Hollywood Casino Columbus

Day 1c of the inaugural MSPT Season 15 Winter Poker Classic $1,110 Main Event at Hollywood Casino Columbus attracted the largest field of the bunch with 355 entries being tallied, which, along with 1a's 115 and 1b’s 202, brought the field total up to 672 entries.

The massive field generated a $650,340 prize pool, and the top players will get paid a minimum of $2,146, while the eventual winner will walk away with a $133,320 first-place prize, along with the inaugural MSPT Season 15 Winter Poker Classic Main Event title!

At the end of the final flight, just 39 players bagged and tagged with Louis Shade (780,000), edging out two-time MSPT champ Chris Meyers (752,000) for the top stack of this flight.

Kevin Stroud’s started on a heater and ended on one as well as he tossed 613,000 into his bag to end the night while Event #3 winner Brian Hall (564,000), and Jameson Selvaggio (520,000) rounded out the top five stack.

Back-to-back Player of the Year Umut Ozturk bagged just outside the top five with 471,000, locking in a record 19th cash on the season with his sights set on securing a second WPT packages this season while Thomas Carlin (371,000), Nazim Temiz (349,000), and MSPT champ Alex Cruz (283,000) all found a Day 2 berth.

Other not as fortunate to find a bag and fell on Day 1c included WSOP bracelet winners Richard Ali, Alan Percal, Satoshi Tanaka, David Evans, MSPT champ Satish Thakur, and DJ Buckley

Day 2 will get underway at 11:15 a.m. local time and play to a winner with 72 players (12 from Day 1a, 21 from 1b, and 39 from 1c) returning to the felt.

Congratulations to everyone who advanced to Day 2, and we’ll see you at 11:15 a.m. for final day coverage of the MSPT $1,110 Main Event at Hollywood Casino Columbus!

MSPT Season 15 Winter Poker Classic at Hollywood Casino Columbus Remaining Schedule

Two-time MSPT champ Chris Meyers raised from late position and the small blind called to see a flop.

Meyers’ opponent check-called his 13,000 continuation bet bringing about the turn.

Sparks flew after Meyers’ opponent check-jammed for 131,000 after he fired out a 32,000 bet and was called.

Opponent:
Chris Meyers:

Meyers was ahead holding the queen-high straight, and the completed the board on the river ending the night.

Chris Meyers - 752,000

WSOP bracelet winner Billy Kopp was all in preflop from the button for roughly 20,000 and was called by Nazim Temiz from the big blind.

Billy Kopp:
Nazim Temiz:

Kopp rolled over a dominated ace and the runout ended his night while another a few more eliminations at different tables brought about the hand-for-hand process with 40 players remaining.

Nazim Temiz - 365,000
Billy Kopp - Eliminated

So far, 33 players have punched their ticket into Day 2, and the final group of 39 hopefuls will look to add their names to that list tonight.

All who make it through until the end of play will return tomorrow, Sunday, December 15^th at 11:15 a.m. for Day 2, where the remaining players from all starting flights will combine and play until a winner is declared.

Over the past week, players have been inside Hollywood Casino duking it out for the MSPT Winter Poker Classic in Columbus, Ohio.

In Event #12: $200 No-Limit Hold'em Ultimate Stack, 70 runners took to the tables, and when the dust settled, it was Mariano Pineda who came away with the epic win to take down the lion's share of the prize pool along with the Winter Poker Classic trophy!

Final Table Results

MSPT top casher DJ Buckley raised all in under the gun for a rough starting stack and Kevin Stroud looked him up from the button.

DJ Buckley:
Kevin Stroud:

Buckley was behind needing help and found it on the flop that paired his ace.

Unfortunately for Buckley, the dealer would turn the and then follow with the on the river, giving Stroud the jack-high flush to end his tournament.

Kevin Stroud - 580,000
DJ Buckley - Eliminated

MSPT Hall of Famer Umut Ozturk came into the weekend with a pre-notion he had the Season 15 Player of the Year locked up as the other two players who were in the running weren’t going to be in attendance this weekend but after the end of registration, he is officially become the first player ever to win the award twice, and he has done it in back-to-back seasons!

Ozturk has a record 18 cashes on the season for $139,550, and with only being 225 points behind fellow Hall of Famer Josh Reichard in the tight 2024 ICON standings, he will look to extend that record to 19 with one final cash tomorrow to lock up two WPT packages this season!