Jon Hanner Bags Day 1 Chip Lead in 2019 Canterbury Park Fall Poker Classic $2,500 High Roller
The Canterbury Park 2019 Fall Poker Classic $2,500 High Roller has seen 14 levels play to their conclusion and Day 1 is in the books. When play began, only five players were in their seats. However, that number doubled in the first 10 minutes and eventually reached a total of 28 entries.
Of those 28, just eight remain and Jon Hanner (204,000) was the one to find himself atop the counts when chips went into bags. Hanner was one of the first to join the tournament, resulting in him playing one of the longest days of all participants in the field. Despite the early start, he spent the first eight-plus levels with roughly a starting stack.
Then he picked up back-to-back hands, doubling up with queen-jack to the ace-queen of Cody Espeseth and knocking him out the following hand after his pocket jacks held versus Espeseth’s ace-queen suited. All of a sudden, Hanner was near 100,000 in chips and would stay there until just before the end of the night when he ran pocket queens into then-chip leader Ian Matakis’ pocket jacks to double and claim the chip lead.
Matakis finished the day fourth in chips with 119,500, just behind Vic Peppe (135,000) and Joseph Beasy (120,000). Like Hanner, Matakis spent much of the day grinding, finding the felt and reentering before beginning to build. He hit a quarter-million in chips at one point and appeared to be a lock as end-of-day chip leader before running his jacks into Hanner’s queens. Nonetheless, he will be one of the four players taking an above-average stack into Day 2.
The other four players to find a bag were Daniel Schmidtknecht (84,000), Blake Bohn (71,500), Jeff Petronack (57,000), and Kou Vang (51,000). All eight will return for Day 2 on Friday for the scheduled 12:30 p.m. restart.
Players will come back to the beginning of Level 15 (2,000/4,000/4,000) with 40-minute levels until a winner has been determined. Come back to PokerNews to catch the finale.