Day 1b Of $1,100 Main Event No-Limit Hold’em Mid-States Poker Tour At JACK Casino In Cleveland Ohio Begins at 12 PM
The $1,100 Main Event No-Limit Hold’em is one of four trophy events this week that also include the $400 Pot-Limit Omaha, $135 Nightly No-Limit Hold’em, and $360 Last Chance No-Limit Hold’em. Unlike those however, the main event boasts an impressive $500,000 guarantee on the prize pool, nearly double the $300,000 when the tour came in January of 2020.
Last night saw James Mendelhall bag the chip lead with 392,000 chips with William “Bill” Topico and Michael Pempin nipping at his heels with 389,000 and 380,000 respectively. 22 players made it last night out of the 186 entrants and the flight today expects more entrants. Players who were unable to bag last night, but are sure to fire this flight include Daniel Sepiol, Michael Berk, Nicholas Rigby and Anthony Carbone.
Players will start out with 25,000 chips with the starting level of 100/100 and a big blind ante of 100. Levels will escalate every 40-minutes with a ten minute break after every three levels, with a 40-minute dinner break after level 9. After which, the players will have three more levels of play and then late registration will close.
Stay tuned to PokerNews.com for all of the updates on the MSPT $1,100 main event.