Welcome to Day 1a of MSPT Riverside $1,100 Main Event
The Mid-States Poker Tour is all set to kick off a brand new event: MSPT Riverside $1,100 Main Event, located at Riverside Casino & Golf Resort, 10 minutes south of Iowa City.
After about three weeks of satellite action, MSPT Riverside opens today with the first of two starting flights. Each starting flight will play through 15 levels or until 12% of the field remains. Players get 25,000 in their starting stacks — 5,000 coming from a $10 add-on — and action begins at 100/100/100, progressing up to 3,000/5,000/5,000 by day's end.
Should a player run dry on chips, he or she may only reenter once per starting day, for a max of four bullets total.
The tournament carries a guarantee of $200,000, and early indications from the satellite and cash action point to a big field here in the next two days, with survivors from the first two flights playing down to a winner on Sunday.
Stay tuned here on PokerNews to follow all of the action on Day 1a.
flop holding 
. He was ahead of a player under the gun who showed 
in the cutoff.
was dominated by 
flop, Todd Sladek was all in from the small blind for about 14,000. Cody Brinn called in middle position, as did Joe Hindman in the cutoff.
as the small blind bet 7,500, the big blind made it 21,500, and Nick Pupillo shoved all in from middle position for 79,500. The small blind waved his hands in consternation approximately 20 times before folding. The big blind snap-mucked.