Day 1b of the $1,110 MSPT Main Event at Sycuan Casino Resort Kicks Off Soon
Welcome to Day 1b of the Mid-Stakes Poker Tour(MSPT) $1,110 Showdown Series Main Event at San Diego’s Sycuan Casino Resort. Cards go in the air at 3 p.m. PST for the second of three flights in the flagship event of this 10-tournament series that kicks off the MSPT’s 13th season.
Jason Hickey is the Day 1a leader with a bag of well over 400,000 chips. The first flight played until 10:00 left in Level 14, and 11 players moved on to Day 2 from an original 98 runners. Today’s flight will play until the same point, or when 12% of the field remains, whichever comes first.
Day 1a Leaderboard
| Place | Player | Chips | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jason Hickey | 441,000 | 110 |
| 2 | Ken Morey | 381,000 | 95 |
| 3 | Luke Nguyen | 364,000 | 91 |
| 4 | David Leese | 204,000 | 51 |
| 5 | Charly Peterson | 195,000 | 49 |
| 6 | Nathan Trimble | 195,000 | 49 |
| 7 | Andrew Ostapchenko | 176,000 | 44 |
| 8 | Leonid Vaisburg | 148,000 | 37 |
| 9 | Woo Suk Oh | 139,000 | 35 |
| 10 | Rich Alsup | 106,000 | 26 |
| 11 | Katerina Grishakova | 101,000 | 25 |
Players will receive 25,000 in chips and unlimited entries are allowed for each flight. Registration is open until the beginning of Level 13, and levels will last 40 minutes. The surviving players from the opening three flights will meet for Sunday’s Day 2 finale at 11:00am local time.
The 13th season of the MSPT will kick off with Kyna England defending her Player of the Year title after winning MSPT’s Winter Poker Classic at Minnesota’s Canterbury Park in December. This weekend’s stop is the first on a tour that will head to Black Hawk Casino in Colorado Jan. 19-30 before stopping at the Venetian Feb. 10-12.
2022 MSPT Schedule
| Dates | Event | Venue | City | Guarantee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 6-16 | Showdown Series | Sycuan Casino Resort | El Cajon, CA | |
| January 19-30 | Showdown Series | Bally’s Black Hawk Casino | Black Hawk, CO | |
| February 10-12 | Poker Bowl VI | Venetian Las Vegas | Las Vegas, NV | |
| March 9-13 | Regional Series | Grand Falls Casino | Sioux Falls, SD | |
| March 18-20 | Main Event 191 | Riverside Casino | Riverside, IA | |
| April 21-May 1 | Showdown Series | Sycuan Casino Report | San Diego, CA | |
| May 12-15 | Michigan State Championship | Firekeeper’s Casino | Battle Creek, MI | |
| May 20-22 | South Dakota State Championship | Silverado Casino | Deadwood, SD | |
| July 6-17 | Showdown Series | Bally’s Black Hawk Casino | Black Hawk, CO | |
| July 22-24 | Iowa State Championship | Riverside Casino | Riverside, IA | |
| August 19-21 | Main Event | Grand Falls Casino | Sioux Falls, SD | |
| Sept 15-25 | United States Poker Championship | Sycuan Casino Report | San Diego, CA | |
| October 13-16 | Main Event | Firekeeper’s Casino | Battle Creek, MI | |
| October 21-23 | Deadwood Shootout | Silverado Casino | Deadwood, SD | |
| October 28-30 | Main Event | Riverside Casino | Riverside, IA | |
| December 1-4 | Main Event | Canterbury Park | Shakopee, MN |
Be sure to keep it here all weekend long for updates on all the action live from the PokerNews team.
on the board, a player in the cutoff bet 10,000 and Antonio Garrier three-bet jammed for the rest of his stack. The player in the cutoff spent more than a minute in the tank before he got away from it. 
, Brad Gafford got his last 11,900 into the middle from early position and Ronald Oeding called from the next seat over. 
for a pair of aces and a missed flush draw. Gafford tabled 
for a set of Kings to secure a big early double.
and both players checked. The turn was 
and Oeding checked for a third time. Singleton bet 1,500 and Oeding called quickly, turning over 
to take the pot with a pair of aces.
and Garrier dodged a club on the river to secure the elimination of Skinner with kings full of queens.
and Huynh made a set of aces on the flop to secure the double.
