Today is the 2nd of 3 final $550 Phase 1 tournaments in the partypoker Million North America. The tournament is currently in level 4, and registrations today have already outstripped yesterday’s strong figures, with 199 players having already taken their seats with 2 2+ levels of late reg still available. There have also been 4 re-entries, bringing the entry total past the 200 mark. This means there will be at least 21 seats in the $5,000 + $300 Million North America event won today which will bring the grand total for all Phase 1s so far to 200 qualified stacks.
If you’re not familiar with the Phase 1 concept, it’s a new innovation in partypoker LIVE events that allows players to join a small buy-in event and play their way to a seat in the larger tournament – in this case the Million North America – but instead of just winning a seat, they win the entry in the tournament AND take their finishing stack forward with them.
For the $550 event, players start with 100,000 tournament chips and play down to 10% of the field remaining. This should take approximately 22 30-minute levels to complete, and when the end of the Phase 1 has been reached these qualifiers will be added to the Phase 1 Results page.