The award-winning and popular MSPT is rebranding in 2025. As of June 1, the formerly named “Mid-Stakes Poker Tour” will become known as the “Major Series of Poker – The Tour”.
The somewhat clunkier name does not change the acronym at all, so people will still refer to it as MSPT, the well-known name throughout the poker world in the United States.
Introduction of Majors
The new name refers to the change in structure and the introduction of five majors throughout the year. Each of these tournaments will have at least a $1,000,000 guarantee and custom prizes for the winners. The dates and locations for the events are yet to be announced. This announcement is expected to come in the following weeks as the tour is more fully fleshed out.
Another big change is how the tour chooses its hall of fame inductees with new requirements. These new requirements heavily lean toward the new majors format, with those new events becoming the focus of MSPT Hall of Fame considerations.
One of the players who acknowledged those changes was Angela Jordison after recently winning the MSPT Main Event in Sioux Falls this past week.
The MSPT Player of the Year leaderboard has changed its formula, tweaking how they determine the top player on tour in any given year. Any player who finds themselves in the top parts of the list will certainly have a thorough understanding of how to win at Texas Hold’em.
All side events with buy ins over $200 will count toward the player of the year leaderboard race. Each stop will have a large variety of types of poker games beyond just NL Hold’em. The five majors will also award 1.5x points.
The MSPT began as the very local Minnesota State Poker Tour in 2009 before quickly taking off to nearby states to become the Mid-Stakes Poker Tour as the whole midwest region was included.
But they expanded even beyond there with tournaments in places such as Las Vegas and San Diego to truly become a nationwide tour while guarantees just continued to expand.
So while the goals and breadth of the tour continues to expand the humble roots and familiar acronym still remains.