Welcome to Day 1c of Event #5: $1,000 Mystery Millions
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Today sees the Day 1c of Event #5: $1,000 Mystery Millions No-Limit Hold'em here at Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas. Live coverage of this event will start from Day 2.
This event has been on everyone's radar since the schedule was released, with the top bounty as well as the first-place prize guaranteed to be $1,000,000.
The second of four starting flights gets underway at 10 a.m. local time, with late registration open for 12 levels. There will be 20-minute breaks every four levels, with a 75-minute dinner break at the end of Level 16 (~7:00 p.m.).
The starting stack is 40,000 chips, with the plan for Day 1c to play 22 30-minute levels. Payouts start on Day 1, and for the surviving players, Day 2 resumes on Monday, June 3, at 11 a.m.
Last year's event saw a field of 18,188 players generate a prize pool of $4,587,950. The winner was Tyler Brown who defeated Guang Chen heads-up to win a cool $1,000,000.
“I took almost two years off poker," Brown told PokerNews. "I decided to come back at the end of last year, early this year, and it’s been unbelievable in these last six months.”
The event also saw two $1,000,000 bounties up for grabs, with Shant Marashlian the first player to pull the grand prize bounty early on Day 2. He was followed by Patrick Liang shortly after.
| Year | Entries | Winner | Country | Payout | |
| 2023 | 18,188 | Tyler Brown | United States | $1,000,000 | |
| 2022 | 14,112 | Quincy Borland | United States | $750,120 |
Day 1a saw 2,246 players gather in the tournament area, with only 118 having chips to bag and tag at the close of play. Pete Chen performed the best, turning his 40,000 starting stack into a tournament-leading 3,150,000.
The second starting flight of the event was even bigger than the first, with 3,272 recorded to bring the overall total to 5,519 entries. From Day 1b, just 171 bagged and tagged a stack, with Bradley Coultas (2,730,000) ending proceedings with the biggest stack.
The prize pool currently stands at $1,303,260, but of course that will continue to grow over the next two days.
Day 1c starts at 10:00 a.m. local time on June 1. Day 2 will be on June 3 and will commence at 11:00 a.m. local time. PokerNews's traditional coverage of this event will start on Day 2.
Mystery Millions Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pete Chen | Taiwan | 3,150,000 | 79 |
| 2 | Bradley Coultas | United States | 2,730,000 | 68 |
| 3 | Liran Betito | United States | 2,720,000 | 68 |
| 4 | Nicholas Lee | Canada | 2,580,000 | 65 |
| 5 | Justin Jones | United States | 2,500,000 | 63 |
| 6 | Uri Reichenstein | Israel | 2,225,000 | 56 |
| 7 | Akinobu Maeda | Japan | 2,080,000 | 52 |
| 8 | Benjamin Jacobs | United States | 2,020,000 | 51 |
| 9 | Alec Amendolagine | United States | 1,880,000 | 47 |
| 10 | Wagner Wysotchanski | United States | 1,870,000 | 47 |
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