Day 1b Comes to an End (95 players)

Level 10: 400-800, 100 ante

Day 1b comes to an end with 95 players remaining. There was a close battle in the final 15 minutes for the $10,000 chipleader bonus between Vivek Rajkumar (~170,000), Luis Velador (~150,000), and Isaac Baron (~130,000). 

In those final 10-15 minutes, Rajkumar lost a few pots to drop him down below 140,000. Velador lost a few pots of his own to finish below 130,000. That opened the door for Baron, who picked up a few small pots before busting Chris "Jesus" Ferguson on the last hand of the night (A-J > A-10), collecting the $5,000 bounty, the autographed t-shirt, and finishing the day with 153,700 to collect the $10,000 chipleader bonus. 

Here's the official Day 1b leaderboard with everyone over 100,000 in chips, along with the surviving Shooting Stars in today's field: 

1.  Isaac "WestmenloAA" Baron  -  153,700
2.  Vivek Rajkumar  -  137,500
3.  Wook "Danny" Kim  -  131,400
4.  Luis Velador  -  129,400
5.  Gary Tighe  -  114,600
6.  Chau Vu  -  109,400
7.  John Monnette  -  103,600

Kathy Liebert  -  97,800
Daniel Negreanu  -  95,700
Allen Cunningham  -  84,000
Howard Lederer  -  62,200
T.J. Cloutier  -  44,800
Brandon Cantu  -  41,900
Eli Elezra  -  38,900
Miami John Cernuto  -  36,100
Men Nguyen  -  27,500
Jennifer Harman  -  19,700

There were 256 players on Day 1b, which put the two-day total up to 391. That created a total prizepool worth more than $3.7 million. The top 45 players will finish in the money, with $1,025,500 going to the winner. 

The full list of official chip counts will be posted later tonight, when they are released by the casino.