Level: 5
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
2015 Mid-States Poker Tour Meskwaki
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2015 Mid-States Poker Tour Meskwaki
Buy-in
$1,000
Prize Pool
$410,000
Entries
410
Level
33
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000
Here We Go Again
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Level 4
: 100/200, 25 ante
It may be deja vu for 2013 MSPT Iowa 10th-place finisher Tim Colby, who built a big stack on Day 1a here Friday. Although he's hoping not.
Today he picked up queens and got it in against a flopped open-ender and turned flush draw, fading all trouble to double up.
Colby fizzled as the day wore on Friday and is hoping for a different result from the same kind of start today.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
42,000
-7,700
|
-7,700 |
Hit By The Deck
Level 4
: 100/200, 25 ante
Des Moines, Iowa local Brian Gonder appears to be having the kind of day poker players usually only dream of. Even when he folds, he winds up with what would have been the winning hand.
Gonder's found big slick three or four times already, making top pair once and getting all of one overeager player's chips when he put them in with a flush draw that never materialized.
"I've had a lucky two pair a couple times as well," he said. "I'm hitting everything and everybody wants to call. I'm just taking chips from the gamblers."
He's now on 80,000, in the lead, and praying to the poker gods this hot streak continues.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
80,000 |
Level: 4
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
Break!
Level 3
: 100/200, 0 ante
The players are headed off on a 10-minute break with the first three levels of the day in the books.
Dietz Holds; Holds Lead
Level 3
: 100/200, 0 ante
Chicago, Illinois' George Dietz has emerged as the chip leader here at MSPT Meskwaki, heading into the first break of the day.
He joined Lenard Adams in calling an early position preflop raise. The flop fell 
and after the raiser checked and Adams bet, Dietz slid in a raise.
The original raise then shipped it in with the nut-flush draw, Adams over-shoved with the queen-high flush draw, and Dietz called all in with the 
, holding top pair and a king-high flush draw.
"Turned out all I had was spade blockers," Dietz said. But those blockers helped, as no spade came and Dietz' pair of kings held, sending him into the chip lead, the original raiser home, and Adams back down to where he started the day.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
63,000 | |
|
|
20,000
-22,500
|
-22,500 |
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Level 3
: 100/200, 0 ante
Ames, Iowa's Josh Lyster has joined the group at the top of the counts with an early double.
His came through a two-hand series where he made quads versus a full house and picked off a player with pocket kings turning the 
Dolly into a boat of his own.
So far, Lyster is refusing to allow PokerNews to take his picture.
"You want to see my picture it's in every Post Office," he said, finally agreeing to allow his image to be captured on film should he move into the chip lead at day's end.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
41,000 |
The Old Fashioned Way
Level 3
: 100/200, 0 ante
2014 MSPT Baraboo sixth-place finisher Jun Kim found a double up the old fashioned way; He earned it.
The Chicago, Illinois resident told PokerNews he's grinded his way up to twice the starting stack already without benefit of any big all-in confrontations, chipping up steadily through the first two levels of the day and into the third.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
41,000 |
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
Namazi Picks His Spots; Every One Of Them
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
It would be fair to say that Abbas Namazi has never seen a hand he doesn't like. That is to say, he plays a lot of them. Possibly all of them.
That strategy worked to perfection yesterday, until it didn't. Namazi built it up to 100,000 in the early levels, rarely finding a reason to fold. But by 10 p.m., it was all gone.
He's back at it today and his go-for-broke, any-two style was on display moments ago as he dipped to around 10,000, and just as quickly, rose back up over the starting stack of 20,000.
Highlights included a three-hand spurt where he was seen shoving on a 
flop in a raised pot three ways, picking off one foe who shoved 
on an 
board with the 
, then check-calling two streets before firing away on the river of a 
board to take a third pot down.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
21,000
21,000
|
21,000 |