Tyler Vonnahme Bags Overall Chip Lead as 76 Advance from Day 1c

Day 1c of the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) Riverside $1,100 Main Event attracted a massive 572 runners, which along with 1a's 140 and 1b’s 322 brought the total field up to 1,094 entries, setting yet another record.

The massive field generated a 1,059,680 prize pool that and the top 117 players will get paid a minimum of $2,013, while the eventual winner will walk away with a $193,391 first-place prize.

At the end of the third and final flight, 76 players bagged and tagged with Tyler Vonnahme bagging the overall chip lead with 653,000.

Others to bag big stacks where Jamie Allen (626,000), Thomas Chesrey (386,000), Craig Trost (416,000), and Mo Nuwwarah (416,000), who round out the top five.

They were joined by Matt Dodd (406,00), Steve Buell (314,000), Eddie Blumenthal (267,000), MSPT Champ Josh Reichard (184,000), and Ravi Raghavan (168,000).

Among those to see their night end on Day 1c were MSPT Hall of Famer's Aaron Johnson, Mikiyo Aoki, Eric Atchison, John Sun, and Todd Melander.

The surviving players from all three flights – of which there are 125 (17 from Day 1a, 44 from 1b, and 76 from 1c) – will return at 11 a.m. local time on Sunday, March 20th to play down to a winner.

MSPT Riverside $1,100 Main Event Payouts

Place	Prize	MSPT POY Points
1	$193,391	1,900
2	$118,729	1,700
3	$88,059	1,600
4	$66,865	1,500
5	$49,804	1,400
6	$38,148	1,300
7	$29,671	1,200
8	$23,312	1,100
9	$19,074	1,000
10-12	$14,835	900
13-15	$11,656	800
16-18	$10,384	700
19-21	$8,583	600
22-24	$7,205	550
25-27	$6,040	500
28-36	$4,556	450
37-45	$3496	400
46-54	$3,179	350
55-63	$2,861	300
64-72	$2,755	250
73-81	$2,649	200
82-90	$2,543	150
91-99	$2,331	100
100-108	$2,119	75
109-117	$2,013	50