This previous weekend, Season 17 of the Main Sequence of Poker: The Tour (MSPT) hosted an $1,110 Principal Occasion at Milwaukee’s Potawatomi On line casino, a match that attracted 1,299 runners. That surpassed the $1 million assure by producing a $1,258,530 prize pool.
Of these, 145 returned for Sunday’s Day 2 within the cash, and after a full day of play, it was well-known poker professional Hamid Izadi popping out on high to win the match outright for $219,654. He did so after a dominating efficiency that noticed him get rid of 9 of his remaining 14 opponents en path to victory.
“Feels nice,” Izadi informed MSPT reporter Anthony Thompson after his win. “My buddy Josh [Reichard] informed me I wanted to start out enjoying extra of those, nevertheless it simply by no means actually match into my schedule. So, this 12 months I made a schedule to slot in a lot of the MSPT Principal Occasions, and that is the second I’ve performed, so I’m very completely happy that I made this determination.”
Izadi additionally earned a seat within the $3,500 MSPT Championship Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open (RRPO), which shall be held on the Seminole Onerous Rock in Hollywood, Florida, Nov. 18 – Dec. 2, boasting a $2,000,000 GTD Principal Occasion.
Whereas he’s new to the MSPT, Izadi is an completed poker participant with 10 WSOP Circuit gold rings and greater than $2.7 million in lifetime match earnings in keeping with The Hendon Mob.
MSPT Potawatomi Remaining Desk Outcomes
1Hamid Izadi$219,6541,900
2Cero Zuccarello$133,8921,700
3Christopher Weber$101,8451,600
4Spencer Wright$77,9621,500
5Bob Heffner$56,9251,400
6Andy Rogowski$43,3121,300
7Bhanuchandar Sadineni$33,4121,200
8Jesse Simon$25,9871,100
9Travis Younger$21,0371,000
Others to money the match have been Lee Rzentkowski (tenth – $17,325), who had gained the MSPT Ameristar East Chicago the week prior; Dustin Bowling (thirteenth – $13,612), Brian Altman (14th – $13,612), Richard Bai (sixteenth – $11,632), reigning POY Jacob Lengthy (twenty sixth – $6,435), Brett Slezak (thirtieth – $5,197), and Aaron Johnson (thirty seventh – $4,207).
The Principal Occasion was simply considered one of 11 Gold Card tournaments. Among the aspect occasion winners included Missy Bartleme (Occasion #10: $400 Black Chip Bounty for $15,510), present MSPT POY factors chief Mike Estes (Occasion #9: $400 Senior’s Monster Stack for $18,290), and Corey Wick (Occasion #4: $400 PLO Monster Stack for $10,753).
Click on right here to see all MSPT aspect occasion winners.
What’s Else is Coming Up?
From Might 5-10, the MSPT will host a smaller $500 buy-in, $150K GTD MSPT500 Sequence occasion at Minnesota’s Working Aces On line casino. Then, from Might 12-17, the tour will head to FireKeepers On line casino for the $1,110 buy-in, $1,000,000 GTD Michigan Poker State Championship, which is likely one of the Midwest’s greatest occasions of the 12 months.
Then, this summer season, the MSPT will return to the Venetian Las Vegas for a pair of tournaments in July. The primary shall be an $1,100 buy-in, $1,000,000 GTD Principal Occasion from July 11-14, and that shall be adopted instantly by the $1,600 buy-in, $1,000,000 GTD Coronary heart Poker Championship from July 15-19.
Extra particulars on all these stops might be discovered at msptpoker.com.
Right here’s a have a look at the remaining MSPT Season 17 schedule.
Might 5-10Running Aces CasinoMinnesotaMSPT500 Sequence$150,000
Might 12-17FireKeepers CasinoMichiganMichigan Poker State Championship$1,000,000
July 11-14The VenetianNevada$1,100 Principal Occasion$1,000,000
July 15-19The VenetianNevada$1,600 Coronary heart Poker Championship$1,000,000
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 Pageant$500,000
August 25-30Ameristar East ChicagoEast Chicago, IndianaIndiana Poker State Championship$300,000
September 1-7Ameristar On line casino St. CharlesSt. Louis, MissouriMSPT Pageant$300,000
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
Oct. 27-Nov. 1Grand Falls CasinoLarchwood, IAMSPT FestivalTBD
Nov. 3-8Riverside CasinoIowaMSPT Pageant$500,000
Nov. 18-Dec. 2Seminole Onerous RockFloridaMajor Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open (RRPO)$2,000,000
Dec. 1-13Running Aces CasinoMinnesotaWinter Poker Basic$700,000
MSPT Podcast
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