What began with 1,009 runners over two starting flights in the
Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) Venetian $1,100 Main Event is now down to 133 players, who will return today for Day 2 action.
The $250K guarantee was nearly quadrupled as a $978,730 prize pool is up for grabs amongst the top 104 finishers. A min-cash will be worth $2,251 and the eventual winner taking home $190,850.
After 15 levels of play, just 76 players remained with Justin Ligeri and his stack of 458,500 leading the way. That is still a ways behind that of
Day 1a chip leader Bill Kachel begins today as the big stack with 658,000, while Day 1b chip leader Justin Ligeri starts with 458,500. Others returning to action include former MSPT Venetian champ Kfir Nahum (440,000), Brent Hart (398,500), Daniel Jones (363,000), MSPT Canterbury Park champ (290,500), James Carroll (238,000), Saad Ghanem (235,500), Vic Peppe (222,500), Ben Keeline (208,500), Marle Cordiero (199,500), Josh Prager (129,500), Lexy Gavin (120,500)
$1,100 buy-in MSPT Venetian Main Event!
The tournament, the 170th Main Event in MSPT history, featured a $250,000 guarantee, but that was crushed with the Day 1a flight alone with 463 runners. Of those, 59 survived the night with Minnesotaâs Bill Kachel and his stack of 658,000 leading the way. Others to bag big stacks were Wisconsin poker couple Missy Bartleme (496,500) and Dan Dombrowski (112,500), Nizom Abdukadyrov (448,000), MSPT Venetian champ Landon Tice (286,000), and Lokesh Garg (235,500).
Todayâs Day 1b will begin at 11:10 a.m. PST and players will start with 25,000 in chips. Levels will be 40 minutes with late registration open until 6:25 p.m. PST. The surviving players from both flights will then return at 11 a.m. PST on Sunday, January 3 to play down to a winner.