The final starting flight of the inaugural MSPT Season 16 100 GRAND STACK $1,110 Main Event at Sycuan Casino & Resort attracted 48 runners, which along with 1a's 114, 1b’s 114, Day 1c’s 50, and Day 1d’s 148, brought the total field up to 474 entries, blasting past the $300k guarantee.
The field generated a $458,280 prize pool, with the minimum payout being $2,100, while the eventual winner will walk away with a $100,336 first-place prize, along with the first MSPT Season 16 100 GRAND STACK $1,110 Main Event trophy.
At the end of the fourth and final flight, just five players bagged and tagged with Steve Hoang finding a late-night surge to climb to the top of the counts to take the overall chip lead into Day 2 with 2,660,000.
Hoang was able to collect over half of the chips on play while Rudy Cervantes (730,000), Jared Griener (480,000), David "Digger" Vig (475,000), and Rudy Mamo (455,000) were the only others to survive the flight.
Two-Time MSPT Champ Ken Baime
Among those to fall short of finding a Day 2 berth included two-time MSPT champ Ken Baime, Jon ”Cosmo” McGowan, Daria Ivantey, Leonid Vaisburg, and back-to-back Player of the Year Umut Ozturk, just to name a few.
Back-to-Back Player of the Year Umut Ozturk
The surviving players from all starting flights – of which there are 50 (12 from Day 1a, 12 from 1b, 5 from 1c,16 from 1d, and 5 from 1e) – return at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, January 20th to play down to a winner.
MSPT Season 16 Sycuan 100 GRAND STACK Festival Remaining Schedule
| Date |
Time |
Tournament |
Chips |
Blind Levels |
Trophy Event |
| 20-Jan |
9:00 AM |
$200 Seniors Ultimate Stack |
40,000 |
20 Minutes |
* |
| 20-Jan |
11:00 AM |
$1,110 Main Event NLH Day 2 |
- |
40 Minutes |
* |
| 20-Jan |
Noon |
$200 Ultimate Stack NLH |
40,000 |
20 Minutes |
* |
| 20-Jan |
3:00 PM |
$200 Last Chance Monster Stack |
30,000 |
20 Minutes |
* |
The MSPT live reporting crew will be on the floor throughout the remainder of the tournament to provide updates, so keep it here to catch the action!