Riverside Casino

Day 1a of the MSPT Riverside $1,110 Main Event is officially in the books with 89 total entries tallied during the first flight.

After a hard stop was reached with 36:57 remining in Level 16, MSPT champ and bracelet winner Mo Nuwwarah was sitting atop of the chip counts after putting a respectable 628,000 into his bag to end the night, leading the nine advancing players.

Bagging behind Nuwwarah was Ramon Ziadeh, who sat atop the counts for most the evening and ended the night with 491,000 while Jesse Green (317,000), two-time MSPT champ Kenneth Baime (257,000), and back-to-back Player of the Year Umut Ozturk (242,000) rounded out the top five stacks of the flight.

Other who found a Day 2 berth after the first starting flight included David Grandin (234,000), MSPT Hall of Famer Rob WazWaz (219,000), Kevin Berthelsen (147,000), and Jacob Long (134,000).

Among those to try and fall on Day 1a included MSPT champ Jeff Copeland, Cord Kleist, Tony Olguin, Shiva Dudani, and MSPT champ Ben Pettinger, just to name a few.

Those players, as well as any newcomers, have two more starting flights to jump back into action.

Day 1b will kick off at 2:00 p.m. local time Friday, while the third and final flight, Day 1c, will take place at the same time on Saturday.

The surviving players from each flight will then return at 11:00 a.m. on Sunday to play down to a winner.

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Chris Maltsburger was all in preflop for 17,000 and found three callers that saw a flop.

Action was then checked to the turn where back-to-back Player of the Year Umut Ozturk led out with an uncontested 16,000 bet, and the two hands were tabled.

Chris Maltsburger:
Umut Ozturk:

Ozturk found a lucky lady on the turn to pull ahead and the river eliminated Maltsburger on the bubble to end the night.

Umut Ozturk - 240,000
Chris Maltsburger - 0

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MSPT champ Mo Nuwwarah raised from the hijack and then called Chris Maltsburger’s 46,000 three-bet jam from the small blind.

Chris Maltsburger:
Mo Nuwwarah:

Maltsburger rolled over the better made hand and faded the runout to stay alive.

Mo Nuwwarah - 320,000
Chris Maltsburger - 100,000

Back-to-back Player of the Year Umut Ozturk raised from the hijack and then called Stephen Becker’s three-bet jam from the button.

Stephen Becker:
Umut Ozturk:

Becker was behind hoping to see an ace, but the runout ended his night on the bubble as the hand-for-hand process has now started with 10 players remaining.

Umut Ozturk - 350,000
Stephen Becker - 0

Jake Long open-jammed 54,000 under the gun and was called by Jesse Green from the cutoff before Brandon Seeley went over the top from the button.

Action quickly folded back to Green who tossed out a call, and all three hands were tabled.

Jake Long:
Brandon Seeley:
Jesse Green:

Seeley was ahead holding a premium hand of kings until an ace appeared in the window on the flop pairing both his opponents.

With Seeley already drawing dead, the meaningless turn and river completed the board ending his night while Green and Long chopped the main pot.

Jesse Green - 340,000
Jake Long - 67,000
Brandon Seeley - 0

Jake Long raised from early position and then called Brandon Seeley’s 62,000 three-bet jam from the big blind.

Brandon Seeley:
Jake Long:

Seeley rolled over the inferior made hand with the flop changing anything.

The turn, however, fell the to put Seeley out in front with a of sixes, and the river secured his double-up.

Brandon Seeley - 132,000
Jake Long - 54,000

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