It's just been announced that we have 229 entrants for today's flight, although six players are yet to show. Tournament director, Danny McDonagh has stated that these players have been provisionally disqualified so that the dead stacks can be removed from play. There were no dead stacks on either of the other two opening flights, so leaving them in play creates an uneven playing field. If the players eventually decide to show up then a calculation of blinds and antes will be removed from their starting stack.
This put our total number of entrants unofficially at 538.