2021 Mid-States Poker Tour Venetian

2021 Mid-States Poker Tour Venetian
Day: 1a
Event Info

2021 Mid-States Poker Tour Venetian

Final Results
Winner
James Carroll
Winning Hand
a9
Prize
$180,850
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,100
Prize Pool
$978,730
Entries
1,009
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
80,000
Players Info - Day 1a
Entries
463
Players Left
59

Pupillo's Last Barrel Wins

Level 5 : 200/400, 400 ante

With {2-Hearts}{q-Spades}{10-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds} on the felt, Nick Pupillo bet 3,000 into 5,000 from the cutoff. The big blind put in calling chips and they went to the river, which came a {9-Hearts}. The big blind checked again and Pupillo bet 5,000. After a long tank, the big blind released.

"What happens if I put in 20,000?" the big blind said.

Pupillo just shrugged in response.

Player Chips Progress
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Nick Pupillo
50,000
10,500
10,500
$25K Fantasy
WSOP 1X Winner

Level: 6

Blinds: 300/500

Ante: 500

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Level 6 : 300/500, 500 ante
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Heidbrick Wins a Big One

Level 6 : 300/500, 500 ante

About 27,000 was already in the pot when action checked to Amanda Heidbrick on {7-Diamonds}{5-Clubs}{3-Clubs}{8-Spades}. She bet 11,000. The player under the gun called, with the player on his left folding pretty quickly. On the {6-Diamonds} river, the first player tanked several minutes before checking. Heidbrick had been cutting out chips and quickly tossed in 17,000. That earned the pot in short order.

Player Chips Progress
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Amanda Heidbrick
76,000

Global Casino Champ in the House

Level 6 : 300/500, 500 ante
Andrew Kelsall
Andrew Kelsall

Back in September, the 2019/20 World Series of Poker Circuit Season – one that had been interrupted by the pandemic – came to an end with the annual Global Casino Championship, which for the first time was held online at WSOP.com.

Players qualified for the $1 million guaranteed tournament by either winning a WSOPC stop Main Event or finishing as Casino Champ. In addition, any player that won a ring during the season or finished in the top 100 of last year’s WSOP Player of the Year race had the option to buy-in directly for $10,000. Seven players opted to do just that meaning the total field stood at 130 players with a $1,070,000 prize pool up for grabs.

After 11 hours of play, three-time ring winner AJ "RandyLerch" Kelsall, who is in action today in the MSPT Venetian, emerged victorious to capture a $275,632 first-place prize and his first gold bracelet. Kelsall won his first ring back in 2015 and added two more this past season. He qualified for the Global Casino Championship as an at-large points qualifier after finishing fourth on the leaderboard with 332.5 points from 30 cashes totaling $214,326 in winnings.

Prior to the win, Kelsall had just over $1 million in lifetime WSOP-related earnings. His best live score was $124,731 for winning the 2014 Winter Poker Open at Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Bay.

As for the MSPT, Kelsall is seeking his first cash on the tour.

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Player Chips Progress
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AJ Kelsall
30,000
$25K Fantasy
WSOP 1X Winner

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Can't Bluff Lowery

Level 6 : 300/500, 500 ante

In a headsup pot on a board of {5-Clubs}{j-Diamonds}{6-Spades}{7-Clubs} the player in the small blind checked.

After Daniel Lowery bet 4,500, the small-blind player then check-shoved his remaining stack and was called by Lowery.

Daniel Lowery: {q-Clubs}{q-Spades}
Small-blind Player: {a-Spades}{k-Hearts}

After bluff-shoving, the all-in player was unable to hit one of his two overcards on the river and promptly left the tournament area.

Player Chips Progress
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Dan Lowery
85,000
85,000
85,000

Good River for Zanot

Level 6 : 300/500, 500 ante

The action was picked up on the river of a board reading {k-Clubs}{8-Clubs}{3-Spades}{a-Spades}{j-Hearts}.

Tom Zanot, first to act, bet 4,500 into a 7,000 pot. After a brief moment of thought his opponent in the headsup pot made the call but then mucked his hand after Zanot tabled {k-Spades}{j-Clubs} for a rivered two-pair.

Player Chips Progress
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Tom Zanot
63,000
63,000
63,000

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Level 6 : 300/500, 500 ante
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