Worton Leads 1a Stacks; 1b Runs Saturday

Day 1a of the Main Event is now complete with exactly 100 entries recorded. That put a bit more than $94k into the prize pool and meant 13 players would move on to Day 2.

With 17 minutes to play in Level 15, it was Sakine Ousmane who was the unfortunate bubble. He shoved a short stack from the button with a suited king, but big blind Andrew Goertz woke up with a pair of sixes and snap-called. The sixes held and the bags were set.

Brett Worton Bagged biggest with more than 500k, while Garry Sandhu is more than 100k behind in 2nd. Worton got a lot of his chips in a brutal cooler against Taran Parmar that initially looked like it would send Worton home before the bubble. After 5-bet action pre that saw all the money in, Worton had aces against kings for Parmar. A king in the window made Worton exclaim, “You’ve got to be kidding.” But the ace of spades hit the river to reflip it back to the aces and give Worton a double up, and leave Parmar bagging about 100k.

Day 1b is the final chance for players to join the 13 from 1a for Sunday’s final day and the big prizes. The 1b action gets going at noon and there are 9 levels of entry. Including the breaks, that should put the last chance to buy in at ~7:15 PM.

There is no hard stop for the Day 1 flights — they play down to 12.5% regardless of how long it takes. Day 1a finished relatively early, with barely half of Level 15 complete, but with a larger field expected on 1b, it may play later. Day 2 blinds will begin at whatever the earliest finish was, so the largest possible blinds for Day 2 right now are 2.5k/5k/5k, but if 1b finishes earlier, Day 2 might start smaller

I should be on the floor pretty close to the start of the day.

Day 1a Stacks