William Kachel Leads as 20 Players Advance from Day 1a of the MSPT Season 10 Finale at Canterbury Park
Day 1a of the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) Season 10 finale saw 172 entrants take part in the $1,100 buy-in, $500K GTD Main Event. After 15 levels of play, just 20 remained with Bill Kachel and his stack 406,500 leading the way.
Others to bag big stacks were MSPT Hall of Famer and all-time money leader Rich Alsup (335,000), MSPT champ Mark Sandness (319,000), and Jeff Petronack (279,500).
They were joined by players like poker reporter Brandon Temple (175,500), Loki Abboud (163,000), WSOP bracelet winner Derek McMaster (136,500), Ian Matakis (112,500), and Luke Vrabel (90,000).
Of course, not everyone was so lucky. Among those to fire and fall were HPT Season XV Player of the Year Nick Pupillo, Minnesota Poker Hall of Famer Mike “Schneids” Schneider, last year’s MSPT Platinum Pass winner Brandon Welter, and former MSPT champs Aaron Johnson, Matt Kirby, Kou Vang, Blake Bohn, Luke Arora, Jeremy Dresch, and Jason Seitz.
Those players, as well as any newcomers, have two more opportunities to play. Day 1b will get underway at 3 p.m. local time on Friday followed by Day 1c at the same time on Saturday. The surviving players from all three flights will then return to Canterbury at 11 a.m. on Sunday to play down to a winner. The final table will be live-streamed worldwide on a 15-minute delay.