What To Do with Nine Left?
Level 16
: 10,000/20,000, 2,000 ante
With this event being played in a seven-handed format, it raises the question of what to do when the field gets down to nine players left. When there are eight remaining, the plan will be to combine around one table. At nine, the field will play with one table of five players and another table of four.
To make up for the difference in play that this will allow for, Sean McCormack, the Director of Poker Operations at ARIA Resort & Casino, informed the players that once nine-handed play is reached every 20 minutes a random draw will occur that will transfer one player from the five-handed table to the four-handed table.