Matthew Davis wins the Middle States Series Poker Tour at the Michigan State Series of Poker

year 2022 Midstate Poker Tour Michigan State Series of Poker The $1,100 Hold’em main event attracted a record-setting field of 2,409 entries to the FireKeepers Casino Hotel in Battle Creek, Michigan. The massive turnout more than doubled the Million Dollar Guarantee, with $2,336,730 in total prize money eventually awarded to the top 252 contestants. In the end, Matthew Davis, of Michigan, won the largest share. The Washington Township resident got his first MSPT title and $344,446 to win.

This was by far the biggest hit in Davis’ poker resumption, shedding the $98,120 he earned as a 76th place finisher in 2019. World Series of Poker The main event. He now has over $545,000 in life earnings to his name.

Davis’s race earned the title a noteworthy observer: the Michigan native and 2009 WSOP . World Series of Poker Main event champion Joe Kada. The four-time bracelet winner (pictured above at far left) took to social media to celebrate Davis’ victory.

congratulations Tweet embed!!! Played the second day for 17 hours to beat 2,409 players to win a race MSPT For $344,446! So proud. pic.twitter.com/p90ci464ax

– Joseph Cada (@JoeCada99) October 17 2022

In addition to the trophy and money, David also received a reward of card player Overall player points to win. The 1,080 points he earned for the first time POY– This year’s qualifying score was enough, on its own, to move him into the top 400 in POY Race arrangement sponsored by Global Poker.

With such a high turnout, there were still 303 players in contention after completing the first three runs, with that number set to be champions over the course of a one-day run. Davis finished 243rd at the start, four times MSPT Champion Dan Bicavac is on top when work resumes. Bicavic finished 44th at the end. Other notables to run in the deep include bracelet winner Jean Gaspard (165), Aaron Massey (136), bracelet winner and world poker tour Champion: Kevin Stamen (96), Jake Basili (92), WPT Champion Brick Shotgun (74), 2022 MSPT Iowa State Series of Poker Winner Craig Trost (56th place), aforementioned world champion Joe Cada (34th place), and bracelet winner Soheb Porbandarwala (32nd place).

Davis had climbed to seventh by the time the official final table of nine was set. He beat Alec Magdan (9th – $36,196), Ronald Beaulieu (8th – $45,537) and Alex Farcas (7th – $58,381) to make the last six, but remained stuck near the bottom of the chip count. He doubled through Chris Moon during a six-arm move to begin his climb up the leaderboard. Moon then played a proper A-3 in AK for chip leader Jason Zarlengato who hit the rails in sixth place ($74,727).

Davis found the pocket-for-nine jeep scores for Justin Bempedley (5th – $94,810) and kept them to continue his late-night hike. He then won a pocket sevens race to beat J-9 for the short set Adam Williams (4th – $123,767) to enter a three-player play with the lead.

Zarlenga dropped to five big blinds only when he moved everything with KQ on the button. Davis calls A-9 and misses the ace to take a big lead on the hand. Zarlinga made a pair of queens in his turn to momentarily keep his hopes alive, but he didn’t improve any further and was eliminated in third place ($158,796).

With that said, Davis took more than a 2:1 lead in a singles match with Reinaldo Teodoro. In the last hand, Davis entered from the button with the number 77. Teodoro raised to 3x the big blind with A.6 And Davis moved it all to get an effective boost from 20 big blinds. Teodoro made the call and the council ran out7269 To give Davis a set of sevens to win. Teodoro earned $212,511 in second place.

Here is a look at the payments and POY Points awarded on the final table:

Winner’s photo via MSPT Twitter the account.