Event #12: $2,300 NLH Main Event ($2050 + $250)
| Date: | Day 1a: Oct 9, 11 AM Day 1b: Oct 10, 11 AM Day 1c: Oct 11, 11 AM Day 2: Oct 12: Noon Day 3: Oct 13, Noon |
| Blinds: | 40 Minutes |
| Starting Stack: | 40k |
| Late Entry: | 12 Levels (~8:30 PM) |
| Day 1 Ends: | 17 Levels or 10% of the Field |
| Entries: | 47/445 |
| Prizes: | $912,250 |
The first two flights to the Main Event are complete, but they’ve had some empty seats. After two starting days, there are 445 entries with 47 players bagging stacks for Day 2, and $912,250 in total prizes, including the money already handed out on 1a and 1b.
Day 1c gets going at 11 AM, and players start with 40k in chips. Day 1 levels are 40 minutes long, and entries are open for 12 levels. That should put the last chance to get into this Main Event at about 8:30 PM Saturday evening.
Once entries close, they play to 10% of the field, or the end of Level 12. Day 1a still had a few extra players alive when the end of the level came around, but 1b looks to have finished a couple of minutes before the end of Level 17, with a double knockout that meant one fewer bag than expected from 1b.
1b leader Ashkan Razavi also has the overall lead, about 100k ahead of 1a leader Ruoxiao Shi, with Victor Li, and Mini Main Winner Nicholas Lee also bagging more than 900k and coming in ahead of Shi. Hamish Tong from 1b looks to be in 5th place overall, while former Main Event winner Nicholas Teeuwen has the chance to become the first double winner of a Calgary Main, bagging the 6th best stack overall. It’s worth adding that the leader Razavi, has a lot of experience going deep in the Calgary Main Event. He was 3rd in January’s Big Show and 4th in the Main last August, so he’ll be one to watch on Day 2 as well.
Full stacks and cashes from each of the two starting days can be found as the most recent post under the Day 1a & Day 1b tabs. No prizes will be under the Payouts tab until Day 2.
I should be watching this one pretty closely in the early part of the day, though I’ll likely be late to the floor as Friday night’s PLO Bounty looks to be a long one. Once the entries close for this game at 8:30, I will likely move over to cover the Ladies game, and then update the final results from the Main once they bag the final flight.
