Jovan Sudar briefly challenged for the lead when he busted Nick Pupillo, who was appearing at his seventh final table on the tour. As Crew had come in with the third-place stack, Sepiol took control of a third of the chips with eight players remaining. Once there, he continued to have things break his way as he won a key early flip against Lester Crew by hitting an ace on the river with Big Slick against pocket eights.

However, they'd fall short of the final table while Sepiol chipped up and carried the lead into the final nine.

Sepiol had to deal with several accomplished players as the field wound down, sitting with the likes of Phil Mader and Byron Ziebell. Here, he never put himself in danger of fizzling out as he held the chip lead nearly the entire time at the final table. Indeed, Sepiol had accrued four cashes on tour, but a ninth-place finish back in January 2019 had been his top placing. 'I've played a lot of these tournaments and made some deep runs but never really made runs at the final table,' he said. Playing for big money didn't rattle him at all though, as he said he was comfortable pretty much the whole time. The 27-year-old pro earned a career-best $162,750 that outdistanced his previous personal best of $52K by quite a bit. The Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) has come roaring back, and there's been no surer sign of the health of the tour than the state-record turnout of 862 entries that showed up for MSPT Riverside $1,100 Main Event in the tour's first-ever visit there.Ĭonquering that field after three long days of play was Indiana's Daniel Sepiol.

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