$1,450 Main Event Day 1b | 2021 Colorado Poker Championship

09-24-2021 15:01 UTC-7

Wright With a Six-Figure Stack

Hill Kerby

Level 6 : 300/600, 600 ante

Keith Wright saw action fold to him in the cutoff and opened to 1,700, receiving a call from the player on the button. Josh Saltz three-bet to 4,800 in the small blind and only Wright called, taking action heads up to the flop .

Saltz checked to Wright, who fired out a bet of 4,000. Saltz looked down to his stack and counted what he had remaining, taking a few moments and finding a fold.

"I'll show you one, just 'cuz," said Wright as he tabled for a set.

"Nice hand," said Saltz.

"I showed you out of respect," Wright added.

"Preesh," Saltz responded.

Player	Chips	Progress
Keith Wright	106,100 81,400	81,400
Josh Saltz	17,100 10,200	10,200

Tags: Josh Saltz Keith Wright

09-24-2021 14:50 UTC-7

"That's What I Get for Playing that Shit"

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Hill Kerby

Level 6 : 300/600, 600 ante

An all in and call were overheard as a preflop raising war resulted in John Smith's stack of 41,300 getting into the middle under the gun against Peter Johnson, who was in the cutoff.

John Smith:
Peter Johnson:

The flop came to leave Johnson out in front, with Smith picking up a backdoor heart draw to go along with his two outs to a set. The turn came behind it.

"Wow," said tablemate Dapo Ajayi as he realized the backdoor possibility was real. It then completed on the river to improve Smith to a flush and best Johnson's aces.

"Wow," Smith said after the runout completed. "That's what I get for playing that shit," he added in a joking manner.

Player	Chips	Progress
John Smith (CO)	84,100
Peter Johnson	37,000 96,500	96,500

Tags: Dapo Ajayi John Smith Peter Johnson

09-24-2021 14:39 UTC-7

Collins on Two Starting Stacks

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Hill Kerby

Level 6 : 300/600, 600 ante

Greg Collins saw his starting stack of 30,000 dip as low as 6,000 in the first hour of the afternoon before getting back to around 20,000, something he was overheard saying felt "like a million."

Collins just caught up with PokerNews to confirm he had tripled his prior stack, which was a little below 20K at the time. He since took down another pot, and now has double what he started with after spending over three hours grinding a lesser stack size.

Player	Chips	Progress
Greg Collins	59,200 41,200	41,200

Tags: Greg Collins

Level: 6

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 600

09-24-2021 14:30 UTC-7

Johnson Wins a Massive One

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Hill Kerby

Level 5 : 300/500, 500 ante

Dapo Ajayi opened the action with a raise to 1,000 in early position and received a call from Peter Johnson in middle position. Aaron Frei three-bet to 5,000 in the cutoff and Jim Morrison cold-called in the big blind. Ajayi also called and then Johnson announced an raise to 10,000, doing so by mistake and prompting a five-bet to 16,000.

Morrison called all in for less, and Ajayi and Johnson also called to give Morrison a shot at quadrupling his stack while the other three continued to the flop .

"Check," said Ajayi, first to act. Johnson then shoved all in for 36,200, sending Frei into the tank for over a minute before finding a call. Ajayi then deliberated whether or not to put his remaining chips into the middle, eventually opting not to do so.

Jim Morrison:
Peter Johnson:
Aaron Frei:

Johnson's set of fours was out in front and improved further to a full house on the turn . However, the card also gave Frei six outs to improve to a bigger full house, leaving Johnson with a sweat to the river. Fortunately for him, completed the runout and a total pot of more than 130,000 was shipped his way.

Player	Chips	Progress
Peter Johnson	133,500 89,500	89,500
Aaron Frei	49,200 46,800	46,800
Dapo Ajayi	14,000 500	500
Jim Morrison	Busted

Tags: Aaron Frei Dapo Ajayi Jim Morrison Peter Johnson

09-24-2021 14:21 UTC-7

More Counts from Around the Room

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Hill Kerby

Level 5 : 300/500, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Jorden Helstern	88,500 62,300	62,300
Aaron Thomas	48,400 11,100	11,100
Peter Johnson	44,000 21,200	21,200
Daniel Sandoval	41,500 26,400	26,400
Andreas Ramadanis	38,300 52,700	52,700
Thomas Fuller	35,800 12,400	12,400
Jason Vanstrom	35,200 11,500	11,500
Ian Pelz	32,500

Tim West	30,300 7,300	7,300
Ben Keeline	24,000 2,000	2,000
Yohannes Ambaye	23,000 23,000	23,000
Jim Morrison	13,800 30,200	30,200
Benjamin Williams	Busted
Mike Wheeler	Busted

09-24-2021 14:09 UTC-7

Gutierrez Forces Everybody Out

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Hill Kerby

Level 5 : 300/500, 500 ante

Andrew Miller limped under the gun and Zach Gutierrez limped behind, one seat over. Justin Liberto was next to act and pumped it up to 2,300, receiving calls from the hijack and small blind as well as Miller. Gutierrez then limp-jammed for around 26,000.

Action folded back to Miller, who thought out loud for about 20 seconds before saying, "Okay, I'm gonna fold. But I wanna see."

Gutierrez jovially nodded and tabled after Miller sent his cards to the muck.

Player	Chips	Progress
Justin Liberto	41,400 11,400	11,400

Zach Gutierrez	36,300 6,000	6,000
Andrew Miller	21,000 9,600	9,600

Tags: Andrew Miller Justin Liberto Zach Gutierrez

09-24-2021 14:00 UTC-7

A Round of Chip Counts

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Hill Kerby

Level 5 : 300/500, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Jason Welch	52,500 3,500	3,500
Barb Visher	37,300 37,300	37,300
Bobby Sanoubane	33,600
Josh Saltz	27,300 27,300	27,300
Ross Lantzy	26,200 3,800	3,800
Teresa Hemingway	25,000 4,600	4,600
Keith Wright	24,700 24,700	24,700
Dana Deitz	18,500 10,600	10,600
Corey Zedo	18,400 18,400	18,400
Dapo Ajayi	13,500 21,000	21,000
Benjamin Williams	13,000 21,500	21,500
Yohannes Ambaye	Busted

Level: 5

Blinds: 300/500

Ante: 500

09-24-2021 13:48 UTC-7

Ladies Treat Frei Well

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Hill Kerby

Level 4 : 200/400, 400 ante

Multiple all-ins and a call were overheard coming from Table 13 on a board reading . Mike Wheeler was in the big blind and had both players covered, competing for both pots with Aaron Frei in the cutoff while a third player had his eyes set on a triple from middle position.

Middle Position:
Aaron Frei:
Mike Wheeler:

Frei needed to fade clubs and aces to scoop and did just that as the turn and river completed the runout to bring him just shy of 100K as Level 4 looks to come to a close.

Player	Chips	Progress
Aaron Frei	96,000 68,300	68,300
Mike Wheeler	7,500 34,500	34,500

Tags: Aaron Frei Mike Wheeler