This previous weekend, the Main Sequence of Poker: The Tour (MSPT) was at Riverside On line casino simply south of Iowa Metropolis for the Season 16 MSPT Iowa Poker State Championship, an $1,110 buy-in event that attracted 815 runners and awarded a $789,494 prize pool.
After three beginning flights and a 14-hour Day 2 finale, it was Mike Estes incomes a long-overdue MSPT title and a career-high $153,551 in prize cash.
“Phenomenal, greatest I’ve felt in eight years,” Estes advised MSPT reporter Anthony Thompson after the victory. “I actually performed for eight years (till 2020) with out ever cashing a single event … So throughout COVID, I actually began diving into what I used to be doing flawed and the way I may enhance.”
Estes then performed his first MSPT in 2021 and made seven ultimate tables earlier than claiming victory at a ultimate desk that included MSPT Corridor of Famer Rob Wazwaz and PokerNews Podcast host Chad Holloway.
MSPT Iowa Poker State Championship Remaining Desk Outcomes
Day 2 noticed 91 gamers return within the cash. Amongst these to money had been reigning MSPT Participant of the Yr Umut Ozturk (61st – $2,362), MSPT Corridor of Famer Wealthy Alsup (53rd – $2,520), Day 1 chip chief Taylor Howard (nineteenth – $6,615), and ultimate desk bubble boy DJ Buckley (tenth – $11,024).
With three gamers remaining, our very personal Holloway moved all in from the small blind for 4.4 million in Degree 32 (200,000/300,000/300,000) with the A♣J♣, and Jake Lengthy referred to as from the massive holding the A♥3♥. Holloway bought it in good and held on the 4♠7♥7♦ flop, however the working 2♥ flip and Okay♥ river gave Lengthy a flush to enter heads-up play practically even in chips with Estes.
Even so, the ultimate two didn’t take lengthy to get it in when Estes jammed holding the A♠5♥ and Lengthy awakened with the 9♥9♦. The J♠Q♦4♠ flop wasn’t significantly fascinating, however the 9♠ flip was as Lengthy improved to a set, however Estes picked up a spade flush draw. Effectively, it was the latter’s time to hit a runner-runner flush as the three♠ spiked on the river! Lengthy was left with peanuts and went bust within the very subsequent hand.
Jake Lengthy Takes Over POY Lead
The MSPT Season 16 Participant of the Yr race has been a back-and-forth affair. Nebraska’s Jake Lengthy wound up ending the event in second place for $94,499 and 1,600 POY factors, which vaulted him to the highest of the present leaderboard forward of gamers like Anthony Scarborough, Umut Ozturk, and Josh Reichard.
There are nonetheless loads of occasions remaining on the MSPT schedule for 2025, so Lengthy will little doubt have to maintain racking up scores if he hopes to stave off the competitors.
MSPT Season 16 Participant of the Yr Standings
*Pictures courtesy of MSPT photographer Tyler Abrams.
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