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With just one event left, MSPT champ Jeff Copeland leads the Season 16 Senior (50+) Player of the Year race

The Season 16 Senior (50+) Player of the Year will receive a $5K prize

Full Leaderboard: https://msptpoker.com/statistics/seasonseniorpoints.aspx

Photo: Chad Holloway

There was all-in preflop action between Darshan Pathak and WSOP bracelet winner Chad Holloway, with Holloway holding 42,500 effective.

Chad Holloway:
Darshan Pathak:

It was a classic flip with Holloway calling the correct side as the clean runout secured his double-up through Pathak.

Chad Holloway - 90,000
Darshan Pathak - 30,000

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Over the past week, players have been inside Running Aces Casino, duking it out for the MSPT Winter Poker Classic in Columbus, Minnesota, for the Season 16 finale!

In Event #2: $250 Monster Stack NLH, 182 monster hunters took to the felt and generated a $36,400 prize pool that was paid out to the top 21 players.

Among those to cash but fall before the final table were Alan Baker (11^th Place - $692), Rory Linton (12^th Place - $692), Brad Pausch (14^th Place - $546), Clinton Leitheiser (17^th Place - $473), and Matt Fox (20^th Place - $437).

In the end, it was none other than Jake Long who came away with the monster win, earning himself 240 POY points to go along with the $9,463 top prize and his record seventh Gold Card!

Final Table Results

Photo: Jeremy Pekarek

Five-time MSPT champ Blake Bohn raised from middle position, only to have Leo Ledesma fire out a 5,500 three-bet from the cutoff.

Action was then on fellow MSPT Hall of Famer Rob WazWaz, who called from the button before Jeremy Pekarek tossed out a 15,500 four-bet from the big blind.

Only WazWaz called, and the two went heads-up to a flop.

Pekarek then moved out his 29,800 stack, and WazWaz called after saying, “This is probably a stupid call.”

Jeremy Pekarek:
Rob WazWaz:

WazWaz was ahead holding a pair of nines, and the turn kept him in the lead.

However, the was quickly peeled off on the river, pairing Pekarek’s ace to secure his double-up.

Jeremy Pekarek - 90,000
Rob WazWaz - 30,000

Winning a Player of the Year (POY) title on a major poker tour is a prestigious thing to do. Going back-to-back is an incredibly rare feat, and winning POY three years in a row is unprecedented. However, it could very well happen this weekend... read the full article by WSOP bracelet winner Chad Holloway here.