Davit Litt (589,000) bags the top stack in Day 1B of the HPT $1,650 Main Event at Gates Poker Room in Black Hawk, CO, with a late rush by Maziar Keshavarzi placing two half-milly stacks atop the leaderboard. Here's the recap as told by Dan Ross of Hold'em Radio at HPTupdates.com.
Keshavarzi went from 125,000 to an end-of-night 530,000 in the last 90 minutes of the night as players gambled for big stacks ... and some struck out.
Aaron Johnson connected by adding 230,000 in those same 90 minutes, bagging 374,000 as the No. 3 stack among the 19 players - from a 128-entry field - moving on to Sunday's Day 2 restart at 11am.
Among those who built a stack today but did not find a Day2Bag was Alex Greenblatt, Rich Dixon, David Levy, David Levi, Craig Casino, Shawn Roberts, nick Pupillo, Jarod Minghini, Jackson White, Nader Wahdan, Svetlana Martie, Mike Englert and Chris Tryba.
The final starting flight - Day 1C - begins Saturday at Noon. Registration and a single re-entry per player is available until ~7:30pm when Level 10 begins.
Here are chip counts for the 19 who did find that Day 2 bag. Visit HPTupdates.com throughout the weekend to follow along.
David Litt - 589,000
Maziar Keshavarzi - 530,000
Aaron Johnson - 374,000
Jason Welch - 287,000
James Pupillo - 230,000
Chris Madrid - 222,000
Justin Brown - 198,000
Ed Sebesta - 179,000
Jason Vanstrom - 170,000
Matthew Wantman - 163,000
Connie Bruce - 148,000
Charlie Harder - 135,000
Ross Lantzy - 116,000
Ryan Hopp - 112,000
Steve Barshak - 107,000
Ben Keeline - 94,000
Tim Campbell - 88,000
Jason Tischer - 59,000
Nathaniel Zoller - 47,000
The final table is set in St. Louis. The remaining nine players will resume play tomorrow at noon on HPT's televised set.
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