The final point has been reached out of the starting days at Heartland Poker Tour Ameristar East Chicago $1,650 Main Event. With two starting flights down this means it's last chance for any players who have yet to find a bag to do so and advance to Sunday's Day 2.
Through the first two flights, 44 players are in the bag and set for the Sunday restart. Two familiar faces lead the way thus far in Mike O'Neill and Josh Reichard as the previous HPT Champions bagged identical stacks over 500,000 putting on a clinic in Day 1b.
As for who will join them, that's to be determined in part of the course of the 15 40-minute levels scheduled for Day 1c. Once again, it will be unlimited reentry with levels rising from 100/100 at the beginning to 2,000/4,000 at the end with a 4,000 big blind ante.
Players will receive a 60-minute dinner break after the ninth level of play. Registration will again close after said dinner break, with players allowed unlimited reentry.
All players that manage to make their way to Day 2 will return on Sunday, September, 1st at 11 am to play down to the televised Final Table of nine Monday, September 2nd at Noon which will be played down to a winner.
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Main Event Structure
| Level | Length | Small Blind | Big Blind | BB Ante |
|---|
| 1 | 40 minutes | 100 | 100 | 0 |
| 2 | 40 minutes | 100 | 200 | 0 |
| 3 | 40 minutes | 100 | 300 | 0 |
| 4 | 40 minutes | 100 | 300 | 300 |
| 5 | 40 minutes | 200 | 400 | 400 |
| 6 | 40 minutes | 200 | 500 | 500 |
| 7 | 40 minutes | 300 | 600 | 600 |
| 8 | 40 minutes | 400 | 800 | 800 |
| 9 | 40 minutes | 500 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| 10 | 40 minutes | 600 | 1,200 | 1,200 |
| 11 | 40 minutes | 800 | 1,600 | 1,600 |
| 12 | 40 minutes | 1,000 | 2.000 | 2.000 |
| 13 | 40 minutes | 1,500 | 2,500 | 2,500 |
| 14 | 40 minutes | 1,500 | 3,000 | 3,000 |
| 15 | 40 minutes | 2,000 | 4,000 | 4,000 |
PokerNews will be on the floor providing live updates from the time of the first card pitched to the time of the last bag being sealed up.
and Golla lead out with 2,200 getting a 12,000 jam from Rajanala, Golla called. 
giving Rajanala the flush and he doubled up after the board completed with the 
river.
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flop was checked to Rogowski who bet 2,900 and was called by both opponents. 
that was checked by both players and Rogowski tabled 
for the winner with a pair of sevens.
