On a flop of and about 13,000 already in the middle, Hal Marcus shoved for 66,000 over a bet of 11,000 from his opponent.
His opponent counted out his stack before calling to put Marcus at risk.
Hal Marcus:
Opponent:
Marcus was in dominating position with his set of nines and the runout only improved him to quad nines. He becomes one of the chip leaders as we near the halfway point of the day.
Across the room, Baime was holding up four sevens to celebrate him making quads.
Baime recounted that in a blind-on-blind situation, he had gotten all in the money in preflop with Kyna England.
England held pocket fours while Baime had pocket sevens.
Baime hit a set on the flop and drilled the last seven in the deck on the river to eliminate England with quads. He shoots up the leaderboard heading into the next break.
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Levi Geiman beat a field of 535 to win the top prize of $22,644 in Event #1: $360 Mystery Bounty. Geiman also took home $9,850 in bounties in a wild Day 2 that had prizes ranging from $100 to $10,000.
Elsewhere at the series, MSPT Sycuan regular Rip Fritzer won Event $2: $250 PLO for $5,237. Fritzer won the same event at the MSPT Sycuan series in January.
MSPT Sycuan Event Winners
Event
Winner
Prize
Event #1: $360 Mystery Bounty
Levi Geiman
$22,644 + $9,850
Event #2: $250 PLO
Rip Fritzer
$5,237
Event #3: $250 NL
Armando Mesina
$4,875
Event #4: $185 NL
Jonathan Larkin
$7,370
Event #5: $250 Seniors
Kenneth Baime
$6,300
Event #6: $250 Turbo SuperStack
Luis Rodriguez
$4,341
Event #7: $250 6-Max
Ronald Sengi
$5,100
Event #8 $300 Tag Team
Robert Dawdy and Mey Saeteurn
$6,846
Event #9: $250 Hump Day
Michael Starek
$5,000
Armando Mesina beat 126 players to win Event #3: $250 NLH and San Diego's Jonathan Larkin won Event #4: $185 NL after he outlasted a field of 195 entries for the top prize of $7,370.
Previous MSPT Main Event champ Kenneth Baime added another win and $6,300 to his collection with the top spot in Event #5: $250 Seniors, and Luis Rodriguez captured Event #6: $250 Turbo SuperStack for $4,341.
Local Ronald Sengi finished atop Event #7: $250 6-Max for $5,100, and the pair of Robert Dawdy and Mey Saeteurn won Event #8: $300 Tag Team. The duos' event drew a field of 186 players and the Las Vegas-based pair took home $6,846 for the win.
Most recently, Michael Starek added to his Player of the Series lead with a first-place finish in Event #9: $250 Hump Day. A successful finish would make that back-to-back awards for Starek.
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Welcome to Day 1a of the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) $1,110 Main Event from Sycuan Casino in San Diego. The United States Poker Championship boasts a $300,000 guaranteed tournament that also awards a trophy on top of the money won.
Players can earn their way into the Main Event with multiple $265 buy-in satellites available, where 1 in 5 players advance.
When the tour swung by in May, Sebastin Kolman took home the trophy and the $80,170 first prize to go along with it. He outlasted a field of 473 entries that smashed the $300,000 guaranteed prize pool.
There will be three starting flights taking place over the weekend (September 22nd and 24th) with a winner being determined on Day 2 (September 25th).
Day 1a will kick off at 3:00 p.m. local time. The Day 1’s will play down until just 12% of the field remains or until the end of Level 15, all remaining players will return on Day 2 and be considered in the money.
A starting stack for this event will be worth 25,000 chips and late registration will remain open until the start of level 13. An unlimited number of re-entries will be allowed but players may only bag one stack. The levels will be 40 minutes long throughout the tournament with a 10-minute break after every three levels.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be on the tournament floor to bring you all the live updates throughout the event en route to crowning another MSPT champion.