Day 1a of the MSPT Grand Falls $1,110 Main Event drew 179 entries to kick things off, almost surpassing the tournament's $200,000 guaranteed prize pool with one flight still to go.

Plenty of players made their way to Grand Falls Casino, creating a room full of MSPT champs, Icons, and Hall of Famers.

With chips flying and players dropping throughout the day, play tightened up in the later levels as only 11% of the field was finding a Day 2 berth

Once players put their chips into the bags, it was John Cap who ended up leading the pack of 19 with an impressive 530,000.

Cap started the final two levels just above the chip average before catching some steam at the end of the night while others falling out of contention as he continued to add to his stack until play concluded for the night.

Fellow South Dakota native Tyler Klumb was able to find the second spot on the leaderboard, also due to a late-night heater as well. After coming back from the final break with a below average chip stack, Klumb was able to get hot at the right time and spun-up a 492,000 stack in the final the final levels of the evening.

Steve WazWaz held his steam throughout the day and finished in a close third with 469,000, while Graham Tseyhon (452,000), and MSPT Hall of Famer Rob WazWaz (417,000) rounded out the top five stacks.

Others that advanced included fellow Hall of Famer Rich Alsup (392,000), MSPT champ Gerald Cunniff (38,000), Gary Ewald (340,000), and Alex Wheeler (234,000).

All who did not bag will have one more flight to try and do so, with that being held tomorrow Saturday, August 10th at 2:00 p.m. local time.

As usual, the live reporting team will be back at it then, so be sure to come back and see who else adds their name to Sunday's Day 2 roster.

MSPT Grand Falls Remaining Schedule