Season 17 of the Main Collection of Poker: The Tour (MSPT) kicked off over the weekend with the $1,600 New 12 months’s Poker Open on the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas. Over a trio of beginning flights, 349 runners competed, and on Sunday, the surviving 40 gamers returned to battle to a winner and declare their share of a $500,000 prize pool.
Coming into Day 2, poker professional Matthew Wantman was the chip chief, and he rode all of it the way in which to his first MSPT title, which was value $96,284 and a $3,500 seat into the MSPT Championship Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open (RRPO) later this yr.
“Feels nice,” Wantaman advised MSPT reporter Anthony Thompson. “I haven’t actually performed something for the previous few weeks due to the vacations, and I wasn’t actually planning on taking part in this occasion, simply sort of popped in out of the blue, so it’s very nice to be lucky sufficient to return over right here and take it down.”
He added: “It was loopy, just about going wire-to-wire all day, fairly surreal, and now that I gained one, it’s fairly interesting to attempt to ship one other to grow to be a two-time champ.”
MPST New 12 months’s Poker Open Ultimate Desk Outcomes
1Matthew Wantman$96,2841,400
2Dan Olsen$69,8041,200
3Ron West$51,3221,100
4Nicholas Rogers$38,2741,000
5Michael Walsh$28,958900
6Miquel Maimes$22,233800
7Dan Stavila$17,325700
8Wai Kiat Lee$13,706600
9John Riordan$11,010500
Others to money the match had been Jeremy Becker (fifteenth – $6,271), former MSPT Venetian champ Kfir Nahum (sixteenth – $6,271), Darren Rabinowitz (seventeenth – $6,271), DJ Buckley (twentieth – $5,369), Ryan Riess (thirty third – $3,726), and Lily Kiletto (thirty ninth – $3,414).
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What’s Coming Up?
The most recent cease was simply the primary in a busy month for the MSPT, which is able to head all the way down to Sycuan On line casino Resort in San Diego, California, for the Golden State Poker Championship from Jan. 8-19.
Then it’s over to Bally’s Black Hawk On line casino in Colorado for the Showdown Collection from Jan. 14-25, adopted by the primary main of the season – the $1,000,000 GTD Diamond Poker Championship at Arizona’s Speaking Stick Resort from Jan. 24-Feb. 1.
Proper after, the MSPT will return to the Venetian Las Vegas Feb. 4-7 for the $1,600 buy-in, $1,000,000 GTD Poker Bowl X.
Right here’s a have a look at the present MSPT Season 17 schedule. Extra particulars may be discovered at msptpoker.com.
Jan. 8-19Sycuan CasinoCaliforniaGolden State Poker Championship$400,000
Jan. 14-25Bally’s Black Hawk CasinoColoradoShowdown Collection$400,000
Jan. 24-Feb. 1Talking Stick ResortArizonaMajor Diamond Poker Championship$1,000,000
Feb. 4-7The VenetianNevada$1,600 Poker Bowl X$1,000,000
Feb. 10-16JACK ClevelandOhioOhio Poker State ChampionshipTBD
Feb. 17-22Potawatomi CasinoWisconsinMajor Membership Poker Championship$1,000,000
March 11-15Grand Falls CasinoIowaMSPT Competition$200,000
March 17-22Riverside CasinoIowaMSPT Competition$500,000
March 24-29Ameristar St. CharlesMissouriMissouri Poker State ChampionshipTBD
April 7-19Running Aces CasinoMinnesotaMinnesota Poker State ChampionshipTDB
April 21-26Ameristar East ChicagoIndianaMSPT Competition$300,000
April 28-Could 3Potawatomi CasinoWisconsinMSPT Competition$1,000,000
Could 12-17FireKeepers CasinoMichiganMichigan Poker State Championship$1,000,000
Could 13-25Sycuan CasinoCaliforniaShowdown SeriesTBD
June 2026The VenetianNevadaDiamond Poker ChampionshipTDB
June 2026The VenetianNevadaTBDTDB
July 21-26Riverside CasinoIowaIowa Poker State Championship$500,000
July 22-Aug. 2Bally’s Black Hawk CasinoColoradoColorado Poker State Championship$600,000
September 2026The VenetianNevadaNevada Poker State ChampionshipTDB
Sept. 22-27Potawatomi CasinoWisconsinWisconsin Poker State Championship$1,000,000
Oct. 13-18FireKeepers CasinoMichiganMajor Spade Poker Championship$1,500,000
Nov. 3-8Riverside CasinoIowaMSPT Competition$500,000
Nov. 18-Dec. 2Seminole Onerous RockFloridaMajor Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open (RRPO)$2,000,000
Dec. 1-13Running Aces CasinoMinnesotaWinter Poker Traditional$700,000
*Photos courtesy of the MSPT and Tyler Abrams.
Chad Holloway
PR & Media Supervisor
