$400 Main Event Day 1a | 2019 Ante Up Poker Tour Wild Horse Pass

11-14-2019 23:15 UTC-7

Beg Doubles Through Pausch

GeoffFisk

Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Furkan Beg, from middle position, and Jim Pausch, in the small blind, got all of the chips in preflop, with Pausch having Beg covered.

Furkan Beg:
Jim Pausch:

Board:

Beg found one of his outs on the river, as the sealed the double up and kept him alive on Day 1a.

Player	Chips	Progress
Furkan Beg	65,000
Jim Pausch	42,000 -36,000	-36,000

Tags: Jim Pausch Furkan Beg

11-14-2019 23:25 UTC-7

Pausch Doubles Through Beg

GeoffFisk

Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Minutes after Furkan Beg doubled up through Jim Pausch, Pausch returned the favor. The two players got all in against each other preflop, with Beg having Pausch covered.

Jim Pausch:
Furkan Beg:

Board:

Pausch hit a set of eights on the flop, and the big hand held up through the river, leaving the two players virtually even in chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Furkan Beg	81,000 16,000	16,000
Jim Pausch	79,000 37,000	37,000

Tags: Furkan Beg Jim Pausch

Level: 14

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 3,000

11-14-2019 23:30 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
Amir Doroudian	286,000 192,500	192,500
Tiffany Heniz	252,000 87,000	87,000
Becky Wooten	190,000
Ann Kupitz	130,000 59,000	59,000
Denise Romero	105,000 45,000	45,000
Brian Perzinski	105,000 35,000	35,000
Robert Rafay	78,000 -63,000	-63,000
Luan Kemper	32,000 -13,000	-13,000
James Kuhn	30,000 -30,000	-30,000

Five More Eliminations

GeoffFisk

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

The Day 1a field is down to 40 players; the flight will wrap up for the night when 36 players remain.

11-14-2019 23:56 UTC-7

Huge Pot for Veselinovic

GeoffFisk

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

A middle position player opened to 9,000, Adam Veselinovic three-bet to 23,000, and the original raiser called.

The middle position player led out for 15,000 on the flop, and Veselinovic called. The middle position player then went all in on the turn, having her opponent covered, and Veselinovic called.

Adam Veselinovic:
Opponent:

Veselinovic's pocket aces had his opponent drawing dead, and after the river the 265,000 pot went to him.

Player	Chips	Progress
Adam Veselinovic	265,000 265,000	265,000

Level: 15

Blinds: 2,000/4,000

Ante: 4,000

11-15-2019 00:02 UTC-7

Wooten's Turn Bet Takes it Down

GeoffFisk

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

With on the board, Becky Wootem bet 20,000 from the big blind.

Her opponent, on the hijack, thought over the decision for a bit before folding. Wooten has been hovering just under the 200k chip mark throughout the latter levels of Day 1a, and looks poised to bag a big stack at the end of the night.