Final weekend, Season 17 of the Main Collection of Poker: The Tour (MSPT) hosted a $1,110 Essential Occasion at Iowa’s Grand Falls On line casino, which is located proper exterior Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
The match attracted 327 runners over two beginning flights, and on Sunday, the surviving 37 gamers returned to play to a winner. Amongst them have been eight former MSPT champs, together with Aaron Johnson, who you may recall gained the 2025 WPT Prime Championship for $1,010,400.
Johnson ended up defeating former PokerNews reporter Mo Nuwwarah in heads-up play to win the title, a $72,104 first-place prize, and a $3,500 seat into November’s MSPT Championship on the Seminole Laborious Rock Florida’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open. It marked the third MSPT Essential Occasion win for the MSPT Corridor of Famer.
“It’s unimaginable,” Johnson instructed MSPT reporter Anthony Thompson after his victory, “The previous few months have been superb, as you recognize I gained my second MSPT in November after which went on to win the largest match of my profession the very subsequent month, so it’s been a reasonably insane run.”
MSPT Grand Falls Ultimate Desk Outcomes
1Aaron Johnson$72,1041,400
2Mo Nuwwarah$44,5201,200
3Josh Matti$32,2901,100
4Jon Hanner$23,8261,000
5Roger VanRiper$17,869900
6Mark Bloomberg$13,794800
7Clint Wolcyn$10,659700
8Arthur Arndt$8,464600
9Fuh Nguyen$6,552500
Others to money the match have been Terence Reid (thirteenth – $4,232), Gerald Cunniff (14th – $4,232), Carl Carodenuto (nineteenth – $2,978), Ryan Skluzak (twenty second – $2,696), and DJ Buckley (thirty fourth – $2,194).
Headed to Riverside On line casino
Season 17 of the Main Collection of Poker: The Tour (MSPT) continues March 17-22 with an MSPT Competition at Riverside On line casino simply south of Iowa Metropolis, Iowa.
Satellites kicked off again to start with of February and can finally lead right into a six Gold Card pageant, which formally kicked off on Tuesday, March 17, with Occasion #1: $250 Final Stack NLH. There are two different $250 Final Stack tournaments on the schedule, in addition to Occasion #4: $300 Seniors (50+) Monster Stack NLH and Occasion #6: $300 Final Stack NLH.
The cease culminates with an $1,110 buy-in, $300,000 GTD Essential Occasion that’ll kick off with Day 1A motion at 2 p.m. native time on Thursday, March 19. Late registration will stay open till 10:40 p.m., and gamers will begin with 30,000 in chips whereas enjoying 40-minute ranges.
Days 1B and 1C will happen on the similar time on Friday, March 20, and Saturday, March 21, respectively. The surviving gamers from each flights will return at 11 a.m. on Sunday, March 22, to play right down to a winner.
What’s Else is Coming Up?
Proper after the MSPT Competition at Riverside On line casino, the tour will head to St. Louis for the MSPT Missouri Poker State Championship at Ameristar On line casino St. Charles from March 24-29.
Wanting forward, the MSPT Minnesota Poker State Championship might be held at Working Aces On line casino simply north of the Twin Cities from April 7-19, adopted by a MSPT Competition at Ameristar East Chicago from April 21-26. Then, from April 28-Could 3, the MSPT will return to Milwaukee’s Potawatomi On line casino for a $1,000,000 GTD Essential Occasion (together with a slew of facet occasions).
Extra particulars on all these stops could be discovered at msptpoker.com.
Right here’s a have a look at the remaining MSPT Season 17 schedule.
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
August 4-9Rivers CasinoChicago, IL-$1,000,000
August 18-23JACK Cleveland CasinoCleveland, OHMSPT Competition$500,000
September 2026The VenetianNevadaNevada Poker State ChampionshipTDB
Sept. 22-27Potawatomi CasinoWisconsinWisconsin Poker State Championship$1,000,000
Oct. 1-12PlaygroundMontreal, CanadaCanadian Poker 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 Laborious RockFloridaMajor Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open (RRPO)$2,000,000
Dec. 1-13Running Aces CasinoMinnesotaWinter Poker Traditional$700,000
MSPT Podcast
Do you know that Chad Holloway and Kyna England host the bi-weekly MSPT Podcast Introduced By PokerNews.
The present covers all issues MSPT together with latest outcomes, participant highlights, visitor interviews, and a preview of upcoming stops.
In case you’re not acquainted with the present, a brand new episode comes out at 8 a.m. PT each different Wednesday on the PokerNews YouTube channel. An audio model can also be out there on all main podcasting platforms.
Right here’s a have a look at the most recent episode:
*Pictures courtesy of MSPT & Tyler Abrams.
Chad Holloway
PR & Media Supervisor
