They're All Chasing Gary

The race for the Season XIII @HPTPoker Player of the Year is coming down to this weekend's $2500 Championship Event, and there's a LOT of players with a shot at winning the title.

Gary Herstein is the only one, however, who controls his own destiny.

Herstein is Leader of the Pack right now with 244.5 points. If no one else in the top 29 finishes higher than Gary, he locks up the title and earns buy-ins to six (6) HPT Main Events of his choice in Season IV.

If... Gary does NOT cash, here's what other players need to do to take over the lead. (Note, this is based on estimated field of 251-375 entries and none of the other players mentioned cashing as well).

• Cord Garcia - a 36th place finish or better
• Ed Sebesta - 15th place or better 
• Michael Hahn - 8th place or better
• Tom Morse - 6th place or better
• Nick Jivkov, Matt Paten, Matt Donaldson, Rob Wazwaz and Alex Greenblatt  - 1st or 2nd

The list of players who are not-yer mathematically eliminated but can become player of the year only with a first-place finish AND nobody above them cashing is pretty long. It includes ...

Michael Scarborough, William McCracken, Walt Lustgraf, Dan O'Brien, Shane Faulk, Ben Scrogins, Craig Casino, Darrell Haywood, Ari Engel, Danny Gonzalez, Robert Geith, Austin Wentling, Keven Stammen, Fernando Galvan, Nikola Budzakoski, Matt Culp, Matthew Livingston, Kurt Jewell and Allen Kessler.

Level - 2
Blinds - 75/150
Entries - 37

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It's Been a Good Ride

This weekend marks the end of the one-year reign for @RyanGregorKC as the Season XII @HPTPoker Player of the Year.

Gregor earned entry in to six (6) HPT Main Events this season for winning the Player of the Year title. He started off his 2016 run to the title by winning HPT Kansas City for $111k, following that up with a runner-up finish at Vicksburg, 7th at Gates in Black Hawk and 12th at Peppermill Reno.

We'll be checking in with Ryan throughout the weekend to see how he is doing, and how the entire season went for him.

Level - 1
Blinds - 50/100
Entries - 30

Dan Ross - Hold'em Live Updates

Back-to-Back $2500's?

Jeff @FielderDream is here for Day 1A of the @HPTPoker $2500 Season XIII Championship.just three days after taking down the WPTDeepStacks season championship $2,500 for a $200k score in California.

Fielder maneuvered through a 501-entry field, beating @Cord_Garcia_ heads-up for the title, with Ben Keeline finishing 3rd.

Cord - 2nd in the HPT Player of the Year race - arrived last night here at Ameristar St. Charles and is expected to be in the Day 1A field later today.

Level - 1
Blinds - 50/100
Entries - 28

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Day 1A is Now

The $2500 @HPTPoker Season XIII Championship just kicked off as @HPTJeremy sent cards in the air for Day 1A here at @AmeristarSC.

Here's the schedule for today's Day 1A, tomorrow's Day 1B and Sunday's Day 1C ...

There are three starting flights - each offering one entry and one re-entry per player - at 1pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Begin with 30,000 chips, hour-long Levels the entire tournament.

There's an hour-long dinner break at the end of Level 6, about 7:30pm. Registration for each Day 1 flight closes at the start of Level 9 at about 10:45pm, with end-of-play scheduled at about 12:45am, the end of Level 10.

This is a Best Stack Forward event, so if you bag a stack Friday or Saturday, you can still play for a larger stack in the next flight.

Monday has a noon start for Day 2. Play down Monday to the Final table and return Tuesday at Noon for the Final Table.

Level - 1
Blinds - 50/100
Entries - 22

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Our Season Championship is Here

Season XIII for @HPTPoker comes to a close this weekend as @AmeristarSC hosts the $2500 Championship Event.

There are three starting flights - each offering one entry and one re-entry per player - at 1pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Begin with 30,000 chips, hour-long Levels the entire tournament. Monday has a noon start for Day 2. Play down Monday to the Final table and return Tuesday at Noon for the Final Table.

There's an hour-long dinner break at the end of Level 6, about 7:30pm. Registration for each Day 1 flight closes at the start of Level 9 at about 10:45pm, with end-of-play scheduled at about 12:45am, the end of Level 10.

This is a Best Stack Forward event, so if you bag a stack Friday or Saturday, you can still play for a larger stack in the next flight.

Follow all the tournament action all weekend long right here at HPTUpdates.com

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