Second Flight to the Mini Main Boards Friday Morning

Event #4: $400 NLH Mini Main Event ($330 + $70)

There are already 14 players waiting for Day 2 of the Mini Main Event, and the better part of $100k in the prizes so far. Day 1a of the event was huge, beating Day 1a of January’s 4-Flight game, which was Event #4 of that series and the same structure as this one.

January’s 4-Flight got 1,565 entries by the end of Saturday night, and it looks like the Mini Main Event this time could go even bigger. This time, 1a was 15.5% bigger than January, and if that holds for the rest of the flights, it could mean a field of more than 1,800 entries. That would put the total prizes at just shy of $595k, so a $600k prize pool isn’t impossible for this $400 event.

Josh O’Neill-Trotta bagged the big stack of more than 1.8 million, and he was joined in the millionaires club by Benny Sarnelli. No one else bagged a million, but there are five more stacks bigger than half a million.

That sets up Day 1b of this event, with the field already nearly 40 entries ahead of the similar game earlier in the year. 1b is the first morning flight, and those play a bit differently than the afternoon flights. Blinds for the morning are 30 minutes, and players get a 45-minute dinner break after Level 12, with registration closing after dinner when they sit down for Level 13 at about 6:15 PM. That gives 7.25 hours of real time to enter the game from the first hand.

Day 1 action runs through Level 22, or will stop when the field hits 5%. Players start getting paid on Day 1, and players finishing from 15%-5% will walk away with cash in hand. Players who put chips in a bag will have to wait for Sunday for cash, but it’s guaranteed to be bigger than anything handed out on Day 1. Also note that players who put chips in a bag can NOT play any further flights, though players have a chance to surrender bags at the end of the night for the next cash on the board.

The action for Day 1b gets going at 11 AM, and I should be on the floor watching this shortly after the first break at the latest. If the day goes the distance, players should expect to be at the table until 11:30 PM, but 1a bagged about 30 minutes early.

Day 1a Bags

For a look at the players who cashed out on Day 1a, see the final post for that day.