Level 12 (1500/2500/2500)

Total Entrants: 137

Day 1B players remaining: 33

Day 1B has come to an end with 33 players punching their tickets to Day 2 on Saturday. Among the players to advance are Scott Blumstein (pictured above, left) (46,000), Ryan Phan (pictured above, right) (95,000), Jamie Kerstetter (71,500), and Seth Evans (46,500).

The complete leaderboard at the close of Day 1B is shown below:

NAME CHIP COUNT Corey Blevins 201,500 Darol Rodrock 196,500 Beau Wilshire 172,000 Jeff Tebben 152,000 Nicholas Murdock 151,500 Thomas Diehsner 128,500 Michael Parker 125,000 Scotter Clark 118,000 Michael Adams (Sleepy) 99,500 Alex Marler 99,000 Greg Jennings 97,500 Ryan (Minh) Phan 95,000 Nihad Kovac 88,000 Larry Phelps 87,000 Jamie Kerstetter 71,500 Mike White 71,500 Garnet Ferron 71,500 Mark Van Keirsbilck 70,000 Michael Nico 69,000 John Denny 67,000 Andy Ziskin 61,000 Angel Escobar 56,000 Michael Lech 50,000 Seth Evans 46,500 Scott Blumstein 46,000 Craig Dick 42,500 Julian Black 40,000 Rajko Radovic 38,500 Chad Kyle 34,000 Michael Meng 26,500 Shem Yusuf 25,000 F. Scott Dattel 24,500 Brian Dewey 21,000

The RGPS NKC Main Event has achieved it's $100,000 prize pool guarantee, with Flight C scheduled for 7 p.m. on Friday. Come back to the blog Friday night for all the updates from the final flight, including the Day 2 leaderboard and seat assignments.