Main Event
Day 2 Started
2015 Mid-States Poker Tour Meskwaki
Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 2
2015 Mid-States Poker Tour Meskwaki
Buy-in
$1,000
Prize Pool
$410,000
Entries
410
Level
33
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000
The Final Day of the MSPT Meskwaki Main Event Starts Now!
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It all comes down to this: Just 77 players remain in the hunt for the Mid-States Poker Tour Meskwaki Main Event title and the $101,229 first place prize that comes with it.
Today, inside the Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel in Tama, Iowa, a champion will be crowned. But first, they'll have to push past the 45-player money bubble and onto the final table of 10 before the MSPT goes live on the Twitch Stream, where they will square off for the big money.
Through 14 levels of play on both Day 1a and Day 1b, Calmar, Iowa's Marty Faldet built the biggest stack and will bring 317,000 in chips with him when play resumes at 11 a.m. local time.
But getting through this field will be no easy task, with World Series of Poker bracelet winner and four-time final table participant Adam Friedman hot on his heels.
Plus, Day 1b leader Brett Reichard, who has four cashes on the MSPT this year, including a tenth-place finish here this past March, is right there as well.
Add in cash machine and structure guru Allen Kessler, MSPT Player of the Year contenders Peixin Liu and Mark Hodge, MSPT Team Pro Matt Alexander and World Poker Tour final table participant Jose Serratos and the remaining field is clearly stacked.
The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be on hand for all the action as the remaining 77 play down to one, so keep it locked right here to see how it all goes down.
Level: 15
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 500
Kessler One and Done
Level 15
: 1,500/3,000, 500 ante
The shortest stack coming into play, Allen Kessler is the first out.
He jammed his 17,000 over a 10,000-chip open with 
and the raiser called with a dominated 
.
In typical Kessler-like fashion, he immediately got outflopped as the 
came down giving his opponent two pair. The 
turn and 
river did not help and Kessler is out early.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Dean Sobers Up; Deadwood Done
Level 15
: 1,500/3,000, 500 ante
After drinking his way into a 200,000-chip stack on Day 1b, Thomas Dean lost steam in the late levels and bagged just a little over 80,000.
However, a more sober looking Dean showed up today and got things started with a raise to 8,000 from under the gun. Jim 'Deadwood' Livingston came over the top all in and when it folded back to Dean, he called with the .
Livingstone was drawing thin with the and despite turning a straight draw on the 
board, he shipped his stack over to Dean and hit the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
125,000 | 55,500 |
|
|
Busted |
Hodge Triples
Level 15
: 1,500/3,000, 500 ante
MSPT Player of the Year contender Mark Hodge pushed in for his last 31,500 over an 11,000-chip open and Tom Dean cold called.
The raiser also called and they checked down the 
board. Hodge showed 
and his set was good for the triple up versus Dean's 
and the raiser's 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
100,000 | 52,500 |
Moving On Up
Level 15
: 1,500/3,000, 500 ante
"From the outhouse to the penthouse," said Mark Hodge, who managed to pick off a shorter stack and chip up again just one hand after tripling up.
This time he picked up pocket kings and made a set to climb up to 145,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
145,000 | 45,000 |
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
You Gotta Have Heart
Level 16
: 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
Arpit Mehta open shipped from late position for 47,500 and Tim Thompson looked him up one seat over.
Mehta: 
Tim Thompson: 
Mehta took the lead on the 
flop, then locked it up with the 
flush-granting turn. A card it would turn out he needed to hit as the salt-in-the-wound hit the river for Thompson.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
96,000 | -71,500 |
|
96,000 | 60,000 |
Dean Three-Bets; Shoves
Level 16
: 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
Kannan Chandran checked the 
flop with 11,000 in the middle heads-up with Thomas Dean. But check-raised to 12,500 when Dean bet 6,000.
Not to be outdone, Dean bumped it up further, making it 25,000 and Chandran flatted. The turn came the and after a Chandran check, Dean simply pushed his 108,000-chip stack in.
Chandran tank-folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
180,000 | -10,500 |
|
|
160,000 | 35,000 |