With around 8,000 in the pot and on the board, a player in the cutoff bet 10,000 and Antonio Garrier three-bet jammed for the rest of his stack. The player in the cutoff spent more than a minute in the tank before he got away from it.
Garrier qualified for the MSPT Sycuan Main Event on ClubGG, a subscription based app that has partnered with the tour to give away seats to major events for as low as $49.99.
Welcome to Day 1b of the Mid-Stakes Poker Tour(MSPT) $1,110 Showdown Series Main Event at San Diego’s Sycuan Casino Resort. Cards go in the air at 3 p.m. PST for the second of three flights in the flagship event of this 10-tournament series that kicks off the MSPT’s 13th season.
Jason Hickey is the Day 1a leader with a bag of well over 400,000 chips. The first flight played until 10:00 left in Level 14, and 11 players moved on to Day 2 from an original 98 runners. Today’s flight will play until the same point, or when 12% of the field remains, whichever comes first.
Day 1a Leaderboard
Place
Player
Chips
Big Blinds
1
Jason Hickey
441,000
110
2
Ken Morey
381,000
95
3
Luke Nguyen
364,000
91
4
David Leese
204,000
51
5
Charly Peterson
195,000
49
6
Nathan Trimble
195,000
49
7
Andrew Ostapchenko
176,000
44
8
Leonid Vaisburg
148,000
37
9
Woo Suk Oh
139,000
35
10
Rich Alsup
106,000
26
11
Katerina Grishakova
101,000
25
Players will receive 25,000 in chips and unlimited entries are allowed for each flight. Registration is open until the beginning of Level 13, and levels will last 40 minutes. The surviving players from the opening three flights will meet for Sunday’s Day 2 finale at 11:00am local time.
The 13th season of the MSPT will kick off with Kyna England defending her Player of the Year title after winning MSPT’s Winter Poker Classic at Minnesota’s Canterbury Park in December. This weekend’s stop is the first on a tour that will head to Black Hawk Casino in Colorado Jan. 19-30 before stopping at the Venetian Feb. 10-12.
2022 MSPT Schedule
Dates
Event
Venue
City
Guarantee
January 6-16
Showdown Series
Sycuan Casino Resort
El Cajon, CA
January 19-30
Showdown Series
Bally’s Black Hawk Casino
Black Hawk, CO
February 10-12
Poker Bowl VI
Venetian Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV
March 9-13
Regional Series
Grand Falls Casino
Sioux Falls, SD
March 18-20
Main Event 191
Riverside Casino
Riverside, IA
April 21-May 1
Showdown Series
Sycuan Casino Report
San Diego, CA
May 12-15
Michigan State Championship
Firekeeper’s Casino
Battle Creek, MI
May 20-22
South Dakota State Championship
Silverado Casino
Deadwood, SD
July 6-17
Showdown Series
Bally’s Black Hawk Casino
Black Hawk, CO
July 22-24
Iowa State Championship
Riverside Casino
Riverside, IA
August 19-21
Main Event
Grand Falls Casino
Sioux Falls, SD
Sept 15-25
United States Poker Championship
Sycuan Casino Report
San Diego, CA
October 13-16
Main Event
Firekeeper’s Casino
Battle Creek, MI
October 21-23
Deadwood Shootout
Silverado Casino
Deadwood, SD
October 28-30
Main Event
Riverside Casino
Riverside, IA
December 1-4
Main Event
Canterbury Park
Shakopee, MN
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