MSPT Venetian $1,600 Main Event | 2020 Mid-States Poker Tour Venetian $1,600 Main Event

11-23-2020 13:48 UTC-7

Sladek Leads Another Round of Eliminations

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Level 21 : 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante

Action folded around to Todd Sladek in the small blind and he jammed for his last handful of big blinds. Ralph Massey called in the big blind.

Todd Sladek:
Ralph Massey:

An ace in the window of the flop left Sladek in bad shape, though he was still alive after pairing his five. No further help came though, as the turn and river completed the runout to spell his elimination.

In the minutes following Sladek's Elimination, Nipun Ajmani, James Vales, Michael Ung, and Phil Mader found themselves dry on chips to bring the number of players left in the field down to 50.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ralph Massey	765,000	107,000
Todd Sladek	Busted
Phil Mader	Busted
Michael Ung	Busted
James Vales	Busted
Nipun Ajmani	Busted

Tags: James Vales Michael Ung Nipun Ajmani Phil Mader Ralph Massey Todd Sladek

11-23-2020 13:33 UTC-7

Brown Avoids a Cooler To Double

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Level 21 : 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante

Stephen Brown shoved for 148,000 under the gun and action folded around to Kareem Marshall in the cutoff, who shoved over the top for 785,000. Rick Lee thought for a hard while on the button and eventually let his hand go, prompting two quick folds behind from the players in the blinds.

Stephen Brown:
Kareem Marshall:

After hands were tabled, Lee was asked what he folded and he said ace-king. Brown slid back from his chair and stood up, beginning to gather his belongings as the dealer brought the flop . The turn gave Brown four new backdoor outs, and just as he was about to zip up his backpack, the river completed the runout.

"Ooh!" he exclaimed slightly as he saw he had improved to a straight, and sat down once more to with newly-found life. Four other eliminations have also occurred through the opening 20 minutes of play, and 56 now remain with Table 9 currently in the process of breaking.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kareem Marshall	630,000	205,000
Stephen Brown	338,000	182,000
Bryant Miller	Busted
Stephen H Brown	Busted
David Moshe	Busted
Dong Jun Ji	Busted

Tags: Kareem Marshall Rick Lee Stephen Brown

11-23-2020 13:24 UTC-7

Most MSPT Main Event Cashes in History

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Level 21 : 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante

Since its inception in 2009, the MSPT has done a great job keeping track of player stats. As a result, 11 years on they have one of the best player databases in the industry.

On their "Leaderboards" page, the MSPT tracks such things as Career Earnings, Main Event Cashes, Main Event Final Tables, Main Event Titles, Total Cashes, Most Cashes/Final Tables in a Season, Most Final Tables All-Time, and much more. Click here for a look at all the leaderboards.Click here for a look at all the leaderboards.

Here's a look at the top ten MSPT Main Event cashers:

Place	Player	Hometown	Main Event Cashes
1	Aaron Johnson	Red Wing, Minnesota	39
2	Kou Vang	Maplewood, Minnesota	32
3	Richard Alsup	New Hope, Minnesota	30
4	DJ Buckley	Eden Prairie, Minnesota	27
5	Pat Steele	Chelsea, Michigan	26
6	Mark Hodge	Fernandina Beach, Florida	25
7	Blake Bohn	Eden Prairie, Minnesota	25
8	Jason Seitz	Shakopee, Minnesota	24
9	Rob WazWaz	Minneapolis, Minnesota	22
10	Matt Kirby	Bemidji, Minnesota	22

11-23-2020 13:14 UTC-7

Massey Falls To Pekarek

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Level 21 : 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante

Just moments after Austin Peck's elimination, Aaron Massey became the next elimination from the tournament via an all-in preflop situation with Jeremy Pekarek. According to Massey, Pekarek opened in the hijack and action folded around to him in the big blind, where he re-shoved and was called.

Aaron Massey:
Jeremy Pekarek:

Pekarek further improved to a set of queens on the flop, leaving Massey in need of running jacks to stay alive. Instead, another queen came on the turn to give Pekarek quads, earning him the pot to take his stack over 600,000 early in Day 3.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jeremy Pekarek	622,000	293,000
Aaron Massey	Busted

Tags: Aaron Massey Jeremy Pekarek

11-23-2020 13:09 UTC-7

Peck Done In On the River

HillKerby

Level 21 : 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante

David Poces opened the action with a raise to 45,000 in early position and action folded around to Austin Peck in the big blind, who re-jammed. Poces asked for a count, which was totaled to be 203,000, and took about 20 seconds before dropping in a chip to call.

Austin Peck:
David Poces:

Coming into the day as one of the smallest stacks in the room, Peck quickly found himself on the plus side of a coin flip with a chance to double. The flop kept him out in front, as did the turn . Unfortunately for him, the river improved Poces to a pair of jacks and earned him the pot and the knockout.

Peck slid back from his chair, tapping the rail as he got up to head for payouts. Just before his elimination, Matthew Wantman was seen vacating his seat and taking the same route to earn his payday of $5,670.

Player	Chips	Progress
David Poces	1,064,000	210,000
Matthew Wantman	Busted
Austin Peck	Busted

Tags: Austin Peck David Poces Matthew Wantman

11-23-2020 13:01 UTC-7

Let's Play Poker!

HillKerby

Level 21 : 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante

The clock has struck noon and cards are in the air on Day 3 of the MSPT Venetian $1,600 Main Event.

Level: 21

Blinds: 8,000/16,000

Ante: 16,000

11-23-2020 10:45 UTC-7

Who Will Win the 2020 MSPT Venetian $1,600 Main Event?

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Sixty-three players are set to return for Day 3 of the 2020 Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) Venetian $1,600 Main Event to play down to a winner with $327,773 up top for the last player standing. Three Day 1 starting flights plus late registration that went into Day 2 drew a combined 1,239 entries for an overall prize pool of $1,771,770, and the vast majority of that is still yet to be distributed among those who remain.

Leading the field by a significant margin is John Lytle (3.88 million), who comes into the day with a stack size of more than 200 big blinds. Two other players in Dale Eberle (2.69 million) and Martin Zamani (1.65 million) enter play with stacks of 100-plus big blinds as well.

The group of Rick Lee (981,000), Chet Sickle (578,000), Andy Rogowski (320,000), Aaron Massey (288,000), and Todd Sladek (187,000) are also still in contention. All five of these players made it into the money in last week's $1,100 Main Event and will be looking to improve on their respective finishes from the weekend prior.

Play resumes at noon local time. One-hour levels will remain the norm for the duration of the tournament with blinds resuming at the start of Level 21 (8,000/16,000/16,000). As usual, 15-minute breaks are scheduled for the end of every two levels of play with a 45-minute dinner break after the sixth level of the day. Big-blind ante is in play all tournament long.

Who will be the one to claim victory? PokerNews will be around all the way until the very end when that question is answered. Make sure to stick around.

Tags: Aaron Massey Andy Rogowski Chet Sickle Dale Eberle John Lytle Martin Zamani Rick Lee Todd Sladek

11-23-2020 10:26 UTC-7

Day 3 Seat Draw

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Table	Seat	Player	Chip Count
9	1	Quy Dao	655,000
9	2	Aaron Massey	288,000
9	3	Zachary Grech	490,000
9	4	Michael Ung	469,000
9	5	Desmond Haynes	472,000
9	6	Jeremy Pekarek	329,000
9	7	Scott Sisler	427,000
9	8	Saad Ghanem	680,000

10	1	Zach Gutierrez	403,000
10	2	Don Matsuzuki	559,000
10	3	Gary Hansen	229,000
10	4	Vic Peppe	428,000
10	5	Angel Lopez	484,000
10	6	Derek Gregory	460,000
10	7	Sukhdip Sangha	527,000
10	8	Bob Shao	383,000

11	1	David Moshe	512,000
11	2	Vytautas Atkocaitis	408,000
11	3	Todd Sladek	187,000
11	4	Ralph Massey	658,000
11	5	Daniel Kusnerak	353,000
11	6	Will Pengelly	670,000
11	7	Korey Payne	605,000
11	8	Steven Stout	385,000

12	1	Kareem Marshall	425,000
12	2	Rick Lee	981,000
12	3	Chan Kim	234,000
12	4	Chet Sickle	578,000
12	5	Stephen H Brown	220,000
12	6	Stephen Brown	156,000
12	7	Michael Rocco	260,000
12	8	Brett Reiss	220,000

15	1	Dale Eberle	2,699,000
15	2	Jorden Helstern	442,000
15	3	Bryant Miller	285,000
15	4	Jonathan Lawson	636,000
15	5	(Empty)
15	6	Hesam Alagha	1,330,000
15	7	Joey Weissman	532000
15	8	Nipun Ajmani	446000

16	1	Joel Baker	406,000
16	2	Scott Vesilek	361,000
16	3	Vy Nguyen	457,000
16	4	Benjamin Thomas	481,000
16	5	Satoshi Tanaka	508,000
16	6	Michael Walsh	487,000
16	7	Anselmo Villareal	412,000
16	8	Andy Rogowski	320,000

17	1	David Poces	854,000
17	2	Martin Zamani	1,658,000
17	3	Nadya Magnus	206,000
17	4	Randy Froelich	559,000
17	5	Phil Mader	191,000
17	6	Jason Obinger	1,021,000
17	7	Austin Peck	219,000
17	8	James Vales	1,429,000

18	1	Salim Admon	1,091,000
18	2	Dong Jun Ji	188,000
18	3	Chris Wise	183,000
18	4	Matthew Wantman	66,000
18	5	Thien Tran	402,000
18	6	Dinh Ba	572,000
18	7	John Lytle	3,888,000
18	8	Austin Yoo	492,000

MSPT Venetian $1,600 Main Event

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