This event has an innovative format that sees 10% of each Day 1 field move to Day 2, and pays 10% of the field, meaning that everyone who qualifies for Day 2 was paid – this is the minimum $400 that each player received as they finished their Day 1 (or shortly thereafter).
Nevertheless, any time there’s a pay jump there’s a potential bubble, and it wasn’t clear if this tournament would continue as if the first pay jump was the money bubble or not. The answer is in – the tournament just sailed along, and payouts have made their first jump of the tournament from 0 additional dollars to $100. The next pay jump will come with 172 players remaining.