Third Flight to the Mini Main Boards Friday Afternoon

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.

Day 1b of the game kicked off at 11 AM on Friday, with this third flight starting five hours later at 4 PM. It’s a redo of 1a, with 25-minute blinds and 15-minute breaks throughout. Entries are open for 12 levels, and the desk will close for this one at about 9:45 PM. The latest the game should play is 2:40, at the end of Level 22, but Day 1a bagged about 30 minutes early, and it seems likely most flights will play to 5%.

I’ll be watching both flights for this game, but I’ll likely be a bit more focused on the morning game until it bags, after which I’ll finish the night covering this flight.

Day 1a Bags

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