Seventeen eliminations occurred within the first level of play, leaving the 128 that remained all set to make it into the money. Of the 1,123 entries logged across two starting flights, 145 players returned Sunday morning for the start of Day 2. However, nearly-even stacks went in when Tice made two pair on the river and he doubled to shorted Lombardo, who called Tice's shove with top pair. Lombardo entered the match as a three-to-one underdog and held his ground, ultimately finding a double and taking the chip lead for a short time. Tice won after a hard-fought heads-up battle against Brandon Lombardo that capped off a four-hour-long final table. 'It feels good, you know,' said Tice after the tournament was over. Tice can now add an MSPT championship to his list of accomplishments.

Prior to this tournament, the 21-year-old from Boca Raton, Florida had just three online tournament cashes on his resume from this past summer: Tice got his start in poker by playing micro-stakes cash games online and has worked his way up, a journey highlighted by a mentor of sorts in Joey Ingram. Tice outlasted a field of 1,123 entries in doing so, a figure that generated a total prize pool of more than $1 million. That champion was young up-and-comer Landon Tice, who did so for his first career score in the live realm of poker and in what was only his third live poker tournament. It took almost 16 hours on Sunday at the 2020 Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) Venetian $1,100 Main Event for a champion to be crowned and the first-place prize of $201,529 awarded.

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