Winner Will be Crowned Today in the MSPT Running Aces $1,110 Main Event

Anthony Thompson

Mark Sandness Looks to Claim 2nd MSPT Running Aces Title

The Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) Running Aces comes to its conclusion as the final day of the $1,110 buy-in, $300K GTD Main Event gets underway at 11 a.m.

The three starting flights pulled together a staggering 920 total entries, which was enough to blast the $300k GTD and generated a 890,900 prize pool.

A total of 109 players found a bag during the three starting flights and those lucky enough to do so will be returning today for Day 2.

Flight	Entries	Advancing to Day 2
Day 1a	225	25
Day 1b	282	33
Day 1c	413	51
Totals	920	109

Starting the day with the overall chip lead is Robert Michener who bagged large in Day 1a, and he will look to add his first MSPT title to his poker resume.

Hot on Michner's tail is Mark Sandness and Jeremy Dresch, who will be looking to capture their second MSPT running Aces Titles as they are the only other players to bag over 600k.

Top Stacks After Day 1 Flights

Position	Player	MSPT Main Event Titles	Chip Count
1	Robert Michener	0	729,000
2	Mark Sandness	1	692,000
3	Jeremy Dresch	2	680,000
4	Rocky Wylie	0	542,000
5	Ronald Olson	0	524,000
6	Ray Bullock	0	521,000
7	Jamie Allen	0	454,000
8	Steve Houle	0	439,000
9	Pat Steele	1	404,000
10	Clint Leitheiser	0	385,000

Many other familiar faces will be battling it out for a shot at the six-figure top prize which include; Sam DeSilva (311,000), Tim Garles (295,000), MSPT champ Josh Reichard (292,000), MSPT Hall of Famer Rob Wazwaz (286,00), two-time MSPT champ Taylor Howard (242,000), three-time MSPT champ Matt Kirby (227,000), MSPT Hall of Famer Blake Bohn (192,000), and reigning champ Jeffrey Birt (120,000).

There will be 109 players returning for Day 2 action, but only 99 spots will be grabbing a piece of the prize pool.

Starting the day fairly close to the money might make for some conservative play, but judging by the first three flights, the tournament should retain the action-filled play that has been up to this point.

A min-cash will be paying $2,138, but all eyes will be on the $169,271 first-place prize that the eventual champion will be taking home, along with an MSPT Running Aces Main Event title.

MSPT Running Aces $1,110 Main Event Payouts

Place	Prize	MSPT POY Points
1	$169,271	1,900
2	$104,241	1,700
3	$76,528	1,600
4	$57,909	1,500
5	$43,654	1,400
6	$32,963	1,300
7	$25,836	1,200
8	$20,491	1,100
9	$16,036	1,000
10-12	$12,473	900
13-15	$10,691	800
16-18	$8,820	700
19-21	$7,305	600
22-24	$6,147	500
25-27	$5,078	400
28-36	$3,920	350
37-45	$3,029	300
46-54	$2,762	250
55-63	$2,584	200
64-72	$2,405	150
73-81	$2,316	100
82-90	$2,227	75
91-99	$2,138	50

Day 2 Schedule

Cards will be in the air at 11 a.m. local time with blind levels lasting 40-minutes in length until heads-up play is reached, at which point they will be reduced to 30-minutes. Action will pick up from Level 15 with 13:00 remaining on the clock where blinds are 3,000/5,000/5,000.

Day 2 Structure

Level	Length	Small Blind	Big Blind	BB Ante
15	13 Minutes	3,000	5,000	5,000
16	40 minutes	3,000	6,000	6,000
17	40 minutes	4,000	8,000	8,000
18	40 minutes	5,000	10,000	10,000
19	40 minutes	6,000	12,000	12,000
20	40 minutes	10,000	15,000	15,000
21	40 minutes	10,000	20,000	20,000
22	40 minutes	15,000	25,000	25,000
23	40 minutes	15,000	30,000	30,000
24	40 minutes	20,000	40,000	40,000
25	40 minutes	25,000	50,000	50,000
26	40 minutes	30,000	60,000	60,000
27	40 minutes	40,000	80,000	80,000
28	30 minutes	50,000	100,000	100,000
29	30 minutes	60,000	120,000	120,000
30	30 minutes	100,000	150,000	150,000

MSPT Showdown Series Remaining Schedule

Date	Time (CDT)	Tournament	Late Reg	GTD Prize Pool	Starting Stack	Blind Levels
Sunday, April 10	11:00 a.m.	$1,110 MSPT Main Event Day 2	-
	Noon	Event #10: $250 Last Chance NLH	3:00 p.m.	$10,000	15,000	20
	3:00 p.m.	$135 Last Dance NLH	5:10 p.m.	$3,000	12,000	20