Welcome To Day 2 of HPT Golden Gates
Welcome back to beautiful Black Hawk Colorado for Day 2 of the Heartland Poker Tour Golden Gates $1,650 Main Event. Three starting flights produced 412 entries, with 71 advancing to Day 2 action over the last three days. Now, it’s finally time for the field to combine and play together under one roof.
Of the 71 to return, 45 will earn themselves a payday. That mean the bubble will loom early in the day, with a subsequent first-level payout earning $3,297. Players will then climb the rungs of the payout ladder with their sights set on the top prize of $137,876.
David Levy (424,000) will take the most chips into play on Day 2 after bagging the chip lead on Day 1c Saturday evening. Day 1a chip leader Aaron Frei (408,000) is the only other player to enter play with over 400,000.
Plenty of formidable opponents remain and come into the day with above-average chip stacks. Danny Gonzales (306,000), Nick Pupillo (254,000), Greg Jennings (245,000), Kane Lai (242,000), and Spencer Champlin (227,000) are just a few bunched together with healthy stacks among the Day 2 roster.
Others such as Dapo Ajayi (81,000), Ronnie Lamb (77,000), Ben Keeline (72,000), and Chris Moon (55,000) are also still in contention, though they will have a bit more work cut out for them when cards go into the air.
Day 2 is scheduled for an 11 a.m. start time. Levels will last 60 minutes each with play resuming at the beginning of Level 16 (2,000/5,000/5,000). There will be 15-minute breaks every two hours and a 60-minute dinner break after the sixth hour of play on the day, with play continuing until the final nine are reached.
Who will make it to the final table? Stay tuned to PokerNews and find out.
to give Livingston four outs at a triple. However, the turn 
and river 
were clean to Monroe as he won both pots, bringing him over 200,000 as he sent Livingston to the rail early on Day 2.
. Banghart had a jack-high straight and took down the pot, bringing him to around 970,000 with six tables left in the tournament.
to give each player a backdoor flush to fade the chop. Su picked up equity on the turn 
, giving Monroe a sweat for his tournament life as the river came 
. He breathed a sigh of relief and stacks were pulled back.
, giving Wilkie a miracle two outer on the river to score the double and fade becoming the bubble boy. 
. The board ran out 
to leave him drawing dead and the river fell 
, resulting in Hamm walking to the rail as tournament director Patrick Roy called for a high card to be dealt at the breaking table to condense the tournament's 18 remaining players down to two full tables.
but was unable to fill up as the river fell 
