It’s all over for Day 1B here in the Main Event at the Majestic Star Casino and after an incredible day of play, Hao “John” Sun capped off a massive late rally to take the flight and overall chip lead for the tournament.
Sun put away 536,000 chips to easily outpace the Day 1B field. Late surges also led Anthony Kastelic to the second place stack with 417,500 and John Elliott landed in third with 328,000. Andrew Campbell was fourth with 310,000 and Craig Trost rounded out the top five with 271,500. Other notables advancing were MSPT Hall of Famer Aaron Johnson (146,500), Greg Geller (141,000), Patrick Steele (123,500) and current MSPT Season 10 Player of the Year points leader Mike Shin (85,500).
Notables who did not make it through Day 1B included former MSPT Main Event winners Aaron Massey, Ben Wiora and Steve Federspiel. Also coming up short were WSOP Circuit ring winner Ravi Raghavan along with Jill Bryant, Steve Wazwaz, Jesse Bowman, Ralph Massey, Yanno Orfanos, Jason Trezak, Gary Herstein and Jordan Miller.
Day 1B recorded 185 entries taking the final two-day total for the tournament to 324. 22 players advanced out of the flight and combined with the 16 players who advanced yesterday, 38 players will be returning tomorrow to play for the Main Event title.
Play will resume Sunday at 11 AM Central time and the final table will be live streamed at Twitch.tv/MSPTpoker. Congratulations to everyone who advanced to Day 2 and we’ll see you tomorrow here at Majestic Park Casino!