Rodrick Tyes Bags Chip Lead on Day 1b of Choctaw Casino Resort $1,700 Main Event
After 12 plus hours of play,16 levels are complete and all chips have been bagged for Day 1b of Choctaw Casino Resorts $1,700 Main Event. After Day 1a drew 392 entries, today��s flight saw an additional 673 join the fun with 108 players remaining when play concluded.
Rodrick Tyes ended the day with a whopping 747,500 to finish as the clear chip leader after continually stacking chips throughout the day.
Second in chips is Montana Bliss, who also led a charge at the end of the evening, building his stack from around 300,000 to its finishing point in the last two levels of the evening. Bliss bagged a stack of 586,000 which is above Day 1a chip leader Wesley Cutshall��s 517,000. Another player to end the night with a bigger stack than Day 1a's chip leader was Kyle Birdwell who bagged 556,000. Other players to finish in the top include Richard Reiner (532,000) and Kenneth Blanton (478,000).
Saturday��s Day 1b flight saw a ton of recognizable faces make it up the mountain at their final shot at advancing to Day 2. Some players to advance in this flight include Carson Wiedland (428,500), Brian Green (360,500), Jason Gooch (354,000), Jared Jaffee (290,000), Andy Robinson (254,000), Melissa Bryne (162,000) and Jerod Smith (104,000).
A few players who were not fortunate enough to advance including Aaron Massey, Ralph Massey, Vincent Moscati, Cory Bogert, Irene Carey and Gil George.
Day 2 will Sunday, January 12th, with a local start time of noon. Play will resume at the beginning of Level 17, with blinds of 2,500/5,000 and a 5,000 big-blind ante. Levels will last 60-minutes throughout the day with 15-minute breaks coming after every two levels.
There will be 168 players returning for Day 2 action and 160 of them will make it into the money. Those who earn the first-level payout will receive $2,554 and payouts will climb from there to the eventual first-place prize of $272,846.
Stay tuned here as the PokerNews live reporting team will be here to bring you all of the action as the day unfolds.