$1,060 Main Event - Michigan
Day 1 Started
$1,060 Main Event - Michigan
Day 1 Started
Welcome toEvent #16 $1,060 8-Max No-Limit Hold’em Main Event of the March Mania series on BetMGM Michigan Series. One of the final tournaments in this 19 event series, sees the second buy-in of $1,060 of the series thus far as well as a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool, ensuring this to be the biggest guarantee of the whole series.
The Michigan leg of the BetMGM March Mania is one of the three state based series that also include identical schedules in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Last night saw “TreeGuy88” take down the heads up event for $15,000 and they are expected to sit down in this tournament today.
The Michigan leg of the series has seen three players claim multiple wins with; jdrisco6 winning Event #5 Phase 1 of Phase 2 Main Event and Event #12 $320 NLH PKO, Jwitty winning Event #6 $215 PLO 6-Max and Event #8 $535 NLH Progressive Knockout 6-Max, and Chris “TheDuke8605” Ball taking down Event #10 $320 NLH 8-Max and Event #14 $215 PLO 6-Max. All three of them could look to take down a third title today.
One other player likely to make an appearance is poker vlogger Andrew Neeme. Neeme carries along with him a large following of over 175,000 subscribers on YouTube and is playing as a BetMGM ambassador.
Action is set to kick off at 4 p.m. CDT. Players will begin the tournament with 100,000 in starting chips with blinds starting at 150/300 and a 40 chip ante. The blinds will last 10 minutes each for the first 3 hours of the event. After Level 18, registration will be closed and the players will play 12-minute levels until a winner is reached.
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The number of entrants currently stands at 17. With late registration open for another three hours, it is expected that many more players will enter later.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Mario Arribas | 100,000 | |
ReggieRayRay |
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
SKREWBALL |
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
MGoodMilk |
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
suspectdevice |
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
Rogggggy |
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
Zzulran
|
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
jdrisco6 |
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
JohnCandy |
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
Foreverbro
|
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
FreeTupan
|
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
Blinds: 150/300
Action picked up in a three-way pot on a board reading and action checking over to "All4one1forAll" on the button who bet 1,800 which was called by both "FrankiePockets" and "BEHIKE".
The turn of was checked through to the which checked to "BEHIKE" in the cutoff who bet 6,800 chips. "All4one1forAll" snap-called and "FrankiePockets" folded and the players cards were revealed.
"Behike":
"All4one1forAll":
Both players had rivered aces up, but it was "All4one1forAll" who held the better two and took down an early pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
All4one1forAll |
110,000
110,000
|
110,000 |
FrankiePockets |
98,000
98,000
|
98,000 |
BEHIKE |
88,000
88,000
|
88,000 |
The number of entrants has ticked up to 35 players as Andrew Neeme and others take their seats.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Andrew Neeme |
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
RestRazy1
|
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
Jwitty
|
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
ErikBachman |
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
rickystakerz77
|
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
Blinds: 200/400
"jdrisco6" raised under-the gun too 1,000 and to his direct left, "MGoodMilk" made it 3,600 to go. Action folded back to "jdrisco6" who called.
The flop came out and "jdrisco6" check-called a bet of 2,900.
The turn of was checked through and the river of saw "jdrisco6" lead out for 4,600. "MGoodMilk" folded and the two time March Mania champ took down the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
MGoodMilk |
105,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
jdrisco6 |
99,000
-1,000
|
-1,000 |
Blinds: 250/500
Action picked up on the river with just over 47,000 in a pot between "JohnCandy" and "FreeTupan". The board read and "JohnCandy" bet 27,000 which sent "FreeTupan" into the tank. After about 10 seconds in the tank, "FreeTupan" called and auto-mucked when shown for queens full of eights.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
JohnCandy |
130,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
FreeTupan
|
52,000
-48,000
|
-48,000 |
Blinds: 300/600
With 54,000 in the middle and playing 60,000, Andrew Neeme was involved in a pot with "foreverbro" who checked it to Neeme on a board reading . Neeme moved all-in with the covering stack which "foreverbro" called.
"foreverbro":
Andrew Neeme:
Neeme had flopped jacks and tens, but they were no good against the turned nut-flush of "foreverbro" who now holds the tournament chip lead.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Foreverbro
|
182,000
82,000
|
82,000 |
Andrew Neeme |
15,000
-85,000
|
-85,000 |
Blinds: 300/600
Andrew Neeme moved all-in from early position for just under 10,000 chips and was called by "foreverbro" in hijack and "Shleedo" in the small blind.
Action checked through on a board runout of and Neeme turned over which was better than the and in his opponent's hands.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Foreverbro
|
170,000
-12,000
|
-12,000 |
Shleedo
|
92,000 | |
Andrew Neeme |
34,000
19,000
|
19,000 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
debo98
|
177,000 | |
MGoodMilk |
150,000
45,000
|
45,000 |
Rogggggy |
128,000
28,000
|
28,000 |
suspectdevice |
127,000
27,000
|
27,000 |
Mario Arribas |
102,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
FreeTupan
|
77,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
Nekatsim | 74,000 | |
s7udz88 | 42,000 | |
TreeGuy88 | 29,000 |