Grand Falls Casino

Day 1a of the MSPT Grand Falls $1,110 Main Event is in the books with the first flight tallying 163 runners.

Plenty of players made their way to Grand Falls Casino, creating a room full of MSPT champs, Icons, and Hall of Famers.

With chips flying and players dropping throughout the day, play tightened up in the later levels as only 11% of the field was finding a Day 2 berth, and that mark was hit with 21:37 remaining in Level 16 (4,000/8,000/8,000).

Once players put pens to slips, it was none other than back-to-back Player of the Year Umut Ozturk who ended up leading the pack of 18 with a whopping 704,000.

Ozturk was seen building a stack in the later levels, and then capped by securing the final elimination of Jeremy Frost to end the night.

Caden Coleman was able to find the second spot on the leaderboard after sitting atop the counts for the majority of the day and ended with a respectable 531,000.

A familiar Rodney Colson was able to hold his own throughout the day as well, finishing the day with 504,000, while Ryan Remmes (403,000) and Jon Hanner (400,000) rounded out the top five stacks.

Others that advanced included Kevin Berthelsen (379,000), DJ Buckley (159,000), five-time MSPT champ Blake Bohn (148,000), Jake Long (88,000), and defending champ Angela Jordison (78,000).

Among those to try and fall on Day 1a included Aaron Thomas, 2021 Grand Falls champ Chad Bjorkman, Howard Dion, Terry Williams, and Justin Heilman, to name a few.

All who did not bag will have one more flight to try and do so, with that being held tomorrow, Saturday, August 9^th at 2:00 p.m. local time.

As usual, the live reporting team will be back at it then, so be sure to come back and see who else adds their name to Sunday's Day 2 roster.

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Jeremy Frost raised to 20,000 from the hijack, and back-to-back Player of the Year Umut Ozturk defended his big blind to see a flop.

Ozturk check-called a 25,000 continuation bet from Frost, and the dealer turned the .

This time, Ozturk led out with a 40,000 bet, only to be faced with an all-in raise from Frost.

After getting a 231,000 confirmed amount, Ozturk called, and both hands were tabled.

Jeremy Frost:
Umut Ozturk:

Frost went for it all only to be left drawing dead to the river, as he was eliminated on the bubble.

Umut Ozturk - 704,000
Jeremy Frost - 0

After the elimination of MSPT champ Anthony Scarborough, the hand-for-hand process has now begun with 19 players remaining.

After two initial limpers, Kevin McMahon raised all in for 72,000 from the small blind, and only Jeremy Frost called from the hijack.

Kevin McMahon:
Jeremy Frost:

McMahon rolled over the better-made hand, and the runout secured McMahon his double-up.

Jeremy Frost - 295,000
Kevin McMahon - 180,000

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There was all in action after a flop between DJ Buckley from the cutoff and MSPT Hall of Famer Blake Bohn from the big blind, with Buckley holding 122,000 effective.

DJ Buckley:
Blake Bohn:

Buckley was ahead holding a made hand of jacks, and the turn, followed by the river, secured his double-up.

Dj Buckley - 265,000
Blake Bohn - 225,000

Five-time MSPT champ Blake Bohn raised from the cutoff for 13,000, and back-to-back Player of the Year Umut Ozturk defended his big blind to see a flop.

Ozturk led out with a 25,000 bet, and then called off his 87,000 stack after Bohn raised all-in.

Umut Ozturk:
Blake Bohn:

Ozturk was ahead after flopping top pair, and faded the turn and river to collect a double.

“That’s how you win Player of the Year”, Ozturk paused and added, “Back-to-back.” Bohn replied with a smile and a nod, then proceeded on.

Blake Bohn - 415,000
Umut Ozturk - 225,000

Jeremy Frost open-jammed under the gun and action folded to Loki Abboud, who called off his slightly shorter stack from the big blind.

Loki Abboud:
Jeremy Frost:

Abboud was ahead holding Big Slick, until the flop fell pairing Frost’s ten.

The turn gave Abboud more outs with a Broadway draw, but the completed the board and ended his night.

Jeremy Frost - 220,000
Loki Abboud - 0