Day 1a of the MSPT Grand Falls $1,110 Main Event drew an incredible 243 entries to kick things off, blasting past 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 and that mark was hit with 33:15 remaining in Level 16 (4,000/8,000/8,000).

Once players put pens to slips, it was MSPT Hall of Famer Rob WazWaz who ended up leading the pack of 26 with a whopping 887,000.

WazWaz was seen stacking chips all day long and he kept that moment going throughout the day after he secured the final elimination of Michael Wilklow to end the night.

Fellow MSPT Hall of Famer Josh Reichard was able to find the second spot on the leaderboard, also due to a late-night heater as well. After coming in with a starting stack after registration, Reichard was able to get hot at the right time and spun up a 644,000 stack in the final levels of the evening.

A familiar Reg Powell was able to hold his own throughout the day as well, finishing the day with 580,000, while WSOP bracelet winner TJ Murphy (579,000), and MSPT champ Angela Jordison (544,000) rounded out the top five stacks.

Others that advanced included fellow MSPT champ Curtis Vierstraete (426,000), DJ Buckley (422,000), Brett “Pops” Reichard (257,000), fellow champ Justin Lynch (255,000), and Loki Abboud (216,000).

Among those to try and fall on Day 1a included MSPT Hall of Famer Rich Alsup, MSPT champ Erv Bjerga, Dennis Stevermer, two-time MSPT champ Taylor Howard and Caden Coleman, just to name a few.

All who did not bag will have one more flight to try and do so, with that being held tomorrow Saturday, March 22^nd 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