The late registration and re-entry period has just ended. The total number of entries climbed all the way to 217, including 42 re-entries, making Day 1D the largest starting flight of all. That means two things: the combined number of entries for all flights is 562, allowing the tournament to surpass the $100,000 guaranteed prize pool, and that there are 5,425,000 in chips in play! The potential for some players to build monstrous stacks is definitely there so it will be interesting to see how the rest of the night plays out.
On table 30, Richard Sysko, hailing from Northern Vermont and a regular visitor to Playground, had his stack reduce well below average.With the blinds at 250/500, he decided to shove his stack of just over 20 big blinds (10,400) in early position after finding what appeared to be a premium hand. Carl Des Granges made the call in mid position as did Brendan Syrette on the button.
The flop came 
and action went check-check between Des Granges and Syrette. The turn brought the 
and again it went check-check. On the river came the 
and one more time both players checked it.
Syrette: 
Sysko: 
Des Granges: 
Sysko was open-ended on the turn but didn’t improve while Des Granges continued to make hands by hitting his king on the river, which sent Sysko to the rail.
