Day 1e of $1,500 Main Event Kicks off at Noon!
Welcome back to another exciting day of poker here at the Winter Poker Open hosted by Champions Club Poker Room in Houston, Texas. Today will feature the fifth starting flight, Day 1e, of the $1,500 NLH $1 Million GTD Main Event! The current stack to beat is held by Kassim Panjwani with an impressive 1,319,000 from yesterday and behind him is Viet Vo with 1,151,000.
This flight will kick off at noon local time and registration will be open for a whopping nine hours and fifteen minutes (approximately 9:15 pm) and play will continue until 12% of the field remains.
Top 10 Overall Chip Counts
| Place | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kassim Panjwani | United States | 1,319,000 |
| 2 | Viet Vo | United States | 1,151,000 |
| 3 | Joel Vazquez | United States | 1,068,000 |
| 4 | Dora Coyle | United States | 1,041,000 |
| 5 | Jonathan Vuong | United States | 880,000 |
| 6 | Ethan Goldstein | United States | 763,000 |
| 7 | Bohdan Slyvinskyi | United States | 761,000 |
| 8 | Isaac Eliason | United States | 735,000 |
| 9 | Trevor Lewis | United States | 721,000 |
| 10 | Filip Cvetinovic | United States | 714,000 |
Players will receive a starting stack of 60,000 and levels will be 40 minutes in length for all starting flights, and then will be increased to 60 minutes on Day 2.
The two-day event culminates with a live-streamed final table on Monday, February 17th once all survivors from the six opening flights have been thinned to nine remaining contenders. Those opening flight returnees will come back to the Champions Club poker room at noon to continue their chase for a six-figure payday.
As always, keep a bookmark on PokerNews as we will be providing you with all of the action here at Champions Club!