Main Event Day 1a | 2019 Heartland Poker Tour St. Louis

03-15-2019 23:20 UTC-5

Denis Stars on Broadway

Chad Holloway

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

With around 20,000 in the pot and a flop of , Wyatt Denis got his last 11,900 all in and was at risk against Minnesota's Ian Matakis.

Matakis:
Denis:

Denis went with his open-ended straight draw, and while he didn't get it on the turn, he did when the spiked on the river. Matakis saw his two pair go down in flames and he sent over some chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ian Matakis	75,000 -25,000	-25,000

Wyatt Denis	45,000

Tags: Ian Matakis Wyatt Denis

03-15-2019 23:11 UTC-5

Schmidz Shoves

LoriPersinger

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

The UTG+1 player raised to 6,000, Tod Schmidz made the call from the next seat over and they went heads up to the flop.

After the dealer spread a flop of , the UTG+1 player bet 10,000.

Schmidz immediately shoved all in, which got a quick fold from the other player.

He then showed the , just before scooping the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tod Schmidz	65,000 65,000	65,000

Tags: Tod Schmidz

Level: 12

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 2,000

03-15-2019 22:50 UTC-5

Hoeft's Middle Pair is Good

LoriPersinger

Level 11 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Danny Hoeft raised to 4,000 from UTG+1, only to get three-bet to 11,000 by the player in cutoff.

Action folded back to Hoeft, and he made the call.

Hoeft then checked the flop, the cutoff made a 10,000 continuation bet and, after re-checking his cards, Hoeft made the call.

Both players checked the turn, but Hoeft led out on the river with a bet of 10,000.

The player in the cutoff shuffled his chips for a bit, made the call and then mucked when Hoeft tabled .

Player	Chips	Progress
Danny Hoeft	156,000 156,000	156,000

Tags: Danny Hoeft

03-15-2019 22:48 UTC-5

Lupo's Lucky Diamonds

Anthony Thompson

Level 11 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Fireworks started right away as the player sitting UTG raised to 3,000. Action folded to Joey Lupo in the small blind and Kou Vang in the big blind, both players called the raise.

The UTG player bet 3,000 on the flop. Lupo three-bet to 15,000. Kou Vang folded his hand and the UTG player called.

The turn came the and Lupo bet out 20,000, only to get raised. Lupo shoved all-in for 28,000 and was called. Lupo's was behind a flopped set of the UTG's .

The came on the river giving Lupo a flush and the winning hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Joey Lupo	138,500 138,500	138,500
Kou Vang	40,000 -5,000	-5,000

Tags: Joey Lupo Kou Vang

03-15-2019 22:29 UTC-5

Rusty's Running it Up

LoriPersinger

Level 11 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

A player in middle position raised to 3,600, Rusty Montague called from the hijack, and they were heads up after both blinds folded.

The middle-position player continued with a bet of 4,800 on the flop, which got called by Montague.

After the middle-position player checked the turn, Montague bet 12,000.

The middle-position player folded, Montague smiled and showed the .

Player	Chips	Progress
Rusty Montague	225,000 225,000	225,000

Tags: Rusty Montague

03-15-2019 22:26 UTC-5

The HPT Thousandaire Maker

Chad Holloway

Level 11 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

This weekend’s $1,650 Main Event is the culmination of the Heartland Poker Tour (HPT) series here at Hollywood St. Louis. There were several prelims going back to last weekend.

One of them was Event #5: $125 Thousandaire Maker, which meant all players that got paid would get $1,000. The tournament had a $16,300 prize pool which meant the top 17 got paid.

Final Results

Place	Player	Hometown
Christopher Paisley	Caseyville, IL	$1,000
David Oppenhelm	Mercer Island, WA	$1,000
Linhua Xu	St.Louis, MO	$1,000
Dennis Giger	Highland, IL	$1,000
Leonard Lewandowski	West Allis, WI	$1,000
Drew Hoffman	Ballwin, MO	$1,000
David Mogil	St.Louis, MO	$1,000
Eric Ewing	St.Louis, MO	$1,000
Joseph Welch	Hot Springs, AR	$1,000
Christopher Stanford	Edwardsville, IL	$1,000
Jerod Smith	St.Jacob, IL	$1,000
Raymond Poole	O'fallon, MO	$1,000
William Dettmer	St.Peters, MO	$1,000
Dean Young	St.Charles, MO	$1,000
Kum Dollison	St.Charles, MO	$1,000
Kevin Brown	Chapel Hill, TN	$1,000
Duane Cowsette	Florissant, MO	$300

Level: 11

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 1,600

03-15-2019 22:16 UTC-5

A Burden for Mangold

Chad Holloway

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

With around 30,000 in the pot and a board reading , Jason Mangold fired out 18,000 from middle position and MSPT Tropicana Evansville champ Tim Burden called from the hijack.

Reigning MSPT and HPT Player of the Year Aaron Johnson folded from the cutoff and it was heads-up action to the river.

Mangold be again, this time 20,000, and Burden wasted little time in flicking his cards to the muck.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jason Mangold	170,000 50,000	50,000
Tim Burden	50,000 -40,000	-40,000

Tags: Jason Mangold Tim Burden

03-15-2019 22:08 UTC-5

The Rich Get Richer

LoriPersinger

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Action folded around to the button, who raised it to 2,600, and got called by the player in the small blind and William McCracken from his big blind.

After all three players checked the flop and the small blind checked the turn, McCracken put out a bet of 6,000, which got a fold from the button and a check-call from the small blind.