NATION'S #1 POKER TOUR JUNE 2017 JUNE 2017 Mid-States Poker Tour PAGE 3 Letter from the Editor GETTING OUT AND ABOUT ON THE MSPT BY CHAD HOLLOWAY Vol. 2/No. 6 While we wish everyone who plays a MSPT event could experience the President and Publisher thrill of making a final table, the hard truth is that many players bust and find Bryan Mileski themselves with free time on their hands. Fortunately, our host properties [email protected] have plenty of options to keep you busy including cash games, table games and Editor-in-Chief slots, and lots of dining options like Running Aces’ trout experience. Chad Holloway However, we’d be remiss if we didn’t encourage you to take advantage of [email protected] being somewhere new when traveling for a MSPT. 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Falls Park - Sioux Falls, SD PAGE 4 Mid-States Poker Tour JUNE 2017 Event Recap MARK WADEKAMPER WINS LARGEST MAJOR POKER TOURNAMENT IN MINNESOTA HISTORY; TAKES DOWN MSPT CANTERBURY FOR $110,220! BY MSPT POKER STAFF he MSPT’s 13th Main Event at Canterbury Park in Sha- kopee, Minnesota drew 475 entrants, which made it Tthe largest ever held at the venue surpassing the 470 entrants from December 2015. After two long days of play, 56-year-old business development manager Mark Wadekam- per emerged victorious to capture a $110,220 first-place prize. Not only that, he managed to stop reigning champ Jon Kim, who back in December topped a field of 464 entrants to win the MSPT Canterbury Park for $107,659, from a title defense by besting him in heads-up play. “I was not expecting to win, I was just happy to cash,” said Wadekamper. “There were a lot of good players in this tournament, a lot of former MSPT champs. I was just happy to cash. I didn’t think there was a possibility I’d win until the last hand.” Prior to the win, Wadekamper’s previous best cash was $9,600 for finishing fifth in the 2009 Heartland Poker Tour Walker Main Event. As for what he’ll do with the money Wadekamper, who is married with three grown kids—two of whom play poker—he’s got a plan. “I’ll pay taxes and probably help pay my daughter’s student loans,” he said. Among those to play the tournament but fail to make Day 2 were 2004 World Series of Poker Main Event champ Greg Mark Wadekamper Raymer; 2016 MSPT Iowa State Poker Champ John Sun; Minnesota Poker Hall of Famer Mike Schneider; and MSPT his titles in back-to-back events at Canterbury Park. Pros Blake Bohn and Matt Kirby. At the final table, two-time champ Peixin Liu, who won Day 2 saw 89 players return to action, but with only 45 slated the Season 5 MSPT Canterbury Park for $106,483, was the to get paid nearly half the field would leave empty handed. first to fall after running queens into the aces of Joe Maas Among them were Minnesota Poker Hall of Famer Tony on the fourth hand of play. Five hands later, Nathan Boyer, Hartmann, MSPT Season 7 Player of the Year Rich Alsup, who earned his first MSPT cash, followed him out the door and former Canterbury Park champ Dan “DQ” Hendrickson, after getting his short stack in with king-jack and failing to just to name a few. get there against George Shabatura’s ace-queen. After MSPT Pro Matt Alexander exited as the bubble boy in On Hand #24, with the blinds at 25,000/50,000/5,000, a 5♦8♠9♥ 46th place – the result of running pocket deuces into queens – flop saw Maas jam with a double gutter holding the ♦J 7♦ and the in-the-money bust outs came quick. They included former start-of-the-day chip leader Loki Abboud called with the champs Jason Sell (35th - $2,756) and Mark Sandness (31st - 5♥8♥ for two pair. Neither the 9♣ turn nor 4♣ river help Maas, $2,756); professional footballer Bernando Anor (24th - $3,444); and he exited in eighth place for $12,170, his first MSPT cash. Day 1B chip leader Mike Ross (20th - $3,444); and three-time The next elimination didn’t occur until Hand #55 in Level MSPT champ Carl Carodenuto (14th - $5,970), who won two of 29 (40,000/80,000/10,000) when Nes Coburn jammed the hijack MSPTPOKER.COM JUNE 2017 Mid-States Poker Tour PAGE 5 Canterbury Park for 725,000 holding the 5♦3♠ and Loki called from the small blind with the A♦Q♣. The board ran out 8♦10♠Q♦6♦8♥ and Canterbury Park Casino Coburn was out in seventh place. Buy-in: $1,100 ♣ 475 Entrants Two hands later, Paul Eidem lost a flip with ace-seven to Bryan Andrews’ pocket queens, and then on Hand #72, with Place Name City, State Prize the blinds at 50,000/100,000/10,000, Loki busted Andrews. It 1 Mark Wadekamper Lonsdale, MN $110,220 happened when Andrews, a PLO player from Wisconsin, 2 Jonathan Kim Minneapolis, MN $66,593 moved all in for 380,000 from the cutoff holding the 5♣4♣ and 3 George Shabatura Plymouth, MN $43,399 Loki called with the K♠10♥ on the button. The board ran out 4 Loki Abboud Mendota Heights, MN $30,081 6 J A 10 Q and Loki scored his third elimination of the ♥ ♠ ♠ ♣ ♦ 5 Bryan Andrews Wauwatosa, WI $22,963 final table. 6 Paul Eidem Eden Prairie, MN $17,681 Loki seemed to have the tournament in hand, but his luck soon turned after he slow played pocket kings and ended up 7 Nesbitt Coburn Minneapolis, MN $14,696 losing a 4.6-million pot after Wadekamper hit a two outer on 8 Joe Maas Edina, MN $12,170 the river. Not long after, Loki got his leftover chips in with 9 Nathan Boyer Star Prairie, WI $10,287 seven-deuce offsuit and was finished off by Wadekamper’s 10 Peixin Liu Blaine, MN $7,807 pocket eights. With that, Loki bowed out in fifth place after finishing sixth in last December’s Season 7 finale at best-ever MSPT finish. Canterbury Park. Wadekamper began heads-up play with 8.4 million in “I was surprised,” Wadekamper said when asked about the chips to the defending champ’s 1.1 million, and it didn’t miracle two outer. “I was expecting to be done, to go cash out take long for things to come to a head. In what would be the and get something to eat. That was a big one.” final hand of the tournament, which took place in Level 31 Wadekamper and Shabatura then got it in on a 6♣10♠4♣ flop (60,000/120,000/20,0000, Kim shoved for 1.5 million holding the with the former’s 10♣3♦ behind the latter’s 10♦8♣. The J♦ turn A♦2♣ and Wadekamper woke up with J♣J♥. The board ran was of no consequence, but the 3♥ river was as Wadekamper out Q♣7♣9♣8♠3♥ and Kim came up one spot shy of defending spiked another river to send Shabatura out in third place, his his title, though he did receive a $66,593 consolation prize. Final Table MSPTPOKER.COM why settle for tequila? step up to kimo sabe triple award winner why settle for tequila? step up to kimo sabe triple award winner www.PokerCPA.com JUNE 2017 Mid-States Poker Tour PAGE 9 Event Recap TRAVIS GANT WINS GRAND FALLS CASINO’S FIRST- EVER MSPT $350 REGIONAL EVENT FOR $29,782 BY MSPT POKER STAFF he first ever MSPT Grand Falls Casino T$350 Re- Buy-in: $350 ♣ 426 Entrants gional Event held at Grand Place Name City, State Prize Falls Casino in 1 Travis Gant Geddes, SD $29,782 Larchwood, Iowa, 2 Jason Bender Keota, IA $17,975 which is just out- 3 Darren Eide Moorehead, MN $11,741 side Sioux Falls, 4 Curtis Vierstraete Wahpeton, ND $8,119 South Dakota, 5 Ken Pates Brooklyn Park, MN $6,198 drew 426 entries over three start- 6 John Cap Scotland, SD $4,772 ing flights.