Bag Up Day 1B

119 total entries, pushing the 2-day total to 170, and 27 players reached the Bag-n-Tag moment to put an end to Day 1B of the HPT Main Event at Ameristar St Charles.

Up, Down, Up Down, Uuuup, Doooown was the roller-coaster of a day for Sameer Al-Dbhani Sameer ran it up to 125,000-plus a few times, and down to fewer than 45,000 a few times also, before bagging.

At the end of the night it was Jeffrey Brin bagging the top stack of 301,500, followed by Peter Walsh (234,500) and Season XI HPT Player of the Year Shawn Roberts (224,500) and Brian Nguyen (205,500) as the stack that cracked the 200k barrier.

Among those who entered Day 1B but didn't make the end of the night was Chan Pelton, Ryan Tepen, Nick Jivkov, Robert Castiore, Roger Campbell, Jason Gooch, Matt Bond and Jamey Kramer

1pm Saturday is the final starting flight - and there's a $375 Turbo Qualifier for one last chance to get in at a great price.

Here are the 27 players who advanced to Sunday's Day 2 - with their official chipcounts.

301,500	Jeffrey	Brin
234,500	Peter	Walsh
224,000	Shawn	Roberts
205,500	Brian	Nguyen
192,500	Si	Vo
183,500	Michael	Hahn
168,000	Bill	Haner
162,500	Kirk	Van Buskirk
155,500	David	Hipperson
153,000	Christian	Montroy
152,500	Paul	Fehlig
141,500	Tim	Palmer
137,000	Richard	McCoy
127,500	Sameer	Al-Dbhani
127,500	Dan	Kloepper
121,500	Greg	Radosh
110,000	Shawn	Powers
105,000	Donald	Havener
99,500	Craig	Welko
91,500	Xiaoyan	Wang
70,500	James	Brunson
61,500	Stephen	Green
60,500	Larry	Schneider
54,500	William	Hill
53,500	Tim	Stull
36,500	Saikrishna	Tarapareddy
31,500	Bruce	Mead

-- Dan Ross - HoldemRadio.com