Scott Drobes Leads Wynn Winter Classic Championship Day 1a Field

The 2021 Wynn Winter Classic is nearing the conclusion of its two-week 10-event series, which kicked off on December 6.

The series culminates with the $5,300 buy-in, $2,000,000 GTD Championship from December 17-20. There will be two starting flights starting with Day 1a at Noon on Friday, December 17 with Day 1b taking place at the same time on Saturday, December 18. The surviving players from each flight will then return at Noon on Sunday, December 19 for Day 2 action. It’s at that point PokerNews will pick up live updates onward to the Day 3 finale, which will play out on Monday, December 20.

Friday's Day 1a flight attracted 283 entries, which contributed $1,392,360 towards the prize pool. At the end of play, 67 players remained with Scott Drobes and his stack of 500,500 leading the way. Rounding out the top five big stacks from 1a were Barry Hutter (436,500), Isaac Baron (406,000), Brian Altman (376,500), and Ali Imsirovic (345,000).

Others to advance were Mitchell Halverson (298,500), Michael Gathy (287,000), Joao Simao (279,500), Katie Lindsay (213,000), Pavel Plesuv (205,000), Ryan Riess (202,000), Femi Fashakin (188,500), Faraz Jaka (151,500), Chris Brewer (121,000), Dominik Nitsche (108,000), and Jason Sommerville (98,000).

Day 1b will take place at Noon local time on Saturday, December 18. PokerNews will then pick up live updates from the 2021 Wynn Winter Classic Championship on Day 2. Be sure to tune check back in the coming days for more information.

Player	Chips	Progress
Scott Drobes	500,500 500,500	500,500
Barry Hutter	436,500 436,500	436,500

Isaac Baron	406,000 406,000	406,000

Brian Altman	376,500 376,500	376,500

Ali Imsirovic	345,000 345,000	345,000
Corey Hochman	341,500 341,500	341,500
Daniel Smiljkovic	341,000 341,000	341,000

Kyle Krisiloff	340,500 340,500	340,500
Mitchell Halverson	298,500 298,500	298,500
Matt Moore	288,000 288,000	288,000
Michael Gathy	287,000 287,000	287,000

Joao Simao	279,500 279,500	279,500

Daegeon Shon	274,500 274,500	274,500
Florian Loehnert	250,000 250,000	250,000
Eli Berg	243,000 243,000	243,000
Niko Koop	227,500 227,500	227,500

David Ganley	222,000 222,000	222,000
Michael Sibulkin	220,500 220,500	220,500
Jisup Hwang	220,000 220,000	220,000
Katie Lindsay	213,000 213,000	213,000
Pavel Plesuv	205,000 205,000	205,000

Ryan Riess	202,000 202,000	202,000

Chun Ho Law	196,500 196,500	196,500
Femi Fashakin	188,500 188,500	188,500

Clayton Maguire	176,500 176,500	176,500

Garrett Greer	170,000 170,000	170,000
$Profile photo of Gal Yifrach$ Gal Yifrach	169,000 169,000	169,000

Dennis Wilke	167,000 167,000	167,000
Kristopher Templeman	161,500 161,500	161,500
Robert Lofaso	156,000 156,000	156,000
Faraz Jaka	151,500 151,500	151,500

Arthur Conan	151,000 151,000	151,000
Rob Wazwaz	150,000

Jason Bral	149,000 149,000	149,000
Ermo Kosk	142,500 142,500	142,500
James Romero	142,000 142,000	142,000

Rok Gostisa	141,000 141,000	141,000
Ardit Kurshumi	136,000 136,000	136,000
Ralph Wong	134,000 134,000	134,000
Michael Wang	134,000 134,000	134,000

Jared Jaffee	131,000 131,000	131,000

Chris Brewer	121,000 121,000	121,000

Joe Kuether	114,000 114,000	114,000
Adam Monaghan	111,500 111,500	111,500
Steve Karp	110,500 110,500	110,500
Dominik Nitsche	108,000 108,000	108,000

Anton Wigg	98,500 98,500	98,500

Jason Somerville	98,000 98,000	98,000

Cheang Kit Yoo	84,500 84,500	84,500
Adedapo Ajayi	82,000 82,000	82,000

Mike Vanier	81,000 81,000	81,000

Zachary McDiarmid	81,000 81,000	81,000
George Rakitzis	78,500 78,500	78,500
Vuong Do	78,000 78,000	78,000
Kyle Arora	73,000 73,000	73,000
Stephen Song	70,500 70,500	70,500

Jesse Yaginuma	69,000 69,000	69,000

Jeremy Stein	55,500 55,500	55,500
Tuan Phan	55,000 55,000	55,000
Byron Kaverman	50,000 50,000	50,000

Pavlo Veksler	48,500 48,500	48,500
Carlos Dorca	46,500 46,500	46,500
Kevin Andriamahefa	43,500 43,500	43,500
Craig Mason	35,500 35,500	35,500
Ben Palmer	24,000 24,000	24,000

Danny Wong	23,000 23,000	23,000

Yen Han Chen	19,500 19,500	19,500