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$1,100 Main Event
Day 1a Completed
2019 MSPT Michigan State Poker Championship
$1,100 Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
2019 MSPT Michigan State Poker Championship
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1a
Buy-in
$1,100
Prize Pool
$1,565,066
Total Entries
1,615
Level
36
Blinds
300,000 / 600,000
Ante
50,000
Entries
322
Players Left
36
Players Left 1 / 1,615
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Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
Day 1a of the 2019 Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) Michigan State Poker Championship at FireKeepers Casino saw 322 entrants take to the felt. After 15 levels of play, just 36 remained with Nick Davidson and his stack of 498,000 leading the pack.
Joining Davidson atop the counts are Al Motiwala (493,000), Bryant Miller (476,500), Mitchell Bank (298,500), and Lou Ojeda (295,500), who round out the top five.
Others who advanced to Day 2 were Adam Lampehre (261,000), Randy Bullen (168,500), MSPT Season 5 Player of the Year Mike Deis (138,000), Minnesota’s Ian Matakis (131,500), and poker media veteran Sam Cosby (110,000).
Among those to fire and fall on Day 1a were MSPT Hall of Famers Kou Vang and Aaron Johnson, 2015 MSPT Michigan State Poker Champ Michael Ferrarotti, Tony Sinishtaj, Pauly “Walnuts” Bianchi, MSPT Meskwaki winner Nathan Trenkamp, and Minnesota Poker Hall of Famer Blake Bohn.
All of those players will have the opportunity to fire again if they so choose along with any newcomers. Speaking of which, some players spotted around the gaming floor who are expected to jump in are 13-time World Series of Poker Circuit ring winner Maurice Hawkins, MSPT champ Keith Heine, and two-time gold bracelet winner Dan Heimiller, just to name a few.
Day 1b of the tournament will kick off at Noon local time on Friday, with the 1c flight to follow on Saturday. The surviving players from all three flights will then return on Sunday to play down to a winner.
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
The remaining 38 players will play five more hands before they bag up their chips and secure their spot for Day 2. Stay tuned to see end of Day 1A chip counts and a recap of today's action.
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
Bryant Miller opened to 10,000 from middle position and got called by the cutoff and the big blind.
On a flop reading 
Miller put out a continuation bet of 12,500 and got called by only the cutoff.
Miller checked the action over to his opponent on the 
turn card who bet 24,000. Miller called and they went to a river.
The 
fell on the river and Miller check-called a bet of 29,500.
Miller: 
Opponent: 
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
Michael Donnelly got his last 29,000 all in preflop and was looking to get lucky against Gary Farhat.
Gary Farhat: 
Michael Donnelly: 
The 
was dry for both players while the turn paired Farhat. That left Donnelly looking for a ten on the river to stay alive, but it wasn't in the cards as the 
bricked to put an end to his Day 1a run.
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
A player in middle position raised to 6,000, a player in the hijack called and Jason Melasi called from the big blind.
The three players saw a flop of 
. The original raiser put out a continuation bet of 7,500. The hijack folded and Melasi called.
Both players checked the 
turn card and Melasi fired 9,000 on the 
river and got snap called.
Melasi tabled 
which was good enough to take down the pot.
Level: 15
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 4,000
Level 14
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
A player in middle position raised 27,500 leaving himself 1,000 behind. Xiaofei Wen was in the small blind and called.
Wen bet blind before the flop of 
was dealt. His opponent tossed in his last 1,000 and they both turned their cards over.
Xiaofei Wen: 
Opponent: 
The 
turn card improved Wen to two pair but was a bad card for him as it gave his opponent eight additional outs.
The 
river completed the board and Wen added the pot to his stack.
Level 14
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
