$1,300 Texas State $1M GTD Main Event Day 1b | Lone Star Poker Series Champions Social

04-28-2021 22:42 UTC-6

Level 16 Chip Counts, Tables 10 and 13

Jeff McMillan

Level 16 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Deborah Hinton	780,000 535,000	535,000
Hoan Nguyen	405,000 65,000	65,000
David Mzareulov	375,000 115,000	115,000

Tho Nguyen	305,000 165,000	165,000
Daniel Schmiech	270,000 90,000	90,000

Joshua Clayton	260,000 260,000	260,000
Christopher Gonzales	255,000 255,000	255,000
Gary Friedlander	245,000 245,000	245,000
Philip Nguyen	225,000 225,000	225,000
Nelly Shteyn	215,000 215,000	215,000
Boris Kasabov	215,000 15,000	15,000
James Grimes	215,000 215,000	215,000
Genc Govori	195,000 195,000	195,000
Gabriel Abusada	120,000 125,000	125,000

Level: 17

Blinds: 5,000/10,000

Ante: 10,000

04-28-2021 23:03 UTC-6

Friedlander Shows

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Jeff McMillan

Level 17 : 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

The board showed . Gary Friedlander moved all for about 130,000 into a pot of about the same size. Gabriel Abusada was taking a while to make a decision and the floor came over and started a count.

Abusada folded after more consternation and showed an . Friedlander showed the for nothing.

"I had your hand read perfect" said Abusada in frustration.

"Then you would've called!" said Friedlander as he stacked his chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Gary Friedlander	300,000 55,000	55,000
Gabriel Abusada	190,000 70,000	70,000

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04-28-2021 23:06 UTC-6

Level 17 Chip Counts; Tables 4 and 9

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Jeff McMillan

Level 17 : 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Dmitri Nobles	710,000 250,000	250,000
Stephen Bartlett	480,000 480,000	480,000
Michael Wang	435,000 120,000	120,000

Russell Koch	345,000 345,000	345,000
Aaron Kweskin	320,000 60,000	60,000
Chan Pelton	250,000 5,000	5,000
Eloy Rios	220,000 90,000	90,000
Tom LaPlante	210,000 210,000	210,000
Shawn Rice	145,000 10,000	10,000
Williams White	100,000 120,000	120,000
Charles Dawson	100,000 100,000	100,000
Spencer Champlin	95,000 95,000	95,000
Eric Crews	80,000 150,000	150,000

04-28-2021 23:29 UTC-6

Hinton First Player Above a Million

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Jeff McMillan

Level 17 : 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Deborah Hinton became the first player to surpass a million in chips in any flights so far as she took out another opponent and was seen stacking all of her new winnings to add to her already gargantuan stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Deborah Hinton	1,080,000 300,000	300,000

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Level: 18

Blinds: 6,000/12,000

Ante: 12,000

04-28-2021 23:42 UTC-6

Nobles Slays Two

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Jeff McMillan

Level 18 : 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

There was a three-way preflop all-in in progress as Dmitri Nobles had the with a chance to take out Shawn Rice who had the and Eloy Rios who held the .

The flop came . The turn was the and the river was the to hold the board for Nobles and bring the field within two of the bubble as Nobles edged past a million.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dmitri Nobles	1,025,000 315,000	315,000
Shawn Rice	Busted
Eloy Rios	Busted

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04-28-2021 23:48 UTC-6

Dunaway Takes Out Rios

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Jeff McMillan

Level 18 : 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Pedro Rios was all in holding the against the of Braxton Dunaway.

The board ran out and Rios was gone bringing the field down to 26, one away from bagging for the night as play enters hand for hand

Player	Chips	Progress
Braxton Dunaway	780,000 469,000	469,000

Pedro Rios	Busted

04-29-2021 00:10 UTC-6

Day 1b Final Chip Counts (full)

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Jeff McMillan

Level 18 : 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Dmitri Nobles	1,153,000 128,000	128,000
Deborah Hinton	1,145,000 65,000	65,000
Anthony Reynolds	719,000 56,000	56,000
Michael Wang	645,000 210,000	210,000

Braxton Dunaway	627,000 153,000	153,000

Stephen Bartlett	505,000 25,000	25,000
Hoan Nguyen	496,000 91,000	91,000
Aaron Gillespie	468,000 468,000	468,000
Russell Koch	445,000 100,000	100,000
Tho Nguyen	405,000 100,000	100,000
David Mzareulov	374,000 1,000	1,000

Nelly Shteyn	361,000 146,000	146,000
Kevin Kaylor	340,000 340,000	340,000
Aaron Kweskin	328,000 8,000	8,000
Daniel Schmiech	321,000 51,000	51,000

Spencer Champlin	310,000 215,000	215,000
Christopher Gonzales	259,000 4,000	4,000
Philip Nguyen	259,000 34,000	34,000
Loc Nguyen	248,000 248,000	248,000
Edgar Rodas	238,000 238,000	238,000
Boris Kasabov	220,000 5,000	5,000
Tom LaPlante	157,000 53,000	53,000
Genc Govori	146,000 49,000	49,000
Gary Friedlander	138,000 162,000	162,000
Chan Pelton	120,000 130,000	130,000

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04-29-2021 00:19 UTC-6

Nobles Bags Slim Lead Over Hinton

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Jeff McMillan

Level 18 : 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Day 1b of the Lone Star 1 Million GTD Main Event has come to an end after nearly 14 hours of play with 26 players surviving to advance to Day 2 out of an original starting field of 206.

The largest baggers at the end of the day were Dmitri Nobles and Deborah Hinton, who both finished the night with with gargantuan stacks of over a million.

Both caught fire in the last levels of the night, taking out several opponents on the way the big stacks. Nobles brought the field to the end of the day as he eliminated the final three players on the bubble, including the bubble boy after just one hand of hand for hand play.

Also bagging big was Anthony "Stretch" Reynolds who finished with 719,000 who made a name for himself early in the day when he spiked a king on the turn to crack aces to launch himself to the chip lead.

WSOP Bracelet winner Michael Wang (645,000) and Braxton Dunaway who played several interesting hands on the feature table stream, (627,000), rounded out the top 5 chip stacks at the end of the night.

PokerNews will return to cover Day 1c tomorrow at 11 a.m which is bound to be the largest yet as the field just continues to grow and grow in this massive event.

Tags: Braxton Dunaway Deborah Hinton Dmitri Nobles Michael Wang