Robert Noce Wins MSPT Hollywood St. Louis; Long & Umut POY Battle Rages

Over the weekend, the Main Collection of Poker: The Tour (MSPT) hosted a cease at Hollywood On line casino in St. Louis. The ten-event schedule culminated with an $1,110 buy-in Foremost Occasion, a match that attracted 676 runners and awarded a $655,720 prize pool, greater than double the $300K assure.

On Sunday, the surviving 76 gamers from the three beginning flights returned to battle to a winner on Day 2. It took roughly 12 hours of play, and when the mud settled, it was Missouri native Robert Noce, an lawyer by career, popping out on prime to win the title and the $131,258 prime prize.

“It feels nice”, Noce instructed MSPT reporter Anthony Thompson after the win, “I’m nonetheless taking it in, however this was solely the second match I obtained to play on this 12 months, and I tripled by Hendon Mob completely, in order that feels superior.”

MSPT Hollywood St. Louis Last Desk Outcomes

Others to money the match have been Saad Ghanem (tenth – $9,891), Jason Mendoza (fifteenth – $7,990), John “Farmboy” Kurfman (nineteenth – $5,629), Lee Rzentkowski (twenty seventh – $3,924), Josh Reichard (thirty first – $3,006), Brett Reichard (thirty eighth – $2,547), and Rob Wazwaz (51st – $2,350).

POY Leaders Each Last Desk

One of many extra fascinating tales to come back from the cease was that of each Jake Lengthy and Umut Ozturk making the ultimate desk. Coming into the cease, the duo sat first and second respectively atop the MSPT Season 16 Participant of the Yr leaderboard.

Ozturk, the reigning back-to-back MSPT POY, ended up ending in fifth place for 1,200 POY factors, placing him at 6,167 factors on the season, whereas Lengthy did one spot higher, taking fourth for 1,300 POY factors and placing him at 6,931 factors whole. So, in the long run, Lengthy prolonged his lead by simply 100 factors from when the pair entered the match. That mentioned, each are nicely forward of Anthony Scarborough (4,934 factors) and Josh Reichard (4,455 factors).

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MSPT Hollywood St. Louis Aspect Occasion Winners

In the case of facet occasion information, some of the achieved gamers within the St. Louis poker scene, Jeff Copeland, topped a 325-entry discipline to win $300 Seniors (50+) Monster Stack for $18,315.

Likewise, two-time MSPT Foremost Occasion champ Taylor Howard got here out on prime of a 98-entry discipline to win Occasion #10: $250 Monster Stack NLH for $5,879 and his first gold card.

What’s Coming Up?

The Main Collection of Poker: The Tour (MSPT) will head to Cleveland, Ohio, from August 26 by way of September 1 for a six-event pageant at JACK Cleveland that’ll embrace a $1,110 buy-in, $750K GTD Foremost Occasion.

That match will characteristic a trio of beginning flights, beginning with Day 1a at 3:15 p.m. native time on Thursday, August 28. Day 1b will comply with at 12:15 p.m. on Friday, August 29, and Day 1c on the identical time on Saturday, August 30. The surviving gamers from all three flights will then mix to play to a winner on Day 2 at 11:15 a.m. on Sunday.

Along with a full providing of satellites, there are 5 facet occasions, together with Occasion #1: $400 Tag Group NLH at 4:15 p.m. on Tuesday, August 26. At 11:15 a.m. on Wednesday, August 27, there will probably be Occasion #2: $300 Seniors (50+), which is part of the MSPT Senior Tour. Then, at 6:15 p.m., Occasion #3: $300 Monster Stack will happen.

Be taught extra in regards to the MSPT JACK Cleveland cease right here!

Right here’s a take a look at the remaining MSPT Season 16 schedule.

*Photos courtesy of MSPT photographer Tyler Abrams.

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