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Let’s Play the Main Event!
Event #14: $1,100 NLH Main Event ($990 + $110)
Date: Day 1a: Sep 26, Noon
Day 1b: Sep 27, Noon
Day 2: Sep 28, NoonBlinds: 40/60 Minutes Starting Stack: 30k Late Entry: 9 levels (~7:15 PM) Day 1 Ends: 12.5% of the field, in the money It’s Main Event time! The first flight to the Big Show gets going at noon on Friday. Players get 30k in chips, with levels on Day 1 lasting 40 minutes.
Late entry is open for 9 levels, with the registration desk closing at around 7:15 PM when they return from the dinner break following Level 9. After that, the game plays down to 12.5% of the starting field before they finish, with the remaining players bagging their stacks for Sunday’s Day 2.
Main Event winner Matthew Ouellette In July’s Main, Matthew Ouellette came through for his biggest lifetime score and second win with the Main title. After an 8-hour final table grind, Ouellette defeated Colten Yamagishi for the title. The game drew 378 entries for prizes of $355,509, and Ouellette and Yamagishi cut a deal at the end to both take $55,577 and play for $10k, which Ouellette was able to add to his total.
The side game on Friday is the Last Chance satellite to the Main Event. I’ll be focusing my attention on Day 1a of the Main, but there will surely be some interest in cheap seats to the Main. The satty starts at 7:30 PM for $170, and 1 in 7.5 players will bag a ticket to Saturday’s Day 2. Players can either get their ticket in survival mode or by hitting the Landmark stack size of 115k.
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Pav Braich | $38,626* |
| 2 | Cameron Stewart | $37,000* |
| 3 | Aaron Quon | $35,000* |
| 4 | Jan Rufoli | $35,000* |
| 5 | Kris Steinbach | $15,570 |
| 6 | Nathan Tang | $12,335 |
| 7 | Colten Yamagishi | $9,705 |
| 8 | Talal Shoush | $7,685 |
| 9 | Resul Dauti | $6,270 |
| 10 | Ed Zurawell | $5,055 |
| 11 | Ambrose Ng | $4,135 |
| 12 | Jared Kempf | $4,135 |
| 13 | Dennis Cleaver | $3,595 |
| 14 | Matthew Ouellette | $3,595 |
| 15 | Teo Sanchez | $3,595 |
| 16 | Hassan Issa | $3,125 |
| 17 | Leo (Dechang) Zhang | $3,125 |
| 18 | Aman Dhaliwal | $3,125 |
| 19 | Josh Wallace | $2,600 |
| 20 | Kyle Bonazzo | $2,600 |
| 21 | Fran Fisher | $2,600 |
| 22 | Hugh Armstrong | $2,600 |
| 23 | Paul Brar | $2,600 |
| 24 | Ning Ma | $2,600 |
| 25 | Murray Hicks | $2,600 |
| 26 | Christopher Symesko | $2,600 |
| 27 | Shawn Taghavi | $2,600 |
| 28 | Zerui Xu | $2,080 |
| 29 | Alan Zhu | $2,080 |
| 30 | Valerie Ross | $2,080 |
| 31 | Aaron Syrenne | $2,080 |
| 32 | Julius Roque | $2,080 |
| 33 | Eric Purdy | $2,080 |
| 34 | Nicholas Milkovich | $2,080 |
| 35 | Deven Lane | $2,080 |
| 36 | Sephen Dauphinais | $2,080 |
| 37 | Kyle Bonazzo | $1,810 |
