Brendan Shiller torched the field in the final 90 minutes tonight to bag the top stack in the fourth and final starting flight in the HPT $1,650 East Chicago Main Event.
Shiller’s 518,000 stack is the largest bag of the 29 players advancing from today’s flight, and goes in to Monday’s Day 2 Restart as the overall top stack of the 96 remaining players.
Blake Whittington put on a late surge to bag a 365,000 stack, with Bret Martin’s 295,000 rounding out the top three. Former HPT East Chicago champs Nick Pupillo (281,000) and Jake Baumgartner (113,000) also found a Day2Bag today.
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