Day 1c of the MSPT Season 16 Showdown Series Bally's Black Hawk $1,110 Main Event drew 277 entries, the biggest field of all three starting flights, bringing the overall field up to 636.

The combined fields generated a $615,420 prize pool, paying a minimum of $2,058, while the eventual winner will walk away with a $127,849 first-place prize.

At the end of the final flight, just 30 players bagged and tagged with MSPT champ Steve Wilkie going on a late-night elimination spree to take the overall chip lead into Day 2 with a whopping 968,000.

Wilkie caught seam at the end of the night, eliminating MSPT Hall of Famer Josh Reichard on the bubble, leading the remaining players by a wide margin with fellow champ Justin Lynch putting 713,000 into his bag to end the night, which is good enough for third overall for Day 2.

Dianwei Sun (593,000), Devin Weinberg (568,000), and Event #6 winner Zach Gutierrez (547,000) rounded out the top five stacks of this flight while back-to-back Player of the Year Umut Ozturk (322,000), MSPT champ Alex Cruz (206,000), and DJ Buckley (81,000) will be returning for Day 2 tomorrow.

Among those to try and fall on of a Day 2 Berth included defending champ Sherman Wu, MSPT champ Jason Beasley, and John Pierce just to name a few.

The surviving players from all three flights – of which there are 68 (13 from Day 1a, 25 from 1b, and 30 from 1c) – will return at 11:00 a.m. local time on Sunday, January 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 16 Bally’s Black Hawk Showdown Remaining Schedule