Event #5: $1,000 Mystery Millions No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1b Started
2024 World Series of Poker
Event #5: $1,000 Mystery Millions No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1b
Event Info
2024 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1b
Buy-in
$1,000
Prize Pool
$16,199,920
Entries
18,409
Level
47
Blinds
5,000,000 / 10,000,000
Ante
10,000,000
Entries
3,272
Players Left
171
Players Left 1 / 18,409
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Welcome back to PokerNews, the official media partner of the 2024 World Series of Poker and home of live updates from all bracelet events.
Today sees the Day 1b of Event #5: $1,000 Mystery Millions No-Limit Hold'em here at Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas. Live coverage of this event will start from Day 2.
This event has been on everyone's radar since the schedule was released, with the top bounty as well as the first place prize are guaranteed to be $1,000,000.
The second of four starting flights gets underway at 10 a.m. local time, with late registration open for 12 levels. There will be 20-minute breaks every four levels, with a 75-minute dinner break at the end of Level 16 (~7:00 p.m.).
The starting stack is 40,000 chips, with the plan for Day 1b to play 22 30-minute levels. Payouts start on Day 1, and for the surviving players, Day 2 resumes on Monday, June 3, at 11 a.m.
Last year's event saw a field of 18,188 players generate a prize pool of $4,587,950. The winner was Tyler Brown who defeated Guang Chen heads-up to win a cool $1,000,000.
“I took almost two years off poker," Brown told PokerNews. "I decided to come back at the end of last year, early this year, and it’s been unbelievable in these last six months.”
The event also saw two $1,000,000 bounties up for grabs, with Shant Marashlian the first player to pull the grand prize bounty early on Day 2. He was followed by Patrick Liang shortly after.
| Year | Entries | Winner | Country | Payout | |
| 2023 | 18,188 | Tyler Brown | United States | $1,000,000 | |
| 2022 | 14,112 | Quincy Borland | United States | $750,120 |
Day 1a saw 2,246 players gather in the tournament area, with only 118 having chips to bag and tag at the close of play. Pete Chen performed the best, turning his 40,000 starting stack into a tournament-leading 3,150,000. Will someone surpass that total today?
End of Day 1a Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pete Chen | Taiwan | 3,150,000 | 63 |
| 2 | Uri Reichenstein | Israel | 2,225,000 | 45 |
| 3 | Akinobu Maeda | Japan | 2,080,000 | 42 |
| 4 | James Erickson | United States | 1,805,000 | 36 |
| 5 | Wojciech Barzantny | Austria | 1,500,000 | 30 |
| 6 | Milfred Sageer | United States | 1,500,000 | 30 |
| 7 | James Maita | United States | 1,500,000 | 30 |
| 8 | Zhao Xin | China | 1,395,000 | 28 |
| 9 | Andrew Moreno | United States | 1,370,000 | 27 |
| 10 | Arin Youssefian | United States | 1,345,000 | 27 |
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Table 197Seat 7
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Table 163Seat 6
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Table 199Seat 2
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Table 151Seat 2
Definitely not the start I was hoping for. Lost boat-over-boat wK6 in my bb vs 1010 in minraised pot on a J66 10 K runout.😵💫
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Table 168Seat 3
First hand picked up QQ and flopped a set in a 4 bet pot. Player called 3 bet on flop and folded turn shove.
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