Players have taken their seats and play has just begun in Day 1a of the Main Event of the TonyBet Winter Festival. This is the first of three Day 1 starting flights – Day 1b will begin at 11am on Saturday and Day 1c will begin at 11am on Sunday. This is a 4-Day event, with Days 2 to 4 to be held from Monday to Wednesday. This event has a $500,000 prize pool guarantee.
There are currently 83 players at the tables who have begun play with starting stacks of 30,000 tournament chips. Late registration is open until the break following level 6 today, which is to say that you may late register for the tournament until 4pm. Players who choose to late reg will receive full starting stacks.
This is a next-day re-entry event, which means that players are welcome to try to qualify for Day 2 via one, two, or all three starting flights – and a player who has already qualified is welcome to make another attempt to qualify for Day 2 with a larger stack. If a player does qualify more than once, only his or her largest stack remains in the tournament – all other chips are forfeited.
Cards are in the air and players continue to join the event at a regular pace, which should remain the case throughout the late reg period. There were well over 200 satellite seats awarded for this event, and between the large number of online and live qualifiers and the $500K guarantee, there’s a ton of value for poker players in this, the first ever TonyBet Winter Festival Main Event.
Good luck!
