Lich Leads Final Flight of MSPT Grand Falls Casino $360 Regional

Anthony Thompson

Level 15 : 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

The field has been set for Day 2 of the 2021 Mid-States Poker Tour Grand Falls Casino $360 Regional Event after Day 1c brought a whopping 345 total entries, bringing the overall total up to 794.

When all was said and done for the night, Jason Lich (498,000) was atop the counts. The man from LaCrosse, WI saw a rapid increase to his stack after a four-way all in saw Lich eliminate three people after flopping quad aces, taking him over 300,000, and he ascended from there to just shy of a half-million to take what will be a top-two stack into Sunday’s Day 2.

Day 1c was the largest field of the three starting flights and rounding out the top five stacks are Tommy Nguyen (467,000), Jeff Dye (380,000), Swadeep Mishra (278,000), and Jerry Bassett (276,000).

Others were not as fortunate. Bob Van Syckle, Bryan Skreens, Mark Alinder, Mike Fouts, and Matt Wolff were just a few players who came up the mountain Saturday after not advancing in one or more of the three earlier flights only to fall short once again.

In total, 113 players will be returning Sunday for Day 2’s noon start time. Eighty-one of them will make it into the money and earn a first-level payout of $644, though players are sure to have their eyes set on the first-place prize of $46,020 that will be earned before day’s end.