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The fourth and final flight of Heartland Poker Tour Golden Gates $1,100 Main Event is set to get underway shortly. In total, 414 entries have been logged over the first three days and 69 have already found their way into Sunday’s Day 2.
Through three days, David Berger finds himself as the overall chip leader with a stack of 628,000. The next three biggest stacks all came from Day 1c’s flight, when Jason Sater (590,000), Maz Keshavarzi (460,500), and Bruce Russell (419,000) all were able to put stacks of more than 400,000 into bags for when the field combines tomorrow.
Saturday’s flight is sure to surpass the 204 entries that Friday’s Day 1c saw. Cards will be in the air at noon, local time and players will receive starting stacks of 30,000. Like the first three heats, play will occur until 15 40-minute levels have been completed. There will be 15-minute breaks after every two hours of play and a one-hour dinner break at the completion of Level 9.
Unlimited re-entries are available for this final initial flight with registration remaining open through the completion of the dinner break at approximately 7:30 p.m. local time. The action has been jam-packed through the first three days and more of the same is expected to commence in the near future as the field looks to capitalize on their final chance to advance.
Keep it at PokerNews for updates throughout the day and as the rest of the tournament unfolds.
Level: 1
Blinds: 100/100
Ante: 0
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
Play is underway on the final initial flight of the HPT Golden Gates with a packed house inside the Poker Parlour and five tables of overflow into the casino upstairs.
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
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Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
All seats in the poker room and upstairs are almost all full but a satellite will be finishing in the near future to open up more seats. It is likely an alternate list will be in play in the near future but action will be available all afternoon. Here is a list of some players seen through the room in Level 1.
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Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
After players in early- and middle position had limped in, Garrett Crites pumped it up to 1,200 from the hijack. A player in the small blind three-bet to 2,600 and both limpers folded. Crites called.
The dealer fanned a flop of 
and both players checked. The turn came 
and the small blind checked. Crites bet 2,000 and his opponent called. The river fell 
and Crites' opponent checked to him once again. He fired a bet of 4,000 into the middle and his opponent thought for a few moments before reluctantly calling.
Crites tabled 
and the dealer lifted it up and placed it in the middle of the table above the board for all to see his trip aces with a queen kicker.
"Nice hand," his opponent said as he sent his cards to the muck.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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38,500 |
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
Ben Brown, the defending champion of this event has been seen in his seat from the time cards were in the air. Last July, Brown topped a record-setting field of 763 entries to earn a first-place prize of $159,131. This is the first time he has been seen all tournament long as he now officially goes to work on defending his title.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
Word has made it across the poker room that Craig Casino just got his entire stack in with 
versus another player's 
on the turn with a board that consisted of four low cards.
The river came to give Casino's opponent a set of jacks on the river and send Casino back to the registration desk to fire again.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Level: 2
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
