The first of two starting flights for the Hollywood Poker Open Season 4 Championship Event drew 273 entries at the luxurious M Resort Spa Casino on Thursday.
With registration and unlimited reentries available all the way through the start of Day 2, the field built slowly, but built indeed, laying to waste the $2,500 buy-in event's $500,000 guarantee with one starting flight still to come.
With hundreds of qualifiers flying in from around the country, and a ton of top pros in Las Vegas looking for a chance to take a day off from the 2016 World Series of Poker and still grind, the Hollywood Poker Open Championship has traditionally drawn big numbers, and even more are expected Friday.