First-Ever Champion Crowned in MSPT Spade Poker Championship

The Main Collection of Poker (MSPT) wrapped up the first-ever MSPT Spade Poker Championship at Firekeepers On line casino in Michigan for a sequence that ran Oct. 9-12.

The $1,110 buy-in MSPT Spade Poker Championship supplied a $1.5 million assure and crushed that with 2,773 entries for a prize pool of $2,688,310. Merritt Kuhn was the final participant standing because the Missourian reached a cope with Florida’s Raymond Mancini to take dwelling $268,049.

PokerNews was on-site in Michigan, offering video and social media protection of the sequence at FireKeepers On line casino.

2025 MSPT Spade Poker Championship Remaining Desk Outcomes

*Denotes heads-up deal

“Feels Wonderful”

Kuhn had $116,586 in Hendon Mob earnings headed into the championship occasion and greater than quadrupled his earlier greatest dwell money of $84,267.

“Feels very nice to win one in every of these lastly,” Kuhn instructed MSPT after the victory. “I’ve been attempting for some time now however haven’t had an excessive amount of luck with no deep runs, so to have the ability to take this one down that had such a big beginning area, feels superb.”

The primary-ever Spade Poker Championship drew all the same old MSPT crushers, together with tour Corridor of Famers Umut Ozturk (the reigning back-to-back Participant of the 12 months), Aaron Johnson, Chris Moon, Rob WazWaz, Rodger Johnson, Josh Reichard and Gerald Cunniff, who fared one of the best of the bunch with a Sixteenth-place end value $23,101.

Different notable gamers within the area included WSOP fan favourite Nicholas Rigby, Chicago grinder Jennifer Lin and Aaron Massey.

In response to MSPT dwell updates, Anthony Babic and Tony Tran have been the primary to go on the ultimate desk, adopted carefully by Ben Luber and World Collection of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Robert Mitchell.

The eventual champion then caught a run of playing cards to knock out 4 straight gamers. His scorching streak culminated with flopping two pair towards Mancini’s prime pair and having his hand maintain as much as earn the highest prize and inaugural Spade Poker Championship trophy.

Kuhn wasn’t the one participant to win a trophy at Firekeepers On line casino. The sequence kicked off with George Janssen, who’s at the moment awaiting sentencing in a seven-figure financial institution fraud case, successful Occasion #1: $400 Final Stack for $18,556.

After that, Marty Masar III topped a area of 338 runners in Occasion #2: $300 Monster Stack NLH to win $15,000, whereas the Occasion #4: $250 Monster Stack NLH and Occasion #5: $400 Monster Stack NLH titles respectively went to William Webb ($8,932) and Jacob Lengthy ($21,020).

Subsequent up on the MSPT path is a cease at The Playground in Montreal that can embrace the $1 million assured Canadian Poker Championship going down Oct. 15-19.

Check out MSPT Spade Poker Championship facet occasion winners within the desk under.

2025 MSPT Spade Poker Championship Winners

*Denotes ultimate desk deal

*Pictures courtesy MSPT

Connor Richards is a Senior Editor U.S. for PokerNews and host of the Life Outdoors Poker podcast. Connor has been nominated for 3 International Poker Awards for his writing.