"smftt" Takes Chip Lead as 43 Advance to Day 2
Day 1 of the MICOOP Main Event has wrapped up for the night after seven and a half hours of play. The $200K guarantee was reached in the early stages of the tournament and the $359,520 prize pool became official after 1,284 total entries (882 entries and 402 re-entries) were logged.
Once registration had ended, only 484 players remained and each knew they needed to make it into the top 179 to receive a piece of the prize pool.
Many notable players showed up to take a shot at a MICOOP title with many failing to find the run good needed, which included Jason "TheRealClozer" Kapoor, PMatthew "Luna_Nova21" Davis, Andrew "autokorekt" Korby and Henry "xlzou1990" Zou.
The virtual bodies continued to fall and in Level 20 "TTV JThrizz" bubbled the tournament leaving the remaining 179 players in the money. From there, the very few familiar names were still remaining, started to drop from the field as Jason "TheRealClozer" Kapoor (143th Place - $649), Matt "FukDaRivereh" Boulton (104th Place - 783.75), Steve "Gamerguy123456" Caswell (97th Place - $946.50), and Corey "Chewmonsta2503" John (96th Place - $946.50) all got a piece of the prize pool but fell short of a Day 2 birth.
Play continued with only 43 players remaining at the hard stop for Day 1 with "smftt" winning a late pot to soar to the top of the chip counts with a whopping 10,535,155. Rounding out the top five stacks include "PintiMellon" (8,084,861), "Camelcack" (8,043,805), "smileybpoker" (6,820,038), and "BeetlejuiceHere" (5,774,879).
Day 2 of the Main Event will start Monday, March 8, at 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST), and PokerNews will be providing updates until an eventual champion is crowned. Blinds will remain 15-minutes in length and action will commence where Day 1 ended in Level 27 (40,000/80,000/10,000).
Make sure to come back to PokerNews tomorrow to find out who will be crowned the inaugural MICOOP Main Event Champion.