Welcome To Day 2 of the MSPT Black Hawk $1,110 Main Event
The next champion on the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) will be determined Sunday for Day 2 of the $1,110 Main Event. Eighty-three players are set to return to Bally's Black Hawk with their eyes set on the top prize of $129,451 after three starting flights produced 651 entries and a total prize pool of $631,470.
Due to Friday's Day 1b flight reaching 12% of the field to enact a hard stop at the earliest time of the three flights, Day 2 will resume with 33:30 remaining in Level 15 (3,000/5,000/5,000). Saturday's Day 1c chip leader Haim Or Krief (781,000) enters the day with the overall chip lead after bagging one of the largest end-of-day stacks in MSPT history. The other two Day 1 chip leaders in Michael Wyporowyich (556,000) and Michael Kinzer (482,000) will also begin Sunday with top-three stacks.
A stacked field sits behind the trio, with players such as Dapo Ajayi (475,000), Craig Varnell (343,000), Kyna England (178,000), Krzysztof Stybaniewicz (136,000), and Kane Lai (125,000) among the 83 returning for Day 2.
Play begins at 11 a.m. local time. Like Day 1, all levels will last 40 minutes with 10-minute breaks after every three levels of play and a dinner break once the final table has been reached. Only top 72 finishers will make it into the money, meaning one shy of a dozen will walk away empty-handed. Lastly, the tournament structure will transition from big-blind ante to traditional ante once 27 players remain and the three-table redraw has occurred.
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and Griboski became the first elimination of the day as a result. Just a moment later, Jeff Heiberg was also eliminated from the same table, with the pair of eliminations bringing the field down to 81 and resulting in the first table of the day breaking. Nine full tables remain, and nine more eliminations are needed to reach the money.
under the gun, with Jay Teel calling in cutoff. David Blankenship also announced a call on the button and all three players checked the turn 
, bringing the river 
where Potts bet another 35,000 and received a fold from Teel and a call from Blankenship.
and river 
appeared onboard, bringing the end of his tournament life as a result.
to earn him the full double and leave Godbey with less than two big blinds remaining in his stack. 
with a chance to try and spin his stack back up, but ran it into the 
to complete the runout and spell the end of his tournament run in 16th place.
and improved to kings up on the turn 
