David Peters Bags Over One Million Chips in First Ever $1,000 FLIP & GO No-Limit Hold'em
The first-ever Event #20: $1,000 FLIP and GO No-Limit Hold'em Day 1 has come to a conclusion. This event had a total of 155 players advance from their original $1,000 buy-in tables. Each player who made Day 1 had to win a flip against their entire table and were guaranteed a payout of $2,000 once they made it.
Three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner David Peters has managed to find a bag and will head to Day 2 with 1,105,000 in chips. Leading the pack is Huy Lam with an impressive lead of 3,150,000. Following Lam are Corey Bierria (1,880,000), and in third-place is Krista Farrell (1,700,000).
After 12 levels of play, only 23 players remain and will be restarting at 1:00 p.m. Each player has a payout of $7,275 locked up but will be battling for the first-place prize of $180,665 and a WSOP Gold Bracelet.
Not all were lucky enough to find a bag at the end of the day, however, as luminaries such as Daniel Negreanu, Shaun Deeb, Gal Yifrach, and Kevin Eyster ran deep but fell short in the end.
Play will resume at 1:00 p.m. in level 13 with blinds at 20,000/40,000 and a 40,000 big blind ante. Be sure to follow PokerNews all day for the exciting action of this special GGPoker event!
, giving Epstein top pair and Schwartz an open-ended straight draw and flush draw. The turn was the 
, completing Schwartz' flush and the river was the 
.
flop gave her top pair and some hope, but that was dashed when Gostisa made a set on the 
. He ran right into the 
. Peters thought about the decision for a minute, picking up a chip and twirling it in his hand, before putting a red 25,000 chip in the middle to signify a call.
for a flush draw, while Peters had 
. Mason bricked the 
and was up against 
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on the river to score the knockout.
river, and Silver turned over 
for a pair of aces that were good enough to take the pot.
and was called by Pat Kelly with 
for a flush on the river.
, and the jacks held on a board of 
meaning that Williams' $19,000 investment would be turned into a $2,155 cash.
