Day 1a of the MSPT Riverside $1,110 Main Event is officially in the books with 90 total entries tallied by night's end.

With action needing to play down to 11% of the field, almost 14 full levels were needed to hit that mark.

Once the hard stop was reached with 13:52 remaining at 3,000/5,000/5,000, it was none other than back-to-back Player of the Year Umut Ozturk (456,000) who edged out Bohdan Slyvinskyi (421,000) for the top stack after the first flight to lead the 10 advancing players.

Ozturk and Slyvinskyi were the only two players to clip the 400k mark, while defending champ Mike Estes (344,000), DJ Buckley (304,000), and Jake Long (297,000) rounded out the top stacks of the flight.

Others who punched their ticket into Sunday’s Day 2 included March’s fourth-place finisher Mark Lafata (297,000), Bruce Fagan (239,000), Jeff Kenny (159,000), Eric Phillips (135,000), and David To (97,000).

Among those to try and fall on Day 1a were a list of former MSPT champions, which included Lee Rzentkowski, Curtis Vierstraete, Ken Baime, Brian Landon, and MSPT Hall of Famer Aaron Johnson, just to name a few.

Those players, as well as any newcomers, have two more starting flights to jump back into action.

Day 1b will kick off at 2:00 p.m. local time on Halloween Friday, October 31^st, while Day 1c will take place at the same time on Saturday, November 1^st.

The surviving players from each flight will then return at 11:00 a.m. on Sunday to play down to a winner.

MSPT Season 16 Riverside Remaining Schedule

Make sure to stay tuned here to find out who makes it through to Sunday’s Day 2!