Day 1A of the GGPoker $10,000 WSOP Main Event Starts at 6 PM GMT
Welcome to the first of three flights in the GGPoker $10,000 World Series Of Poker Main Event which will start at 6:00 p.m. GMT today. This tournament is set up in a special way as it's an online/live poker hybrid that will ultimately come to a conclusion at the end of the year with the 2020 World Champion.
Day 1A, 1B, and 1C will take place online here at GGPoker on November 29, December 5, and December 6. Everyone who survives the first 16 levels on Day 1 will continue on to Day 2 on December 7. Those players will all battle it out until a final table with 9 hopefuls left who will then have to travel to King’s Resort in Rozvadov, the Czech Republic to play out to one winner.
Getting to the final table means that they will secure a bigger share of the prize pool but the champion will then get a spot to participate in a winner-takes-all $1 million heads-up battle in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino Las Vegas against the champion of the WSOP.com edition of this $10,000 tournament on December 30th. Whoever wins that one-on-one battle will be crowned the 2020 World Champion and take the $1 million top prize.
Players will get 60,000 in chips in their starting stacks with a small blind of 100 and a big blind of 200 in the first level of the day. Late registration will be possible until the end of Level 11. As this is a freezeout tournament, players can only enter once during the whole tournament so reentering is impossible if a player busts Day 1A. Level duration will remain at 30 minutes throughout the day and play will end for Day 2 when 16 levels have been played.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be there from the first raise until the final river card has been dealt on Day 1A so make sure to follow along with all the live updates right here.