MSPT Venetian $1,600 Main Event
Day 3 Started
MSPT Venetian $1,600 Main Event
Day 3 Started
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 |
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.
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Level: 21
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 16,000
The clock has struck noon and cards are in the air on Day 3 of the MSPT Venetian $1,600 Main Event.
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 |
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David Poces | 1,064,000 | 210,000 |
Matthew Wantman
|
Busted | |
Austin Peck | Busted |
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 |
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Jeremy Pekarek
|
622,000 | 293,000 |
Aaron Massey | Busted |
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 |
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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 |
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 |
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 |