Main Event
Day 2 Completed
2019 Heartland Poker Tour Hollywood Casino Columbus
Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2019 Heartland Poker Tour Hollywood Casino Columbus
Buy-in
$1,650
Prize Pool
$855,540
Entries
588
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
160,000
MSPT Champ Abdul Amer Leads HPT Hollywood Casino Columbus Final Table
Level 25
: 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante
Day 2 of the Heartland Poker Tour (HPT) Hollywood Casino Columbus saw the final 93 players from a 588-entry field return to action. By the end of the night, the field was whittled down to the final table of nine. They will return on Monday to battle it out for the $191,723 first-place prize on the live-streamed final table.
Leading the pack is Abdul Amer, who is no stranger to poker in Ohio. Last year he topped a 581-entry field to win the $1,100 MSPT Cleveland Poker Open at JACK Cleveland Casino for $118,350.
Others returning to action are World Series of Poker bracelet winners Adam Friedman and Joey Couden and World Poker Tour champ Kevin “1$sickDisea$E” Eyster. Interestingly, Amer is friends with Friedman, who finished third in the aforementioned MSPT Cleveland.
Final Table Lineup
| Seat | Player | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mandeep Sah | 2,985,000 |
| 2 | Spenser Cramer | 1,265,000 |
| 3 | Thila Narayanan | 1,180,000 |
| 4 | Kevin Eyster | 1,205,000 |
| 5 | Joey Couden | 2,075,000 |
| 6 | Abdul Amer | 4,295,000 |
| 7 | Jeff Hart | 1,485,000 |
| 8 | Ryan Wince | 1,480,000 |
| 9 | Adam Friedman | 1,66o,000 |
More than two dozen players busted short of the money on Sunday including Chris Moon, Stephen Song, and bubble boy Andrew Jeffrey, who ran pocket eights smack dab into aces to burst the bubble.
From there the in-the-money finishes began to mount and included Frank Lagodich (58th - $3,067), Andy Spears (39th - $3,919), HPT’s all-time money leader Craig Casino (35th - $4,686), Shawn “Reginald” Roberts (26th - $5,623), Day 1c chip leader Mike Comisso (22nd - $5,623), HPT The Meadows champ Dan Wagner (20th - $5,623), Day 1a chip leader Brian Frye (16th - $7,498), Nick Guagenti (14th - $9,798), and Mike Sabbia (11th - $13,121), who moved into fourth place on the HPT Season XV Player of the Year leaderboard.
It was actually the elimination of Sabbia that helped propel Amer to the top of the counts. Sabbia fired all three streets on a Big Slick bluff and Sabbia picked him off with second pair. As for Friedman, he began the day as a big chip leader and rode it to the final, though not without getting lucky a time or two.
That included putting a bad beat on Guagenti, who got his chips in preflop with ace-ten against Friedman’s ace-eight. Guagenti’s kicker had him out in front through the flop and turn, but then Friedman found an eight on the river to steal the pot.
The final nine players will return at Noon on Monday to play down to a winner with 23:50 remaining in Level 25 (20,000/40,000/40,000). The action will not only be lived reported here on PokerNews but also live streamed worldwide. It’ll also be filmed for television, which marks the first time Ohio will have held a nationally televised poker tournament.
Griffin Abel Eliminated in 10th Place ($13,121)
Level 25
: 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante
In what would be the final hand of Day 2, Jeff Hart raised to 100,000 from middle position and Kevin Eyster called from the small blind. The short-stacked Griffin Abel then moved all in for 130,000 total from the big and both his opponents called.
The two active players checked the 
flop and then Hart folded to a bet of 150,000 from Eyster on the 
turn.
Eyster: 
Abel: 
Abel, who finished 11th in the HPT The Meadows earlier this month, was looking for a jack to stay alive, but he was left wanting as the 
bricked on the river.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Final Table Redraw
Level 25
: 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante
| Seat | Player | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mandeep Sah | 2,900,000 |
| 2 | Spenser Cramer | 1,400,000 |
| 3 | Thila Narayanan | 1,300,000 |
| 4 | Kevin Eyster | 900,000 |
| 5 | Griffin Abel | 200,000 |
| 6 | Joey Couden | 2,200,000 |
| 7 | Abdul Amer | 3,800,000 |
| 8 | Jeff Hart | 1,800,000 |
| 9 | Ryan Wince | 1,450,000 |
| 10 | Adam Friedman | 1,700,000 |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
3,800,000 | 2,300,000 |
|
2,900,000 | -300,000 |
|
2,200,000 | 550,000 |
|
1,800,000 | |
|
1,700,000 | 40,000 |
|
1,450,000 | 350,000 |
|
1,400,000 | 300,000 |
|
1,300,000 | -500,000 |
|
900,000 | -550,000 |
|
|
200,000 | -400,000 |
Mike Sabbia Eliminated in 11th Place ($13,121)
Level 25
: 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante
Mike Sabbia raised under the gun to 100,000, Kevin Eyster in the cutoff made the call and Abdul Amer made the call in the hijack. The flop came 
,Sabbia bet 200,000 and Amer called.
The turn was the 
, Sabbia continued with another bet of 320,000 and Amer called.
The river came the 
, Sabbia went all in for 880,000, and Amer tanked for a long time before making the call.
Sabbia showed 
and said "Good call, you're good" and Amer slammed the 
for a winning pair of nines.
Sabbia was eliminated in 11th place and brought about the final table redraw.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
4,400,000 | 2,900,000 |
|
Busted |
Wince Gets a Big Double Up
Level 25
: 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante
Abdul Amer raised on the button to 100,000 and Ryan Wince went all in for 550,000. Griffin Abel came over the top and shoved all in which forced Amer to out of the hand as he folded.
Wince was behind as he turned over the 
to go up against the 
of Abel.
Wince came from behind the unconventional way to double up and remain alive as the board ran out 
, giving him trip nines to best the queens.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,100,000 | 300,000 |
|
|
600,000 | -520,000 |
Level: 25
Blinds: 20,000/40,000
Ante: 40,000
Brady Churches Eliminated in 12th Place ($9,798)
Level 25
: 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante
PreFlop both Brady Churches and Mandeep Sah got it all in.
Churches: 
Mandeep: 
The board ran out 
and Mandeep's pocket tens held to eliminate Churches in 12th place.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
3,200,000 | 800,000 |
|
Busted |
Bryant Miller Eliminated in 13th Place ($9,798)
Level 25
: 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante
Bryant Miller moved all in from the cutoff with his remaining short stack of 280,000. He was called by Thila Narayanan in the small blind.
Mandeep Sah came over the top and shoved all in forcing Narayanan to commit his whole stack if he wanted to stay in the pot. But Narayanan quickly folded.
Sah turned over the 
which was favored over the of Miller.
The board would run out a flush for Miller as it came 
but it was dominated by Sah's nut flush and was powerless to save Miller from elimination in 13th place.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
2,400,000 | 300,000 |
|
Busted |
Updated Chip Counts at the Break (full)
Level 24
: 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
2,100,000 | 100,000 |
|
|
1,800,000 | 284,000 |
|
|
1,800,000 | 350,000 |
|
|
1,750,000 | -50,000 |
|
|
1,660,000 | -400,000 |
|
|
1,650,000 | 1,230,000 |
|
|
1,500,000 | -160,000 |
|
|
1,450,000 | 830,000 |
|
|
1,120,000 | 720,000 |
|
|
1,100,000 | -260,000 |
|
|
800,000 | -200,000 |
|
|
450,000 | -170,000 |
|
|
280,000 | -580,000 |