The Venetian

Alex Foxen Secures the Top Spot After a Final 42 Players Advance from Day 1C of the MSPT Season 17 Venetian Poker Bowl X

Day 1c of the MSPT Season 17 $1,600 Poker Bowl X at the Venetian Resort attracted more players than the first two flights combined, adding another 381 entries, which, along with 1a's 132 and 1b’s 227, brought the total field up to 740 entries, clipping the $1,000,000 guarantee.

The total field generated a $1,050,800 prize pool, and the top 82 players will get paid a minimum of $3,456 while the eventual winner will walk away with a $165,235 first-place prize, along with the MSPT Season 17 Venetian Poker Bowl X title!

At the end of the third and final flight, just 51 players bagged and tagged, with MSPT Champ Alex Foxen bagging the top stack with 1,264,000, edging out fellow bracelet winner Anthony Reategui to take the overall chip lead into Day 2.

Another player to catch steam throughout the day was fellow bracelet winner Kathy Liebert, who ended the night with an impressive 1,057,000 stack to put in her bag to end the night, while Hunter Cichy also clipped the milly mark with 1,034,000 to take into Day 2.

Others to bag big included Joe Serock (661,000), Qing Liu (640,000), and David Yue (628,000), as they were the only others to bag over 600k rounded this flight.

Among those not as lucky at the felt included MSPT Champ Jeff Platt, Tyler “TK” Kolness, Altynai Fung, 2022 Poker Bowl Champ Ron West, Matt Affleck, and MSPT Season 12 Player of the Year Kyna England.

The surviving players from all three flights – of which there are 82 (15 from Day 1a, 25 from 1b, and 42 from 1c) – will return for Day 2 at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow, Saturday, February 7^th, and will play until a winner is crowned.

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Congratulations to everyone who made it to Day 2! We will be back tomorrow for full coverage right here on MSPTPoker.com from the Venetian Las Vegas!

End Day 1C Chip Counts

Player Name	Chip Count	Previous	Progress
Alex Foxen	1,264,000	380,000
Kathy Liebert	1,057,000	770,000
Hunter Cichy	1,034,000	541,000
Joseph Serock	661,000	630,000
Qing Liu	640,000	730,000
David Yue	628,000	505,000
Francis Anderson	530,000	453,000
Steven Bailey	529,000	780,000
Patrick Eskandar	493,000	250,000
JB Wells	485,000	495,000
Aaron Massey	457,000	265,000
Michael Capener	405,000	489,000
Earl Goodman	398,000	459,000
Greg Kolo	380,000	320,000
Cade Lautenbacher	363,000	240,000
Tong Bi	358,000	491,000
Antonio Torpoco	354,000	255,000
Michael Helander	335,000	377,000
Lokesh Garg	331,000	255,000
Mark Evangelista	291,000	420,000
Jacob Mendelsohn	288,000	316,000
DJ Buckley	282,000	390,000
Esther Riordan	270,000	99,000
Xiang Lin	252,000	106,000
Kenneth Kim	249,000	438,000
Huy Lam	236,000	511,000
Nick Pupillo	229,000	474,000
Jung Lee	221,000	231,000
Dan Stavila	213,000	186,000
Oliver Tot	207,000	240,000
Thai Vu	206,000	256,000
Rubin Chappell	204,000	177,000
Anthony Danna	204,000	295,000
Benjamin Smola	173,000	72,000
Michael Wang	154,000	290,000
Rafael Herrera	147,000	269,000
Rommel Liscano	139,000	104,000
Philip Tardif	134,000	216,000
Maksims Uskovs	123,000	259,000
Eric Blair	119,000	282,000
Aaron Klausman	111,000	251,000
David Somers	17,000	52,000

Lily Kiletto Bubbles Day 1C

After separate all-ins at three different tables, Lily Kiletto was the only one not to find a double after she shoved all-in preflop for 182,000 and was called by Steven Bailey.

Lily Kiletto:
Steen Bailey:

Kiletto was racing for her tournament life, with the flop keeping things sweaty as it gave Bailey more outs with a Broadway draw.

Unfortunately for Kiletto, the sweat didn’t last long, as the dealer turned the , to end her tournament on the bubble before the completed the board on the river.

Steven Bailey - 500,000
Lily Kiletto - Eliminated

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Bobrosky Set Up by Wells, Hand-for-Hand Begins

Photo: Josh Bobrosky

Anthony Danna raised to 20,000 from under the gun and was called by JB Wells from the cutoff before Josh Bobrosky squeezed his 30,000 in the middle from the small blind.

Both Danna and Wells called, bringing about a flop.

Action was then checked to the turn, where Danna check-folded to a 75,000 bet from Wells.

Josh Bobrosky:
JB Wells:

Wells pulled ahead after turning a set of tens, and Bobrosky was left needing to complete Broadway, but the completed the board to end his tournament, starting the hand-for-hand process with 43 players remaining.

JB Wells - 495,000
Josh Bobrosky - Eliminated

Liscano Flips Well Against Somers

Photo: Rommel Liscano

David Somers for 16,000 from the hijack, and then called Rommel Liscano’s 87,000 three-bet jam from the cutoff.

Rommel Liscano: sk
David Somers:

It was a flip, with Liscano calling the correct side, as the runout paired his king, securing his double-up.

Rommel Liscano - 185,000
David Somers - 70,000

Chip Movement and Dropouts

Player Name	Chip Count	Previous	Progress
Kathy Liebert	770,000	489,000
Qing Liu	730,000	308,000
Joseph Serock	630,000	487,000
Hunter Cichy	541,000	131,000
DJ Buckley	390,000	210,000
Alex Foxen	380,000	225,000
Patrick Troung	0	121,000
James Epner	0	116,000
Brian Batt	0	348,000
Dominic Brazier	0	200,000
Joe Marchal	0	31,000
Murtaza Muzar	0	189,000

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Chip Collectors & Givers

Player Name	Chip Count	Previous	Progress
Steven Bailey	780,000	486,000
David Yue	505,000	480,000
Lily Kiletto	500,000	387,000
Mark Evangelista	420,000	389,000
Jeffrey Wells (NC)	277,000	177,000
DJ Buckley	210,000	120,000
Dominic Brazier	200,000	75,000
Jim Agate	0	97,000
Michael Arellano	0	52,000
Yoon Kim	0	90,000
Ryan Laplante	0	144,000
Evan Sandberg	0	330,000
Delmiro Toledo	0	378,000

Halverson Loses Race to Epner

Photo: Mitchell Halverson

WSOP bracelet winner Mitchell Halverson raised from the cutoff, and then called off his 94,000 stack after James Epner three-bet jammed for 116,000 from the small blind.

Mitchell Halverson:
James Epner:

Halverson was racing for his tournament life, with nothing changing after the flop hit the felt.

The dealer turned the , giving Halverson more outs, taking away Epner’s outs with a Broadway draw, but the then paired the board on the river and ended his tournament.

James Epner - 225,000
Mitchell Halverson - Eliminated