Winner Will be Crowned Today in the MSPT Canterbury Park $1,100 Main Event

The Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) Canterbury Park comes to its conclusion as the final day of the $1,100 buy-in, $400K GTD Main Event gets underway at 11 a.m.

The three starting flights pulled together a staggering 1,042 total entries, which was enough to blast the $400k GTD and generate a 1,009,240 prize pool.

A total of 144 players found a bag during the three starting flights and those lucky enough to do so will be returning today for Day 2.

Flight	Entries	Advancing to Day 2
Day 1a	241	28
Day 1b	324	45
Day 1c	477	71
Totals	1,042	144

Starting the day with the overall chip lead is Jake Blumberg who bagged large in Day 1a, and he will look to add his first MSPT title to his poker resume. Both Cody Espesth and Matt Morfitt will be looking to do the same as they are the only other players to bag over a half million.

Top 10 Stacks After Day 1 Flights

Position	Player	MSPT Main Event Titles	Chip Count
1	Jake Blumberg	0	529,000
2	Cody Espesth	0	509,000
3	Matt Morfitt	0	507,000
4	Kou Vang	1	499,000
5	Chris Nelson	0	438,000
6	Aaron Frommgen	0	424,000
7	Rodney Colson	0	396,000
8	Todd Fisher	0	386,000
9	[Removed:309]	0	385,000
10	Hunter Cichy	0	379,000

Many other familiar faces will be battling it out for a shot at the six-figure top prize which include; MSPT Hall of Famer's Pat Steele (361,000), and Blake Bohn (336,000), along with WSOP Bracelet winner Ron McMillen (301,000), Poker Power's Kyna England (285,00), and Sarah Stefan (226,000), Kitkat Klassen (226,000), and MSPT Champ Donnie Phan (157,000),

There will be 144 players returning for Day 2 action, but only 108 spots will be grabbing a piece of the prize pool. Starting the day fairly close to the money might make for some conservative play, but judging by the first three flights, the tournament should retain the action-filled play that has been up to this point.

A min-cash will be paying $2,199, but all eyes will be on the $185,709 first-place prize that the eventual champion will be taking home, along with an MSPT Winter Poker Classic Main Event title.

MSPT Grand Falls Main Event Payouts

Place	Prize	MSPT POY Points
1	$186,709	1,900
2	$115,053	1,700
3	$85,785	1,600
4	$63,582	1,500
5	$48,444	1,400
6	$37,342	1,300
7	$29,268	1,200
8	$22,203	1,100
9	$18,166	1,000
10-12	$14,129	900
13-15	$12,111	800
16-18	$9,891	700
19-21	$8,276	600
22-24	$6,863	500
25-27	$5,753	450
28-36	$4,441	400
37-45	$3,431	350
46-54	$3,129	300
55-63	$2,828	250
64-72	$2,624	200
73-81	$2,523	150
82-90	$2,422	100
91-99	$2,220	75
100-108	$2,119	50

Day 2 Schedule

Cards will be in the air at 11 a.m. local time with blind levels lasting 40-minutes in length until heads-up play is reached, at which point they will be reduced to 30-minutes. As Day 1a reached the earliest hard stop, that's the point where Day 2 will begin.

Action will pick up from Level 15 with 20:03 remaining on the clock where blinds will be 3,000/5,000 and a 5,000 big blind ante. Once the final 27 players have been reached a transition from the big blind ante to a standard ante will come into play.

Day 2 Structure

Level	Length	Small Blind	Big Blind	BB Ante	Standard Ante
15	20 minutes	3,000	3,000	5,000
16	40 minutes	3,000	6,000	6,000	1,000
17	40 minutes	4,000	8,000	8,000	1,000
18	40 minutes	5,000	10,000	10,000	2,000
19	40 minutes	6,000	12,000	12,000	2,000
20	40 minutes	10,000	15,000	15,000	3,000
21	40 minutes	10,000	20,000	20,000	3,000
22	40 minutes	15,000	25,000	25,000	4,000
23	40 minutes	15,000	30,000	30,000	4,000
24	40 minutes	20,000	40,000	40,000	5,000
25	40 minutes	25,000	50,000	50,000	5,000
26	40 minutes	30,000	60,000	60,000	10,000
27	40 minutes	40,000	80,000	80,000	10,000
28	30 minutes	50,000	100,000	100,000	20,000
29	30 minutes	60,000	120,000	120,000	20,000
30	30 minutes	100,000	150,000	150,000	30,000