The $ 215 tournament has a guaranteed $ 500,000 and this is achieved by playing normally. But the tournament has usually in a lot of the players logs also a three-hour late-Reg-phase only.
Yesterday was exceptionally not "normally" and the tournament was due to an internal error no late-Reg. Point 17.00 clock was concluded with the registration and the tournament started with 1,204 players. These players were given thanks to the guarantee an overlay of about $ 260,000 - more than a buy-in per player.
Much of the Sunday regulars, however, looked into the tube when they wanted to sign up to the tournament a little later and were excluded.
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