Sanat Mehrotra leads Day 1B; 159 from record 777 entries to start Day 2 at IPC Main Event

By the time the second break rolled around, we players like Bobbe Suri and Minissha Lamba in the thick of the action. Suri in fact was on a bit of a roll knocking out 3 players in minutes. Lamba on the other hand who already qualified from Day 1A albeit with a smallish stack of 55k, was looking to try and better than with a run in Day 1B. However it was not to be and she was one of the last few knockouts in the second starting flight. Other known names who could not make it to the end of Day 1B included Madhav Gupta, Sumit Sapra, Gokul Raj, Mani Singh and Nikita Luther. The WSOP bracelet winner was unable to get any traction and was on the featured table for a fair while as well before she was knocked out by Anil Adiani’s pocket Queens.

 

The grind continued for many others though and by the end of the night we were left 82 players who had survived. It took a while but the Tournament Director and his team finally bagged and tagged the Day 1B survivors and ending Day 1B as a big chipleader is Sanat Mehrotra who has bagged a massive 452,000 chips. He has quite the lead over the next highest chip stack of Nitin Gupta (275000) and Mano Chaoha (272000) rounds off the top three stacks of the night.

 

Day 1A chipleader Awnish Singh with 508,000 chips is still the biggest stack from the two starting fights and Karan Mehta with 499,000 and Day 1B chip leader Sanat Mehrotra (452,000) round off the top 3 of the remaining 159 survivors going into Sunday afternoon’s Day 2.

Here’s a look at the top 10 stacks of Day 2:-

Action starts on Sunday at 3:00 pm in the Spartan Live poker room at the Big Daddy Casino and we will be there to cover it all so stay tuned to GutshotMagazine.com for not just live updates from the Main Event but also from the final event of the series – 15k Headhunter as well as images of the Instagram King himself Dan Bilzerian who is expected to make an appearance later tonight at the IPC!