The $600 buy-in, $1 million guarantee MSPT Venetian Main Event attracted 2,779 runners over three flights, and only 382 of them (57 from 1A, 75 from 1B, and 250 from 1C) bagged for Day 2 action. After fifteen levels of play, just seventeen players remain, with Longsheng Tan (pictured, left) leading the way with a stack of 5,805,000, just barely ahead of Christian Nilles (pictured, right) and his 5,715,000 stack. Lurking in twelfth-place with 2,525,000 is former WSOP November Niner Jeremy Ausmus, who finished 5th in the 2012 WSOP Main Event, and also boasts a bracelet from the 2013 WSOPE in PLO.

297 players got paid, meaning 85 players were heading home empty-handed. Among those to fall short of the money were Gerald Cunniff, Barbara Sargent, and Ray Kondler, just to name a few. Once the bubble burst the in-the-money finishes mounted and included Randy Perkins (27th - $6,986), last week’s MSPT $1,100 Venetian Event sixth-place finisher Tyreem Williams (31st - $4,990), Day 1C chip leader Nick Quraishi (36th - $4,990), MSPT Season 8 Canterbury Park Regional champ Paul Cross ($3,279), Day 1B chip leader Ed Miller (53rd - $3,279), last week’s MSPT $1,100 Venetian Event third-place finisher Lou Garza (59th - $2,994), MSPT Season 6 POY Mark Hodge (120th - $1,996), 2016 MSPT Wisconsin State Poker Championship Andy Rubinberg (165th - $1,782), former November Niner Jake Balsiger (183rd - $1,568), and 2013 WSOP National Champion Jonathan Hilton (200th - $1,568).

Day 3 will kick off at Noon local time on Wednesday and play down to a winner. Not only will we capture the action here in the live updates, we will be live streaming the action on our RFID table complete with hole cards and commentary. Be sure to tune in and catch all the action as the remaining seventeen players shoot for the $202,456 first-place prize!