The start of Day 1c of Event #5, a $25,000 Guaranteed No-Limit Hold'em tournament with a $50 buy-in, is just minutes away.
This is third of six starting flights that will continue to play out over the next two days. The first wrapped up just after 4 p.m. Monday with 113 total entries and just 13 survivors.
The second finished just after midnight this morning, drawing a total of 136 entries with 17 making it through to Thursday's second and final day.
Players get 10,000 in tournament chips and will play 15 20-minute levels or until just 12 percent of the total entries remain.
Unlimited re-entries are permitted up until the start of the 13th level and players can jump in as many starting flights as they like, carrying the biggest stack forward to the final day.
The affordable buy-in and re-entry format is designed to attract both veteran rounders and recreational players and should be a fun ride throughout as players try to build a contending stack.
The PokerNews Live Reporting Team promises keep you updated on all the action from start to finish.
The Austrian turned Buffalonian flopped a set of queens and was lucky enough to get one player willing to get all his chips in the middle with king-high.
Allison Shultz turned a straight in a four-way limped hand to drag a rather large pot, getting one opponent with top pair to put all his chips in the middle on the river.
As a result, she now wields one of the larger stacks in the room.
With one limper in front of him, a suddenly short Kenny Ball shipped it in from the button with two sevens.
The small blind called, as did Rich Giambra in the big and the limper. The flop came and it checked around. However, after the small blind checked the turn, Giambra fired out a bet.
Everyone folded and Giambra showed a set of nines. Drawing to an eight, Ball missed on the river and busted.
Using every bit of the rather loose image he created from the hand he built his stack with moments earlier, Derek Hinchliffe flopped a set of sevens and got Randy Pfeifer to put all his chips in the middle having paired up.
As a result, Pfeifer is finished and Hinchliffe leads.
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