Welcome to Day 1a of the MSPT Meskwaki Casino!
It is time for the MSPT Meskwaki Main Event! Action gets rolling today here in Iowa with at 3 p.m. local time with Day 1a action.
The buy-in for this event is $1,100, which gets every entry a starting stack of 15,000. Each entry has the option of a $10 add-on for an additional 5,000 chips and one would assume that most players will elect to take that opportunity to boost their starting stack to 20,000.
Levels are 40 minutes in length, a 10-minute break will be held every three levels. Play will end when 15 levels are completed or the field is cut to 12% remaining, whichever comes first. Day 1b will then mirror the Day 1a cut-off.
The survivors of the day will advance to Day 2, which is on Sunday, November 3 at 11 a.m. There they will combine with the players who survive Day 1b to contest for the title. The final table will not only be live reported by PokerNews but also live-streamed worldwide on a 15-minute delay.
Back in March, the first MSPT Meskwaki of Season 10 drew 409 entries and saw Steve Federspiel walk away with an $86,949 first-place prize. Then, in July, Josh Meyer bested a 401-entry field to win the 2019 MSPT Iowa State Poker Championship. In the same event last year, Taylor Howard topped a 423-entry field to win the tournament for $89,939.
Pokernews will provide coverage of the Main Event is entirety, so stay tuned for some MSPT action.