Firstly of 2024, some of the profitable mid-stakes poker excursions on the earth had awarded $176 million in prize cash since its inception in 2009. Now, lower than a month into 2025, they’ve crossed the $200,000,000 milestone!
Truly, by way of three stops already within the New 12 months, the MSPT has awarded a complete of $201,250,183. Most just lately, poker professional Faraz Jaka topped a 636-entry subject to win the MSPT Bally’s Black Hawk On line casino $1,110 Primary Occasion for $127,849. To this point, the MSPT has hosted 275 Primary Occasions and 69 Regional Occasions.
The MSPT launched in Dec. 2009 at Canterbury Park because the Minnesota State Poker Tour. A 12 months and a half later, the MSPT crossed the state border into Iowa, and earlier than lengthy enlargement noticed the tour rebranded because the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT), a sequence of reasonably priced deepstack no-limit maintain’em tournaments designed for “weekend warriors.”
The MSPT will now return to Potawatomi On line casino in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a cease they haven’t been to since earlier than the pandemic because of the poker site shutting down and solely reopening final 12 months. The $1,110 MSPT 100 Grand Stack Primary Occasion contains a $500,000 assure and can run January 28-February 2. Each Chad Holloway and Kyna England from the International Poker Award-nominated PokerNews Podcast will probably be in attendance.
After that, the tour heads to Las Vegas for the $1,000,000 GTD Poker Bowl IX on the Venetian with the ultimate desk slated to be live-streamed within the poker site’s new studio.
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Gerald Cunniff Newest MSPT Corridor of Fame Inductee
Final weekend, Minnesota’s Gerald Cunniff completed sixty fourth for $2,058 within the MSPT Bally’s Black Hawk Primary Occasion. It marked his twenty fifth MSPT Primary Occasion money, which alongside along with his 2022 MSPT South Dakota State Poker Championship win for $94,843, earned him a coveted spot within the MSPT Corridor of Fame.
Established in 2017, the MSPT Corridor of Fame provides goal standards for gamers to earn their method in.
The factors are:
Obtain a minimal of 25 MSPT Primary Occasion Cashes and 1 MSPT Win OR 1 MSPT Participant of the 12 months; orAchieve a minimal of 10 MSPT Primary Occasion Remaining Tables and 1 MSPT Win OR 1 MSPT Participant of the 12 months
Cunniff turned simply the sixteenth participant to earn their method into the celebrated membership, and what’s extra, he did it comparatively rapidly having earned his first MSPT money in 2017. All informed, Cunniff has $297,028 in MSPT earnings together with six High 10 finishes.
MSPT Corridor of Fame
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