A lengthy day of 14 levels has wrapped up during the MSPT $1,110 Main Event at Ameristar Casino Hotel, with seven of 63 entries making it through to Day 2.

Once the hard stop was reached in the last level, only 2:11 remained when Ivan Delvalle counted out 632,000 to put in his bag to end the night, leading the advancing players by a wide margin.

Bagging behind Delvalle was Nino Papava with 386,000, with J Peterson (270,000), Jamie Payne (225,000), and Brendan Shiller (220,000), rounding out the top five stacks, while Saad Ghanem (83,000) and Steve Downey (75,000) were the only others to punch their ticket into Sunday’s Day 2.

Of course, not everyone was fortunate enough to survive the night. Among those to fire and fall in Thursday’s flight were MSPT champ Lee Rzentkowski, Bohdan Slyvinskyi, Pawel Kotara, and last November’s final tablists Xi Nguyen & Jerry Miller, to name a few.

Those players, as well as any newcomers, have two more starting flights to jump back into action.

Day 1b will kick off at Noon local time on Friday, April 24^th, while the third and final flight, Day 1c, will take place at the same time on Saturday, April 25^th.

The surviving players from each flight will then return at 11:00 a.m. on Sunday, April 26^th, to play down to a winner.

MSPT Season 17 Ameristar East Chicago Remaining Schedule

Join us tomorrow as we continue to bring you all the action and eliminations straight from the tournament floor at the Ameristar Casino!