$1,110 South Dakota State Championship Day 1a | 2022 MSPT Deadwood

05-20-2022 19:14 UTC-6

Player	Chips	Progress
Billy Etherington	130,000 79,000	79,000
Jeff Heiberg	118,000 86,000	86,000
Taylor Howard	99,200 14,200	14,200
De Glassgow	98,000 49,000	49,000
Calvin Bell	97,000
Nate Dennis	93,000
Andrew Atchison	76,000 1,700	1,700

Heiberg on a Heater

Mike Patrick

Level 6 : 300/600, 600 ante

Jeff Heiberg, who sits second on Wyoming's all-time tournament money list has been spotted with one of the biggest stacks in the room.

He passed along a rush of hands over the last couple of levels that included flopping a set of sixes against his opponent's on an flop to bust them, making a king-high flush over an opponent's smaller flush, and to top it off, he made a straight flush as well.

Heiberg's heater has vaulted him over 100,000 in chips.

Tags: Jeff Heiberg

05-20-2022 18:47 UTC-6

Some Updated Chip Counts

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Mike Patrick

Level 6 : 300/600, 600 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Kevin Ellis	89,500 42,700	42,700
Taylor Howard	85,000 12,000	12,000
Kara Tripp	78,000 2,000	2,000
Mike Estes	74,000 74,000	74,000
Shadrack Howie	67,000 67,000	67,000
Phil Miller	55,000 4,800	4,800
Dave Word	54,000 11,000	11,000
Billy Etherington	51,000 51,000	51,000
De Glassgow	49,000 49,000	49,000
Eric Eelkema	41,500 500	500
Matt Kirby	33,000 21,900	21,900
Dave Ouellette	31,000 22,000	22,000
Aaron Johnson	20,500 11,000	11,000

Level: 6

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 600

05-20-2022 18:28 UTC-6

Zian Runs into Aces

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Mike Patrick

Level 5 : 300/500, 500 ante

Sascha Zian was down to her last 7,100 chips and moved all in from middle position. Terry Williams called to her immediate left and action was folded around from there.

Sascha Zian:
Terry Williams:

Zian ran into Williams' aces at the worst possible time, and the runout of gave Williams a straight to eliminate her from the tournament.

Player	Chips	Progress
Terry Williams	19,000 2,000	2,000
Sascha Zian	Busted

Tags: Sascha Zian Terry Williams

05-20-2022 18:18 UTC-6

Most MSPT Main Event Titles

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Mike Patrick

Level 5 : 300/500, 500 ante

Since its inception in 2009, the MSPT has done a great job keeping track of player stats. As a result, 13 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.

With his recent win at MSPT FireKeepers, Dan Bekavac now sits alone atop this leaderboard. Here's a look at the top ten MSPT Main Event Titleholders:

Player	Hometown	Main Event Titles
Dan Bekavac	Chicago, IL	4
Matt Kirby	Bemidji, MN	3
Blake Bohn	Eden Prarie, MN	3
Carl Carodenuto	Bloomington, MN	2
Jeremy Dresch	Fridley, MN	2
Ben Marsh	Duluth, MN	2
John Hayes	St. Paul, MN	2
Peixin Liu	Blaine, MN	2
Jason Zarlenga	Lansing, MI	2
Taylor Howard	Altoona, IA	2

Tags: Ben Marsh Blake Bohn Carl Carodenuto Dan Bekavac Eden Prarie Jason Zarlenga Jeremy Dresch John Hayes Matt Kirby Peixin Liu Taylor Howard

05-20-2022 18:08 UTC-6

Updated Chip Counts

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Mike Patrick

Level 5 : 300/500, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Taylor Howard	97,000 56,000	56,000
Kara Tripp	80,000 37,500	37,500
Dan Bekavac	80,000 32,000	32,000
Eddie Ghostbear	80,000 58,000	58,000
Alex Smith	72,000 14,000	14,000

Johnny Flores	52,000 9,000	9,000
Phil Miller	50,200 7,200	7,200
Kevin Ellis	46,800 5,800	5,800
Eric Eelkema	42,000 6,500	6,500
Mike Dahl	34,000 17,000	17,000
Jeff Heiberg	32,000 32,000	32,000
Aaron Johnson	31,500 5,000	5,000
DJ Buckley	30,000 4,000	4,000
Rudy Stanko	27,000 17,000	17,000
Aaron Raap	15,000 56,000	56,000
Matt Kirby	11,100 15,900	15,900
Dave Ouellette	9,000 9,000	9,000

Level: 5

Blinds: 300/500

Ante: 500

05-20-2022 17:53 UTC-6

"Magic" Mike Piles Over Half His Table

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Mike Patrick

Level 4 : 200/400, 400 ante

After an opening raise in early position to 800, Josh Jackson three-bet to 1,600 from the cutoff. The button and small blind called, and Mike Wilkinson, who has requested to be known as "Magic" MIke, piled his entire stack of approximately 35,000 over top of everyone.

The original raiser folded and with action back on him, Jackson gave his decision some thought, as a call would be for almost his entire stack.

After about a minute of deliberation, Jackson folded, as did the rest of the table, giving "Magic" Mike the pot.

Wlkinson turned over and asked Jackson what he folded. Jackson replied that he folded queens.