Level: 13
Blinds: 2,000/3,000
Ante: 3,000
Level: 13
Blinds: 2,000/3,000
Ante: 3,000
Players are now on their final break of the evening. Registration will close at the beginning of Level 13.
Ken Deberry shoved his last 4,500 and Lena Evans three-bet to 15,000. The rest of the table folded and action was heads-up.
Ken Deberry:
Lena Evans:
The board ran out and Evans held on with aces and kings to knock Deberry out of the tournament.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Lena Evans | 311,000 | 156,000 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Richard Lanes | 227,000 | -13,000 |
George Yutuc | 195,000 | 62,500 |
Cory Brehm
|
155,500 | 124,000 |
Lena Evans | 155,000 | |
Steve Wendroff | 149,000 | -13,000 |
Maxwell Lineberger | 94,000 | 19,500 |
Paul Zgheib
|
81,000 | -14,500 |
Tom Hammers | 74,000 | 49,500 |
Altynai Fung | 68,000 | 7,000 |
Matthew Hansen
|
53,500 | -9,800 |
Tai Purpero | 51,000 | -21,000 |
Lucille Hargett
|
37,000 | 9,600 |
Johnnie Moreno | 29,500 | -35,000 |
Jason Singleton | 23,000 | 5,000 |
With on the board and a big pot in the middle, Ken Deberry made a big bet of 35,000 and Lena Evans committed all of it for a total of 45,500. Deberry called and they turned their cards over.
Evans had and Deberry showed . The river was and Evans secured the big double queens and tens.
Evans is a past champion here at MSPT Sycuan, having won Event #8: $250 NLH back in May 2021.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Lena Evans | 155,000 | 47,500 |
Ken Deberry
|
76,500 | -196,500 |
With 202 players registered for Day 1c so far, that brings the grand total for the tournament to 456 runners. According to tournament officials, the first place prize is now over $100,000.
Level: 12
Blinds: 1,500/2,500
Ante: 2,500
As Day 1c enters the later stages, the big stacks in the room are starting to cross the 200K mark.
Haiau Han was a final table finisher at the MSPT Sycuan Main Event in May 2021, and he is running his stack up in search of an opportunity to improve on that eighth-place finish for $11,122.
Play will continue tonight until 10:00 left in Level 14.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Ken Deberry
|
273,000 | 273,000 |
Richard Lanes | 240,000 | 179,700 |
Haiau Han | 215,000 | 215,000 |
Gayk Avetisyan
|
205,000 | 205,000 |
Jason Hickey of Marina Del Rey, California is the chip leader at the end of Day 1a of the Mid-States Poker Tour(MSPT) $1,110 Main Event, part of the Showtime Series at San Diego’s Sycuan Casino Resort. In total, there were 98 runners for the first of three flights this weekend, and 11 will return on Sunday for the combined finale.
Hickey is in search of his first MSPT win after running his stack up to over 100 big blinds on Day 1a. Other players moving on to Sunday’s Day 2 include Ken Morey, Andrew Ostapchenko, Rich Alsup, and David Leese.
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 |
With a pot building in the middle and on the board, Jason Singleton of Bonsall, California shoved from early position with Jeremy Clemons covered. Clemons called quickly and both players turned their cards over.
Jeremy Clemons:
Jason Singleton:
Both players had two pair, but Clemons held a dominating lead. The turn was and the river , with no help for Singleton and Clemons scored a big double as Day 1c enters the late stages.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jeremy Clemons | 88,000 | 57,200 |
Jason Singleton | 18,000 | 18,000 |