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On Monday night, Korey Payne became the newest champion on the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) after besting a field of 1,239 entries to take home the top prize of $327,773 in the MSPT Venetian $1,600 Main Event. His victory capped a three-day tournament and five-day-long event that generated an overall prize pool of $1,771,770.
Payne entered the day taking a stack of 605,000 to blinds of 8,000/16,000/16,000, just one big blind above the average stack for the 63 players that returned for Day 3. Four hours later, he had maintained that stack as the field reached 30, and had doubled it by the final two tables of 16.
The run started with Payne finding a double with pocket sixes by hitting a six on the turn against Jorden Helstern's flopped top pair of queens to double to over 2 million. From there, he hit a set of queens in a three-way pot to eliminate Zachary Grech in 10th place and wound up taking a second-place stack into the final table of eight.
Place | Player | Prize |
---|---|---|
1 | Korey Payne | $327,773 |
2 | Salim Admon | $219,699 |
3 | Martin Zamani | $148,829 |
4 | Randy Froelich | $100,991 |
5 | Satoshi Tanaka | $65,555 |
6 | David Poces | $49,610 |
7 | Jorden Helstern | $37,207 |
8 | Dale Eberle | $28,343 |
Day 1a Chip Leader Salim Admon came into the final table with a stack nearly double that of Payne's. On the first hand of the final table, he doubled Dale Eberle, but Eberle gave it all back on the next hand when he check-shoved king-queen on a queen-high board and Admon looked him up with two aces. Helstern was then the shortest stack and lost a coin flip versus Randy Froelich to bow out in seventh shortly thereafter.
Half a level passed before the next elimination in David Poces, who lost a coin flip of his own against Satoshi Tanaka. Tanaka then found himself in the hunt, but he became the next one to bust another 30 minutes later when his pocket tens were cracked by Martin Zamani hitting a diamond flush with ace-five suited for almost all of his chips. Finding himself left with crumbs, Tanaka watched Zamani hit another diamond flush on the following hand to make his fifth-place finish official.
One hand later, Zamani eliminated Froelich in fourth, but was still third in chips behind Admon and Payne. Chips flew across the table over the next 40 minutes with Zamani eventually four-bet-shoving with king-deuce suited in a blind-on-blind situation against Admon's ace-king. Zamani hit a deuce and doubled to become the chip leader, but he then ran two unsuccessful bluffs against Payne to first double him, and then fall to him.
As a result, Payne took a commanding chip lead into heads-up play but quickly doubled Admon. The two battled from there, with Payne grinding Admon down a bit before doubling him once more. Chips then went back and forth until the final hand of the night, when Payne made kings up on the turn and led out after check-calling a bet from Admon. Admon raised, Payne immediately announced he was all in, and Admon eventually wound up calling with a pair of queens that remained second best to earn Payne the title of MSPT champion and the top prize of $327,773 that came along with it.
Just one more stop remains in Season 11 of the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT). From December 18-20, the tour will close out the year with a $1,100 buy-in, $200,000 guaranteed Main Event at Grand Falls Casino in Larchwood, Iowa, which is actually situated just across the border from Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
A series of $65 and $250 satellites will feed into the Main Event, which will feature two starting flights. Day 1a will take place at 3 p.m. on Friday, December 18 with Day 1b taking place at the same time on Saturday, December 19. The surviving players from both flights will then return for Day 2 at 11 a.m. on Sunday, December 20 to play down to a winner.
The tournament comes on the heels of August’s record-breaking MSPT Main Event at Grand Falls. That $1,100 buy-in tournament was the first mid-major poker tournament in the United States in nearly six months, and the 518 entrants not only surpassed the venue’s previous best field of 238 runners in 2015 but also became the largest major ($1,000+ buy-in) in Iowa history.
Wed 1 Sep | $ 100 + 20 Limit Hold'em | United StatesKnox Pressley |
Wed 1 Sep | $ 100 + 20 No Limit Hold'em | United StatesRonnie Timput |
Thu 2 Sep | $ 100 + 20 Omaha Hi/Lo | United StatesJohnny Ahles |
Thu 2 Sep | $ 100 + 20 No Limit Hold'em | United StatesIlya Soyfer |
Fri 3 Sep | $ 200 + 30 No Limit Hold'em | United StatesHazbi Xhindi |
Fri 3 Sep | $ 100 + 20 No Limit Hold'em | United StatesDavid Cook |
Sat 4 Sep | $ 200 + 30 Limit Hold'em | United StatesHenry Chow |
Sat 4 Sep | $ 100 + 20 No Limit Hold'em | United StatesSidney Spears |
Sun 5 Sep | $ 200 + 30 No Limit Hold'em | United StatesPaul Dahl |
Sun 5 Sep | $ 100 + 20 Ladies Limit Hold'em & Seven Card Stud | United StatesAnna Yeranosian |
Mon 6 Sep | $ 200 + 30 Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo | United StatesTerry Myers |
Mon 6 Sep | $ 100 + 20 No Limit Hold'em | United StatesAn Tran |
Tue 7 Sep | $ 300 + 35 Pot Limit Omaha | United StatesRichard Roberts |
Tue 7 Sep | $ 100 + 20 No Limit Hold'em - Charity Event | United StatesMike Laing |
Wed 8 Sep | $ 300 + 35 No Limit Hold'em | United StatesChad Layne |
Wed 8 Sep | $ 100 + 20 No Limit Hold'em | EnglandAdrian Toms |
Thu 9 Sep | $ 300 + 35 Seven Card Stud | United StatesWayne Haynes |
Thu 9 Sep | $ 100 + 20 No Limit Hold'em | United StatesMark Hanna |
Fri 10 Sep | $ 300 + 35 No Limit Hold'em | United StatesMuruz Yohannes |
Fri 10 Sep | $ 100 + 20 No Limit Hold'em | EnglandAdrian Toms |
Sat 11 Sep | $ 500 + 40 Omaha Hi/Lo | United StatesEric Napoleon |
Sat 11 Sep | $ 200 + 30 No Limit Hold'em | United StatesJoe Vahimian |
Sun 12 Sep | $ 500 + 40 Pot Limit Hold'em | United StatesBilly Duarte |
Sun 12 Sep | $ 200 + 30 No Limit Hold'em | United StatesAlexander Basile |
Mon 13 Sep | $ 500 + 40 Pot Limit Omaha | United StatesJeff Rine |
Mon 13 Sep | $ 200 + 30 No Limit Hold'em | United StatesDavid Bradley |
Tue 14 Sep | $ 500 + 40 Seven Card Stud | United StatesCarl Brucker |
Tue 14 Sep | $ 200 + 30 Razz | United StatesGreg Giannokostas |
Tue 14 Sep | $ 200 + 30 No Limit Hold'em | United StatesSayed Hussein |
Wed 15 Sep | $ 1,000 + 60 No Limit Hold'em | United StatesTony McCann |
Wed 15 Sep | $ 200 + 30 Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo | United StatesKen Steinberg |
Wed 15 Sep | $ 200 + 30 No Limit Hold'em | United StatesDavid Karno |
Thu 16 Sep | $ 1,000 + 60 Limit Hold'em | United StatesJesse Jones |
Thu 16 Sep | $ 200 + 30 No Limit Hold'em | United StatesAn Tran |
Fri 17 - Sun 19 Sep | $ 5,000 + 150 No Limit Hold'em Final Day | EnglandJoe Beevers |
Fri 17 Sep | $ 200 + 30 No Limit Hold'em | United StatesEduardo Davial |
Fri 17 Sep | $ 100 + 20 No Limit Hold'em | United StatesJoyce Lazarus |
Sat 18 Sep | $ 300 + 35 No Limit Hold'em | United StatesGary Barber |
Sat 18 Sep | $ 100 + 20 No Limit Hold'em | EnglandAdrian Toms |
Sun 19 Sep | $ 200 + 30 No Limit Hold'em | United StatesSayed Hussein |