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The following players have built some of the bigger stacks in the room heading into the break:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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160,000 | |
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160,000 | |
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150,000
130,000
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130,000 |
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140,000 | |
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140,000 | |
With a grand total of 470 entries over two starting days, this final event on the MSPT Season Six schedule has set a Minnesota state record for a major poker tournament.
It has also created a guarantee-crushing $454,400 prize pool that will pay 45 spots. A min-cash is worth $2,272 and first place will come with a $116,103 payday.
Level: 12
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
Josh Skrogstad is on the kind of late level heater most players only dream of.
He just simply can't be beat right now and has picked up 20,000-chip pot after 20,000-chip pot on the way to a healthy lead heading into Level 12.
Some of the miracles he's produced include going runner-runner for a straight with pocket eights versus a flopped set of sevens and having sevens of his own hold against a big-time bluff.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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180,000 |
Minnesota native Seth Meyer just jumped up to the top of the leader board after a massive hand.
He got it in with a set of jacks over aces up against a player with just 2,000 less than the 64,000 in his stack.
Meyer is now in a dead heat for current chip lead with Matt Mlsna.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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130,000
130,000
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130,000 |
Matt Mlsna just tripled up through Rob Wazwaz and a third player, vaulting into the lead and knocking Wazwaz off the top of the counts.
He open jammed a 
flop with a set of fours and got called by a third player with pocket kings and Wazwaz holding the 
.
A 
turn card actually gave Wazwaz outs to a straight flush, but filled up Mlsna and the boat held over the straight and big pair when the river bricked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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130,000 | |
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70,000
-50,000
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-50,000 |
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Level: 11
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
When the player on his right led out with a raise preflop, Bob Cassioppi three-bet. The raiser was the only caller and they both checked a 
flop.
The raiser checked the 
turn, but check-raise-shipped it in when Cassioppi fired out 6,000. Cassioppi snap-called with the 
and was miles ahead of his opponent's 
.
Aces held after the 
river and Cassioppi crested 100,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
110,000
37,300
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37,300 |
Rob Wazwaz has moved firmly into the chip lead now on 120,000.
His latest move up the ladder included a three bet to 8,700 from the small blind over a Rex Clinkscales 2,100-chip open that was called by the button. No one called the three bet.
Clinkscales got those chips back and more a few hands later, three-betting over a 2,300 open, making it 5,000. The raiser called and they both checked a 
flop. A delayed c-bet of 3,100 on the turn was enough to take it down for Clinkscales.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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120,000
35,000
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35,000 |
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58,000
16,000
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16,000 |
Just before the break, structure guru Allen Kessler shoved the 
over a raise and got called by pocket sixes.
He lost the race and declined the re-entry option.
In the meantime, MSPT Pro Nick Pupillo got caught with queens against aces to go broke. He decided re-entry was a good idea and has started a run already, shoving the after the break and getting looked up by one shorty on the 
.
He won the race, filling up on a 
board.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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32,000
26,000
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26,000 |
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Busted | |
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