Day 1A Belonged to @KyleK_Poker

Chipping up early, never really looking back, only threatened a few brief times. Day 1A of the WPTDeepStacks $100,000 Guaranteed Main Event was all about Kyle Kitagawa - WPTDS World Traveler.

One of the first players to reach 6-figures, Kitagawa took a commanding chiplead when former WSOP Main Event champ Jerry Yang bluff-shoved into Kitagawa while drawing dead. This pushed Kitagaw to more than 100,000 clear of the field early in Level 12.

Kathy Stahl and Darrel Dier both  had 100k-plus stacks midway through the day, but slid back as the night wore on. Rick Peterson and Hector Ramos both topped 150k for a while as well. Ramos saw a big part of his stack go away in the last 30 minutes - set over set against Tristan Wade. Ramos was eliminated an orbit later. Peterson also ran rough in the last 30 minutes and he also did not make Day 2.

Among those who came out for Day 1A but did not find a Day 2 bag was Steve Kujubu, Sean Drake, Jerry Utke, Rafael Gonzalez, Greg White, Dee Timmons, Todd Machado, Amber Chatiwn, Simon Salas, Armando Perez, Niv Decalo and Mario Lopez.

Here are the final chipcounts for each of the advancing out of a field of 81 entries from Day 1A

Kyle	Kitagawa	Sacramento, CA	392,900
Tristan	Wade	Boynton,	238,000
Kathy	Stahl	Manteca, CA	235,600
Scott	Nguyen	n/a	208,600
Nathan	Mirza	n/a	159,400
Damion	Underwood	Turlock, CA	120,200
Nabil	Esho	Modesto, CA	114,600
John	Rogers		102,500
Randy	Gil	Milpitas, CA	98,900
Makara	Nuon		85,900
Ernesto	Cortez	Turlock, CA	72,800
Kelsey	Ul	San Lorenzo, CA	71,400
Loren	Cloninger	n/a	57,400
Darrel	Dier	Parachute Center, CA	42,900
Billy	Drake	n/a	24,300

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