Gary McGolthlin Wins Mid-States Poker Tour Winter Poker Classic In Columbus

Gary McGlothlin is the winner of the Mid-States Poker Tour Winter Poker Classic hosted on the Hollywood Casino in Columbus, Ohio. The poker participant from the close by metropolis of Delaware took residence the biggest rating of his poker profession, incomes $117,814 alongside along with his first MSPT title on the final cease of the tour’s fifteenth season.

“It feels great, it was a long weekend of ups and downs but it’s awesome to be able to close it out,” McGlothlin advised reporters after the win. “The first text I sent people today was telling them there were 71 players between me and $100k. I continued that all the way down to the final table, and was told not to come home until I get first place so … I guess I get to go home now.”

The $1,110 buy-in no-limit maintain’em occasion drew a subject of 672 entries throughout three beginning flights, ending in a complete prize pool of $650,340 for the $500,000 assured occasion. The prime 72 gamers all took residence at the least $2,146, and that’s what number of gamers returned for an extended Day 2 that may see them play all the best way right down to a winner.

Players that made a deep run into the cash included two-time MSPT champion Chris Meyers (twenty third) and Umut Ozturk (twenty first), who claimed back-to-back MSPT Player of the Year honors due to his consistency on the tour over the previous two years. Other acquainted faces that ran deep included Andy Hammell (nineteenth), Brian Hall (sixteenth), MSPT champion Alex Cruz (14th), and the chip chief in the beginning of Day 2, Patrick Lacy (eleventh).

McGlothlin was certainly one of six gamers to take greater than 2 million in chips into the ultimate desk, however he stayed out of the best way in the course of the early going as Connor Burchwell fell in ninth place, and Kevin Stroud headed to the rail in eighth place. Lenny Pisano scored his second knockout in a row by sending Xayadeth Kayavong residence in seventh place.

Louis Shade then took a flip within the driver’s seat by taking out Robert Councell in sixth place and Abdul Amer in fifth place. McGlothlin received in on the motion subsequent, busting Shade in fourth place for his first knockout on the closing desk. Pisano then eradicated Dalton Jones (third – $60,482_ and that gave him a 2:1 chip benefit going into heads-up play in opposition to McGlothlin.

It was already previous midnight when the ultimate match started, so after already enjoying 13 hours it was going to be an endurance take a look at to find out the champion. McGolthlin doubled up twice, and Pisano doubled as soon as to take play effectively previous 1:00 am native time, after which they traded the chip lead earlier than the ultimate hand happened about an hour later.

That hand began with McGlothlin elevating to 1.1 million, and Pisano bumping it as much as 2.5 million earlier than they noticed a flop dealt OkQ3. Pisano guess 1.5 million, and McGlothlin check-raised all in with Ok7 within the gap. That put him forward of the A2 held by Pisano, and the flip and river sealed the destiny for the event after they fell 710. McGlothlin claimed the highest prize and trophy, and Pisano took residence $96,814 for the runner-up end to place his profession earnings close to $165,000.

Here is a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the closing desk:

This was the final MSPT cease of 2024, and the tour will kick off motion in Las Vegas, Nevada for a most important occasion operating Jan. 2-5.

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