Terry Fleischer Wins MSPT Venetian Poker Bowl Main Event

Terry Fleischer was the final participant standing within the 2024 Mid-Stakes Poker Tour Venetian Poker Bowl $1,600 buy-in no-limit maintain’em most important occasion. The Las Vegas resident defeated a discipline of 360 entries to seize his first MSPT title and the highest prize of $98,101.

This was the seventh-largest recorded payday for the longtime event participant. It grew his lifetime earnings to greater than $2.5 million, with 247 complete cashes and 28 titles received alongside the way in which.

“It feels really good”, Fleischer informed MSPT reporters. “You know, I’m getting old and only have a limited time left to do this, so I have to keep making the best of it… and I like beating up on these young guys.”

Fleischer earned 600 Card Player Player of the Year factors because the champion. He now sits inside the highest 100 within the 2024 POY race standings introduced by Global Poker.

This occasion ran over the course of three days at Venetian® Resort Las Vegas. Just 41 gamers moved on from the 2 beginning flights to day 2. Those gamers, who all made the cash, took a seat on Sunday and performed till simply Fleischer was left with chips.

Fleischer was knocked all the way down to a particularly quick stack at one level on day 2, however was in a position to rapidly get again on monitor.

“It was a crazy day. I was down to just two big blinds with two tables left but was able to spin that up to 900k in 30 minutes,” mentioned Fleischer.

By the time the ultimate desk was set, Fleischer sat in sixth chip place among the many remaining 9 contenders. 2021 Wynn Millions most important occasion champion Andrew Moreno was within the lead at that time.

Bracelet winner and World Poker Tour champion Dylan Linde scored the primary knockout, successful a traditional race in opposition to Brian Kay (ninth) to slender the sector to eight. 2022 MSPT South Dakota State Poker Championship winner Gerald Cunniff picked up pocket aces in opposition to the pocket jacks of Evan Sandberg (eighth) to attain the following knockout.

Linde’s run got here to an finish when his pocket queens bumped into the flopped journey tens Mopreno, who held Q-10. Moreno then improved to a flush on the river to win the pot and ship Linde packing in seventh place ($17,759). He now has almost $8.1 million in recorded event earnings to his title, and is ranked 82nd within the 2024 POY rankings because of the six final-table finishes he has already made this yr.

Cunniff picked up two massive aces (A-Okay and A-Q) in opposition to decrease A-X combos to get rid of Jack Corrigan (sixth – $22,789) and Jeremy Becker (fifth – $29,669). This was already Becker’s fourth POY-qualified rating. With 918 complete factors, he’s now ranked thirty fourth within the total standings.

Cunniff went on to complete fourth, operating QJ into Stanley Weng’s J10 after a Q1010 flop. Cunniff failed to enhance on the flip or river and settled for $39,181.

Moreno obtained all-in on a 7628 board with 107 up in opposition to the ten9 of Fleischer. The 8 on the river noticed Moreno eradicated in third place ($52,475). He now has greater than $4.2 million in lifetime event earnings after this newest robust displaying.

Fleischer took better than a 4:1 chip lead into heads-up play with Weng. On the ultimate hand, Weng shoved with A4 and Fleischer referred to as with AOkay. The board ran out Okay9283 and Fleischer made prime pair, prime kicker to win the pot and the title. Weng took dwelling $71,260 because the runner-up.

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

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