Another full day of action was played to its conclusion at the MSPT Season 15 Michigan Poker State Championship at FireKeepers Casino in Battle Creek, Michigan after a hard stop was reached at the end of Level 15.
The second of three flights drew a massive 1,012 entries, setting yet another venue record for a Day 1b field and has brought the two-day total thus far to 1,678, blowing past the $1,000,000 GTD with one flight remaining.
Of those 1,012 entries, only 111 players remained when chips went into bags with MSPT champ Matt Stammen bagging the top stack of this flight with an impressive 841,000.
Stammen’s stack is good enough for third overall thus far while Huy Dinh (642,000) Admon Tomma (641,000), Jake Baumgartner (601,000), and Gabriel Dvorak (575,000), rounded out the top five stacks of the night.
Several other familiar players will also be joining the aforementioned five. Brian Berthiaume (570,000), Trace Henderson (567,000), Mike Iacovone (534,000), and MSPT champ Curtis Vierstraete (529,000) are just a few more of the players to add their names to the Day 2 roster along with the 66 to have already advanced from Day 1a.
Much like Day 1a, the final level of the night saw an onslaught of casualties, with players such as MSPT champ’s Bobby Noel, David Gonia, and Lee Rzentkowski among those to be eliminated before play concluded for the night with chips flying all across the remaining tables in the final level of play that led to a lot of players riding roller coasters with their stack sizes before becoming official for the evening.
The final starting flight will get underway tomorrow at Noon local time, and it will be the last chance for players to punch their ticket into Sunday's Day 2.
Late registration and re-entries will remain open through Level 12 (approximately 9:30 p.m.)
Make sure to tune in to see who makes it through to Day 2.