Welcome to Day 1b of Event #11: $2,700 Main Event
The pinnacle of the 2023 Potomac Winter Poker Open got underway yesterday with the first of two starting flights in its flagship tournament, Event #11: $2,700 Main Event. Today marks the second and final flight with all entrants hoping to make it through the day's play to join the 41 survivors from the day 1a.
Day 1a attracted 223 entries to surpass the tournament guarantee of $500,000 with Jonathan Gilliam bagging the largest stack with 538,000. It will be interesting to see whether day 1b attracts as many runners and if any individual is able to amass a larger stack than Gilliam heading into day 2.
Play commences at 11 a.m. local time with all those who pony up the buy in taking their seat with 50,000 in tournament chips. Blinds will start at 100/200 with a 200 big blind ante with levels on day 1 lasting 45-minutes before increasing to 60-minutes on day 2. A total of 15 levels will be played today before the survivors bag up for the night and the late registration period will last until the conclusion of Level 12.
Day 2 resumes on Sunday, February 5th at 12 p.m. at which point play will continue until just six players remain, although there will be a hard cutoff at 2 a.m. if the field cannot be whittled down to that number by that time. The final six will then play down to a winner on Monday, February 6th.
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