The wild action of the early levels has given way to a focused tournament grind, now that more than half of the entries have been eliminated on Day 1F. The field is down to 167 players from 470 entries, with a chip average of roughly 42 big blinds.

The current chip leader is Garry Lucci, a Playground event veteran with lots of tournament success on his poker resume. Lucci is comfortably out ahead of the field with a stack of 135 big blinds. The current chip average of 43 big blinds provides significant depth of play for most players in the field. The top 67 players will advance to Day 2 so the tension will only mount from here.