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Level: 1
Blinds: 100/100
Ante: 100
2026 Arizona State Poker Championship
$1,100 Arizona State Poker Championship
Day: 1c
Players Left 600 / 4,018
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1,041,000
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748,000
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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$1,100 Arizona State Poker Championship
Day 1c Started
