Let's Get Acquainted With the WPT Main Event
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Today's tournament offers players the chance to re-enter as often as needed before the start of Level 7, with each bullet running $3,500 a pop. Fifteen minute breaks are scheduled to occur after every two levels today, and a 75-minute dinner break takes place after Level 6 - or right around 7:00 p.m. local time. This second starting flight will conclude after eight levels are in the books, meaning the expected end point is 11:00 p.m. local time.
Last year's edition of this event saw a field of 1,042 players take a shot, and Andy Hwang was the one with every chip in play when it was all said and done. Hwang's victory here at the Borgata was worth a $730,053 payday, and his name is now etched on the WPT Champion's Cup. Yesterday a total of 422 entries were recorded for Day 1a - topping the 397 entries recorded during last year's first starting flight - with 207 advancing to Day 2 by bagging and tagging a stack. The field today will have a tough task topping Day 1a chip leader Lazaro Hernandez, a local amateur who accumulated a staggering 258,175 chips in just eight levels to build an enormous lead of 70,000 over professional John Racener.