Firstly of 2024, probably the most profitable mid-stakes poker excursions on this planet 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, via 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 discipline to win the MSPT Bally’s Black Hawk Casino $1,110 Main Event for $127,849. To this point, the MSPT has hosted 275 Principal 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 growth noticed the tour rebranded because the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT), a collection of inexpensive 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 Principal Occasion includes a $500,000 assure and can run January 28-February 2. Each Chad Holloway and Kyna England from the Global 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 Principal Occasion. It marked his twenty fifth MSPT Principal Occasion money, which alongside together 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 gives goal standards for gamers to earn their approach in.
The factors are:
- Obtain a minimal of 25 MSPT Principal Occasion Cashes and 1 MSPT Win OR 1 MSPT Participant of the 12 months; or
- Obtain a minimal of 10 MSPT Principal Occasion Closing Tables and 1 MSPT Win OR 1 MSPT Participant of the 12 months
Cunniff turned simply the sixteenth participant to earn their approach into the distinguished membership, and what’s extra, he did it comparatively rapidly having earned his first MSPT money in 2017. All instructed, Cunniff has $297,028 in MSPT earnings together with six Prime 10 finishes.
MSPT Corridor of Fame
| 12 months | Inductee |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Gerald Cunniff |
| 2024 | Rodger Johnson, Chris Moon |
| 2023 | Aaron Massey, “DQ” Dan Hendrickson, Umut Ozturk |
| 2022 | Josh Reichard, Matt Kirby |
| 2021 | Jason Seitz, Rob Wazwaz |
| 2020 | Pat Steele, Blake Bohn |
| 2019 | Mark Hodge |
| 2018 | Aaron Johnson, Wealthy Alsup, Kou Vang |
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