Season 13 of the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) continues into the winter months and will stop at Running Aces Casino in Columbus, Minnesota from Dec. 1-11 for the Winter Poker Classic.
The MSPT Winter Poker Classic will feature 11 trophy events with over $770,000 in guarantees, including the $1,110 buy-in Main Event with a $300,000 guarantee Dec. 8-11.
The MSPT Winter Poker Classic will kick off on Dec 2 with a $360 Mystery Bounty event, a two-day tournament with a $100,000 guarantee.
After that, a $250 Sunday Feast tournament will play out on Dec. 4 as a two-day $185 Deepstack event with a $20,000 guarantee gets underway later in the evening.
Other events that will play out in the following days include a $250 Seniors event, a $250 Pot-Limit Omaha event, a $300 Tag Team Championship and a $2,500 MSPT Hall of Fame High Roller, which will run for two days beginning Dec. 7.
The $1,110 guaranteed Main Event will feature three starting flights, the first of which will get underway on Dec. 8. Players will begin with a starting stack of 25,000 chips with blinds of 100/100/100 and levels lasting 40 minutes in duration.
Day 2 of the event will play out on Dec. 11 and will play to a winner, who will take home the lion's share of the $300,000 guaranteed prize pool.
The full schedule for the MSPT Winter Poker open is available in the table below.
Welcome to the Day 2 finale of the $1,600 Mid-States Poker Tour(MSPT) Main Event at Venetian Las Vegas. Cards go in the air at 11 a.m. local time for the exciting conclusion after three opening flights of action.
A total of 808 entries turned out for the event, and 91 players will all return on Sunday with a guaranteed min-cash of $2,879. The field smashed the original $750,000 guarantee and generated a prize pool of $1,151,140, from which the winner will take home $200,344.
Jesse Lonis is the overall chip leader with 816,000 after he bagged the top stack on Day 1a. He's followed by Day 1c chip leader Nick Pupillo in second with 732,000 and Day 1b chip leader Bin Weng in third with 706,000. Jared Jaffee and Jessica Vierling round out the top five overall chip counts.
$1,600 MSPT Venetian Main Event Top 10 Day 2 Chip Counts
Rank
Player
Chip Count
Day 2 Big Blinds
1
Jesse Lonis
816,000
136
2
Nick Pupillo
732,000
122
3
Bin Weng
706,000
118
4
Jared Jaffee
688,000
115
5
Jessica Vierling
653,000
109
6
Errol Samuel
653,000
109
7
Joseph Cheong
650,000
108
8
Kane Lai
560,000
93
9
David Shaw
559,000
93
10
Anthony Spinella
547,000
91
Other players returning for a star-studded field on Day 2 include David Jackson, Joao Simao, Michael Wang, Dylan Linde, Mitchell Halverson, Jared Strauss, Chance Kornuth, Martin Zamani, and reigning MSPT Player of the Year Kyna England. Justin Barnum, Dan Bekavac and CJ Peake will also return in an attempt to pick up some points in their pursuit of Josh Reichard in the 2022 MSPT Player of the Year points race.
Play will continue in Level 16 with blinds at 3,000/6,000 and a 6,000 ante. Levels will increase every 40 minutes and action will continue all day on Sunday until a winner is declared.
Be sure to keep it with the PokerNews team for live updates from the floor of the $1,600 MSPT Main Event at Venetian Las Vegas.
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