Welcome To Day 1b of HPT Golden Gates Casino
The second of four initial flights at the Heartland Poker Tour Golden Gates Casino is set to begin today in beautiful Black Hawk, Colorado.
Yesterday’s Day 1a flight drew 82 entries with 17 players or an abnormally large figure of around 20 percent of the field advancing to Day 2. After nearly 12 hours inside the Golden Gates Poker Parlour, it was local rounder Greg Geller who bagged the chip lead with a stack of 336,000. Carlos Lopez was the only other player to bag a stack north of 300,000, finishing the day with 316,000.
Day 1b will see cards in the air at noon local time. Players will receive 30,000 starting stacks and play will continue until the completion of Level 15 at around 11:45 p.m. local time tonight. Levels are 40 minutes long with 15-minute breaks after every three levels. There will be a one-hour dinner break after Level 9. Registration will remain open through the dinner break until the beginning of Level 10
Today is second of four starting days with unlimited re-entry available through all remaining flights for those who find themselves eliminated from the tournament. All players who do survive and advance to Day 2 will return on Sunday at 11 a.m. to play into the money and down to the nationally-televised final table.
Stay tuned to PokerNews for updates on all the action throughout the duration of the tournament.
and Paul Bishop bet 8,200 from the big blind. His opponent in the cutoff shoved all in and Bishop asked for a count which was totaled to be 21,900. 
and he held to secure the knockout and add to his stack.
, Ben Keeline was all in from the hijack for 22,300 in a multi-way pot where he saw action from a player in middle position as well as Shane Sloan who was on Keeline's direct right. 
and the player in middle position checked to Sloan, shoved for his remaining stack. The player in middle position folded and it was time to expose hands.
to secure the pot for Sloan and Keeline was temporarily eliminated, though has since rebought and has been seated in the same exact seat.
and action checked to the cutoff who bet 3,200. The players on the button and in the small blind folded and both Fadeyi and Flesher called, taking action three-handed to the turn 
and Fadeyi and Flesher checked once more. The cutoff bet 3,500 and both players called.
for a pair of nines. The cutoff mucked.
with two diamonds. McCarthy had 
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still tabled.
. The small blind led out for 4,000 and Jensen raised to 15,000. Grisham, having just turned a set, raised to 35,000. The small blind folded and Jensen came over the top to put Grisham all in. He was more than happy to call.
