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  • Big Stax XXIV 500 Main Event 7:15 PM
  • Level 10 (600/1200/200)
  • Day 1A Entries: 216

There was a good post-dinner rush bringing another 18 entries in the first twenty minutes of play.

mikhail kazakevic
Mikhail Kazakevich, Day 1A Level 10

Kazakevich plays almost exclusively at the Big Stax series and has racked up just over $50k in earnings at this venue. He is off to another good Day 1 session and leads the field heading into Level 10 with 192k. His best finish in the 500 Main Event was 25th for $2,801 at Big Stax XIV.

travis hartshorn
Travis Hartshorn, Day 1A Level 10

Hartshorn, a Big Stax Main Event winner, has it going early in another event here at Parx with 190k heading into Level 10. Hartshorn has $607k in career earnings but has been fairly quiet since last summer when he had two five digit scores.

andy spears
Andy Spears, Day 1A Level 10

Spears is also on 190k and rounds out the Top 3. Spears is a tournament grinder with just shy of $1.3M in live earnings. He has two cashes here at Parx, both in the 500 Main Event, with his deepest run being 33rd. In 2017, Spears had two major scores, a win in the Almighty Stack for $95k (three-way chop) and 7th in a $5k bracelet event at the WSOP for $71,300.