Terry Fleischer Wins MSPT Venetian Poker Bowl Main Event

Terry Fleischer was the last player standing in the 2024 Mid-Stakes Poker Tour Venetian Poker Bowl $1,600 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event. The Las Vegas resident defeated a field of 360 entries to capture his first MSPT title and the top prize of $98,101.

This was the seventh-largest recorded payday for the longtime tournament player. It grew his lifetime earnings to more than $2.5 million, with 247 total cashes and 28 titles won along the way.

“It feels really good”, Fleischer told MSPT reporters. “You know, I’m getting old and only have a limited time left to do this, so I have to keep making the best of it… and I like beating up on these young guys.”

Fleischer earned 600 Card Player Player of the Year points as the champion. He now sits inside the top 100 in the 2024 POY race standings presented by Global Poker.

This event ran over the course of three days at Venetian® Resort Las Vegas. Just 41 players moved on from the two starting flights to day 2. Those players, who all made the money, took a seat on Sunday and played until just Fleischer was left with chips.

Fleischer was knocked down to an extremely short stack at one point on day 2, but was able to quickly get back on track.

“It was a crazy day. I was down to just two big blinds with two tables left but was able to spin that up to 900k in 30 minutes,” said Fleischer.

By the time the final table was set, Fleischer sat in sixth chip position among the remaining nine contenders. 2021 Wynn Millions main event champion Andrew Moreno was in the lead at that point.

Bracelet winner and World Poker Tour champion Dylan Linde scored the first knockout, winning a classic race against Brian Kay (9th) to narrow the field to eight. 2022 MSPT South Dakota State Poker Championship winner Gerald Cunniff picked up pocket aces against the pocket jacks of Evan Sandberg (8th) to score the next knockout.

Linde’s run came to an end when his pocket queens ran into the flopped trip tens Mopreno, who held Q-10. Moreno then improved to a flush on the river to win the pot and send Linde packing in seventh place ($17,759). He now has nearly $8.1 million in recorded tournament earnings to his name, and is ranked 82nd in the 2024 POY rankings thanks to the six final-table finishes he has already made this year.

Cunniff picked up two big aces (A-K and A-Q) against lower A-X combos to eliminate Jack Corrigan (6th – $22,789) and Jeremy Becker (5th – $29,669). This was already Becker’s fourth POY-qualified score. With 918 total points, he is now ranked 34th in the overall standings.

Cunniff went on to finish fourth, running QJ into Stanley Weng’s J10 after a Q1010 flop. Cunniff failed to improve on the turn or river and settled for $39,181.

Moreno got all-in on a 7628 board with 107 up against the 109 of Fleischer. The 8 on the river saw Moreno eliminated in third place ($52,475). He now has more than $4.2 million in lifetime tournament earnings after this latest strong showing.

Fleischer took greater than a 4:1 chip lead into heads-up play with Weng. On the final hand, Weng shoved with A4 and Fleischer called with AK. The board ran out K9283 and Fleischer made top pair, top kicker to win the pot and the title. Weng took home $71,260 as the runner-up.

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at the final table:

Photo credits: MSPT.

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