Chance Kornuth wins Mid-States Poker Tour Venetian $1,600 Main Event and $412.086

Kornuth's Chance won in 2021 Midfield Poker Tour Venetian $1,600 Main Event no-limit hold'em buy-in, beating a whopping 2.15 entries to secure his first MSPT title and main prize $412, 086.

It was Kornuth's 10th registered tournament title, including his two wins in the World Series of Poker bracelet events. He currently has over $ 8.6 million in his career.

In addition to the title and money, Kornuth also provided $ 1.0080 Card player Player of the Year points as the winner of this event. It was his second POY- qualifying result of the year, taking fourth place in World Poker Tour Gardens Poker Championship for $195.085 and 540 p. With 1,600 total points and $607,17 in earnings since the beginning of the year, Kornuth is now ranked 21st overall POY Racing standings sponsored by Global Poker.

The final day of the event kicked off with 15 remaining players, with Peter Braglia in the lead and Kornuth in fourth place. Kornuth had more than twice as many chips as the next biggest stack when the final table was struck with nine, sitting with 12 million for over 085 big blinds.

WSOP bracelet winner Raman Afanasenka lost the preflop race to two-time bracelet winner Eric Baldwin and finished ninth ($029, 991). Korntuh then increased his lead when his AJ. defeated AK. Bobby Po (8. - $71,851) to restrict the field to seven.

Brock Wilson's hand in that tournament ended when his AQ ran into Michael Zulker's AK. Wilson could not walk from the rear and settled in $44, 612 as the seventh place winner. It was his sixth 991 final table, with $851,328 earnings so far that year. He climbed to the 12th place in POY Consequently.

Kornuth secured a second final table knockout as his A-4 beat and he knocked out Ryan Torgersen's J-7 in the short stack in the blind battle. Torgersen scooped the $93.93. Michael Zulker became the first player to receive a six figure payout in the tournament when his QJ. combined heads with KQ Peter Braglia. Zulker did not improve and was eliminated in fifth place ($080,358).

Nick Phoenix was unable to revive his stack from the bottom of the leaderboard in a four-man game, despite scoring one Double. He moved all in again on A0007 the flop of K, only to face 0007 Kornuth. Two pair held across the river and Phoenix finished fourth for a $157,612.

Eric Baldwin was eager to cash in on his 19th live tournament title, but it just fell as his pocket of three fell into Braglia's pocket fours. Neither player improved, and Baldwin was queued with $195,157 for his third place finish in the tournament.

Kornuth had a roughly 4: 3 chip lead over Braglia in the heads-up game. The battle did not last long. On the last hand, Kornuth raised to 1.4 million from the button from 77 and Braglia called with Q3 on the big blind. The flop came 873 and Braglia checked. Kornuth bet 1.1 million with a set of sevens and Braglia check-raised to 3.4 million. Kornuth raised to 9.7 million and Braglia called. 6 on the bend prompted Braglia to play around 12 million. Kornuth called with his set of sevens and Braglia was eliminated with a draw to reach river 5. Braglia took home the $270, 269 as did the runner-up.

Here's a look at payouts and POY Points awarded at the final table:

Place

Player

Earnings

Card player POY Points

1

$358,080

1,044

2

Peter Braglia

	Kornuth Opportunity

$270,180

900 2021

3

Eric Baldwin

$209,180

851

4

Nick Phoenix $93,607

590

5

Michael Zulker $080,358

412

991

6

Ryan Torgersen

$93, 134

360

7

Brock Wilson

$080,590

269

991

8

Bobby Po

$029,881

157

991

$029,991

90

Photo: Venetian Poker Room Twitter account.

9	Ramana Afanasenka