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Grand Falls Casino: March 19 - 23, 2025

Kevin Berthelsen Bags Overall Chip Lead After 29 Players Survive Final Starting Flight of Main Event

Created (3/23/2025 1:58:08 AM by Anthony Thompson)
 
 

 

The second and final starting flight of the MSPT Season 15 Grand Falls $1,110 buy-in, $200K GTD is in the books after 16 Levels of play.

Day 1b attracted another 270 runners during Saturday's action, bringing the grand total to an incredible 513 entries (243 from Day 1a; 270 from 1b), generating a $496,110 prize pool.

Last night saw Kevin Berthelsen take an earlier exit than anticipated but he bounced back by clipping the milly mark (1,004,000) to hold a sizable lead over the 29 advancing players from this flight and will take the overall chip lead into Day 2.

Jason Peterson

Following behind Berthelsen was Jason Peterson who was able to end the night with a healthy 820,000 while Alex Phrommany (765,000), 2022 Grand Falls champ Beau “Don K. Nado” Wilshire (724,000), and fellow MSPT champ Mo Nuwwarah (609,000) round out the top five stacks.

Tanner Pray

Others to punch their tickets to Day 2 were MSPT champ Jason Sell (584,000), Tanner Pray (572,000), Paul Cross (283,000), two-time MSPT champ Taylor Howard (210,000), and MSPT champ Anthony Scarborough (118,000).

MSPT Champ Steve Federspiel

Among those to try and fall on Day 1a included MSPT champ Steve Federspiel, Thai Dinh, Dennis Stevermer, two-time MSPT champ Taylor Howard and defending champ Dave Gonia, just to name a few.

Defending Champ Dave Gonia

Day 2 will get underway bright and early at 11:00 a.m. local time and play to a winner with players returning to the felt so make sure to come back and find out who walks away the new MSPT Grand Falls Main Event Champion!

MSPT Grand Falls Remaining Schedule
Date Time (CST) Tournament Chips Blind Levels Trophy Event
23-Mar 11:00 AM $1,110 Main Event Day 2 Restart (2-Day Trophy Event) - 40 Minutes *
23-Mar Noon $360 Monster Stack NLH 15,000 20 Minutes *