Peter Kuretsky was the first to fall at the final table when his pocket queens were beaten when Aaron Johnson’s jacks made a spade flush, and then Chan Pelton followed him out the door after losing with queen-ten suited all in preflop against Andrew Johnson’s ace-four.Īfter Dunne limped the small blind with ace-ten suited, Ian Matakis raised all in from the big with ten-four of clubs. Final Table Action The MSPT Season 10 Canterbury Park final table. Among those to fall short of the money were Minnesota Poker Hall of Famer Kou Vang, former MSPT Grand Falls champ Ahmed Taleb, and bubble boy Brian Zupancich, who lost a flip with Big Slick to Steve Webb’s pocket jacks.Īmong those to finish in the money but fall short of the final table were Day 1b chip leader Phil Mader (15th - $9,318), former MSPT Canterbury Park champs Jonathan Kim (16th - $7,764) and Rob Wazwaz (20th - Luke Vrabel (26th - $4,503), poker reporter Brandon Temple (27th - $4,503), WSOP bracelet winner Derek McMaster (32nd - $3,416), MSPT Season 10 POY Mike Shin (35th - $3,416), Day 1a chip leader Bill Kachel (40th - $2,873), Day 1c chip leader John Reading (65th - $2,329), and Craig Trost (78th - $2,174).
On Sunday, 105 players returned to action, but with only 81 slated to get paid two dozen of them were destined to leave empty-handed.