The final flight will be starting at 5 p.m. here at The Lodge Poker Club in Round Rock, Texas. There has been a total of 317 entries through the first six starting flights and another 192 in Day 1g which is currently ongoing in Event 6: $1,600 Mystery Bounty $1 Million Guaranteed .
Elliot Smith is in front of the 48 current survivors for Day 2, having 756,500 in chips after finding some steam late on Day 1e. Closest behind him is Michael Reisman who topped Day 1f with 717,000 and is the only other player that has passed the 600,000 mark.
Previous Flights By the Numbers
Day | Entries | Remaining | Chip Leader | Chip Count |
1a | 53 | 7 | Matthew Meyer | 581,500 |
1b | 31 | 4 | Robert Hunt | 497,500 |
1c | 37 | 5 | Jeremy Kenter | 581,000 |
1d | 34 | 5 | Gordon Granger | 414,500 |
1e | 76 | 10 | Elliot Smith | 756,500 |
1f | 86 | 11 | Michael Reisman | 717,000 |
1g | 192 | 24 | TBD | -- |
1h | -- | -- | -- | |
All registrants will sit down to 40,000 in chips for the first day and will play down until just 12% of the field is left standing. There will be unlimited re-entries until the start of Level 7 for anyone who takes an unlucky exit or wants to jump in for the first time. Blinds will begin at 100/200 with 40-minutes to play each level.
All survivors of the Day 1 flights will return on Sunday, May 15. Anyone who bags more than once will get a bounty chip for each extra bag, playing their highest-valued stack moving forward. Each bounty can be redeemed on the second day for an envelope that contains a prize that ranges from $1,000 all the way up to the $100,000 first-place prize.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be here throughout the day, so pop in for all of the updates.
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