847 entrants fired Day 1b today of the MSPT Venetian $3,000,000 Guaranteed, $1,600 Buy-In Main Event. Only 119 made it to Day 2, with Cord Garcia’s 468,500 in chips leading the way. This is a fair distance behind Ben Diebold’s 596,500 chips from Day 1a. Garcia, who holds WSOP gold as the inaugural winner of the Colossus tournament in 2015, will be looking to navigate another big field event to add an MSPT trophy to his trophy case.
The rest of the top five includes Dobromir Nikov (453,500), Chen-An Lin (439,500), Chris Karagulleyan (423,000), and Simon Deadman (412,000).
Others that managed a Day 2 bag include CSOP founder Matt Stout (408,500), Wendy Freedman (288,000), MSPT Hall of Famer Rich Alsup (259,000), former WSOP Main Event champ Martin Jacobson (256,000), WSOP bracelet winner Anthony Spinella (255,500), last week’s MSPT $1,100 Venetian Main Event final tablist Julien Loire (222,500), last year’s runner-up Jeremy Saderne (205,000), two-time WSOP bracelet winner Elio Fox (197,500), former WSOP November Niner Jeremy Ausmus (177,000), former MSPT Venetian champ Thomas Boivin (156,500), two-time MSPT champ Greg Himmelbrand (153,500), three-time MSPT champ Matt Kirby (152,000), Team partypoker Pro Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier (77,000), former WSOP November Niner Bryan Piccioli (77,000), Alabama pro Shannon Shorr (67,000), and defending champ Michael Soyza (53,000).
Some of those that couldn’t make it through today’s flight include last week’s WSOP $600 Online Bounty bracelet winner Upeshka De Silva, three-time MSPT champ Blake Bohn, MSPT Hall of Famers Kou Vang and Aaron Johnson, WPT champ Ravi Raghavan Ralph and Aaron Massey, Andrew Brokos, and former MSPT champs Ahmed Taleb, Chris Moon, and Sam Vizza.
Registration is now open for Wednesday’s Day 1c flight, which will kick off at 12:10 p.m. local time. All remaining players will return Thursday at 11 a.m. for Day 2 action. Players can fire an unlimited number of bullets up through the break at Level 12. Be sure to tune in to blog tomorrow and follow all the action as we complete the final flight of the $3,000,000 Guarantee for the MSPT Venetian $1,600 Main Event!