Million guarantee will be made up of $1,100 entries. Each entry will garner a stack of 30,000. Reentry is unlimited and will be open for all of today and tomorrow on Day 1. Even if a player bags they may opt to enter another flight and move the best bag forward, if they happen to bag twice. Levels are 40 minutes and registration will be open until the start of Level 13 on each of the three starting days, meaning a max late registration will be about 8:45 p.m. local time on Sunday, June 26.
The day will play down until 12.5% of the field is remaining. At that point, the players will bag and be officially in the money as they head to Day 2, which will be at 12 noon on Monday, June 27. There are 15-minute breaks after Level 3, Level 6, and Level 12, a 60-minute dinner break after Level 9, and a 10-minute break after Level 15 in the late night.
PokerNews will be there to report the action all day long today!
showing against the 
of Derion Hall.
to avoid any complications for the aces and Scott added more to his early large stack of chips.
with three players in the hand. The big blind bet 2,500, a player in early position called and Chike Obi jammed all in for 23,500 from the small blind. Both players ended up calling after some thought.
and was behind the 
of the big blind, while the third player had 
. The turn changed everything as the 
came off.
came on the river and he repeated it again, adding "Yes!" and pumped his fist as he collected the substantial pot and the player in early position was busted while the big blind was wounded.
against the 
and Lerner gathered in a nice double up.
off suit vs the 
to give Lerner a straight and bust the player with kings.
of his opponent.
and Iles got the nice addition to his burgeoning stack.
on the river. The chips ended up all in as Eddie Blumenthal had the lead with the 
two pair while Jesus Bertoli had the 
. Sued bet 47,000 and Blumenthal folded.