Day 1c was the final starting flight of the MSPT Season 17 $1,110 Main Event at the Ameristar Casino in East Chicago, and attracted a final 198 runners, which, along with the 188 totals from the previous two flights, brought the total field up to 386 entries, blasting past the $300k guarantee.

The impressive field generated a $372,920 prize pool, paying out a minimum of $2,074, while the eventual winner will walk away with a $82,955 first-place prize and the final MSPT 2026 Main Event trophy!

At the end of the third and final flight, just 22 players bagged and tagged with Jinha Park, clipping the milly mark (1,002,000) to take the overall chip lead into Day 2.

Park bagged over double that of Kenneth Smith’s 494,000 stack, while Del Beiler (489,000), Ryan Scully (469,00), and MSPT Champ Lee Rzentkowski (326,000) rounded out the top five stacks of the flight.

Others who survived the third and final flight included William Luciano (320,000), two-time MSPT Champ Mike Estes (261,000), DJ Buckley (222,000), Cody Brinn (170,000), and MSPT Champ Anthony Kastelic (103,000).

Among those to try and fall on Day 1c included MSPT Champ Brian Landon, Yoon Kim, Ryan Eamon, Anthony Babic, Jennifer Lin, and MSPT Champ Mike O’Neill, just to name a few.

The surviving players from all three flights – 43 in total (7 from Day 1a, 14 from 1b, and 22 from 1c) – will return at 11:00 a.m. local time on Sunday, April 26^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 17 Ameristar East Chicago Remaining Schedule