Fan, Gottlieb, Papazian Among Big Stacks to Advance in Final Flight; $1.5M Up Top
While Day 2 is just around the corner, a fast and furious Day 1E flight in the GGSF Super MILLION$ ME-H: $10,300, $10M GTD saw xx out of a field of 267 advance. They'll have not even an hour to prepare as Day 2 will kick off at 8:05p GMT to continue one of the two $10M GTD events on the GGSF schedule.
With the 267 entries in the final flight, the guarantee was surpassed and a total prize pool of $10,890,000 was created. Adding the 54 survivors from Day 1E, a total of 156 players will return to play for the first-place prize of $1,537,605, awarded on Tuesday night during the traditional GG Super MILLION$ Final Table show.
Taiwan's Chih Wei "FanChihWei" Fan (1,489,098) bagged the lead with 1,489,098 in chips, which will be 93 big blinds when cards go back in the air. Daniel Smiljkovic (1,222,513), Lev "LevMeAlone" Gottlieb (1,140,861), Assad "KammyStyyle" Kamran (1,008,581), and Alex Papazian (922,676) rounded out the top 5.
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