Day 1c of the MSPT Season 16 Riverside $1,110 Main Event attracted 303 runners, which, along with 1a’s 90 and 1b’s 169, brought the total field up to 571 entries, shattering the $300k guarantee.

The field generated a $552,370 prize pool, which will pay a minimum of $2,091, while the eventual winner will walk away with a $115,559 first-place prize, along with the Main Event trophy.

At the end of the third and final flight, just 35 players bagged and tagged, with Chris Maltsburger clipping the milly mark to take 1,164,000 into Day 2, which is good enough for the overall chip lead.

Maltsburger went on a late-night heater to distance himself from Greg Sessler (888,000), Justin Coliny (520,000), Mike Lang (396,000), Andros Ioakimides (366,000) for the top spot as they rounded out the top five stacks.

Others who survived the final flight included Brett ‘Pops’ Reichard (360,000), MSPT champ Jason Sell (344,000), three-time MSPT champs Nick Barksdale (337,000), and Kou Vang (334,000), along with MSPT Hall of Famers Keith Heine (312,000) and ‘DQ’ Dan Hendrickson (260,000).

Of course, not everyone was so lucky as the likes of MSPT champ Phirom Peterschmidt, WSOP bracelet winner John Reading, four-time MSPT champ Dan Bekavac, Jessica Anderson, Loki Abboud, and MSPT Hall of Famer Josh Reichard all fell short of clinching a Day 2 berth.

All surviving players from the starting flights – of which there are 64 (10 from Day 1a, 19 from 1b, and 35 from 1c) – will return at 11:00 a.m. local time on Sunday, November 2^nd 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!

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