2022 MSPT Cleveland

$1,110 Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2022 MSPT Cleveland

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
ak
Prize
$155,993
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,110
Prize Pool
$959,770
Entries
991
Level Info
Level
32
Blinds
150,000 / 250,000
Ante
250,000
Players Info - Day 1b
Entries
375
Players Left
45

Hal Rotholz Cruises Into The Lead Of Day 1b of The Ohio State Championship

Level 15 : 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante
Hal Rotholz
Hal Rotholz

Day 1b of The Mid-States Poker Tour $1,100 Main Event in JACK Casino, Cleveland has come to an end with a hard stop being met with 45 players bagging up for the day.

With 27:52 left on the clock in the last level of the day, David Eldridge eliminated one player to bring the field down to 12% of the 375 entrant field. The remaining 45 players have all bagged up and finished slightly earlier than anticipated initially.

A total of 528 players have come to play thus far, hitting the $500,000 guarantee with still one flight to go, ensuring this to be one of the biggest prize pools in Ohio poker history.

The chip leader of the final 45 players in this flight is Hal Rotholz sitting with 517,000, the only player to have eclipsed 500,000. Rotholz played under-the radar most of the day, but quietly accumulated many chips throughout the course of the tourney and with many deep runs in tournaments all over the country, he will be a force going into Day 2.

MSPT Cleveland Day 1b Top Ten Chip Counts

PlaceNameChip Counts
1Hal Rotholz517,000
2Brian Patterson459,000
3Jamie Allen446,000
4Steve Lekic436,000
5Brad Rogoff424,000
6Matt Taylor419,000
7Dominic Will397,000
8Igor Ioffe353,000
9James Anderson313,000
10Renato Spahiu300,000

Falling into the top five also include Brian “Brxxx” Patterson with 457,000 and MSPT Iowa Runner-Up Jamie Allen who ended the day with 446,000. Both players were flirting with the chip lead through the majority of the day and each held it briefly in the last few levels of the night.

Other players that found their way to bagging included MSPT regulars Renato Spahiu (300,000) Michael Berk (279,000), Bobby Noel (250,000), WSOP bracelet winner James Anderson (313,000), and David Eldridge (263,000). Matt Taylor created an impressive comeback, being stuck with only 6 big blinds at level 11 and ended the day bagging 419,000.

Players that were not able to cash today included MSPT champions Dan Bekavac, Adam Friedman, Kyna England, Daniel Sepiol, Chris Moon, WSOP bracelet winners Chris Tryba and Joe Ebanks, and Allen “The Chainsaw” Kessler. All of which will have one final flight to try to make Day 2.

Play will begin at 12 p.m. on Saturday with a 25,000 starting and 40-minute blind levels. There will be a 40-minute dinner break following level 9. The players who make it to Day 2 will play with 27:52 left in level 15 barring the play ending earlier tomorrow. Stay tuned to PokerNews for all updates on the tournament.

Tags: Adam FriedmanBobby NoelChris MoonChris TrybaDan BekavacDaniel SepiolDavid EldridgeHal RotholzJames AndersonJamie AllenJoe EbanksKyna EnglandMatt TaylorMichael BerkRenato Spahiu