Angela Jordison won the MPST Ameristar East Chicago.

This previous weekend, the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) was at Ameristar East Chicago for an $1,100 Predominant Occasion, a match that attracted 861 entries and was gained by well-known poker grinder Angela Jordison, who took down a career-high $161,513 prize.

The win surpassed her earlier excessive of $151,544 for ending third within the 2022 World Collection of Poker (WSOP) Occasion #18: $1,000 NLH Freezeout.

“This has simply actually been on my bucket record,” Jordison instructed MSPT officers after the win. “I like this tour, I like the value level, I like the workers, I like the whole lot about it. Yearly on January 1st I write down ‘Win an MSPT’.”

The victory marked Jordison’s first MSPT title after 4 last desk appearances (she completed fifth all the opposite instances).

MSPT Ameristar East Chicago Ultimate Desk Outcomes

Others to money the match had been Zal Irani (tenth – $11,596), Umut Ozturk (14th – $9,939), Sarah Stefan (sixteenth – $8,283), Cody Brinn (twenty first – $6,957), Chris Meyers (twenty eighth – $3,644), Ari Engel (thirtieth – $3,644), and Theresa Flores (forty sixth – $2,650).

In line with updates from the occasion, Jordison started heads-up play with a greater than 2:1 chip lead and it didn’t take lengthy for her to shut it out. It occurred after her heads-up opponent, Miguel Martinez moved all in with pocket tens and Jordison referred to as with ace-seven of golf equipment. Two golf equipment on the flop delivered Jordison a flush draw, and a 3rd on the flip gave it to her to ship Miguel residence in second place for $99,395.

It was the newest poker accomplishment for Jordison, who again in 2023 was a star on the 4th Annual World Poker Awards the place she narrowly missed out on GPI Feminine Participant of the 12 months to Cherish Andrews bit was topped Breakout Participant of the 12 months for a yr by which she cashed for almost $600,000 in stay tournaments.

For Jordison, she attributed her success due to JakaCoaching.com, a companion of PokerNews.

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“Faraz [Jaka] has been an awesome useful resource for me, I’ve been with the positioning since its inception, I’ve put numerous time in on it. I used to be on a downswing for 6-9 months, so the one method I felt I might management issues was to check extra. So, I did that, and issues have labored out!”

As a result of she went so deep, Jordison really missed her unique return flight, however she was clearly comfortable to take action.

“I got here into Midwest poker three years in the past and I didn’t know anybody. Now this Midwest group has turn out to be my household and so they make me higher as a result of so lots of them are so good.”

The MSPT will now head to Las Vegas for a $1,100 Predominant Occasion at The Venetian from Sept. 5-8, and whereas the tour has been to the property many instances earlier than, it’ll mark the primary MSPT within the Venetian’s new poker site.

*Photos courtesy of MSPT.

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