Event 9: $1,100 Mid-States Poker Tour No-Limit Hold’em $500,000 Guarantee
Valentin Vornicu
Event: $1,100 Mid-States Poker Tour No-Limit Hold’em
Guarantee: $500,000 Guarantee
Entries: 827
Prize Pool: $806,325
Places Paid: 90
Players Remaining: 115
Min-Cash: $2,096
1st Place: $157,234
Chip Leader: Valentin Vornicu – 633,500
*Day 2 begins at 11 a.m. February 3
Day 2 Chip Counts
| Table | Seat | Player | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 8 | Valentin Vornicu | 633,500 |
| 19 | 4 | Wilson Chan | 402,500 |
| 34 | 5 | Mike Lang | 353,500 |
| 33 | 8 | Joseph Cheong | 349,500 |
| 32 | 5 | Dylan Thomassie | 324,000 |
| 20 | 9 | William James | 322,500 |
| 37 | 3 | Eric Baldwin | 305,500 |
| 32 | 8 | Salvatore Dicarlo | 304,000 |
| 18 | 6 | Kevin O'Donnell | 291,500 |
| 17 | 6 | Phuoc Nguyen | 272,000 |
| 32 | 2 | Matthias De Cercq | 269,000 |
| 18 | 9 | Daniel Frumkin | 254,500 |
| 36 | 3 | Hayden Fortini | 237,000 |
| 19 | 5 | Narimaan Ahmadi | 235,500 |
| 35 | 7 | Vincent Moscati | 229,000 |
| 36 | 2 | Kfir Nahum | 223,000 |
| 20 | 7 | Trung Pham | 219,500 |
| 14 | 1 | Ken Hicks | 216,000 |
| 35 | 6 | Viacheslav Fentisov | 215,500 |
| 17 | 4 | Ahmed Taleb | 206,500 |
| 17 | 3 | Ekrem Bozkurt | 202,000 |
| 19 | 6 | Virab Zakaryan | 201,000 |
| 16 | 7 | Jordan Cristos | 195,500 |
| 19 | 3 | Stanley Lee | 195,500 |
| 33 | 1 | Mike Harvey | 193,500 |
| 14 | 3 | Brian Johnson | 188,000 |
| 16 | 3 | Jerrimie Pacheco | 185,500 |
| 20 | 3 | Sajed Karim | 175,500 |
| 20 | 5 | Daniel Perkins | 171,500 |
| 14 | 2 | Mitchell Towner | 170,500 |
| 14 | 4 | Lokesh Garg | 170,000 |
| 18 | 2 | Anthony Gencarelli | 169,500 |
| 35 | 2 | Jon Turner | 168,500 |
| 32 | 6 | Christopher Bonita | 168,000 |
| 36 | 1 | Scott Clements | 165,000 |
| 15 | 2 | Schuyler Thornton | 162,500 |
| 14 | 6 | Bob Shao | 161,000 |
| 15 | 3 | Leo Wolpert | 161,000 |
| 15 | 5 | Anthony Spinella | 160,500 |
| 37 | 5 | Nghia Nguyen | 160,000 |
| 35 | 9 | Pritpal Virdee | 159,500 |
| 19 | 2 | John Ploski | 158,000 |
| 19 | 7 | Todd Rodgers | 156,500 |
| 34 | 9 | Sardor Gaziev | 156,500 |
| 35 | 8 | Connor Arlia | 156,000 |
| 14 | 9 | Shawn Raines | 148,500 |
| 37 | 6 | Steve Buell | 148,500 |
| 17 | 2 | Mauricio Solano | 145,500 |
| 33 | 5 | Colin Lovelock | 145,500 |
| 16 | 8 | Kultida Berman | 144,000 |
| 34 | 8 | Cesar Claudiio | 144,000 |
| 17 | 7 | Edward Lewis | 138,500 |
| 18 | 1 | Daniel Dipasquale | 134,500 |
| 15 | 4 | Kathy Liebert | 130,000 |
| 19 | 9 | Erick Casselman | 128,500 |
| 20 | 6 | Tuan Mai | 128,000 |
| 33 | 4 | Damon Johnson | 125,500 |
| 17 | 9 | Marc Bernal | 125,000 |
| 16 | 5 | Giuseppe Pantaleo | 123,500 |
| 19 | 8 | Peter Morris | 123,500 |
| 34 | 3 | Ken Gigstead | 122,500 |
| 14 | 8 | Craig Varnell | 122,000 |
| 35 | 5 | Todd Melander | 122,000 |
| 16 | 1 | Jerry Cunniff | 120,500 |
| 18 | 5 | Joris Springael | 120,000 |
| 34 | 2 | Ana Freitas | 119,000 |
| 15 | 6 | David To | 116,500 |
| 18 | 7 | Nikhil Gera | 116,500 |
| 34 | 1 | Brandon Hatch | 115,000 |
| 15 | 7 | Zachariah Marchiondo | 111,000 |
| 20 | 8 | Collin Grubaugh | 110,000 |
| 33 | 9 | Peter Hengsakul | 107,500 |
| 37 | 7 | Charlie Nguyen | 107,500 |
| 20 | 1 | Shinryo Nonin | 104,500 |
| 37 | 1 | Jeffrey Leonard | 101,000 |
| 17 | 1 | Darren Rabinowitz | 100,000 |
| 32 | 1 | Ben Keeline | 98,000 |
| 35 | 4 | Jeff Fielder | 97,000 |
| 15 | 8 | Ryan Laplante | 96,000 |
| 16 | 9 | Keyavash Hemyari | 95,500 |
| 20 | 2 | Michael Foley | 95,000 |
| 18 | 3 | William Schonsheck | 92,000 |
| 19 | 1 | Robert Cheung | 88,500 |
| 33 | 7 | Casey Stewart | 88,500 |
| 36 | 5 | Charlie Workman | 86,500 |
| 14 | 7 | Rodger Johnson | 83,500 |
| 16 | 4 | Tony Woo | 83,000 |
| 33 | 3 | Ilkin Amirov | 81,000 |
| 16 | 2 | Tom Bouziden | 80,000 |
| 35 | 3 | Timothy Reilly | 80,000 |
| 16 | 6 | Paul Lieu | 76,500 |
| 33 | 2 | Ted Gamboa | 75,500 |
| 36 | 7 | Nick Getzen | 74,000 |
| 34 | 7 | Dan Hendrickson | 71,500 |
| 32 | 4 | Victor Davalos | 68,500 |
| 34 | 4 | Rubin Chappell | 67,500 |
| 18 | 4 | Farhad Sinaei | 66,000 |
| 35 | 1 | Jon Maras | 62,500 |
| 33 | 6 | Jim Agate | 62,000 |
| 36 | 4 | Ryan Swanberg | 60,000 |
| 15 | 9 | Drew Schulz | 58,500 |
| 17 | 5 | Damian Jaworski | 58,500 |
| 20 | 4 | Kenja Wiseman | 56,000 |
| 36 | 8 | Nesrine Reilly | 55,500 |
| 37 | 2 | Osama Aweida | 54,000 |
| 32 | 7 | Stephen Whitaker | 53,500 |
| 18 | 8 | Joseph Alban | 53,000 |
| 14 | 5 | Edward Liu | 37,000 |
| 36 | 6 | David Burnett | 32,000 |
| 32 | 3 | Benjamin Miner | 31,500 |
| 37 | 8 | John Haldie | 30,000 |
| 32 | 9 | David Simon | 29,000 |
| 37 | 4 | Yashveen Mudireddy | 27,000 |
| 34 | 6 | Tony Phan | 25,500 |
| 15 | 1 | Eric Croteau | 22,500 |
MSPT Payouts
| Place | Payout |
|---|---|
| 1st | $157,234 |
| 2nd | $96,759 |
| 3rd | $71,279 |
| 4th | $53,217 |
| 5th | $40,316 |
| 6th | $30,640 |
| 7th | $23,383 |
| 8th | $18,545 |
| 9th | $14,514 |
| 10th | $11,289 |
| 11th | $11,289 |
| 12th | $11,289 |
| 13th | $9,676 |
| 14th | $9,676 |
| 15th | $9,676 |
| 16th | $8,063 |
| 17th | $8,063 |
| 18th | $8,063 |
| 19th | $6,773 |
| 20th | $6,773 |
| 21st | $6,773 |
| 22nd | $5,725 |
| 23rd | $5,725 |
| 24th | $5,725 |
| 25th | $4,677 |
| 26th | $4,677 |
| 27th | $4,677 |
| 28th | $3,548 |
| 29th | $3,548 |
| 30th | $3,548 |
| 31st | $3,548 |
| 32nd | $3,548 |
| 33rd | $3,548 |
| 34th | $3,548 |
| 35th | $3,548 |
| 36th | $3,548 |
| 37th | $2,903 |
| 38th | $2,903 |
| 39th | $2,903 |
| 40th | $2,903 |
| 41st | $2,903 |
| 42nd | $2,903 |
| 43rd | $2,903 |
| 44th | $2,903 |
| 45th | $2,903 |
| 46th | $2,580 |
| 47th | $2,580 |
| 48th | $2,580 |
| 49th | $2,580 |
| 50th | $2,580 |
| 51st | $2,580 |
| 52nd | $2,580 |
| 53rd | $2,580 |
| 54th | $2,580 |
| 55th | $2,419 |
| 56th | $2,419 |
| 57th | $2,419 |
| 58th | $2,419 |
| 59th | $2,419 |
| 60th | $2,419 |
| 61st | $2,419 |
| 62nd | $2,419 |
| 63rd | $2,419 |
| 64th | $2,258 |
| 65th | $2,258 |
| 66th | $2,258 |
| 67th | $2,258 |
| 68th | $2,258 |
| 69th | $2,258 |
| 70th | $2,258 |
| 71st | $2,258 |
| 72nd | $2,258 |
| 73rd | $2,177 |
| 74th | $2,177 |
| 75th | $2,177 |
| 76th | $2,177 |
| 77th | $2,177 |
| 78th | $2,177 |
| 79th | $2,177 |
| 80th | $2,177 |
| 81st | $2,177 |
| 82nd | $2,096 |
| 83rd | $2,096 |
| 84th | $2,096 |
| 85th | $2,096 |
| 86th | $2,096 |
| 87th | $2,096 |
| 88th | $2,096 |
| 89th | $2,096 |
| 90th | $2,096 |