The combined 301 players that made it through the two flights of day 1 play are now all combined into one large field at the Bellagio. The total number of entrants for the tournament came in at 338 and with only 37 players being eliminated over the course of the two day 1’s there [...]

In these large tournament fields with relatively small starting stacks, winning that first coin flip is a crucial step in playing your way down to the final table. During the first two levels of play in the $2K a couple of P5ers were on both sides of the race situation with very different results.
Nick “fu_15″ [...]