Kaleb Dunn Leads After Day 1b of Event #5: Mystery Bounty
Day 1b of Event #5: Mystery Bounty 300K Guaranteed has come to an end after about 8 hours of play. This flight attracted quite a few more entries than Day 1a with 123 and played all the way down to the final 14 players.
Kaleb Dunn of Kansas City, would emerge as the chip leader in a dramatic final hand as he cracked kings and eliminated two players when he hit a set of jacks on the flop to balloon his stack to 481,000. That hand was enough to eclipse the second-place stack of Martin Ostriker with 455,000 who had previously been on a knockout tear to hold the chip lead for the majority of the final levels.
Top 5 Chip Counts Day 1b
| Rank | Player | Hometown | Chip Count |
| 1 | Kaleb Dunn | Kansas City, MO | 481,000 |
| 2 | Martin Ostriker | Thornhill, ON, Canada | 455,000 |
| 3 | Michael Jozoff | New York, NY | 440,000 |
| 4 | Nicholas Cornwell | Austin, TX | 330,000 |
| 5 | Collin Ball | Northlake,TX | 279,000 |
Michal Jozoff was third in chips to end the night with 440,000 as the only other player to have over the 400,000 watermark.
Brandon Lulov had a strong end to the night when he made a hero call to build his stack and finish with 233,000 which is good for sixth place.
Also of note, three women, Krista Farrell (119,000) Sherri Frost (58,000) and Ting Zhou (54,000) were among the fourteen players to advance to Day 2.
The fourteen players will move on to Day 2 at 2 p.m. on Tuesday where they will join the nine survivors from Day 1a and whoever survives on Days 1c and 1d where the mystery bounty format will begin.
Stay tuned as PokerNews will continue coverage of this event all day tomorrow for both flights.