Mon. Sep. 7 - 8:35 PM

19 Players Remain

Players return from break and action resumes on blinds of 40K/80K-80K. With the next elimination, a table will break and players will combine for the final two tables.

Players had a full redraw at the final 27 and will have another full redraw for tomorrow's livestreamed final table. View current seat assignments with chip counts below.

Table 13

Seat	Player	Chips	BBs
2	Justin Dreiling	4.30 M	53.8 BB
3	Rodrick Tyes	4.93 M	61.6 BB
5	Aakash Karki	1.49 M	18.6 BB
7	Paul Taskalos	465K	5.8 BB
8	Joel Grunberger	3.04 M	37.9 BB

 

Table 14

Seat	Player	Chips	BBs
3	Gabriel Anderson	2.15 M	26.9 BB
4	Chanyoung Song	920K	11.5 BB
5	Ethan Doan	2.29 M	28.6 BB
6	Jayant Chaudhary	1.88 M	23.4 BB
7	Dmytro Soloviov	3.48 M	43.5 BB
8	John Gibson	1.35 M	16.9 BB
9	Eduardo Prieto	2.50 M	31.3 BB

 

Table 19

Seat	Player	Chips	BBs
1	Christopher Akin	1.65 M	20.6 BB
2	Mauricio Miranda	1.60 M	20.0 BB
3	Trevor Laurence	2.50 M	31.3 BB
4	Robert French	2.40 M	30.0 BB
6	Arun Balasubramanian	2.60 M	32.5 BB
8	Preston Duron	4.50 M	56.3 BB

 

Mon. Sep. 7 - 12:15 PM

Prize Pool Verified

With 1,593 entries across eight starting flights, Trailblazer Poker Tour's $500K GTD Main Event generated a prize pool of $812,430!

 

127 players return for Day 2 to battle for a first place prize of $125,200.

 

Action resumes on blinds of 4K/8K-8K with 26:34 on the clock. Players will play down to a final table of nine and return tomorrow at 7:00 pm for a livestreamed final table.

Place	Prize
1st	$125,200
2nd	$88,460
3rd	$57,370
4th	$42,370
5th	$32,130
6th	$25,690
7th	$21,280
8th	$16,900
9th	$12,620
10th-12th	$10,010
13th-15th	$7,790
16th-18th	$6,390
19th-21st	$5,290
22nd-24th	$4,400
25th-27th	$3,730
28th-36th	$3,270
37th-45th	$2,830
46th-54th	$2,530
55th-63rd	$2,310
64th-72nd	$2,140
73rd-81st	$1,970
82nd-90th	$1,800
91st-99th	$1,630
100th-108th	$1,480
109th-117th	$1,350
118th-126th	$1,220
127th	$1,090

Mon. Sep. 7 - 10:19 AM

Day 2 Seat Draw

Player Name	Tbl/Seat	Chips
SERGIY DZYUBA	05 [01]	298,000
DEVARAJ MUNISEKAR	05 [02]	570,000
WILLIAM HESSER	05 [03]	454,000
JASON FITZPATRICK	05 [04]	105,000
WEI WANG	05 [05]	860,000
RAHIL GAULANI	05 [06]	214,000
KASRA KHODAYARKHANI	05 [07]	696,000
DAVID CARTER	05 [08]	142,000
DANIEL SAAD	05 [09]	359,000
ETHAN DOAN	06 [01]	403,000
RAJEEV ATRIWAL	06 [02]	255,000
ANDREI MOISEENKO	06 [03]	302,000
BASIL PUNNUS	06 [04]	132,000
DAVID MILES	06 [05]	119,000
BRIAN DEVANY	06 [06]	170,000
JUNON TANN	06 [07]	601,000
DAVID PETERS	06 [08]	586,000
DANIEL CHIAKAS	07 [01]	567,000
SIMON WEBSTER	07 [02]	709,000
FEN CHEN	07 [03]	276,000
THANH PHAM	07 [05]	124,000
JOHN GIBSON	07 [06]	330,000
RODRICK TYES	07 [07]	169,000
MALIK ORR	07 [08]	95,000
TRUC NGUYEN	07 [09]	473,000
JIE JIE ZHENG	08 [01]	115,000
OLEKSII KOIEV	08 [02]	657,000
HUNTER CICHY	08 [03]	120,000
BRIAN ELLEBRACHT	08 [04]	236,000
BAN TRAN	08 [05]	197,000
BRIAN CARRUBBA	08 [06]	416,000
ANDREW WELLS	08 [07]	376,000
MAURICIO MIRANDA	08 [08]	475,000
CHUI FOONG LIEW	08 [09]	1,300,000
KAYVON SHAHBAZ	09 [01]	322,000
MATTHEW BRAY	09 [02]	765,000
ALAIN RAAD	09 [03]	181,000
SUMMER JARREAU	09 [04]	238,000
JASON LIANG	09 [05]	136,000
STEPHEN HILTZ	09 [06]	439,000
JUAN TEJEDA	09 [07]	570,000
THAO TRAN	09 [08]	108,000
JAMES HOLACKA	09 [09]	1,050,000
ANISH MATHEW	10 [01]	280,000
THOMAS DOMINY	10 [02]	173,000
GABRIEL ANDERSON	10 [03]	554,000
BRENT MOREHOUSE	10 [04]	315,000
KAMRAN JAMAL	10 [05]	591,000
RONNIE LAMB	10 [06]	146,000
PAUL PHILLIPS	10 [07]	47,000
EYAL JANCIK	10 [08]	785,000
SUNDARAPANDIAN RAJAMANI	10 [09]	472,000
CHEN YANG	11 [01]	215,000
TREVOR LAURENCE	11 [02]	211,000
JUSTIN ELLIOTT HARVELL	11 [03]	111,000
HONG FANG	11 [04]	635,000
UMAIZ WAHID	11 [05]	486,000
DWAYNE EVANS	11 [06]	148,000
DMYTRO SOLOVIOV	11 [07]	1,123,000
MICHAEL JOE STRINGER	11 [08]	393,000
VINCENT LEE	11 [09]	349,000
ABRAHAM ARAYA	12 [01]	440,000
JASON ROYMAN	12 [02]	231,000
JOE CHO	12 [03]	198,000
MOHAMMAD NABATIAN	12 [04]	335,000
JIANCHENG HAN	12 [05]	505,000
AHMED NIMER	12 [06]	93,000
LAURA MCCRAY	12 [07]	927,000
ESTEBAN RUIZ	12 [08]	627,000
PATRICK LENIHAN	12 [09]	158,000
JAMARYL MCDOWELL	13 [01]	355,000
SHAURABH SHARMA	13 [02]	164,000
DANNY CROY	13 [03]	76,000
JUSTIN DREILING	13 [04]	770,000
SUJU ABRAHAM	13 [05]	298,000
PAUL TASKALOS	13 [06]	548,000
KYLE BIRDWELL	13 [07]	440,000
JOEL CHANG	13 [08]	203,000
HERBERT MONTALBANO	14 [01]	180,000
DUSTI SMITH	14 [02]	137,000
THOMAS OLIVAS	14 [03]	114,000
ZACHARY ROE	14 [04]	660,000
RAKESH UPPALA	14 [05]	300,000
STERLING MACK	14 [06]	309,000
ALEXANDER DAO	14 [08]	413,000
EDUARDO PRIETO	14 [09]	523,000
ROBERT FRENCH	15 [01]	247,000
SEAN LEE	15 [02]	737,000
KIRAN SURESH	15 [03]	450,000
RONNIE ROBINSON	15 [04]	1,204,000
JOSEPH SEBRING	15 [05]	486,000
ZACHARY BARON	15 [06]	123,000
JASON COLE	15 [07]	142,000
AAKASH KARKI	15 [08]	316,000
TIMOTHY CARROLL	15 [09]	196,000
KEVIN ADCOCK	16 [01]	286,000
BRENT KOPYCINSKI	16 [02]	425,000
RICHARD BARKER	16 [03]	597,000
JAYANT CHAUDHARY	16 [05]	341,000
JORDAN ALBERT	16 [06]	125,000
DAVID GRANIK	16 [07]	182,000
VICTOR JOHNSON	16 [08]	117,000
CHANYOUNG SONG	16 [09]	483,000
CHRISTOPHER AKIN	17 [02]	151,000
JAMES COYLE	17 [03]	220,000
PRASAD CHALLA	17 [04]	373,000
NICHOLAS BURNETT	17 [05]	752,000
PAUL JOHN VELASCO	17 [06]	175,000
PEJMAN NIYATI	17 [07]	440,000
VENKAT NAVEEN NAGABHAIRAVA	17 [08]	72,000
NGUYEN NGUYEN	17 [09]	537,000
SONGPYNG TWU	18 [01]	739,000
JACK VENABLE	18 [02]	160,000
THIAGO ESCOBAR	18 [03]	212,000
MEHDI DARUWALA	18 [04]	275,000
ARUN BALASUBRAMANIAN	18 [05]	450,000
TONY LOVE	18 [07]	580,000
FRANCIS VO	18 [08]	61,000
JOEL GRUNBERGER	18 [09]	325,000
PRESTON DURON	19 [01]	166,000
NATHAN KNIGHT	19 [03]	440,000
STEVEN GLASSCOCK	19 [04]	231,000
HOAN NGUYEN	19 [05]	188,000
JEFFERY MEUANGKHOT	19 [06]	643,000
ROBERT MANLEY	19 [07]	114,000
WILLIAM HAGEDORN	19 [08]	575,000
CHRISTOPHER LAIETA	19 [09]	343,000

Sun. Sep. 6 - 3:31 PM

$650,000 and growing

Sunday's 10:00 am flight received 311 entries, which brings the total entries to 1,279 with one flight remaining at 5:00 pm today.

 

The prize pool has generated $652,290 as players try to secure their Day 2 seat for Monday's restart.

 

Remember, this is a three-day event with a livestreamed final table on Tuesday at 7:00 pm.

New Overall Chip Leader

With the conclusion of Flight 1F, Ronnie Robinson bags the new overall chip lead with 1,204,000 (151 BBs).

 

Robinson becomes the only player with over a million chips and will return for Monday's 1:00 pm restart with piles on blinds of 4K/8K-8K.

 

Two starting flights remain for the $600 Main Event and Sunday's large fields will likely produce some monster stacks. 

A total of 767 Entries

With 252 entries in Flight 1E, the $500K GTD Main Event has drawn a total of 767 entries through the first five of eight starting flights.

 

Tonight's 5:00 pm flight will likely carry the prize pool past its guarantee.

 

124 players remained in Flight 1E at the close of registration. Players resumed action on blinds of 1,000/1,500-1,500 and Andrei Moiseenko is the current chip leader with 229,500 (153 BBs).

 

32 players will finish in the money with the final 21 players advancing to Day 2.

A Pair of Multi-Bags

Congratulations to both Daniel Saad and Paul Taskalos on earning the $2,000 multi-bag award.

 

Daniel Saad had previously bagged 139,000 in Flight 1B. He improves to a bag of 359,000, which he'll play forward in Monday's 1:00 pm Day 2 restart. He earns $2,000 for his smaller bag.

 

Paul Taskalos improved from a Flight 1B bag of 99,000 to his 1D bag of 127,000.

 

With the conclusion of 1D, 41 players have advanced to Day 2. Four starting flights remain and they are expected to be the largest flights yet.

Sat. Sep 5 - 1:24 AM

Players Hunting $2,000 Multi-Bag Award

Daniel Saad and Paul Taskalos both already bagged last night in Flight 1B with bags of 139,000 and 99,000 respectively.

 

They are currently in the money of Flight 1D with 21 players remaining and the final 12 advancing to Day 2. If they manage to bag again, they will earn a $2,000 award for their smaller bag and play their bigger bag forward on Day 2.

 

Taskalos recently found a double through Kayvon Shahbaz. They got everything in preflop on blinds of 3,500/7,000-7,000. Shahbaz was the button and Taskalos was in the cutoff as the effective stack for approximately 75,000. 

 

Taskalos: Q♦Q♣ (all-in)
Shahbaz: A♣K♠
Board: K♥Q♠3♥2♠A♦

Fri. Sep. 4 - 9:32 PM

174 Entries in Flight D

With 174 entries in Flight 1D, the $600 Main Event has already generated $262,650 of its $500,000 guarantee!

 

79 players remain in Flight 1D and return to blinds of 1,000/1,500-1,500 after the close of registration. Thomas Furman is the current chip leader with 172,500.

Player	Chip Count
Thomas Furman	172,500
Devaraj Munisekar	171,000
Kayvon Shahbaz	164,000
Hussam Al	147,000
Pranay Reddy Patlolla	145,000
Gopi Chand Maddula	139,000
Rahul Gaulani	138,000
Michael Kunz	136,500
John McBride	134,000
Junon Tann	133,000

Fri. Sep. 4 - 5:30 PM

Flight C Players In The Money

During hand-for-hand on blinds of 2,500/5,000-5,000, Duc Nguyen open-jammed from the cutoff for 35,500. William Linden made the call in the big blind.

Nguyen: 3♥3♦ (all-in)
Linden: A♥Q♦
Board: K♠8♣6♠J♥Q♣

The flop and turn were clean for Nguyen's red threes, but the Qc sealed his fate as the stone bubble.

 

The remaining 18 players are now in the money with the final 12 players advancing to Monday's 1:00 pm Day 2 restart.

2:15 PM

Flight C Receives 140 Entries

The $500K GTD Main Event has now received a total of 341 entries across the first three flights, which contributes $173,910 to the guarantee.

 

18 players in Flight 1C will finish in the money with the final 12 players advancing to Monday's Day 2 restart.

Fri. Sep. 4 - 2:14 AM

Flight B bags on 4K/8K

Flight 1B bags on blinds of 4K/8K-8K with 26:34 on the clock.

 

Unless another flight bags on an earlier level or clock, this will be the clock for Monday's 1:00 pm Day 2 restart.

Thu. Sep. 3 - 7:46 PM

Down to 44,500 and Back Again

Kyle Birdwell was caught smiling late on Day 1A and he had a valid reason. Birdwell and Gabriel Anderson had collided in a massive all-in a few levels earlier and Birdwell had found himself on life support.

 

On a flop of 7♠4♦2♥, Anderson check-jammed from the small blind and Birdwell called.

Anderson: J♣J♦ (all-in)
Birdwell: 8♣8♦

Birdwell was in bad shape and didn't improve on the K♣ turn and 7♣ river. Birdwell was left with 44,500 and players weren't even in the money yet.

 

Birdwell went on to make the money and make Day 2 with a bag of 440,000.

 

Thu. Sep. 3

First Flight Receives 93 Entries

The $500K GTD Main Event is off to a hot start at Texas Card House Dallas with 93 entries in the 10 am Day 1A flight.

17 players will advance to Monday's 1 pm Day 2 restart.

30000 starting stack 30-min levels Late reg: start of L9

Level	Small Blind	Big Blind	BB Ante
1	100	100	100
2	100	200	200
3	200	300	300
4	200	400	400
Break · 15 min
5	300	600	600
6	400	800	800
7	500	1000	1000
8	600	1200	1200
Break · 15 min · / Remove 100's/ End of Registration · reg closes
9	1000	1500	1500
10	1000	2000	2000
11	1500	2500	2500
12	1500	3000	3000
Break · 15 min
13	2000	4000	4000
14	2500	5000	5000
15	3000	6000	6000
16	3500	7000	7000
Break · 15 min · Remove 500's
17	4000	8000	8000
18	5000	10000	10000
19	6000	12000	12000
20	8000	16000	16000
Break · 15 min · Remove 1,000's
21	10000	20000	20000
22	10000	25000	25000
23	15000	30000	30000
Break · 15 min
24	20000	40000	40000
25	25000	50000	50000
26	30000	60000	60000
Break · 15 min
27	40000	80000	80000
28	50000	100000	100000
29	60000	120000	120000
Break · 15 min
30	80000	160000	160000
31	100000	200000	200000
32	125000	250000	250000
Break · 10 min · Remove 5,000's
33	150000	300000	300000
34	175000	350000	350000
35	200000	400000	400000
Break · 10 min · Remove 25,000's
36	200000	500000	500000
37	300000	600000	600000
38	400000	800000	800000
Break · 10 min
39	500000	1000000	1000000
40	600000	1200000	1200000
41	800000	1600000	1600000
42	1000000	2000000	2000000
Break · 15 min
43	800000	1600000	1600000
44	1000000	2000000	2000000
45	1500000	3000000	3000000
46	2000000	4000000	4000000

1. TDA Rules apply in all Trailblazer Tour events. 2. This is a Multi-Flight/Day No Limit Holdem Tournament. 8% of each flight will advance to day 2. Participants can enter and re-enter an unlimited amount of times until the start of level 9 for is $510 (Prize Pool) + $90 (Admin).. 3. This tournament will use the "Big Blind Ante" format. The big blind will be paid before the ante. The ante will not reduce. The blinds will increase until the completion of the event. 4. Bag multiple flights: If the participant bags multiple times, smallest bag removed and receive $2,000 for that bag. This can be repeated multiple times. Participants do not qualify for the above unless they put chips in bag for Day 2. 5. 1-In-8 Entries will be in the money (12.5%). 8% of each day 1 flight will bag and advance to Day 2. 6. Day 2 will restart at the earliest level and remaining time that a Day 1 flight finishes at (Excluding turbo flights). 7. Day 1 payouts are considered part of the prize pool and as such be included in the $500,000 guaranteed prize pool. 8. There will be a full tournament redraw at the final 27 & 9 participants. 9. Breaks are subject to change during restarts and livestreamed final tables.