A lengthy day of 15 levels has wrapped up during the MSPT $1,110 Main Event at Riverside Casino as Day 1b drew 251 entries to bring the two-day total thus far to 340, blasting past the $300K GTD with tomorrow’s final flight still to go.

Of those 251 entries, only 27 players remained when chips went into bags with 5:05 remaining in the final level as four-time MSPT champ Dan Bekavac went on a late-night heater to bag the top stack once again at Riverside.

After starting to catch some traction in Level 14, Bekavac then finished the night by eliminating Mike Hancock on the bubble to take a whopping 909,000 into Day 2.

Coming in behind Bekavac was Mitch Dahl who was able to put 640,000 in his bag while Matt Porter doubled his stack size in the final hand of the night with a pair of ladies to end with 565,000.

Rounding out the top five stacks were Jordan Lawrence (525,000), and MSPT Hall of Famer Josh Reichard (521,000) while Shiva Dudani (429,000) was the only other player to bag north of 400k.

Fellow MSPT Hall of Famer’s Gerald Cunniff (355,000) & Keith Heine (189,000), DJ Buckley (165,000), Kyle Wagner (134,000), and MSPT champ’s Anthony Scarborough (131,000) & Joe Matheson (128,000) were just a few more of the players to add their names to the Day 2 roster along with the nine to have already advanced from Day 1a.

Among those to fire and fall on Day 1b included MSPT champ Jake Wilding, Jon Hanner, Jason Bender, Wayne Tweeton, and MSPT Hall of Famer Richard Alsup, just to name a few.

The final starting flight will get underway tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. Late registration and re-entries will remain open through Level 12 (approximately 10:40 p.m.).

Make sure to tune in to see who makes it through to Day 2.

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