Day 1c of the MSPT Season 16 $1,110 Minnesota Poker State Championship at Running Aces Casino & Racetrack was the largest of the three starting flights attracting another 458 runners, and brought the total field tally up to 1,004 entries, shattering the $500k guarantee.

The massive field generated a $972,380 prize pool with a minimum payment of $2,025, while the eventual winner will walk away with a $178,392 first-place prize, along with the MSPT Season 16 Minnesota Poker State Championship title!

At the end of the third and final flight, just 51 players bagged and tagged with Varun Uppal catching some late-right steam in the final levels to put a whopping 780,000 in his bag to lead the final batch of players.

Pete Bigelow was seen building a stack early on in the day and eventually run up an impressive 597,000 stack throughout the day to sit behind Uppal while Michael Crawford (591,000), Joe Barnard (560,000), and Jason Perona and (540,000) rounded out the top five stacks of the flight.

They were joined by MSPT Hall of Famer Gerald Cunniff (491,000), MSPT champ Max Havlish (276,000), fellow Hall of Famer and WSOP bracelet winner Richard Alsup (260,000), Loki Abboud (205,000), Tyler Kolness (216,000), DJ Buckley (50,000), and defending champ Sean Hinton (50,000).

Among those to try and fall on Day 1b included 2023 Minnesota Poker State champ Marc Harrell, Bruce Simmons, MSPT champ Steve Wilkie, defending champ and two-time MSPT champ Angela Jordison just to name a few.

The surviving players from all three flights – of which there are 112 (25 from Day 1a, 36 from 1b, and 51 from 1c) – will return at 11:00 a.m. local time on Sunday, April 13^th to play down to a winner.

The MSPT live reporting crew will be on the floor throughout the remainder of the tournament to provide updates, so keep it here to catch the action!

MSPT Season 16 Minnesota Poker State Championship Remaining Schedule