partypoker Sunday LIVE
Live Updates March 14
Day: 1
The first 12 levels of the WPT500 Day 1h have been played which means that the late registration and reentry period has now closed with 691 entries.
There are currently 430 players left in the field and the day will end once there are 104 players left who will make it through to Day 2 on Monday, March 15 at 8:05 p.m. GMT.
$345,500 has been collected in this opening flight which will be added to the $724,500 that was taken in during the earlier flight which means that the $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool has been surpassed as the total now comes to $1,070,000.
With a final turbo Day 1 taking place at 5:05 p.m. GMT on Monday, March 15, only more money will be added to the total prize pool!
partypoker Ambassador Patrick Leonard just finished in 13th place in The High Roller Big Game for $6,255.
He got all his chips in from under the gun and Jerry Wong three-bet jammed for more form the cutoff for the rest of the table to fold.
Patrick Leonard: 
Jerry Wong: 
Leonard flopped the straight draw when the flop came with the 
but the rest of the board was completed with the 
on the turn and the 
on the river to seal the deal.
There are currently 15 players left in The High Roller Big Game.
Timothy Adams is leading with Rok Gostisa and Thomas Muehloecker hot on his heels. partypoker Ambassador Patrick Leonard is in fourth place right now with Andras Nemeth completing the top five.
With 40 minutes of late registration still possible, the WPT500 Day 1h players have gone for a 5-minute break.
The tournament has already attracted 584 entries with 465 players still left in the field. With the buy-ins that have been collected up till now, the $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool has already been surpassed as $724,500 has been taken in during the earlier starting flights.
Steve O'Dwyer got his chips in against Thomas Muehloecker who held the bigger stack.
Steve O'Dwyer: 
Thomas Muehloecker: 
The board ran out 
for Muehloecker to hold with the higher pocket pair and even improve to a set on the river to burst the bubble.
The 23 remaining players have all secured at least $5,199 but will all be eyeing that first-place prize of $81,261.
There are currently 25 players left in the field with 23 players getting paid so the tournament has just switched over to hand-for-hand play as the bubble has come with 2 more players leaving without cashing.
Andras Nemeth, Timothy Adams, and Thomas Muehloecker have a top three stack right now.
There is a brand new promotion to get involved with over at partypoker that goes by the name of Hot Tables. This promotion makes it possible to win up to $500 extra from pots whenever you play cash games or fastforward poker.
There is no opting in required for the Hot Tables promotion, you simply head to no-limit hold’em or pot-limit Omaha cash and fastforward tables with stakes between $0.05/$0.10 and $0.50/$1.
Thousands of tables are randomly selected each day to become Hot Tables for a hand. partypoker adds between one and 500 big blinds to the pot which the winner of the hand takes away with them in addition to the pot. This means it is possible to win up to $500 extra if you are a $0.50/$1 player.
Still in his early twenties, Matt Staples has traveled the world playing poker and amassed a Twitch following exceeding 52,000 along the way.
The Canadian native is a mid & high-stakes MTT regular. He has posted impressive results at these limits, but is determined to take his game to the next level by solidifying himself as a bona fide high-stakes player according to the partypoker page.
Today, he's back on the tournament grind, you can have a look at his Twitch channel to see how he fares today!
The WPT500 Day 1h flight has just kicked off with 135 players in the field already. Players can reenter once if needed during the first 12 levels of late registration. The level duration has been set at 12 minutes per level and will remain so until the end of the day.
Once 15% of the field is left, the remaining players will have made it through to Day 2 on Monday, March 15 at 8:05 p.m. GMT.
Keep checking back to see how the tournament progresses.