Event #13: $3,000 Main Event
Day 1e Started
Event #13: $3,000 Main Event
Day 1e Started
Last two flights on the venue today in Event 13: $3,000 Main Event $2 Million Guaranteed here in Round Rock, Texas at The Lodge Poker Club. So far 325 registration slips have been sold for the main event over the first four flights and leading the way is still Raymond Brint who managed to bag 401,500 in Day 1a.
Day 1e is set to begin at 11 a.m. and all who sit down will see a stack of 50,000. Blinds will be a reasonable 50-minutes in length, giving plenty of time for the players to pick their spots. The late registration period will remain open until the start of Level 7 and the night will end after Level 9, or when just 15% of the field is left standing.
All survivors who advanced from a Day 1 flight will return Sunday, May 22, at 2 p.m. for the second day. A total of ten levels will be played on the second, all being 60-minutes in length and all survivors will then bag up for Day 3. The third day will play down to just six players before the night commences, at 75-minute levels and will return to crown a champion on Tuesday, May 24.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be bringing all of the updates throughout the event, so stay tuned as all of the action unfolds.
Level: 1
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
The tournament director has now informed all dealers to shuffle up and start pitching the cards.
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Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Michael Rudolph |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Bryan Devonshire |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
William Nunley |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Qing Lu |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Jorge Confesor |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Raymond Flores |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Chad Himmelspach |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
||
Jared Hobgood
|
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Simon Webster |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Guilebaldo Flores | 50,000 | |
Roy Hall |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Arthur Renteria |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Ricardo Solis |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Jeanette Sanroman
|
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Andrew Porter |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
||
James Galloway |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Preston Duron |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Tyler Norris |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Alejandro Jaureguireynoso |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
David Ward |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Sean Roberts |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Hunter Cichy |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
William Nguyen |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Frank Russo |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Rodney Dahl |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 200
The second-last flight of the main event has already reached 75 runners after just one level of play which is over twice that of any flight thus far in the event.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jeremy Joseph | 50,000 | |
Faisal Siddiqui | 50,000 | |
Bin Weng |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
||
James Hughes | 50,000 | |
Shawn Rice | 50,000 | |
Anthony Russo |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Sean Mates | 50,000 | |
Trung Pham | 50,000 | |
Hayden Fortini | 50,000 | |
Thomas Brabham |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Brent Ballentine | 50,000 | |
Jorge Arriola | 50,000 | |
Justin Belforti |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Trey Valkenaar
|
50,000 |
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