Angela Jordison Won Her Second MSPT Title Over The Weekend

This weekend, the recently-rebranded MSPT was at Grand Falls On line casino simply exterior Sioux Falls for a $1,110 Fundamental Occasion. The event attracted 513 entrants and awarded a $496,110 prize pool. Up to now, the MSPT has awarded $206,447,913 in prize cash courting again to 2009.

On Sunday, 55 surviving gamers returned to play right down to a winner, and after roughly 9 hours of play, it was well-known poker professional Angela Jordison popping out on high to assert a $95,381 high prize and her second MSPT title. She beforehand gained the MSPT Ameristar East Chicago for $161,513 final September.

“To return in brief, it’s actually one thing I’ve been working a lot on recently, the ICM chops and these quick stack conditions actually got here into play right here and it actually helped me out,” Jordison advised MSPT reporter Anthony Thompson after the win. “All that prep that I do off the felt, the stuff that appears to be actually boring or nugatory, actually got here in clutch right here.”

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Others to money the event had been former MSPT champs Ryan Skluzak (forty fifth – $2,398), Mo Nuwwarah (thirty seventh – $2,398), Josh Reichard (thirtieth – $2,646), and Taylor Howard (twenty ninth – $2,646). Anthony Scarborough additionally completed in thirty sixth place for $2,646, which gave him 100 POY factors. He now sits atop the Season 16 POY leaderboard with 3,150 factors.

In accordance with updates from the occasion, Jordison began the ultimate desk because the second shortest stack, however she gained some massive palms in opposition to former MSPT champ Jason Promote to get again in enterprise. Finally, Jordison ended up heads-up in opposition to TJ Murphy and the 2 labored an ICM chop after which performed it out to find out a winner. It didn’t take lengthy for Jordison to flop and straight and dispatch Murphy in second place.

The win was massive in Jordison’s quest to change into the primary girl to earn their means into the MSPT Corridor of Fame (PokerNews Podcast cohost Kyna England can be shut), and that was very true after latest standards modifications.

“I used to be fairly disenchanted after seeing the Corridor of Fame modifications,” Jordison defined. “It was one thing I used to be gunning for after which felt prefer it was nearly unattainable, like nice now I’m by no means going to get it.”

One of many standards is to win a minimum of two MSPT titles, and now Jordison is there. She has 17 MSPT Fundamental Occasion cashes totaling $463,714, so now all she wants is 23 extra MSPT Fundamental Occasion cashes and to stand up to the $500K mark.

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