Josef Gulas Jr. Bags Day 1A Chip Lead of $1,600 Mystery Bounty

There were 464 entries today for Day 1A, and the field played down to the final 12.5%, or 58 players, to reach the money.

The full list of official chip counts for the 58 survivors will be released later tonight. Josef Gulas Jr overtook the chip lead on the last hand of the night, cracking James Romero’s pocket aces with trip fours to finish play with 810,000 in chips.

Other selected counts include:

Bud Lavassani – 643,000
Mark Newhouse – 618,000
Jacob Ferro -148,000
Dietrich Fast – 126,000
Nadya Magnus – 98,000
Sam Panzica – 94,000

Day 1B begins tomorrow (Tuesday) at 11:00 am, with unlimited re-entries until registration closes around 6:30 pm. Come back to WPT.com to follow along with updates from on all the action.