Event 1 Flight E: The Money Bubble Has Burst

$500 Double Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 16:  2,500/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Flight E Players Remaining:  87 of 696

Melissa Dube's Lego Card Protector on Chips
Card Protector on the Chips of a Short Stack

Around 1:25 am, the field was down to 88 players, and the tournament clock was paused to begin the process of playing hand-for-hand on the Money Bubble.

The Money Bubble lasted for four hands over about 20 minutes, but they eventually lost one player to burst the bubble and get the remaining 87 players into the money.

These final 87 players (12.5% of this field) are all guaranteed to earn at least $800 each, and the final 49 (7% of this field) will advance to Day 2.

With 87 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 160,000 (32 big blinds).

The total prizepool is already worth more than $1.19 million, and there will be two more starting flights tomorrow (Flight F at 10:00 am, and Flight G at 5:00 pm). Day 2 begins Sunday at 2:00 pm, and is scheduled to play down to a winner that night.