Nuwwarah Leads The 23 Survivors of Day 1A

The first flight of the $1,110 MSPT Main Event at Ameristar Casino in East Chicago smashed all expectations. A total of 196 entrants came out to play, nearly ensuring that the $300,000 prize pool will be eclipsed in tomorrow’s flight.

Leading the way is Iowa’s Mo Nuwwarah who ended his day with 585,000. With $275,796 in live earnings, Nuwwarah has made himself a staple of tournaments all around the midwest. With three MSPT final tables, one of them coming from an East Chicago stop, Nuwwarah possesses a wealth of experience which he used to soar up the chip counts as the day progressed. With his massive bag today he has put himself in a good position to make another deep run.

Only one other player found a bag over half a million and that was MSPT regular Steve Buell (515,000). Two MSPT champions found their way to a bag today as Michael Berk (338,000) and Josh Reichard (276,000) both found their way to a bag sitting right next to each other for a good chunk of the day. Other midwestern crushers that found their way to bags included Michael Puccio (409,000), David Gutfreund (337,000), Terence Reid (294,000), Michael Vanderwoude (237,000), Pat Richert (173,000), Bob Heffner (110,000), and WSOP bracelet winner Kyle Julius (317,000).

Not all saw favorable fortunes today, as players like MSPT champions Kou Vang and Aaron Johnson joined the likes of Mario Arribas, Brad Sailor, Renato Spahiu, Andy Rogowski, Joe Batterman and WSOP bracelet winners Jean Gaspard and Tom Koral in firing one of the following two days to find a bag. Ryan Julius was seeing double at the end of the night as his ace-king ran into Buell’s aces two hands in a row at the end of the night for his entire stack to vanish. With two more flights occurring the following two days, all of these players will have ample opportunity to play for another bag.

Play ended with 12:00 left in Level 15, meaning that unless one of the following flights ends earlier than this, the 23 players from this flight will join the other two flights at 11:00 am on Sunday with this much left on the clock.

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