Tour Newcomer Hamid Izadi Steamrolls Final Two Tables Enroute to 1st MSPT Title

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Chad Holloway

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May 04, 2026 3 min read

Table Of Contents

• MSPT Potawatomi Final Table Results
• What's Else is Coming Up?
• MSPT Podcast

This past weekend, Season 17 of the Major Series of Poker: The Tour (MSPT) hosted an $1,110 Main Event at Milwaukee’s Potawatomi Casino, a tournament that attracted 1,299 runners. That surpassed the $1 million guarantee by generating a $1,258,530 prize pool.

Of those, 145 returned for Sunday’s Day 2 in the money, and after a full day of play, it was well-known poker pro Hamid Izadi coming out on top to win the tournament outright for $219,654. He did so after a dominating performance that saw him eliminate nine of his final 14 opponents en route to victory.

“Feels great,” Izadi told MSPT reporter Anthony Thompson after his win. “My friend Josh [Reichard] told me I needed to start playing more of these, but it just never really fit into my schedule. So, this year I made a schedule to fit in most of the MSPT Main Events, and this is the second one I’ve played, so I’m very happy that I made this decision.”

The MSPT Potawatomi Final Table

Izadi also earned a seat in the $3,500 MSPT Championship Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open (RRPO), which will be held at the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida, Nov. 18 – Dec. 2, boasting a $2,000,000 GTD Main Event.

While he’s new to the MSPT, Izadi is an accomplished poker player with 10 WSOP Circuit gold rings and more than $2.7 million in lifetime tournament earnings according to The Hendon Mob.

MSPT Potawatomi Final Table Results

PlacePlayerPrizePOY Points

1Hamid Izadi$219,6541,900

2Cero Zuccarello$133,8921,700

3Christopher Weber$101,8451,600

4Spencer Wright$77,9621,500

5Bob Heffner$56,9251,400

6Andy Rogowski$43,3121,300

7Bhanuchandar Sadineni$33,4121,200

8Jesse Simon$25,9871,100

9Travis Young$21,0371,000

Others to cash the tournament were Lee Rzentkowski (10th - $17,325), who had won the MSPT Ameristar East Chicago the week prior; Dustin Bowling (13th - $13,612), Brian Altman (14th - $13,612), Richard Bai (16th - $11,632), reigning POY Jacob Long (26th - $6,435), Brett Slezak (30th - $5,197), and Aaron Johnson (37th - $4,207).

Missy Bartleme

The Main Event was just one of 11 Gold Card tournaments. Some of the side event winners included Missy Bartleme (Event #10: $400 Black Chip Bounty for $15,510), current MSPT POY points leader Mike Estes (Event #9: $400 Senior’s Monster Stack for $18,290), and Corey Wick (Event #4: $400 PLO Monster Stack for $10,753).

Click here to see all MSPT side event winners.

What's Else is Coming Up?

From May 5-10, the MSPT will host a smaller $500 buy-in, $150K GTD MSPT500 Series event at Minnesota’s Running Aces Casino. Then, from May 12-17, the tour will head to FireKeepers Casino for the $1,110 buy-in, $1,000,000 GTD Michigan Poker State Championship, which is one of the Midwest’s biggest events of the year.

Then, this summer, the MSPT will return to the Venetian Las Vegas for a pair of tournaments in July. The first will be an $1,100 buy-in, $1,000,000 GTD Main Event from July 11-14, and that will be followed immediately by the $1,600 buy-in, $1,000,000 GTD Heart Poker Championship from July 15-19.

More details on all those stops can be found at msptpoker.com.

Here’s a look at the remaining MSPT Season 17 schedule.

DatesVenueStateEventGuarantee

May 5-10Running Aces CasinoMinnesotaMSPT500 Series$150,000

May 12-17FireKeepers CasinoMichiganMichigan Poker State Championship$1,000,000

July 11-14The VenetianNevada$1,100 Main Event$1,000,000

July 15-19The VenetianNevada$1,600 Heart Poker Championship$1,000,000

July 21-26Riverside CasinoIowaIowa Poker State Championship$500,000

July 22-Aug. 2Bally’s Black Hawk CasinoColoradoColorado Poker State Championship$600,000

August 4-9Rivers CasinoChicago, IL-$1,000,000

August 18-23JACK Cleveland CasinoCleveland, OHMSPT Festival$500,000

August 25-30Ameristar East ChicagoEast Chicago, IndianaIndiana Poker State Championship$300,000

September 1-7Ameristar Casino St. CharlesSt. Louis, MissouriMSPT Festival$300,000

September 2026The VenetianNevadaNevada Poker State ChampionshipTDB

Sept. 22-27Potawatomi CasinoWisconsinWisconsin Poker State Championship$1,000,000

Oct. 1-12PlaygroundMontreal, CanadaCanadian Poker Championship$1,000,000

Oct. 13-18FireKeepers CasinoMichiganMajor Spade Poker Championship$1,500,000

Oct. 27-Nov. 1Grand Falls CasinoLarchwood, IAMSPT FestivalTBD

Nov. 3-8Riverside CasinoIowaMSPT Festival$500,000

Nov. 18-Dec. 2Seminole Hard RockFloridaMajor Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open (RRPO)$2,000,000

Dec. 1-13Running Aces CasinoMinnesotaWinter Poker Classic$700,000

MSPT Podcast

Did you know that Chad Holloway and Kyna England host the MSPT Podcast Presented By PokerNews_.

The show covers all things MSPT, including recent results, player highlights, guest interviews, and a preview of upcoming stops.

Episodes are available on the PokerNews YouTube channel. An audio version is also available on all major podcasting platforms.

Here’s a look at the latest episode:

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