The first starting flight of the MILLIONS Turbo, Day 1A, lived up to its title with fast-paced action from beginning to end. By the time the late registration and re-entry period ended at the end of level 10, 387 entries made it into the fray today including 88 re-entries.
The action was fast and loose throughout the afternoon. One illustrative example was when two players moved all-in from the first two positions to act before even receiving cards, happy to take their chances to run up a stack. It’s not often that you see two players move all-in before the dealer even finishes shuffling!
After the first break in the action, the gap between the big and small stacks had widened significantly, and the all-ins were happening at a frantic pace. In general, the big stacks benefited, sending a steady flow of players to the rail. Play tightened up later in the day as the stacks got deeper, giving the players more opportunities to grind it out.
When it was time to bag chips at the end of the day, Griffin Benger emerged as the chip leader with a little more than 20M in chips ready for Day 2. While he had maintained a healthy stack for most of the day, he managed to get a huge double-up through Ryan Yu in level 17 to jump to the top of the leader board. In all, 56 players survived this flight and will return for Day 2 on Wednesday at noon.
Day 1B begins tomorrow at noon, and it is likely to be even more popular than today’s starting flight. There will be sit’n go’s and flip’n go’s running throughout the day, and the late registration and re-entry period will be open until the end of level 10, providing lots of avenues and opportunities to get in on the action.
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