Day 1c of the MSPT Season 17 Showdown Series Bally's Black Hawk $1,110 Main Event drew 248 entries, 8the biggest field of all three starting flights, bringing the overall field up to 528.

The combined fields generated a $508,720 prize pool, paying a minimum of $2,247, while the eventual winner will walk away with a $107,376 first-place prize.

At the end of the final flight, just 28 players bagged and tagged with Scott Horvath going on a late-night elimination spree to take a healthy 811,000 into Day 2, good enough for second overall.

Following behind Horvath was Stewart Guolla, who ended the night with 634,000, while Jordan Levine (568,000), Duncan Horst (431,000), and Justin Enger (416,00) rounded out the top five stacks of the final starting flight.

Others who survived the third and final flight included MSPT Hall of Famer Gerald Cunniff (373,000), MSPT champ Justin Lynch (314,000), two-time MSPT Champ Tim Thorp (275,000), and WSOP bracelet winners Kevin Eyster (172,000) & Ben Keeline (117,000).

Among those to try and fall on Day 1c included Kim Criter, Joel Verbeck, Graham Griffin, last January’s Main Event runner-up Zach Gutierrez, Stephani Hagberg, and Jennifer Francis, just to name a few.

The surviving players from all three flights – of which there are 59 (12 from Day 1a, 19 from 1b, and 28 from 1c) – will return at 11:00 a.m. local time on Sunday, January 25^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!

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