$201,529 Up for Grabs on Day 2 of the MSPT Venetian $1,100 Main Event
Day 2 of the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) Venetian $1,100 Main Event is set to resume Sunday at 11 a.m. local time with 146 players returning from an initial 1,123 entries to compete for their share of the $1,089,310 total prize pool. That figure more than quintupled the guaranteed prize pool of $200,000, a number that will also be surpassed by the first-place prize of $201,529 sitting up top for the soon-to-be-named champion.
All who return will have more than a full day's worth of poker ahead of them should they wish to be the last player standing, though Day 1b chip leader Brian Heeb (786,500) and Day 1a chip leader Alan Findlay (612,500) find themselves entering Day 2 with a sizeable leg up on the rest of the field.
Plenty of competition remains below the pair, however, with players such as Benjamin Craig (425,500), Siddharth Siddharth (412,500), Frank Funaro (380,000), Landon Tice (311,500), and Derek McMaster (301,000) all coming into the day with well above-average stacks.
Other notables looking to make Day 2 runs include John Sun (158,500), Ryan Hughes (141,000), Keith Heine (119,000), Mike Shin (112,500), and Nick Pupillo (108,000).
Of the 146 returning, 128 will make it into the money, meaning 18 eliminations need to occur before the bubble bursts. With play resuming at the start of Level 16 (2,500/5,000/5,000), that feat should be accomplished within the first two hours of play. Like Day 1, all levels will last 40 minutes and breaks will occur at the completion of every three levels, and big-blind ante will remain in effect through the duration of the tournament.
PokerNews will be bringing you updates from the floor until victory has been claimed, so make sure to stick around.
. He now has 244,000 and is off to a fast start on the day.
, leaving Beck unable to improve to result in his elimination at the expense of Markholt. Markholt now finds himself with 660,000.
roll onto the board and the double was sent his way.
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and wound up eliminated from the tournament as a result.
and he was eliminated from the tournament. Meanwhile, Bassett is experiencing a heater that now has him up over 1.7 million, making him the likely chip leader with six tables remaining in play.
and he was eliminated from the tournament as a result. Meanwhile, Stohler has now increased her stack to nearly 3 million and is the likely clear chip leader with 
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completed the runout to bring Pupillo up to 800,000.
and Brinkley found himself eliminated from the tournament. Shortly beforehand, David Moses was also eliminated from the tournament. The pair of eliminations brings the field down to 24, and the tournament clock has been paused with just over a minute remaining until the dinner break while tables are cleaned and all remaining players draw for new seats.
