Matthew Meyer Leads Seven Advancing Players After Day 1a of Event #6
Day 1a of Event #6: 1M GTD Mystery Bounty is in the books after over ten hours of play. This first of eight flights attracted 53 entries, which played down to just seven players (12%) at the end of the day.
Bagging the chip lead amongst the surviving seven was Matthew Meyer who finished the day with 581,500. He was spotted as a chip leader within the first few levels as he had the highest count on the first chip count collection of the day. He carried that lead throughout and ended the day with another boon when he busted Jeremy Bocka as the bubble boy.
Day 1a Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Hometown | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
| 1 | Matthew Meyer | Temple, TX | 581,500 | 116 |
| 2 | Justin Jones | Arlington, TX | 476,500 | 95 |
| 3 | Adrian Garduno | Austin, TX | 470,000 | 94 |
| 4 | John Driver | Houston, TX | 216,000 | 43 |
| 5 | Andrew Dennis | Austin, TX | 182,500 | 37 |
| 6 | Shlomi Skriki | Austin, TX | 103,500 | 21 |
| 7 | Kevin Garosshen | Las Vegas, NV | 80,500 | 16 |
Second in chips at the day’s conclusion was Justin Jones with 476,500 who really started to accumulate chips close to the end of the night when the players joined together at one table.
Adrian Garduno finished the night in third place with 470,000 after getting a bunch after a wild three-way all in when he went runner runner full house to crack a flush and a nut flush draw.
Kevin Garosshen hung on and found a bag and a cash after he was the short stack on the bubble and ended with 80,500.
The seven players will move on to Day 2 which is not until Sunday. There are still seven more flights to go to determine who will join these seven In advancing.
PokerNews will continue with coverage of Day 1b which is now underway.
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of Matthew Meyer.
with three players in the hand. Michale Jozoff had bet 40,000. Ameer Ortiz moved all in for 98,000 and Adrian Garduno re-shoved his larger stack and Jozoff snap-called to create the largest pot of the day thus far.
and the river the 
. Ortiz thought he had stayed clean for a second as he said "Yes!" but quickly realized the running sevens had given Garduno the full boat to send him the haul of chips while Ortiz was busted and Jozoff's stack was significantly chopped down.
. From early position, Nicholas Cornwell bet 7,000. Demetrius Campbell, Kevin Garosshen and Salim Salem all folded. Michael Noori joined Cornwell to the river as he called.
