The second of three starting flights of the Season 10 MSPT Golden Gates Main Event drew 139 entrants to the felt, but after just over 14 levels of play, only 18 remained, and Ramiro Perez and his 353,000 chip stack leads the way, ahead of Brian Leitch and his 276,000 chip stack from Day 1A. Perez finished fourteenth in this very event last year for $5,459, and will be looking to improve on that with a healthy Day 2 stack.

Other big stacks from Day 1B include Karlus Dobbin (290,000), Al Hart (240,000), Douglas Kaczmarek (235,500), and Kevin Kurtz (191,500). More notables bagging up include last week’s MSPT Golden Gates Regional champ Aaron Frei (169,000), seven-time WSOPC ring winner Vincent Moscati (127,000), Alex Winter (125,000), who managed to bag in his fourth consecutive MSPT Main Event, and is looking for his fourth consecutive MSPT Main Event cash, WSOP Colossus II champ Ben Keeline (119,000), and Jason Vanstrom (89,000).

Not everyone was fortunate enough to find a Day 2 bag in today’s flight, however. Some of those unable to secure a bag include Season 8 MSPT Golden Gates champ Fred Garcia, Kevin “Phwap” Boudreau, Chase Bianchi, Sammy Aweida, Karen Novotny, Tom Bouziden, Greg Geller, and Season 9 MSPT Golden Gates Regional Champ Barry Faecher.

Day 1C, the final starting flight for MSPT Golden Gates, will kick off tomorrow at noon local time. The surviving players from each flight will then return on Sunday at 11 AM to play down to a winner.

The entirety of the Main Event will be live reported here in the blog, while the final table action will also be live streamed worldwide on a 15-minute delay with hole cards and commentary.