Welcome to Day 1c of the Arizona State Poker Championship

Two starting flights have come and gone while two more flights await in the 2026 Arizona State Poker Championship at the Talking Stick Resort. Today, players will have a third opportunity to find a bag for Monday's Day 2, and the cards will be in the air at 10:15 a.m. this morning.

Through the first two flights, a total of 1,767 hopefuls have tried their luck, with only 212 having punched their ticket to Day 2 already.

Just five players have crossed the seven-figure mark, with Gregory Brown (1,354,000) accumulating the largest stack thus far.

Day 1ab Top Ten Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Gregory Brown	United States	1,354,000	169
2	Andrew Crookston	United States	1,278,000	160
3	Nicholas Julia	United States	1,138,000	142
4	Peter Fox	United States	1,106,000	138
5	Vinny Tran	United States	1,050,000	131
6	Sahib Purewal	United States	993,000	124
7	Rashawn Curry	United States	928,000	116
8	Joshua Anspach	United States	917,000	115
9	Joseph Osterbauer	United States	915,000	114
10	Eltorna Gant	United States	849,000	106

For the $1,130 buyin, players will begin the tournament with 40,000 chips at starting blinds of 100/100, with a 100 big blind ante. Levels are 40 minutes in length in each starting flight, with a 15-minute break every three levels. Play will continue until roughly 12% of the field remains, at which point the players will bag up their chips for Monday's restart, having already secured the minimum cash.

Each flight offers unlimited reentry until the start of Level 10 around 5 p.m. local time, at which point a late registration stack is worth 27 big blinds.

Day 1c Structure

Level	Blinds	Length
1	100/100	40
2	100/200	40
3	100/300	40
Break		15
4	200/400	40
5	300/500	40
6	300/600	40
Break		15
7	400/800	40
8	500/1,000	40
9	600/1,200	40
Break	End of Registration	15
10	1,000/1,500	40
11	1,000/2,000	40
12	1,500/2,500	40
Break		15
13	2,000/4,000	40
14	3,000/5,000	40
15	3,000/6,000	40
Break		15
16	4,000/8,000	40
17	5,000/10,000	40
18	6,000/12,000	40

The earliest finish so far was in Day 1b with 5:40 remaining in Level 16 with blinds of 4,000/8,000.

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