MSPT returns to Meskwaki Casino

(PRESS RELEASE) -- For the first time in Season 10, the MSPT is headed to Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel in Tama, Iowa. The $1,100 buy-in, $300,000 guaranteed Main Event will run this weekend.

The MSPT Meskwaki Main Event, which requires players be just 18 years old to play, will kick off with Day 1A on Friday, 22 March. Day 1B will then take place on Saturday, 23 March. Players who advance from each flight will combine on Sunday, 24 March at 11 a.m. and play until a champion is crowned.

Last March, the first MSPT Meskwaki Casino event of Season 9 drew 414 entries and saw Nathan Trenkamp, who qualified via a $250 satellite, walk away with an $88,018 first-place prize. Then, in July, Minnesota’s Brian Soja bested a 455-entry field to win the 2018 MSPT Iowa State Poker Championship. The third and final MSPT event at Meskwaki Casino in Season 9 was hosted in November where Taylor Howard earned his first MSPT title by outlasting a 423-runner field to pocket $89,939!