The Grand Nears Guarantee
There are now 197 entries in The Grand with just under an hour to go in registration. Ivan Sakharov has taken over the chip lead with a bit more than 3.8 million, while Niklas Åstedt is second with just under 3.7 million. Isaac Haxton, Jaime Staples, and Patrick Leonard are all in the mix in this one representing partypoker as well, wih Leonard currently on a top 20 stack.
The Weekender Final Day is underway after just barely missing the guarantee. They collected $99,900 through the Day 1s, so the operator only has to add $100 to the prize pool to hit the guarantee. The other half of the Brothers' Staples, Matt, is sitting with just over 1 million chips at the moment while "Mr.falcon" leads the way with more than 2.5 million.
The Sunday 500 is up to 157 entries now, so is just over $20,000 away from the guarantee. "lllIIII" still leads with more than 2.25 million chips now. Leonard appears to be the only partypoker representative in the mix in this one.