From August 13-21, the Mid-States Poker Tour heads to Tropicana Evansville for the Indiana State Poker Championship, a $1,100 buy-in, $250,000 guaranteed Main Event. The stop will feature a series of qualifiers all feeding into the Main Event, which will take place Friday, August 19 through Sunday, August 21.

The Main Event will be held over three days beginning with Day 1A on Friday at 4 p.m. Day 1A will play 14 levels, and Saturday's Day 1B, which will kick off at the same time, will play the same amount of levels. Players who advance from any Main Event flight will return for Day 2 at 11:00 a.m. on Sunday and play until a champion is crowned.

The Main Event final table will be broadcast LIVE (15-minute delay) worldwide on msptpoker.com using RFID technology allowing all viewers to see the hole cards. In addition, the entirety of the Main Event will be live reported right here in the MSPT's live blog.

To view the entire MSPT Indiana State Poker Championship schedule, click here.

"This marks the third time the MSPT is visiting Tropicana Evansville for a Main Event, and we expect this to be the biggest and best yet," said MSPT owner and operator Bryan Mileski. "Thus far Season 7 has been setting records, and there's a good chance we set another in our first visit of the year to Indiana."

The first time the MSPT visited the venue for a Main Event was back in August 2014 when Charlie Dawson topped a field of 225 entrants to take home a $60,527 first-place prize. Then, in last year's inaugural Indiana State Poker Championship, Michael O'Neill outlasted 250 other entrants to win for $67,746. Amazingly, Illinois' Alexander Yen finished runner-up in both those events!

Located near Indiana's border with Illinois and Kentucky, the Tropicana Evansville Casino is accessible to four major poker bases -- St. Louis, Indianapolis, Louisville, and Nashville – all of which are within a three-hour drive of the property. The casino is located on an 841,848 square foot area at Riverfront Park on the Ohio River in downtown Evansville. The $110 million entertainment facility includes a 250-room hotel and a 96-room boutique hotel, an executive conference center, retail shops, restaurants and lounge area.