Sycuan Casino Resort: January 17 - 20, 2025

 

Late Night Surge Sees Hesam Samarghandy Soar to the Top Leading the 5 Survivors After Day 1C

Created (1/19/2025 2:11:52 AM by Anthony Thompson)
 

 

Another lengthy day of 18 Levels has wrapped up during the MSPT Season 16 100 GRAND STACK $1,110 Main Event at Sycuan Casino & Resort as Day 1c concluded Saturday’s double headers as the third flight drew in another 50 entries to bring the total up to 278 thus far with tomorrow’s final two starting flights still to go.

While 50 entries were tallied, only five players remained when chips went into bags with Hesam Samarghandy finding a late-night surge to climb to the top of the counts, bagging a healthy 1,540,000.

Samarghandy was able to edge out Patrick Roteman (1,295,000), being as they were the only two to break the milly marker while Andrew Ostapchenko (990,000), Derek Stark (835,000), and Weizheng Zhong (440,000) were the only others to survive the flight.

Robert Fortuno

Among those to try and fall on Day 1c included Robert Fortuno, Nan Chen, Peter Cross, Lena Evans, and Brian Nordin, just to name a few.

Brian Nordin

The final two starting flights will get underway tomorrow with Day 1d getting started bright and early at 10:00 a.m. while Day 1e will follow at 4:00 p.m.

The surviving players from each flight will then return at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, January 20th to play down to a winner.

MSPT Season 16 Sycuan 100 GRAND STACK Festival Remaining Schedule
Date Time Tournament Chips Blind Levels Trophy Event
19-Jan 10:00 AM $1,110 100 GRAND STACK Main Event Day 1D 100,000 40 Minutes *
19-Jan 1:00 PM $265 NLH Milestone Satellite for Main Event 20,000 20 Minutes
19-Jan 4:00 PM $1,110 100 GRAND STACK Main Event Day 1E 100,000 30 Minutes *
19-Jan 7:00 PM $200 Ultimate Stack NLH 40,000 20 Minutes *
20-Jan 9:00 AM $200 Seniors Ultimate Stack 40,000 20 Minutes *
20-Jan 11:00 AM $1,110 Main Event NLH Day 2 - 40 Minutes *
20-Jan Noon $200 Ultimate Stack NLH 40,000 20 Minutes *
20-Jan 3:00 PM $200 Last Chance Monster Stack 30,000 20 Minutes *

With the two starting flights overlapping each other, the live reporting for Day 1d will start at Level 9 (approximately 3:30 p.m. local time), with Day 1e coverage following after the completion of the fourth flight.