For the second time this season, the MSPT traveled to the beautiful mountainside of Black Hawk, Colorado, and players have been inside Bally's Casino, duking it out over the past week for the 2025 Colorado Poker State Championship!
In Event #5: $200 NLH Monster Stack, another 127-player field took to the felt as monster hunters, and generated a $20,320 prize pool that was paid out to the top 15 players.
Among those to cash but fall before the final table were Jamie Christensen (10th Place - $417), John Fornander (11th Place - $417), Russell Neesham (12th Place - $417), Neil Pugh (13th Place - $345), Raul Carrera (14th Place - $345), and Dheyaa Al Sammarraie (15th Place - $345).
Coming out on top was Colorado native Saad Vasquez, who came out on top with the lion's share of the prize pool and claimed his first Gold Card!
Final Table Results
| Place |
Name |
Amount |
POY |
| 1 |
Saad Vasquez |
$4,152* |
117 |
| 2 |
John Deshotel |
$3,932* |
117 |
| 3 |
Jonathan McCray |
$3,660* |
117 |
| 4 |
Paul Schiff |
$1,900 |
100 |
| 5 |
Vitalii Hryniuk |
$1,382 |
83 |
| 6 |
Ronald Scott |
$1,057 |
67 |
| 7 |
Ananiya Gebretsadik |
$813 |
50 |
| 8 |
Braden Paterson |
$630 |
33 |
| 9 |
Alisia Chambers |
$508 |
17 |