Day 1B of the MSPT Potawatomi $1,100 Main Event officially attracted 262 entrants, which along with Day 1A’s 233 brought the total field up to 495. The prize pool will be distributed to the top 45 players with a min-cash being worth $2,393.
The eventual winner will take home $114,876, and the man best position to make a run at it out of the 49 Day 1B survivors is Alex Ziskin, who bagged up 333,500. That is a little ahead of World Series of Poker bracelet winner John Reading, who led the Day 1A flight with 298,000.
Ziskin currently ranks ninth on Oklahoma’s all-time money list with $690,495 in live tournament earnings. Ziskin has been on fire this past year, first winning a WSOP gold bracelet last summer in Event #29: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em for $401,494, and then last November taking down the inaugural America’s Poker Tour Main Event for $47,490. He is seeking his second MSPT cash after finishing 25th in the MSPT Season 6 Meskwaki Main Event for $2,509.
Other who bagged stacks on Saturday night were Patrick McCullough (251,000), MSPT Season 7 Meskwaki champ Keith Heine (227,000), reigning champ Alex Aqel (176,500), 2016 Aussie Millions champ Ari Engel (77,500), MSPT Season 6 Player of the Year Mark Hodge (74,000), 2017 WSOP Circuit Potawatomi High Roller champ Nadya Magnus (68,500), and MSPT Season 6 Canterbury Park champ Dan “DQ” Hendrickson (65,000).
Among those who failed to advance were Mike Holm, David Gutfreund, Robert Edelstein, Kevin Fielder, and former MSPT champs Travis Lauson, David Gonia, Jason Sell, and Craig Trost.
The surviving 43 Day 1A players and 49 from 1B will combine down to a single field tomorrow at 11 a.m. local time. They’ll play down through the money and all the way to a winner. As usual, the final table action will be live streamed worldwide on a 15-minute delay.
Join us at 11 a.m. on Sunday as we bring you all the action straight from the MSPT Potawatomi tournament floor.