Satoshi Tanaka Bags Chip Lead Among Day 1b Survivors
On Friday, a new mid-major poker tour officially launched with the inaugural Midway Poker Tour stop in the Chicagoland area. The second of two starting flights in the $1,100 buy-in, $100K GTD Main Event attracted 164 entries. At the end of the night, 19 remained led by Satoshi Tanaka and his stack of 710,000. This brings the total entries to 266 with 31 advancing to Day 2.
In addition to Tanaka, the other top five stacks include Amanda Heidbrick (446,000), Adam Thomas (377,000), Praise Ogwo (355,000), and Benjamin Craig (334,000).
The remaining 31 players advancing to Day 2 are in already in the money with a guaranteed payout of $2,300 and a top prize of $55,060.
Among those unable to advance from Day 1b were Howard Hankin, Bryan Skreens, Ryan Phan, Brian Barros, Ben Keeline, and Griff Woodman.
Action will resume Sunday at 11:00 a.m. local time. Follow along at pokernews.com for updates and watch for the video livestream at the Feature Table on Facebook
was checked by all three players.
and was checked by the big blind. Maahs then bet 27,000 and was called by the cutoff; the big blind folded.
, Maahs bet 83,000 which was called by the cutoff.
for a rivered straight and his opponent mucked.
was up against 
, but as the board ran out 
the best hand belonged to Ogwo. While Ogwo stacked his 221,000 chips, England was left with 22,000, less than four big blinds. She went all-in the next hand, but wasn't able to recover and was eliminated from the tournament.
flop gave him a full house. The 
turn left both his opponents drawing dead and he scored the double elimination after the meaningless 
was run out on the river.
to give an excited Hankin a winning set on the river.
turn left Kook drawing dead and Saleh was pushed the pot after the 
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