TOP DAY 1A STACK GOES TO CHASTAIN

Eric Chastain assumed the chiplead some five hours ago and never gave it up, bagging the top stack in Day 1A of the @HPTpoker $1,100 Main Event @DBKCandPR.

Chastain's 335,000 leads the 16 players advancing to Sunday's 12:10pm Day 2 Restart from an overall starting field of 80. Johnathan Nader (250,000) and Pete Schultz (233,000) round out the top three stacks from this flight. There's two more starting flights, a 2:10pm start on Friday and 12:10pm on Saturday.

Among those who came out for Day 1A but did not find a Day2Bag was Tony Miles, Toni Fiorenza, Alex Rocca, Nick Costa, John O'Neal and Jeremy Joseph.

Here's the final chipcounts for the 16 players - form a starting field of 80 - advancing to Sunday.

Eric	Chastain	335,000
Johnathan	Nader	250,000
Pete	Schultz	233,000
Brian	Bowen	231,000
James	Millman	211,000
Brett	Apter	172,000
Stan	Jablonski	159,000
Maurice	Hawkins	146,000
Ed	Mroczkowski	119,000
Charles	Mayes	106,000
Dewayne	Snipes	106,000
Fred	Li	103,000
Frank	Funaro	85,000
Jonathan	Metz	65,000
Alex	Griffin	47,000
Grayson	Nichols	33,000

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