The Colossus Day 1I Turbo comes to an end in a few minutes, and we took a few photos of some of the players. Although this is technically the last day 1 in Event #1 Colossus, Day 1H is still running in the Tournament Tent and should close around 3:00am.
The results of Day 1I have been added to the Colossus – Combined Day 1 Results table. Richard Edwin Mask was the overall leader in the flight with 390,500 chips, which vaults him into the top 15 of the Day 2 qualifiers by chip count.
After 7 levels of 20 minutes in the turbo Day 1I the players take a short break. A quick survey of the 15 tables in the tournament allowed us to spot 100K+ stacks. The tournament has logged 263 entries and the registration period is now closed.
Vincenzo Abate has taken a huge lead with 199,400 chips. At the halfway mark this is quite a sizeable amount!
Here are a few more chip leaders.
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|
| Vincenzo | Abate | 199,400 |
| Gary | Lucci | 148,700 |
| Mounzer | Awada | 140,200 |
| Kal | Lowes | 110,000 |
Play in Day 1I continues unabated, with the first (and only) break set to come at the end of level 8. A quick survey of the room shows Gary Lucci in the lead with the only stack over 100K so far, though there are a few players hot on his heels – and there’s a long way to go!
There are also some new entrants to the tournament of note – in particular, Will Molson, Samuel Chartier and Mike Leah. It’s not often that you see players with $2.2M, $3M and $7.6M respectively in published live career earnings in a $330 buy-in tournament – it will be interesting to track their progress should they manage to qualify for Day 2 through this turbo flight.
Play continues now in level 8.
There are 140 entries so far in the Turbo Day 1I in the Colossus, but more players keep arriving to take their final shots at a coveted spot in Day 2 in this event.
Here are a few photos of players in the event as the clock got started at 8:00pm.
Coming up next is the final starting flight in the $300 + $30 Colossus, set to get underway at 8:00pm tonight. This one is a little bit different than the starting flights so far – it’s a Turbo, which in this case means that the blind levels will be just 20 minutes in length.
The shorter blind level lengths tightens up the whole schedule – late registration will be open until the beginning of level 9, but that will be at 10:55pm, just under 3 hours after it begins, and the whole thing will wrap up at just after 1:00am – earlier even than the Day 1H flight currently underway in the Tent!
This is the last chance for players to qualify for Day 2 in the event, so we’re expecting it to be an action-packed flight… there won’t much of an opportunity for players to wait for something to happen!
Action gets underway in the Tournament Hall in 15 minutes – good luck to all.
The $300 + $30 Colossus in the 2018 WSOP-C Playground has reached the final day to play Day 1s in the event, and today there are three more chances in which to book a spot in Day 2 on Monday. In fact, considering that this is a single re-entry event, players actually have 6 more chances – so even someone who has not played a single hand in the tournament yet will have plenty of opportunity to take their shot at Day 2 and possibly a share of the $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool.
It all gets started today with Day 1G at 12:00PM, which will be followed by Day 1H at 4:30PM in much the same pattern as the past few days. The new factor today is Day 1I, the Turbo flight, which will begin at 8:00PM and will feature 20 minute blinds. Late registration (and the re-entry period) in Day 1I ends at 10:55PM, meaning that players will have just under 11 continuous hours in which they can enter (or re-enter) the event!
There are already almost 250 qualifiers that have booked their spot in Day 2 – and a handful that have qualified more than once and will take their best stack forward. One thing is certain – today’s action in the Colossus will add a lot more qualifiers to the mix for Monday!
Good luck!
