Robert Mitchell was the first player to amass a big stack today, and by the end of the night he was the one to bag the top mark in Day 1A of the $500,000 Guaranteed @HPTPoker $1,650 Main Event @StLouisPokerHC.
Mitchell made a big late surge to reach 418,000 and hold the No. 1 spot among the seven players advancing to Day 2 on Sunday.
Jeff Sauer thought he was on his way to the rail earlier in the day, but he survived his all-in and ran his stack up to 365,000. Sauer was chipleader for much of the post-dinner-break play.
Jason Mangold took five Day 1A entries before building a playable stack, then rode a wild roller-coaster over the final 3 orbits of play to get up to 240,000, down to a 2-outer to survive, back up to 175k and finally absorbing a late hit that left him with 81,000 and 6/7 to end play.
Among the players who came out for Day 1A but did not find a Day2Bag was March HPT St. Louis runner-up Keith Heine, Ed Sebesta, Wendy Freedman, Mike Shin, Ryan Dodson, Chris Tryba and Jovan Sudar.
Day 1B begins Friday at 2pm - 30,000 stacks and 40-minute Day 1 Levels, playing a full 15 levels and bagging just shy of 2am.
Here's the final chipcounts for the seven players - from a starting field of 47 - advancing to Sunday's 11am Day 2 Restart
-- Dan Ross - Hold'em Live Updates
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