The Main Sequence of Poker: The Tour (MSPT), previously generally known as the Mid-States Poker Tour, has been round since 2009 and awarded greater than $233 million in prize cash. Throughout that point, the tour has established a Corridor of Fame, launched each GOAT & MSPT Icon rankings, and has one of the complete databases within the business.
Now, the MSPT has debuted its personal World Rating system, which charges the efficiency stage of MSPT members. It was launched on September 29, 2025. The rankings are based mostly on a participant’s place in MSPT Fundamental Occasions over a 50 Fundamental Occasion time period (roughly two years). New rankings are calculated every time an MSPT Fundamental Occasion concludes.
For essentially the most not too long ago accomplished 11 MSPT Fundamental Occasions, a participant receives full worth for the factors they earn. Past that, their factors earned for a particular Fundamental Occasion are diminished by 1/40 of their full worth every time a Fundamental Occasion takes place. As soon as a particular Fundamental Occasion is 51 Fundamental Occasions again, any factors earned are valued at 0. The rating system is repeatedly rolling.
Close to the top of 2026 (actual date TBD), the Prime 64 ranked gamers will earn a seat in a $20K Freeroll Heads-Up Event at Minnesota’s Operating Aces On line casino in December 2026. Rank 1 will play Rank 64, Rank 2 will play Rank 63, and so forth – much like the NCAAB March Insanity format.
The Prime 64 may even be eligible for the 2027 Icon of the Yr race, which awards a $10K Fundamental Occasion seat to the winner.
“We’re excited to supply our gamers a brand new, aggressive leaderboard with the MSPT World Rankings,” mentioned MSPT President Bryan Mileski. “We’ve gamers from all throughout the globe competing in MSPT occasions, and now they’ll know the way they stack up in opposition to each other. What’s extra, they’ll then get the prospect to compete in opposition to one another in our first-ever heads-up freeroll.”
MSPT World Rating as of 10/1/25
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Jake Lengthy Claims First Gold Card
The MSPT is at present at Potawatomi On line casino in Milwaukee for the 2025 Wisconsin Poker State Championship. The cease’s $1,110 buy-in, $1 million GTD Fundamental Occasion is going on now – you may observe reside updates right here – however there have additionally been a handful of Gold Card aspect occasions.
One in all them was Occasion #4: $400 Combined PLO/NLH Monster Stack, which attracted 104 runners. The event got here right down to a pair of MSPT crushers who sat second and third on the Season 16 Participant of the Yr leaderboard.
Jake Lengthy of Omaha, Nebraska, has been a contender all season lengthy and finally defeated his good pal and MPST Corridor of Famer Josh Reichard in heads-up play to win a $10,450 high prize and his first Gold Card.
What’s extra, each gamers earned some coveted POY factors and now Lengthy sits with 7,752 factors and Reichard 5,489 factors, which is behind the 8,367 factors of present chief Umut Ozturk.
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